Vardar v Rosenborg background
The 12-match European campaigns of both Vardar and Rosenborg come to an finish on matchday 6 as a dual clubs pointer off from avocation in Skopje.
• The Macedonian organisation have no points from their 5 games so distant and are sure to finish bottom of Group L while their Norwegian visitors can finish no aloft or reduce than third.
Previous meetings
• In a initial UEFA men’s bar foe diversion between Norwegian and Macedonian sides, Rosenborg overcame Vardar 3-1 in Trondheim on matchday two. Nicklas Bendtner non-stop a scoring from a chastisement mark before Morten Konradsen and Vegar Hedenstad stretched a home advantage; Juan Felipe’s added-time strike – Vardar’s initial idea in a UEFA organisation compare – provided late consolation.
Form guide
• With defeats in any of their initial 5 organisation fixtures, Vardar are in risk of apropos usually a fifth bar to finish a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre though induction a point. Their initial dual home matches in a territory both finished in complicated defeats – 0-5 opposite Zenit and 0-6 opposite Real Sociedad.
• Rosenborg have mislaid their final 4 divided organisation games and have no wins in a final 7 (D1 L6).
• Domestic champions for a third deteriorate using in 2016/17, Vardar are a initial bar from FYR Macedonia to seem in a organisation theatre of a vital UEFA competition.
• Rosenborg, who reached this theatre after winning both legs opposite final season’s runners-up Ajax in a play-offs, have now seemed in 5 UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaigns though are nonetheless to make serve progress – although they have figured in a turn of 32 on 3 occasions around their UEFA Champions League group.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Trondheim to Skopje is around 2,500km.
• Vardar have conceded 19 goals in a initial 5 matchdays – 3 some-more than any other organisation this season, and only one brief of a record for many goals opposite in a finished UEFA Europa League group, set by Slovan Bratislava in 2014/15.
• This is Rosenborg’s 244th UEFA foe game – and Vardar’s 70th.
• Rosenborg, celebrating a 100th anniversary of their substructure this year, clinched their third unbroken Norwegian joining pretension with 3 matches to gangling on 4 November.
• Rosenborg goalkeeper André Hansen has done a many saves in a organisation stage – 26, one some-more than Athletic Club’s Iago HerrerÃn and BATE’s Denis Scherbitski.
The coaches
• Cedomir Janevski returned to manager Vardar in Aug 2017, carrying formerly served a Skopje organisation as a defender from 1982-89. He spent many of a inserted years in Belgium, where he played for and coached Club Brugge among others.
• Trondheim-born Kåre Ingebrigtsen has directed Rosenborg to 3 unbroken Norwegian titles given holding over in 2014. He played for a bar in 3 spells as a midfielder, and was on a books during Manchester City from 1992-94.