Vitesse v Lazio background
Vitesse have been going by a empty spell in Europe, though will wish that a goals – and UEFA Europa League Group K points – will start issuing as Lazio lapse to a Netherlands.
Previous meetings
• The teams are assembly for a initial time in UEFA competiton.
• Vitesse’s record in 4 matches with Italian sides is W1 D2 L1 (W1 D1 in Arnhem).
• Lazio’s 4 prior games opposite Dutch opponents finished W1 D1 L2 (D1 L1 in a Netherlands).
Form guide
• Vitesse are though a win in 6 European fixtures (D1 L5 – including 3 true home defeats), scoring only twice during that run.
• Lazio are dominant in 5 European divided matches – a feat and 4 1-1 draws.
• Fifth in a Netherlands final term, Arnhem-based Vitesse are featuring in a organisation theatre of a UEFA foe for a initial time.
• Beaten UEFA Cup finalists in 1998 (and UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup winners a following year), Lazio are behind in a UEFA Europa League after a one-season absence, carrying reached a final 16 in 2015/16.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Rome to Arnhem is around 1,200km.
• Vitesse strikers Tim Matavž (Genoa, 2016) and Luc Castaignos (Internazionale, 2011–12) both played in Italy, though conjunction figured opposite Lazio.
• Lazio have Dutch talent in a form of defender Stefan de Vrij, who played in a comparison ranks for Feyenoord (2009–14).
The coaches
• Vitesse manager given 2016, Surinam-born Henk Fraser was capped 7 times by a Netherlands as a defender, spending a bulk of his personification career during Feyenoord, where he was after a girl coach. He took his initial comparison pursuit during Den Haag from 2014–16.
• Lazio trainer given 2016, Simone Inzaghi represented a bar as a brazen from 1999–2010, and stayed on to manager a club’s girl teams. He is a younger hermit of associate ex-Italian general Filippo Inzaghi, a span primarily personification together during home-town bar Piacenza.