Young Boys v CSKA Moskva: play-off contribution and stats
A side who have never won a UEFA Champions League play-off take on a organisation who have never unsuccessful during a final jump in subordinate as BSC Young Boys horde PFC CSKA Moskva.
Previous meetings
• The clubs have not formerly met in UEFA competition.
• Young Boys won both prior home games opposite Russian clubs – and mislaid both away. The Swiss bar kick FC Zenit 2-1 in a initial leg of their 2010/11 UEFA League turn of 32 tie, yet were separated after losing 3-1 in St Petersburg; in a organisation theatre of a same foe in 2012/13 they were beaten 2-0 during FC Anji and won 3-1 during home.
• CSKA have won both their prior games opposite Swiss clubs. They available a 3-0 feat during FC Lausanne-Sport in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre and were afterwards 5-1 winners during home.
Match background
• Young Boys entered a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League debate in a third subordinate round, knocking out FC Dynamo Kyiv pleasantness of a 90th-minute idea from 18-year-old surrogate Jordan Lotomba. That warranted a 2-0 win on a night and, carrying mislaid 3-1 in Ukraine, feat on a away-goals rule.
• Young Boys also saw off Ukrainian antithesis in final season’s third subordinate round, circumference past FC Shakhtar Donetsk on penalties; they afterwards mislaid 9-2 on total to VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach.
• This is Young Boys’ fifth UEFA Champions League debate and third play-off – they have never reached a organisation stage. Their prior play-offs came opposite Tottenham Hotspur FC (6-3 on agg) in 2010/11 and Gladbach 12 months ago. Young Boys did strech a semi-finals of a 1958/59 European Champion Clubs’ Cup, losing 3-1 over dual legs opposite Stade de Reims.
• CSKA also began their debate in a third subordinate round, easing to a 3-0 total win opposite AEK Athens FC.
• CSKA have a 100% record in a final theatre of UEFA Champions League qualifying, prevalent in 2004/05, 2006/07 and 2015/16. You could also supplement 1992/93, when they kick FC Barcelona to strech a organisation theatre yet that was underneath a really opposite format.
• The Army Men competent directly for a organisation theatre in 2016/17, their tenth debate in a foe correct and fourth in a row. Pitted opposite AS Monaco FC, Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur FC, they bent out after 3 draws and 3 losses.
• Both Young Boys and CSKA competent for a 2017/18 foe by finishing second in their particular leagues final term.
Team and manager links
• Switzerland evokes happy memories for Igor Akinfeev and Sergei Ignashevich, who were in a Russia organisation that kick a Netherlands 3-1 after additional time in Basel to strech a UEFA EURO 2008 semi-finals.
• Georgi Milanov spent a second half of 2015/16 on loan during Swiss side Grasshopper Club.
• Alexander Gerndt and Pontus Wernbloom played together for Sweden.
Coach profiles
• Hütter done his name during minnows Grödig, heading them from a second tier to third in a Austrian Bundesliga in a space of dual seasons. A midfielder best compared with Austria Salzburg, he soon left Grödig for RB Salzburg, winning a joining and crater double in his usually debate there. Hütter has been during a Young Boys helm given summer 2015.
• Belarusian Viktor Goncharenko is a youngest ever manager to lead a organisation in a UEFA Champions League, environment a record 10 seasons ago aged 31. Five times a pretension leader as trainer of BATE Borisov, a bar where his personification career finished during 25, Goncharenko has spent a past 4 seasons in Russia, holding a reins during CSKA in Dec 2016.