Young Boys v Dinamo Zagreb facts
Young Boys will be penetrating to acquire a UEFA Champions League organisation entrance as they kick-off their play-off tie with home advantage, nonetheless to swell they will have to overcome gifted European campaigners Dinamo Zagreb.
Form guide
Young Boys
• Young Boys were Swiss champions in 2017/18 – their 12th joining title, though a initial given 1986.
• This is Young Boys’ sixth UEFA Champions League debate and fourth play-off – they have never reached a organisation stage. Twelve months ago, they mislaid home (0-1) and divided (0-2) to CSKA Moskva, carrying formerly been beaten during this theatre by Tottenham (6-3 on aggregate) in 2010/11 and Borussia Mönchengladbach (2-9) in 2015/16.
• 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.
• Before violence Albania’s Skënderbeu 2-1 on matchday 6 of final season’s UEFA Europa League, Young Boys were 7 European games but a win (D3 L4).
• The Swiss bar have won usually one of their final 6 UEFA Champions League subordinate matches, losing a other five.
• This is Young Boys’ initial European tie opposite Croatian opposition.
Dinamo
• Dinamo are dominant in their 3 prior matches opposite Swiss opponents (W1 D2). Their usually prior outing to a nation finished in a 5-0 success during Grasshoppers in a 1997/98 UEFA Cup initial turn second leg, completing a 9-4 total success.
• The Zagreb bar claimed a 19th Croatian joining pretension in 2017/18, carrying had their run of 11 unbroken championships finished a prior season.
• Dinamo have reached a organisation theatre on 6 prior occasions, and are behest to validate for a third time in 4 seasons. In 2017/18, they mislaid on divided goals to Albania’s Skënderbeu in a UEFA Europa League play-offs.
• The Croatian champions have won 3 of their 4 games in subordinate this season, violence Israel’s Hapoel Beer-Sheva 7-2 on total in a second subordinate turn before a 3-0 better of Astana over dual games.
• That extended Dinamo’s dominant European run to 8 games, home and divided (W4 D4) – they had mislaid their prior six.
• Dinamo’s record in UEFA Champions League play-offs is W4 L1 – that solitary better entrance opposite Austria Wien in 2013/14 (3-4 aggregate). They have also won 3 of their 4 UEFA Europa League play-offs.
Links and trivia
• Dinamo brazen Izet Hajrović was innate in Switzerland and represented a nation during girl levels, winning a comparison top in 2012 before opting to play for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• Hajrović and Young Boys midfielder Ulisses Garcia both started their veteran career during Grasshoppers, and were Werder Bremen team-mates from 2016 to 2018.
• Dinamo brazen Mario Gavranović was innate in Lugano and has 16 comparison caps for Switzerland, creation dual appearances during this summer’s FIFA World Cup. He started his veteran career during Lugano and had spells with Yverdon-Sport, Neuchâtel Xamax and Zürich before relocating to Croatia in 2016.
• Gavranović and Young Boys defender Loris Benito were Zürich team-mates from 2012 to 2014.