Young Boys v Partizan background
Young Boys have plain form during home opposite Serbian sides, though might need to lift their diversion as they acquire Partizan in UEFA Europa League Group B.
Previous meetings
• The teams are assembly for a initial time in UEFA competition.
• In their usually past encounters with Serbian opposition, Young Boys were separated by Crvena zvezda in a 2004/05 UEFA Champions League second subordinate turn – drawing 2-2 during home though losing 3-0 in Belgrade.
• Partizan were knocked out of a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League play-offs by Swiss rivals, following adult a 1-0 feat opposite Thun with a 3-0 detriment in Switzerland. Young Boys’ Sékou Sanogo featured in both legs for Thun.
Form guide
• Swiss Super League runners-up final term, Young Boys have won 3 of their final 4 European home matches, including August’s UEFA Champions League third subordinate turn scalp of Dynamo Kyiv.
• Partizan are dominant in 5 European divided fixtures (W2 D3).
• Defeated home and divided by CSKA Moskva in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Young Boys are now competing in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time, carrying done it by twice in 4 appearances.
• Serbian joining and crater winners in 2016/17, Partizan have reached a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time in a competition’s stream incarnation, though are nonetheless to swell to a turn of 32.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Belgrade to Berne is only over 1,000km.
• Young Boys’ Miralem Sulejmani started his career during Partizan though done only one brief surrogate coming in Nov 2005 before being sealed by Heerenveen.
• Partizan’s Everton Bilher played in Switzerland with Lugano (2013–14) and St Gallen (2014–16).
• Partizan’s Nemanja Antonov is on loan from another Swiss side, Grasshoppers, whom he assimilated in 2015.
The coaches
• Austrian manager Adi Hütter has been in assign of Young Boys given Sep 2015. A midfielder who spent a bulk of his career with Salzburg, he returned to lead a bar to a domestic double in 2014/15 after managerial spells during Altach and Grödig.
• Marko Djukić was reserved a second army as Partizan manager in Jun 2017, carrying assigned a helm in 2007. The 48-times capped Yugoslavia sweeper played in Spain with Deportivo and Valencia, and spent most of a final decade coaching there too.