Young Boys v Skënderbeu background
Neither Young Boys nor Skënderbeu can strech a knockout phase, though a Swiss side will be anticipating to finish their unsatisfactory Group B debate with a initial victory.
• The Albanian team, who overcame organisation leaders Dynamo Kyiv 3-2 during home final time out, will finish third if they equivocate defeat. In terms of points gained – five – this is already their many successful opening in a European organisation stage.
Previous meetings
• The dual clubs cancelled any other out in their initial meeting, drawing 1-1 in Elbasan on matchday two. Gambian brazen Ali Sowe gave Skënderbeu a lead mid by a second half, usually for Young Boys to equalize by Ivorian striker Roger Assalé 7 mins later.
• Albanian clubs are nonetheless to win in 5 UEFA encounters with Swiss counterparts: D2 L3.
Form guide
• Young Boys purebred measure draws in any of their initial 3 Group B matches though have mislaid a final two, their hopes of serve swell extinguished by a 2-1 better during Partizan on matchday five. They are but a win in 7 European fixtures (D3 L4).
• Skenderbëu have mislaid 3 of their 6 European divided matches this deteriorate (W1 D2), including both organisation theatre fixtures on a road, that means they are nonetheless to explain a indicate divided from home in 5 UEFA Europa League organisation games.
• Beaten home and divided by CSKA Moskva in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Young Boys are contesting a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a fifth time. They have done it by twice before – in 2010/11 and 2014/15.
• Domestic crater runners-up final term, Skënderbeu were a initial Albanian side to foe a vital UEFA organisation theatre when they figured in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League. Their organisation record that deteriorate was W1 L5.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Elbasan, where Skënderbeu are personification their European home fixtures, to Berne is around 1,200km.
• Young Boys exaggerate Albanian general talent in a form of winger Taulan Sulejmanov.
• Skënderbeu’s Kosovan defender Fidan Aliti started his career in Switzerland, personification for Old Boys (2011–13) and Luzern (2013–15).
• Skënderbeu are one of 3 teams to have reached a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre carrying begun their debate in a initial subordinate round; Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Crvena zvezda are a others.
• Skënderbeu goalkeeper Orges Shehi is a ninth actor over a age of 40 to have played in a UEFA Europa League and a oldest member in this season’s competition.
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.
• Appointed in Jan 2017, Ilir Daja led Skënderbeu to a Albanian Cup final, that they mislaid to KF Tirana, and afterwards directed them into this organisation stage. A former midfielder with Tirana, he has guided Elbasan and Dinamo Tirana to domestic championships as a coach.