Birmingham City must beat Group H’s bottom side NK Maribor and hope SC Braga win at Club Brugge KV to make it to the UEFA Europa League round of 32. The Blues trail the top two in the section by three points but have an inferior head-to-head record in their games against Braga. However, they [...]
Routed to the bottom of UEFA Europa League Group E, Maccabi Tel-Aviv know victory is paramount against Besiktas, if they harbour ambitions of reaching the round of 32. Besiktas matched their best previous European home win and inflicted a repeat of Maccabi’s heaviest continental defeat on matchday one, with the Black Eagles winning 5-1 in [...]
The UEFA Europa League trail has already gone cold for both Rapid Bucuresti and Hapoel Tel-Aviv, but the Romanian side can guarantee a third-placed finish with a second Group C win against their visitors. Ovidiu Herea’s header (55) was enough to earn Rapid a 1-0 win at Bloomfield Stadium when the sides met on matchday [...]
Atletico de Madrid will look to avenge a 2-0 matchday three defeat as they take on Udinese Calcio again in a meeting of the top sides in UEFA Europa League Group I. When the teams met for the first time in UEFA competition on matchday three, it was Atletico who created the majority of the [...]
Lazio and FC Zurich have one less qualifying place to play for after Sporting Clube de Portugal ensured they would finish in the top two in UEFA Europa League Group D on matchday three. The sides drew 1-1 as they met for the first time in UEFA competition on matchday three, Adrian Nikci (23) responding [...]
Inter Milano were given a shock when they were last at home in the UEFA Champions League, but victories in their last two games have taken the 2010 winners top of Group B and Claudio Ranieri’s side will be looking for another success when LOSC Lille Métropole visit. The first competitive meeting between the teams [...]
Borussia Dortmund are still without a win after three Group F matches and will be looking for an improvement when they face Olympiacos FC for the second time at the BVB Stadion. The reverse fixture on 19 October gave Olympiacos their first points in this season’s competition, a 3-1 victory in Piraeus taking the Greek [...]
Having first met 14 years ago, AEK Athens take on Sturm Graz again in UEFA Europa League Group L, in what will be the visitors’ 50th game in the competition. The sides met in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup second round, with Dumitru Dumitriu’s AEK getting the better of Ivica Osim’s Sturm, winning 2-0 [...]
CSKA Moskva’s first home game in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League reunites them with familiar opponents in FC Internazionale Milano. The clubs met in the quarter-finals two seasons ago having also crossed paths in the 2007/08 group stage, the Italian team coming out on top in all four games. While the Russian side fought back [...]
Ajax and Olympique Lyon, two teams who have previously met in the UEFA Champions League on matchday one, get their Group D campaigns under way as they come face to face at the Amsterdam ArenA. The clubs met in the 2002/03 edition’s opening set of fixtures, Ajax winning 2-1 at home and then following it [...]