Malmö v Olympiacos background

Malmö FF will look to bounce back from their opening defeat at Juventus when they host Group A rivals Olympiacos FC on matchday two.

Match background

Malmö
• For Malmö, runners-up in the 1978/79 European Champion Clubs' Cup, this is the first home match in the UEFA Champions League proper.

• The Swedish champions are facing Greek opposition for the first time in their 37th European campaign.

• Åge Hareide's side did not concede a goal in their three home UEFA Champions League qualifiers this season – against FK Ventspils (0-0), AC Sparta Praha (2-0) and FC Salzburg (3-0). They are unbeaten at home in seven games in UEFA competition, having kept a clean sheet in each of them.

• In their only previous group stage experience – the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League – Malmö took just one point from three home fixtures.

Olympiacos
• Olympiacos kicked off with a 3-2 home win over 2013/14 runners-up Club Atlético de Madrid on matchday one, reversing a three-year trend of starting the group stage with a defeat in Piraeus.

• On their travels in last term's competition they won at RSC Anderlecht (3-0), drew at SL Benfica (1-1) and then lost at Paris Saint-Germain (1-2) and Manchester United FC (0-3).

• Their four-point haul on their travels in 2013/14 represented their best away performance in the competition in their past four campaigns.

• Their sole preceding encounter with Swedish opponents was against Östers IF in the 1982/83 European Cup first round. Olympiacos won 2-0 at home and lost 1-0 away.

Coach and player links
• Olympiacos's Jimmy Durmaz was a Malmö player from 2008–12, making 91 league appearances and scoring 14 goals.

• Durmaz is a team-mate of MFF's Emil Forsberg with Sweden.

• As Norway coach, Hareide faced Greece in UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying, losing 1-0 at the Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis before drawing 2-2 at home.

• Markus Rosenberg was in the SV Werder Bremen team beaten home (1-3) and away (0-3) by Olympiacos in the 2007/08 group stage. Olympiacos's victory in Bremen on 3 October 2007 was their first away from home in 32 attempts in the UEFA Champions League era.

• Rosenberg's Bremen also lost 3-0 at home to Panathinaikos FC in the 2008/09 group stage.

• Rosenberg was a substitute in Sweden's 2-0 triumph against Greece at UEFA EURO 2008.

• Ibrahim Afellay hit his first two goals for the Netherlands in a 4-1 home success over Sweden in UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying in October 2010. Afellay's PSV Eindhoven prevailed 2-1 in Sweden in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 32 tie at Helsingborgs IF (aggregate 4-1).

• Isaac Thelin struck twice in a 23-minute substitute outing for Sweden against Andreas Bouchalakis's Greece in a UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier in Halmstad on 5 September.

Match facts

Malmö

• Emil Forsberg scored a hat-trick on Saturday – his second of the season – as Malmö came from a goal down to beat Mjällby AIF 4-1 at home.

• It took Forsberg's tally to 13 league goals this season, his best ever top-flight return.

• Malmö are 12 games unbeaten at home, winning eight during that time.

• Ricardinho, out since 23 August with a knee injury, returned to play 90 minutes on Saturday. He was an unused substitute for Malmö's 1-0 victory at Halmstads BK on 24 September.

• Simon Thern has resumed full training after recovering from a broken fibula sustained in July.

• Robin Olsen has kept an Allsvenskan-best ten clean sheets this season.

Olympiacos

• Olympiacos's five-game unbeaten start to the season ended on Saturday, going down 1-0 at Atromitos FC. Tasos Karamanos, a 24-year-old forward on loan from Olympiacos, scored the only goal.

• Kostas Mitroglou, whose strike against Atlético made him the Piraeus side's all-time top scorer in the UEFA Champions League with ten goals, converted a penalty in the 3-0 triumph over Veria FC on 20 September.

• Μíchel's team defeated second-tier Panachaiki FC 1-0 on 23 September in the Greek Cup group stage.

• Dimitris Siovas completed 90 minutes in Patras on his first competitive outing since breaking an ankle in January but suffered a thigh injury that rules him out of matchday two. David Fuster picked up a groin problem against Panachaiki.

• Leandro Salino pulled his right thigh in training ahead of the Atlético match, ruling him out of the encounters with Veria, Panachaiki and Atromitos.