In-form CSKA out to confirm progression

PFC CSKA Moskva will look to secure their place in the UEFA Cup Round of 32 as KKS Lech Poznań travel to Moscow mindful that their hosts boast one of the competition's most dangerous strikers.

• Vágner Love is level with VfB Stuttgart's Mario Gómez at the top of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup's scorers chart having struck five goals in the competition proper.

• CSKA have six points after superb wins against RC Deportivo La Coruña (3-0) and Feyenoord (3-1) in their opening Group H fixtures.

• A draw or a win against Lech would seal CSKA's place in the next phase of the competition, though six points would most likely be enough for a top-three finish. Only once in the four-year history of the UEFA Cup group stage has a total of six points not been enough to qualify with Rangers FC missing out in 2004/05, the edition CSKA went on to win.

• Lech, however, will be no pushover having earned a 2-2 draw at home against AS Nancy-Lorraine in their only Group H game to date.

• This is the first time that CSKA will have met Lech in either of their forms. Indeed, CSKA have never been paired with a side from Poland before.

• The Polish club were previously known as KS Amica Wronki but they changed their name and moved to Poznan in May 2006, with the club that had been playing as Lech Poznań being dissolved.

• The original Lech Poznań played four games against Russian sides, losing all four of them. Amica had better luck in their only two-legged tie against Russian opponents, beating FC Alania Vladikavkaz 5-0 over two legs in the first round of the 2000/01 UEFA Cup.

• Lech coach Franciszek Smuda has never come up against a team from Russia, however. His opposite number Valeri Gazzaev is also going into his first tie against a Polish side.

• Lech midfielder Dmitrije Injac and his CSKA counterpart Miloš Krasić both started their careers at Novi Sad-based FK Vojvodina, and were in the squad together in the 2001/02 season before going their separate ways.

• CSKA boast Polish talent in the form of midfielder Dawid Janczyk, who joined the club from Legia Warszawa in 2007. He played alongside Lech striker Robert Lewandowski at Legia in 2005/06.

• CSKA have lost only one of their last 12 home games in the UEFA Cup, against Olympique de Marseille in the 2005/06 group stage, winning eight and drawing three.

• Lech's Sławomir Peszko and Zlatko Tanevski are both within a booking of a one-match ban.

• CSKA's Evgeni Aldonin is suspended following his dismissal in the 3-1 win at Feyenoord, while team-mate Anton Grigoriev will be banned for a game if he picks up another yellow card.

• Deportivo face Feyenoord in Matchday 3's other Group H tie. Nancy are the only side in the section not in action.