Fenerbahçe seek to outgun Sheriff

After a 0-0 draw at FC Steaua Bucureşti on Matchday 1, FC Sheriff will aim to keep their noses in front of Fenerbahçe SK, who come to Moldova looking to atone for a 2-1 home loss to FC Twente.

Previous meetings
• This is the sides' first meeting. Fenerbahçe have never faced a Moldovan side before, but Sheriff have played Turkish opponents, losing 1-0 away to Beşiktaş JK and then 3-0 at home in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round.

Match background
• This is Sheriff's first home game in the group stage of a UEFA competition. As for Fenerbahçe, they reached the round of 32 in their only UEFA Cup group stage campaign, in 2006/07.

• Sheriff have not won in their last five European games since back-to-back 1-0 victories over FC International Turku in the second qualifying round of this season's UEFA Champions League.

• Their 1-0 success at home against Inter Turku remains their only win in European competition outside the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. They have played eight home games at that stage of the competition and won them all.

• Fenerbahçe have not won in eleven UEFA competition group stage away games since a 1-0 victory at AC Sparta Praha in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League.

Team facts
• Sheriff's coach is Leonid Kuchuk from Belarus, who has led the club to the last six of their nine straight Moldovan titles since stepping up from the position of youth-team trainer in January 2004.

• The coach's son, Aleksei, is an important figure in the Sheriff attack.

• German coach Christoph Daum this summer returned from 1. FC Köln for a second spell at the Fenerbahçe helm. Celebrated in Germany for earning three Bundesliga runners-up slots with Bayer 04 Leverkusen and two with Köln, he twice coached Fener's local rivals Beşiktaş JK before claiming two titles in his first spell at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium between 2003 and 2006.

• Daum's best European season to date came in his first spell as Köln coach, when his side reached the semi-finals of the 1989/90 UEFA Cup, losing out to Juventus.

• Sheriff host Twente on Matchday 3, while Fenerbahçe visit Steaua on the same night, 22 October.