Dynamo fully in charge for Beşiktaş arrival
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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FC Dynamo Kyiv will look to finish the job they started in Istanbul last week as Beşiktaş JK come to Ukraine, still digesting the gravity of their 4-1 defeat in the round of 32 opener.
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FC Dynamo Kyiv will look to finish the job they started in Istanbul last week as Beşiktaş JK come to Ukraine, still digesting the gravity of their 4-1 defeat against Dynamo in their UEFA Europa League round of 32 opener.
• Dynamo won the first leg 4-1, matching their best ever UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League away win, and handing their hosts their worst ever defeat in the competition. Ricardo Quaresma cancelled out Ognen Vukojević's opener, but Beşiktaş had no response to second-half efforts from Andriy Shevchenko and Ayila Yussuf, which were followed by an Oleh Gusev penalty and Quaresma's late dismissal.
Previous meetings
• The sides have met in two previous two-legged ties. The first one, in the 1986/87 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals, was won comfortably by Dynamo, who prevailed 5-0 in Turkey and 2-0 at home.
• Beşiktaş, under current FC Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu, got their revenge the last time the teams met, eliminating Olexiy Mykhailychenko's side from the 2002/03 UEFA Cup third round with a 3-1 win in Istanbul – rounded off with a memorable Pascal Nouma lob – followed by a 0-0 draw in Kyiv.
• The teams for their last Kyiv meeting on 12 December 2002 were:
Dynamo: Shovkovskiy*, Belkevich, El Kaddouri*, Peev, Gusin, Diogo Rincón, Shatskikh (Melaschenko 63), Ghioane*, Lysystkiy (Gavrančić, 46), Sablić, Leko (Khatskevich, 70).
Beşiktaş: Córdoba, Tolga Doğantez, Tayfur Havutçu, Ahmet Yıldırım, Ronaldo Guiaro, Yasin Sülün, Sergen Yalçin (Tümer Metin 83), Kaan Dobra (Tamer Tuna 80), İbrahim Üzülmez*, Nouma (Ahmet Dursun 75), Zago.
*still with the club
Match background
• Dynamo's 15 games against Turkish sides have ended W9 D4 L2 (W5 D1 L1 at home).
• Beşiktaş have played seven matches against Ukrainian teams, with a record reading W2 D1 L4 (W0 D1 L2 in Ukraine). Their most recent trip to Ukraine ended in a shock 4-1 loss at FC Metalist Kharkiv which eliminated them from the 2008/09 UEFA Cup first round following a 1-0 home win in the first leg.
• Dynamo are unbeaten in five European home games this season, though three of those matches ended in draws.
• Prior to the first leg, Beşiktaş had won five of their six home games this season without conceding a goal, though a 3-1 defeat by FC Porto broke up that winning streak.
• Beşiktaş have gone eight games without an away defeat in Europe (five wins and three draws) since a 2-1 loss to PFC CSKA Moskva in last season's UEFA Champions League group stage.
Team facts
• This game will be Beşiktaş' 150th in UEFA club competition and Dynamo's 50th in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League.
• FC Porto's Falcao remains the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League's top scorer with seven goals since the start of the group stage, with PFC CSKA Moskva's Tomáš Necid his nearest rival on six goals. Sevilla FC's Frédéric Kanouté and KKS Lech Poznań's Artjoms Rudņevs joined former AC Sparta Praha striker Wilfried Bony, Giuseppi Rossi of Villarreal CF, Dynamo's Artem Milevskiy and SSC Napoli's Edinson Cavani on five goals with strikes in the first legs of the round of 32 ties.
• Milevskiy has been fouled more than anyone else in this season's UEFA Europa League, 34 times in total, 12 times more than the next players in the list, FC Metalist Kharkiv's Taison and SK Rapid Wien's Tanju Kayhan.
• Dynamo's Roman Eremenko has been responsible for five assists in the UEFA Europa League this season, leaving him as the joint-top supplier along with VfB Stuttgart's Arthur Boka.
• Finnish international Eremenko was a team-mate of Beşiktaş's Tomáš Sivok during the Czech's time with Udinese Calcio from 2007 to 2008.
• Beşiktaş's Guti took on Dynamo seven times with Real Madrid CF, with the record W3 D3 L1.
• Dynamo's Andriy Shevchenko played Beşiktaş twice as an AC Milan player in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League first group stage; he scored twice in a 4-1 win at San Siro, and struck again as his side prevailed 2-0 in Istanbul. He has scored in all three of his games against Beşiktaş.
• Beşiktaş coach Bernd Schuster coached in Ukraine with Shakhtar in the 2003/04 season; his side drew 1-1 with Dynamo in Kyiv but lost at home 4-2. He was dismissed before the end of the season, but his side finished second and won the Ukrainian Cup without him.
• The overall winners will take on the victors in the tie between Aris Thessaloniki FC and Manchester City FC in the round of 16 on 10 and 17 March, playing the first leg at home.
