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FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk will look to end Club Brugge KV's UEFA Europa League record unbeaten run as they square up for their quarter-final decider.

Previous meetings
• The 0-0 first leg draw was the sides' second European meeting. Yevhen Kucherevskiy's Dnipro came from 2-1 down to beat Trond Sollied's side 3-2 in Dnipropetrovsk in a 2004 UEFA Cup group game, Dnipro's only previous encounter with Belgian opponents. Dnipro ultimately finished top of the section; Club Brugge bowed out.

• The teams for that game on 21 October 2004 were:
Dnipro: Kernozenko, Hrystai, Yezerskiy, Shelayev, Kostyshyn, Venhlinskiy (Melashchenko 89), Radchenko, Rusol, Mykhaylenko, Rykun, Nazarenko (Semochko 62).
Club Brugge: Butina, Simons*, Van der Heyden, Clement, Verheyen, Englebert, Čeh (Stoica 77), Balaban, Gvozdenović (Lange 46), Cornelis, Maertens (Simões 70).

• Club Brugge have won three of their 12 games against Ukrainian clubs, but are without a success in the most recent eight of those fixtures (D5 L3).

Form guide
• Club Brugge are the only unbeaten side left in the competition, with the record W11 D4 since entering this season's competition in the third qualifying round. By contrast Dnipro have lost four matches since the start of the group stage – as many as they have won.

• Dnipro have won their last three European home games without conceding; Club Brugge have won six of their seven UEFA Europa League away games this season.

• In avoiding defeat at home to Dnipro, Club Brugge set a new UEFA Europa League record by going 11 games unbeaten from the start of the group stage.

• Dnipro have reached the quarter-finals of this competition for the first time. Their biggest European successes were making it to the quarter-finals of the 1984/85 and 1989/90 European Champion Clubs' Cups.

• Club Brugge are in the quarter-finals for the first time since the advent of the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stages. The Belgian side have not reached the latter stages of a UEFA tournament since they made it to the last four in the 1991/92 European Cup Winners' Cup, losing to SV Werder Bremen.

• Club Brugge have never lost a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League quarter-final, overcoming AC Milan in 1975/76 and Panathinaikos FC in 1997/98, winning both ties 3-2 on aggregate.

Trivia and links
• Dnipro remain the most combative side in the competition, with 195 fouls committed and 41 yellow cards received – ten more than any other side.

• Dnipro's Czech defender Ondřej Mazuch played in Belgium with RSC Anderlecht (2009–11), with Club Brugge's Tom De Sutter one of his team-mates in Brussels.

• Dnipro's Yevhen Konoplyanka is the most fouled played in this season's competition by some distance. He has been impeded 38 times – 12 more than any other player.

• Dnipro midfielder Serhiy Kravchenko turns 32 the day after the Club Brugge decider.

• Due to extra time in the round of 16, Dnipro goalkeeper Denys Boyko and defender Douglas have now played 1020 minutes of football in this season's competition – 30 more than any other player.

• Club Brugge won their first trophy in eight years on 22 March, beating RSC Anderlecht 2-1 in a thrilling Belgian Cup final. Lior Refaelov scored the late winner.

• Dnipro were initially drawn at home but the fixture was reversed according to the draw procedure as the first leg clashed with FC Dynamo Kyiv's home encounter with ACF Fiorentina. 

The coaches
• Dnipro coach since May 2014, Myron Markevych started out as a midfielder with home-town club FC Karpaty Lviv. While his playing career was not a huge success, he served Karpaty in four spells as a coach before a lengthy stint at FC Metalist Kharkiv earned him a reputation for attacking football. He briefly coached Ukraine in 2010.

• A goalkeeper for R. Standard de Liège, Mechelen, SL Benfica and Belgium, for whom he earned 58 caps, Michel Preud'homme has been in charge of Club Brugge since September 2013. As a coach, he has claimed league titles in Belgium (Standard, 2007/08) and Saudi Arabia (al-Shabab FC, 2011/12) in addition to the Belgian Cup (KAA Gent, 2009/10) and the Dutch Cup (FC Twente, 2010/11).

Penalty shoot-outs
• Dnipro's record in one UEFA competition penalty shoot-out is W0 L1 (W0 L1 at home):
3-5 v FC Girondins de Bordeaux (H), 1984/85 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-final

• Club Brugge's record in four UEFA competition penalty shoot-outs is W4 L0 (W1 L0 away from home)
4-1 v FC Shakhtar Donetsk (H), 2002/03 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
4-2 v Borussia Dortmund (A), 2003/04 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
4-3 v Vålerenga Fotball (H), 2005/06 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
4-3 v KKS Lech Poznań (H), 2009/10 UEFA Europa League play-off