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Yet to score in Group B, Young Boys will look to get their skates on as they tackle APOEL, who have romped to the top of this UEFA Europa League section with wins in both of their opening matches.

Previous meetings
• The sides are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition.

• Young Boys won both of their previous UEFA competition fixtures against Cypriot clubs without conceding.

• APOEL lost both of their past European encounters with Swiss teams, resulting in a 6-1 aggregate defeat by Servette in the 1984/85 European Cup Winners' Cup.

Form guide
• Young Boys are without a win in four European games (D1 L3) since eliminating Shakhtar Donetsk in this season's UEFA Champions League second qualifying round. They have yet to score in Group B.

• Young Boys have progressed successfully through two of their previous three UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns.

• APOEL's 1-0 triumph at Olympiacos on matchday two halted a run of seven continental away matches without a victory (D1 L6). They have scored just twice in their last eight continental fixtures on the road.

• APOEL have failed to get to the round of 32 in both of their past UEFA Europa League group stage forays.

Links and trivia
• The journey from Nicosia to Berne is around 2,500km.

• Young Boys defender Milan Vilotić turns 30 the day after the APOEL game.

The coaches
• Adi Hütter took command at Young Boys in September 2015, having steered Salzburg to a domestic double in his native Austria in his sole campaign in charge in 2014/15. He had spent the bulk of his career as a midfielder at the Salzburg outfit, returning as a youth specialist after retirement.

• APOEL's Danish-born coach Thomas Christiansen was once a trainee at Barcelona, playing in their 1992 UEFA Super Cup success, and also scored once in two appearances for Spain. He joined APOEL this summer after two promising seasons in Cyprus as AEK Larnaca boss.