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Panathinaikos and Standard are both without a win in UEFA Europa League Group G, with their previous five meetings in Europe having gone largely the Belgian side's way.

Víctor Ibarbo celebrates scoring for Panathinaikos in Liege
Víctor Ibarbo celebrates scoring for Panathinaikos in Liege ©AFP/Getty Images

A 2-2 draw in Belgium on 20 October extended Panathinaikos and Standard's wait for a first UEFA Europa League Group G win, with the section's bottom sides quickly reunited on matchday four.

Previous meetings
• Matchday three's 2-2 draw was the teams' fifth European encounter, with Standard yet to lose against the Greens (W3 D2). The Belgians have won both of the clubs' meetings in Athens.

• In the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League round of 16, Domenico D'Onofrio's Standard beat Nikos Nioplias's Panathinaikos 3-1 in Athens and then 1-0 in Liege.

• The line-ups for that fixture in Athens on 11 March 2010 were:
Panathinaikos: Galinović, Sarriegi, Rukavina (Christodoulopoulos 71), Ninis (Karagounis 46), Kanté, Cissé, Leto* (Salpingidis 46), Gilberto Silva, Darlas, Simão, Vyntra.
Standard: Bolat, Ramos, Defour (Carcela-González 22), Mbokani, De Camargo, Camozzato, Sarr, Jovanović (Dalmat 79), Gershon, Nicaise (Mangala 67), Witsel.

• Guy Luzon's Standard were held to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of the sides' 2014/15 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round tie, but overcame Ioannis Anastasiou's team 2-1 in the Athens return.

• The line-ups for that Athens decider on 30 July 2014 were:
Panathinaikos: Kotsolis*, Koutrombis*, Trianfyllopoulos*, David Mendes (Klonaridis 56, Dinas 65), Berg*, Zeca*, Ajagun, Nano, Schildenfeld, Pranjić, Petrić (Karelis 56).
Standard: Kawashima, Jorge Teixeira, Ciman, Stam, De Camargo, Mbombo (Ajdarević 71), Carcela-González (Watt 54), Arslangic*, Van Damme, Mujangi Bia (M'Poku 20), Lumanza.

• Panathinaikos's 17 matches against Belgian opposition have ended W3 D6 L8 (W3 D3 L2 at home).

• Standard's record in 11 games against Greek clubs is W7 D3 L1 (W3 D1 L1 in Greece).

Form guide
• Panathinaikos are without a win in four European fixtures, their 2-1 home loss to Ajax on matchday one having also halted a five-match unbeaten run at home (W3 D2). Barring qualifying, they are without a victory in ten UEFA Europa League games (D3 L7).

• Standard have lost six of their latest seven European away games, a 1-0 qualifying success at Željezničar in 2015 the only victory in that sequence.

• Having safely negotiated their first three UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns, Panathinaikos failed to advance in their last two attempts.

• Standard have progressed in two of their five UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League group stage forays, missing the cut in their last two attempts, most recently in 2014/15.

Links and trivia
• The journey from Liege to Athens is around 2,000km.

• Panathinaikos come into matchday four having received more cards (15 yellow and two red) than any other side in this season's group stage.

• Panathinaikos's DR Congo international winger Paul-José M'Poku was a Standard player from 2011–15, netting 19 goals in 94 league outings. He featured as a substitute for Standard in their last home fixture with Panathinaikos (see above).

• Standard winger Mathieu Dossevi represented Panathinaikos's local rivals Olympiacos from 2014–15, while Cypriot international Kostas Laifis is on loan at Standard from the Piraeus club.

• Standard's Jean-François Gillet and Panathinaikos's Sebastián Leto were both on Catania's books in 2015, though the latter was loaned to Argentinian outfit Lanús during that period.

The coaches
• Italian coach Andrea Stramaccioni steered Panathinaikos to a third-place finish in Greece last term, his first in Athens. A qualified lawyer whose playing career was curtailed by injury, he specialised as a youth coach before managing Internazionale Milano and Udinese in Serie A.

• Aleksandar Janković replaced Yannick Ferrera at the Standard helm in early September. Once assistant to fellow Serb Slavoljub Muslin at several clubs, the 44-year-old has coached Crvena zvezda, Serbia's Under-21s and – in Belgium – Lokeren and Mechelen.