Slavia has once won in 11 matches with the English opposition, but gave Chelsea a big scare at this festival in 2019.
Leicester City’s first UEFA Europa League crusade continues in the 16-round circular with Czech champion Slavia Praha.
Slavia made up for a loss in the UEFA Champions League play-offs convincingly crossing a UEFA Europa League segment led by Bayer Leverkusen, while Leicester’s rookies did a smooth task in Group G, securing their position in the elimination stages with two matches for losing and completing top-through-head over Braga with thirteen points.
This is Leicester’s first assembly with one from the Czech Republic.
Slavia has won only one of their 11 UEFA physies against the English opposition (two draws and eight losses), wasting their four two-match play-offs, the recent high against Chelsea in the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, when Jind-ich Trpi-ovsko the team won in Prague (0-1) and London (3-4), midfielder Petr ‘Evak scored a double in the return setting at Stamford Bridge.
Slavia has lost their last three home games to English visitors, all through a single-purpose margin, and scored a goal in the last five. His toughest European defeat also came here against the Premier League opposition: a 7-0 loss to Arsenal at the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League organizational level.
Slavia – Czech Republic champion for the third time in 4 years last season, Slavia missed a moment of consecutive adventure at the UEFA Champions League organizational level this season when, back led by coach Trpi-ovsko, he beat Midtjylland in the game. (0-0 h, 1-4 a).
– Fourth in their UEFA Champions League segment last season, Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Internazionale, Slavia finished moment in their UEFA Europa League organization this season, a streak of 4 consecutive victories from the 2nd to the 5th round that allowed them to finish the moment in Leverkusen – which closed the segment by beating them 4-0 in Germany – striker of Hapoel Beer-Sheva and Nice.
This is the moment in 4 attempts in which Slavia has reached the level of organization up to the elimination level. His 32nd final circular proved fruitful, as they followed a blank draw against Genk with a hard-hitting 4–1 victory on the return in Belgium, which then won a memorable eighth circular against festival specialist Sevilla (2-2 a, 4-3 a. m. , Pacific time) before heading to Chelsea.
Slavia had top problems in her Group C home games in the fall, unlike Leverkusen (1-0), Nice (3-2) and Hapoel (3-0), but nevertheless won 4 of her last nine European house games. wasting the same number, adding all 3 at the UEFA Champions League organizational level last season.
Leicester – Leicester finished fifth in the 2019/20 Premier League to qualify for a first UEFA Europa League and direct access to the organisation stage.
This is only the club’s fifth European campaign. Their biggest fortune, the recent maxim, in 2016/17, when, as champions of England, they made their first appearance in the UEFA Champions League, ruled their organization and reached the quarter-finals, the maximum productive functionality of all English. club at the festival that season – where they lost to Atletico Madrid.
They are now playing European football in the spring only for the time being, after crossing their UEFA Europa League organization in the fall, claiming early qualifying with victories in their first 3 matches, unlike Zorya Luhansk (3-0pm), AEK Athens (2-1 a) and Braga (4-0pm) – and draw in eighth round in Portugal. Despite a first loss, 0-1 in Zorya, in the fifth round, they ended their crusade with a third consecutive home win, 2-0 against AEK, to progress as a winning organization.
Leicester’s victory in Athens at the time of day ended a streak of three consecutive European home defeats. They have won only 3 of their 12 UEFA matches outside England (2 draws, 7 losses), the impressive maximum of them 3-0 at Club Brugge their UEFA Champions League debut four seasons ago.
Nicolae Stanciu of Slavia and Youri Tielemans of Leicester won the Belgian name in combination at Anderlecht in 2016/17.
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has lost his last 4 UEFA Europa League finals: two ahead of Liverpool (st Zenit in 2012/13 and Besikta in 2014/15) and two with Celtic (st Zenit in 2017/18 and Valencia in 2018/19).
Rodgers was Celtic’s coach in a pre-season friendly at Eden Arena against Slavia on 4 July 2017; the game ended 0-0.
Slavia players Jan Boil and Luko Masopust were on the side of the Czech Republic, which beat England 2–1 at Eden Arena in the 2020 UEFA EURO qualifiers in October 2019.
Peter Olayinka of Slavia is a Nigerian teammate of Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho of Leicester.
Leicester is one of 48 clubs that have entered the organizational level this season to never have played a match in the UEFA Europa League, adding qualifiers. As one of six starters at this quarter’s organizational level, he is now among the five clubs to compete. for the first time in the elimination phase of the competition, alongside Antwerp, Granada, Hoffenheim and Wolfsberg.