History and facts: Dynamo – Maccabi

History and facts: Dynamo – Maccabi

Now they have to beat Maccabi Tel Aviv FC to clinch their ticket to the last 16 for the first time in 16 years.

• In the reverse fixture the Ukrainian side secured a first away group victory in seven years when Andriy Yarmolenko and Júnior Moraes scored in a 2-0 success. The Israeli club have lost all five games and their European adventure ends for the season with this fixture.

• Anything less than a win and Dynamo – who most recently reached the last 16 in 1999/2000, when they made it as far as the second group stage – will finish third and transfer to the UEFA Europa League. If they win and the game between Chelsea FC and Porto is drawn, Dynamo win the group.

Previous meetings
• The sides previously met in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage. It finished 1-1 in Tel Aviv and 3-3 inUkraine.

• Oleh Husiev scored twice in the Ukraine encounter while Yevhen Khacheridi was one of two Dynamo players sent off.

• The lineups in Kyiv on 14 December 2011 were :
Maccabi: Haimov, Saban (Cohen 87), Logasi (Dabbur 60), Alberman, Nivaldo, Mikha (Zizov 70), Yeini, Atar, Kehat, Konaté, Vered.
Dynamo: Koval, Danilo Silva, Betão, Khacheridi, Ninković (Corrêa 68), Aliyev, Husiev, Yarmolenko (Haruna 85), Brown (Milevskyi 66), Harmash, Almeida.

• Ideye Brown put Yuri Semin's men ahead in the first game. Dor Mikha, one of three of the Maccabi team still at the club, equalized for Elfasi Jack's charges before half-time.

Match background

Dynamo
• Dynamo began with a 2-2 draw at home to Porto. In the double header against Chelsea they drew 0-0 at home and lost 2-1 away.

• The 2-0 win in Portugal on matchday five put them on eight points, two behind Chelsea and Porto.

• Dynamo have lost just one of their last 11 home European games, recording seven wins.

• The Ukrainian double winners are involved in their 15th group stage campaign. In 2012/13 they finished third in Group A, eight points behind runners-up Porto, and took four points from their three home matches.

• In 2009/10, when they finished bottom of the group, Dynamo won one and lost two of their home games and have tasted success only three times in their last 17 UEFA Champions League home group fixtures. Home and away, their record is six wins in their last 34 group stage games.

Maccabi
• The Israeli double winners began with a 4-0 defeat at Chelsea before the Dynamo defeat. In the home-and-away encounters with Porto they lost 2-0 away and 3-1 at home, another 4-0 loss to Chelsea on matchday five confirming their fourth-place finish.

• Eran Zahavi scored seven goals in qualifying, in which Maccabi won one, drew one and lost one of their three away games.

• The last time Maccabi were in this elite company, in 2004/05, they had the misfortune of sharing a group with three former winners: FC Bayern München, Juventus and AFC Ajax. Maccabi finished fourth.

Coach and player links 
• Husiev and Andriy Yarmolenko scored in Ukraine's 3-2 victory over an Israel team who included Yuval Shpungin, Zahavi and Tal Ben Haim in a friendly in Petach-Tikva on 29 February 2012. Khacheridi, Olexandr Shovkovskyi and Denys Harmash were also involved for the visitors.

• Ben Basat scored for an Israel XI including Ben Haim and Shpungin in a 3-3 draw against Miguel Veloso's Portugal in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Tel Aviv. 

• Basat also scored for an Israel side including Ben Haim I and Zahavi in a 1-1 draw against Portugal in the return qualifier on 11 October 2013.  

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