FC Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine)
UEFA rankings – 27th place
Five last Europa League matches: 3 wins, 2 defeats, goal difference – 11:7
Five last home matches: 5 wins, goal difference – 15:4
Most stable first team regulars: Artem Kravets – 10 appearances, Aleksandar Dragovic, Miguel, Serhiy Sydorchuk, Serhiy Rybalka, Andriy Yarmolenko – 9 appearances each.
Goalkeeper #1: Olexandr Shovkovskyi – 7 matches played (7 goals conceded, 32 saves)
Best assistant: Andriy Yarmolenko – 6 assists
Best strikers: Andriy Yarmolenko, Oleh Husiev – 4 goals each
Leader according to goal + assist system: Andriy Yarmolenko – 10 (4 + 6)
Injured players: Yevhen Makarenko, Mykyta Burda
Suspended: –
One step from suspension: Domagoj Vida, Artem Kravets, Aleksandar Dragovic, Serhiy Rybalka
Most experienced in the Europa League: Jeremain Lens – 54 matches
Best Europa League striker: Oleh Husiev – 13 goals
Most experienced in euro cups: Olexandr Shovkovskyi – 133 matches
Best euro cups striker: Oleh Husiev – 21 goals
ACF Fiorentina (Florence, Italy)
UEFA rankings – 43rd place
Five last Europa League matches: 2 wins, 2 draws, 1 defeat, goal difference – 8:4
Five last away matches: 4 wins, 1 draw, goal difference – 10:2
Most stable first team regulars: Jose Maria Basanta, Milan Badelj – 9 appearances each, Nenad Tomovic – 8, Ciprian Tătărușanu, Juan Manuel Vargas, David Pizarro, Borja Valero – 7 each
Goalkeeper #1: Ciprian Tătărușanu – 7 matches played (5 goals conceded, 24 saves)
Best assistant: Josip Ilicic – 2 assists
Best strikers: Jose Maria Basanta, Juan Manuel Vargas, Josip Ilicic, Marko Marin, Federico Bernardeschi – 2 goals each
Leader according to goal + assist system: Josip Ilicic – 4 (2 + 2)
Injured players: Giuseppe Rossi
Suspended: Jose Maria Basanta
One step from suspension: Stefan Savic, Milan Badelj
Most experienced in the Europa League: Gonzalo Rodriguez – 42 matches
Best Europa League striker: Giuseppe Rossi – 14 goals
Most experienced in euro cups: Gonzalo Rodriguez – 76 matches
Best euro cups striker: Mario Gomez – 39 goals
Face-to-face matches
Champions Cup, 2nd round
12.11.1969. Dynamo – Fiorentina – 1:2
26.11.1969. Fiorentina – Dynamo – 0:0
UEFA Cup. 3rd round
22.11.1989. Fiorentina – Dynamo – 1:0
06.12.1989. Dynamo – Fiorentina – 0:0
Interesting facts
• Dynamo have won just twice in 18 encounters with Italian clubs, with both of those wins coming against AS Roma in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League. The game in Rome was a 3-0 forfeit success as the match was abandoned after referee Anders Frisk was hit by an object thrown from the crowd.
• Fiorentina are yet to lose in eight games against Ukrainian sides: W5 D3.
• Dynamo have won all five of their European home games this season by margins of two goals or more.
• Fiorentina are unbeaten in 11 European away games (W8 D3).
• Dynamo won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1974/75 and 1985/86, and last reached the quarter-finals of this competition in 2010/11.
• Winners of the inaugural European Cup Winners' Cup in 1961, Fiorentina were losers in the 1956/57 European Cup and 1989/90 UEFA Cup finals.
• Fiorentina have never lost a quarter-final in this competition. A pair of 1-0 wins gave Bruno Giorgi's side victory against AJ Auxerre in 1990. There were also two goals in it in 2008 as, after a 1-1 first-leg draw at home, Adrian Mutu's double earned a 2-0 success at PSV Eindhoven. They were beaten by Rangers FC on penalties in the semi-finals.
• This season's UEFA Europa League records:
Dynamo – W7 D0 L3 F22 A11
Fiorentina – W6 D3 L1 F18 A6
• Dynamo are the only side who started in the group stage and have come this far without drawing a single match.
Trivia and links
• The top-scoring side left in the competition are Dynamo, who have scored 22 goals in their ten games: an average of 2.2 per match.
• Dynamo's Miguel Veloso played in Italy with Genoa CFC from 2010–12, where his team-mates included Fiorentina's Nenad Tomović. Miguel Veloso and Fiorentina's Matías Fernández had previously played together with Sporting Clube de Portugal (2009–10).
• Dynamo's Jeremain Lens and Fiorentina's Mounir El Hamdaoui – who is not registered to play in the UEFA Europa League – won the 2008/09 Dutch title together during their time at AZ Alkmaar.
• Fiorentina's only Ukrainian player, Oleksandr Yakovenko, is out on loan at ADO Den Haag. The winger previously played alongside Dynamo's Dieumerci Mbokani at RSC Anderlecht from 2011–13.
• With 39 strikes to date, Fiorentina's Mario Gomez needs one more goal to move above Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, and become the fourth higest-scoring German player in UEFA club competition. Gerd Müller (62), Jupp Heynckes (45) and Ulf Kirsten (43) occupy the top slots.
• Dynamo's Andriy Yarmolenko has laid on six goals in this season's UEFA Europa League – more than any other player in the quarter-finals. He has also scored four. Wolfsburg's Kevin De Bruyne (five goals, five assists) and Club Brugge's Lior Refaelov (six goals, four assists) have also had a hand in ten goals.
• Dynamo defender Betão could make his 50th UEFA club competition appearance in the Fiorentina game.
• Dynamo goalkeeper Olexandr Shovkovskiy has made the most UEFA club competition appearances of any of the players left in this season's UEFA Europa League: 133. Only 18 players have played more European games.
• Dynamo's Łukasz Teodorczyk is one of three Polish players who still have a chance of playing in this year's UEFA Europa League final in Warsaw, along with Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla FC) and Oskar Zawada (VfL Wolfsburg).
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