Heavy lot for Leverkusen: In the playoffs waiting Miroslav Klose with Lazio
Leverkusen CEO Michael Schade was smiling tortured, Rudi Voller would have preferred a more beautiful occasion to return to his second home. “When half the Romans I say, that’s a nice story. Rome is the most beautiful city in the world, but unfortunately they also play good football, even Lazio “, was sporting director Voller on Friday after the draw for the Champions League playoffs.
For the second time after 1999 Bayer meets the Italian third-placed Lazio. The games take place on August 18 in Rome (20.45 clock / live in Champions League Scores at FAZ.NET) and on 26 August in Leverkusen (20.45 clock) instead.
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“We certainly take on a club, who is with us at eye level. There is a 50: 50-game, “said Völler, who was from 1987 to 1992 when local rivals AS Roma under contract and is married to a Roman. Managing Schade, who was at the draw in Nyon here, made no secret of his disappointment. “That’s certainly become one of all possibilities of the most difficult.”
Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt took it sporty. “I always expect the worst. But perhaps AS Monaco would become even more difficult “, was the Bayer coach. After all, it was an advantage to be able to deliver the second leg at home.
Last met Lazio in the Europa League on a Bundesliga team: More than two years, the Italians sat with 2: 0 and 3: 3 through against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Bayer has however to defend a successful series. In the previous four Champions League playoffs for the Rhinelanders could always prevail.
Lazio coach Stefano Pioli relies on the experience of its seasoned football champion Miroslav Klose. “I’m sure that the more experienced players will help the other in this difficult task,” he said. The team, the coach and the way of playing Leverkusen he knew very well, said the 49-year-old. “They have last year a great Champions League season played,” he praised. “We knew before the draw that we will meet in the playoffs on a very good team. But we will do in the games everything. “
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For the first time in its long European Cup history meets Borussia Dortmund to the Norwegian club Odds BK. The most famous in Germany players from the squad of twelve times the national cup winner is Olivier Occean who stood in Offenbach, Fürth, Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern under contract. The first leg on 20 August, on artificial turf in the 13,500-seater Skagerak Arena Skien instead, capital of the county of Telemark.
According to previously 18 match days in the Norwegian Tippeligaen BVB opponents ranked in sixth place. In the first three qualifying rounds of the Europa League Odds BK sat against Tiraspol (3: 0/0: 0), Shamrock Rovers (2: 0/2: 1) and IF Elfsborg (1: 2/2: 0) by. Trainer is Dag-Eilev Fagermo.
FK Astana - Apoel Nicosia
Skënderbeu Korçë - Dinamo Zagreb
Celtic Glasgow - Malmö FF
FC Basel - Maccabi Tel Aviv
Bate Borisov - Partizan Belgrade
Lazio - Bayer Leverkusen
Manchester United - FC Bruges
Sporting Lisbon - CSKA Moscow
Rapid Wien - Shakhtar Donetsk
FC Valencia - AS Monaco
First leg 18 / 19th August - Leg 25 / 26th Soon
draw for the Europa League Qualification:
Odds BK Skien - Borussia Dortmund
SCR Altach - Belenenses Lisbon
MSK Zilina - Athletic Bilbao
Steaua Bucharest - Rosenborg Trondheim
Zorya Lugansk - Legia Warsaw
Viktoria Plzen - Vojvodina Novi Sad
FC Milsami Orhei - AS St. Etienne
FK Jablonec - Ajax Amsterdam
Young Boys Bern - FK Karabakh Agdam
Molde FK - Standard Liege
PAOK Saloniki - Brøndby Copenhagen
Girondins Bordeaux - Qairat Almaty
Lech Poznan - Videoton Szekesfehervar
Dinamo Minsk - FC Salzburg
Rabotnicki Skopje - Rubin Kazan
Slovan Liberec - Hajduk Split
Atromitos Athens - Fenerbahce Istanbul
Panathinaikos - FK Qäbälä
FC Southampton - FC Midtjylland
Astra Giurgiu - AZ Alkmaar
FK Krasnodar - HJK Helsinki
FC Thun - Sparta Prague
First leg 20th of August - Rückspiele August 27
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