• Salzburg's 0 - 4 loss at home to Parma in the first leg of the 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round is the club's joint heaviest
European home defeat.
The home side had their three star attackers Neymar, Cavani and Mbappe in their line - up, all of whom had scored in Glasgow in what was Celtic's record
European home defeat.
Not exact matches
In fact the Eastern
Europeans have never scored a goal against the Three Lions, succumbing to two 3 - 0
defeats and a 1 - 0 loss at
home in October.
That
defeat against Ostersunds also means that Arsenal have lost each to their last six
European home games in spring action, shipping 17 goals in the sequence.
Paris St Germain have been hit with a partial stadium closure for their next
European home match as a result of crowd incidents during their Champions League
defeat to Real Madrid this month.
Another poor performance from Arsenal saw them go down 2 - 0 at
home to Schalke in Group B of the Champions League, their first
European defeat at the Emirates Stadium since 2009 and first to non-English opposition since Internazionale won at Highbury in 2003.
• The first leg was Juve's joint heaviest
home European defeat, equalling their 3 - 0 loss against Manchester United FC in the 2002/03 second group stage and the 4 - 1
defeat at
home to Bayern on matchday six in 2009/10.
Goals from PSG's star - studded trio of Neymar (20), Kylian Mbappe (34) and Edinson Cavani (40 pen) helped PSG on their way to a convincing win at Celtic Park before a Mikael Lustig own goal (82) and Cavani's second (85) condemned Celtic to their heaviest
home defeat in
European competition.
They have only suffered one
defeat in their last 46
European home games as well (W30 D15).
The pick of the other ties sees Europa League new - boys Kuban Krasnodar attempt to protect a 2 - 0 lead at
home against Motherwell, St. Johnstone host FC Minsk 1 - 0 up from their first encounter and Crvena Zvezda must overturn a 3 - 1
defeat when the former
European Cup winners play host to FC Chornomorets Odesa.
Spurs have played 30 times at Wembley in the last two seasons, including last year's
European home games and the FA Cup semifinal
defeat to Chelsea, while United have played 17 times at the 90,000 - seater venue since it opened in 2007.
Still, overall with just two
defeats in their last 26
European games
home and away, things have to be taken into context.
Málaga C.F. face F.C. Porto at the Rosaleda in tonight's return leg of their last 16 clash in the Champions League having never been
defeated at their
home stadium in
European competition.
The
home defeat to Juventus marked the end of the line for Spurs»
European ambitions for another year, and given that they are currently 17 points behind Manchester City in the Premier League, it also marked the loss of the last remaining chance to finish the season with either of the two major trophies that the club most covets.
The club do have a tremendous
European home record going as they have suffered just the one
defeat in their last 39
home games in
European competitions (W25 D13).
Newcastle United ended their
European journey after only managing to pick up 1 - 1 draw at
home against Benfica, which was far from enough to counter previous 3 - 1
defeat from the Portuguese side in previous leg.
Previous meetings • The clubs have never met in UEFA competition, although Marseille have faced another team from the same city,
defeating Lokomotive Leipzig (then representing East Germany) 1 - 0 on aggregate (0 - 0 away, 1 - 0
home) in the 1987/88
European Cup Winners» Cup.
Los Blancos as they they are known,
defeated Wolfsburg in the previous round and have a wonderful oppertunity of reaching yet another
european final and should go into the tie as favourites specially since they are playing the second leg at
home.
The exit from the competition this season doesn't signal the end of Arsenal's season and trophy interests, so in the mean time, the Gunners have to use the
European disappointment as motivation to keep the good domestic form going, as they have done so far since the shambolic, and self - inflicted,
defeat at
home.
By taking it in turns to inflict the heaviest
home defeat on Porto in their rich
European history was the emphatic answer.
The Netherland have failed to qualify for the 2016
European Championships after a 3 - 2
defeat at
home to the Czech Republic on Wednesday morning.
Basel have suffered three
defeats in their last five
European fixtures at St. Jakob - Park and in their last ten, they have only gone W3 D3 L4 at
home in
European games.