Xanthi 0-1 Standard Liège: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 1 August 2013
Result
Xanthi 0-1 Standard Liège
Europa League · Thursday 1 August 2013, 18:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
Xanthi 0-1 Standard Liège: match report
Xanthi lost to Standard Liège 0-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 1 August 2013. The half-time score was 1-1.
Geoffrey Bia opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Xanthi's goal came from Serge Dié (36'). Standard Liège scored through Geoffrey Bia (18') and Laurent Ciman (74').
Discipline: Xanthi received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Standard Liège received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Xanthi were 95th on 1 point from 2 and Standard Liège 31st on 6 points from 2. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Xanthi lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Standard Liège in a 4-4-2.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Ibrahima Cisse
- 18'Goal · Geoffrey Bia
- 36'Goal · Serge Dié
- 47'Yellow card · Spyros Vallas
- 53'Yellow card · Manolis Bertos
- 69'Second yellow · Manolis Bertos
- 74'Goal · Laurent Ciman
- 80'Yellow card · Serge Dié
- 81'Yellow card · Dimitrios Goutas
- 90+3'Yellow card · Francois Marquet
Team news
Xanthi line-up (4-2-3-1)
Dimitrios Kyriakidis, Paíto, Manolis Bertos, Dimos Baxevanidis, Dimitris Komesidis, Spyros Vallas, Dimitrios Goutas, Theodoros Vasilakakis, Petros Mantalos, Serge Dié, Marcelinho
Standard Liège line-up (4-4-2)
Eiji Kawashima, Alessandro Iandoli, Daniel Opare, Laurent Ciman, Dino Arslanagić, Frédéric Bulot, Imoh Ezekiel, Ibrahima Cisse, Francois Marquet, Igor De Camargo, Geoffrey Mujangi Bia