


They lost their first three away fixtures in the Czech Republic, conceding 14 goals in the process, but have won the two most recent, both with 1-0 scorelines. Fenerbahçe have now faced Czech opponents 11 times (W4 D1 L6).Slavia's lone experience of Turkish opposition before the first leg was a fourth-round tie in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup which they lost 4-3 on aggregate to Fenerbahçe's city rivals Beşiktaş (1-0 h, 2-4 a).The clubs' first UEFA encounter took place in Istanbul on 17 February and it was the visitors who emerged victorious, Slavia's Ibrahim Traoré, Oscar Dorley and Ondřej Lingr and Fenerbahçe's Dimitris Pelkas and Ferdi Kadıoğlu all finding the target for the first time this European campaign in a five-goal thriller.
