Toulouse looking to open up a path

A win against eliminated FK Partizan will guarantee Toulouse FC the chance to play Club Brugge KV for a place in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 as Group J heads towards its conclusion.

• Should Toulouse record a worse outcome against Partizan than Club Brugge procure from their visit to section leaders FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Alain Casanova's side would be eliminated.

Previous meetings
• Toulouse won 3-2 in Belgrade on Matchday 1 in the sides' first meeting, which was also the French club's first game against Serbian opposition. Partizan have not won in France, earning a 1-1 draw in their first visit and 4-0 and 3-0 defeats in subsequent trips.

Match background
• Toulouse have not won at home in Europe this season. Indeed, they have only come out on top once in their last eight UEFA club competition home ties, a 2-1 2007/08 UEFA Cup group-stage win against FC Spartak Moskva.

• Partizan are yet to win in eleven away games in UEFA club competition group stages, earning a solitary 2-2 draw at S.S. Lazio on 25 November 2004 and defeats in their other ten fixtures.

• Partizan have conceded more goals than any other side in the group stage, 13 prior to Matchday 5.

• A 2-0 loss to Shakhtar on Matchday 4 was Toulouse's heaviest home defeat in UEFA club competition.

Team facts
• A former goalkeeper, Toulouse coach Casanova played for Le Havre AC and Toulouse either side of a two-season spell at Olympique de Marseille in which he did not make a single competitive appearance. He replaced Elie Baup at the Stadium Municipal in May 2008.

• Casanova was an unused substitute as Marseille lost 5-3 on penalties to Partizan's local rivals FK Crvena Zvezda in the 1991 European Champion Clubs' Cup final in Bari.

• Just before the start of the group stage, Partizan dismissed ex-Yugoslavia midfielder Slaviša Jokanović as their coach. The former CD Tenerife, RC Deportivo La Coruña and Chelsea FC player was replaced by his assistant Goran Stevanović.

• Toulouse visit Club Brugge on Matchday 6, with Partizan at home against Shakhtar on the same day, 16 December.