Uefa Champions League 2012/13 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT GNK Dinamo Zagreb FC Porto Group A - Matchday 1 Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Tuesday 18 September 2012 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Head coach.......................................................................................................................8 Match officials....................................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................12 Group Standings.............................................................................................................14 Competition facts.............................................................................................................16 Team facts.......................................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................20 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto Tuesday 18 September 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/98 GS GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto 3-1 Zagreb Mikić 7, Rukavina 37, Mujčin 61; Jardel 39 21/10/98 GS FC Porto - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 Porto Doriva 33, Zahovič 42, 75 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 28/09/83 R1 FC Porto - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 Porto Fernando Gomes 87 agg: 2-2 ag 14/09/83 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto 2-1 Zagreb Kranjčar 25, 75; Fernando Gomes 65 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA GNK Dinamo Zagreb 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 5 6 FC Porto 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 6 5 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/11/04 GS SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 Lisbon Šokota 11, Simão 29(p) European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/09/82 R1 Sporting Clube de Portugal - 3-0 Lisbon Toni 29, 36, 65 GNK Dinamo Zagreb agg: 3-1 15/09/82 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - 1-0 Zagreb Cerin 71 Sporting Clube de Portugal UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/10/80 R1 SL Benfica - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 Lisbon Nené 18, Martins De Oliveira 58 agg: 2-0 17/09/80 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - SL Benfica 0-0 Zagreb FC Porto - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None Record versus clubs from opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA GNK Dinamo Zagreb 4 3 1 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 9 3 1 5 6 13 FC Porto 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 2 6 5 Last updated 17/09/12 00:42:01CET 2 Previous meetings GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto Tuesday 18 September 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Match background GNK Dinamo Zagreb conceded 22 goals in last season's group stage – a UEFA Champions League record – and will be hoping to show more resilience as they start a new campaign at home to FC Porto. Previous meetings • The four previous meetings between the teams have ended in a home victory, Dinamo winning 3-1 in the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League group stage and 2-1 in the 1983/84 European Cup Winners' Cup first round. Porto triumphed 3-0 in 1998 and 1-0 in 1983 in the reverse fixtures in Portugal. • While Dinamo are the only Croatian opponents Porto have faced, Dinamo have registered one victory in five attempts against other Portuguese sides. • That came in the 1982/83 European Champion Clubs' Cup first round when they beat Sporting Clube de Portugal 1-0. The other games resulted in three defeats (all away) and a 0-0 draw at home to SL Benfica in the 1980/81 European Cup Winners' Cup first round. Match background • Champions of Croatia for the seventh year in succession in 2011/12, when they completed the domestic double, Dinamo are taking part in the group stage for the second season running and the fourth time in all. • As in 2011, they came through three qualifying rounds, first overcoming PFC Ludogorets Razgrad through Domagoj Vida's winner eight minutes into added time for a 4-3 aggregate success. They twice had to come from behind in that second leg, Ante Rukavina scoring two equalisers to add to his goal in the first game in Bulgaria. • In the third qualifying round goals from Vida, Fatos Beqiraj, Duje Čop and Luis Ibáñez gave Dinamo a 4-0 home win against FC Sheriff, winning 5-0 on aggregate. • In the play-offs Tonel's first-half goal at NK Maribor confirmed Dinamo's progress after they had won 2-1 in Zagreb. • Dinamo opened last year's group stage against nine-time champions Real Madrid CF, losing 1-0 at home. They also suffered defeat in their remaining five fixtures, going down at home 2-0 to AFC Ajax and 7-1 to Olympique Lyonnais – their heaviest defeat in UEFA competition. Their group stage goal difference of -19 is a competition record. • The Croatian club are still looking for their first matchday one win. In both their first two group stage campaigns they began with goalless draws, at home to Ajax in 1998/99 and again the following season away to holders Manchester United FC. In that first season they were unbeaten at home, drawing two games and winning 3-1 against Porto, while in 1999/2000 they lost twice and won once. They have lost their last four home games in the group stage. • Porto also missed out on the knockout stages in 2011/12 although only one more goal would have taken them through; instead the 0-0 home draw with FC Zenit St Petersburg on matchday six consigned them to third place in Group G, a point behind APOEL FC and Zenit. • Porto, in the group stage for the 17th time, lost their first two away games last season before winning 2-0 at FC Shakhtar Donetsk on matchday five. • The Portuguese title holders, and two-time European champions, began last season with a 2-1 home win against Shakhtar but that was only their second victory in their last eight matchday one fixtures. Team ties • Tonel was schooled in the Porto junior and reserve teams but moved on without appearing in the first XI. He played with João Moutinho at Sporting between 2005 and 2010 and Silvestre Varela during 2005/06. • While with FC Salzburg Nikola Pokrivač faced Eliaquim Mangala and Steven Defour in the last 32 of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League as R. Standard de Liège advanced 3-2 on aggregate. The Porto duo featured in both games while Pokrivač played the last 17 minutes of the second leg. • Čop spent 2008/09 in Portugal with CD Nacional, but was only used for a total of 174 minutes in official games. • Rukavina faced Mangala and Defour while with Panathinaikos FC in the last 16 of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League. Standard went through 4-1 on aggregate. Last updated 17/09/12 00:42:01CET 3 Match background GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Porto Tuesday 18 September 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Match facts Dinamo Zagreb UEFA Champions League statistics • Ivan Kelava, Tonel and Domagoj Vida each played all 540 minutes of qualifying. International duty • Four Dinamo players were on duty during the recent 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Vida, Josip Šimunić, Kelava (Croatia) and Fatos Beqiraj (Montenegro). • Beqiraj scored twice as Montenegro beat San Marino 6-0 on 11 September. Summer transfers • In Ante Puljić (NK Lokomotiva Zagreb) Ivan Peko (NK Lokomotiva Zagreb) Marcelo Brozović (NK Lokomotiva Zagreb) Duje Čop (RNK Split) Ante Mrmić (NK Varaždin) Bryan Carrasco (Audax Club Sportivo Italiano, loan) • Out Milan Badelj (Hamburger SV) Mateo Poljak (Western Sydney Wanderers FC) Jakub Sylvestr (FC Erzgebirge Aue, loan) Tomislav Barbarić (NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, loan) Goran Zakarić (NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, loan) Filip Mrzljak (NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, loan) Mario Šitum (NK Lokomotiva Zagreb, loan) Pedro Morales (Club Universidad de Chile, loan) Miscellaneous • Dinamo have not lost in 33 games since Ante Čačić took the reins on 23 December 2011, winning 23. • Dinamo were held by NK Inter Zaprešić on the opening day of the First League season, the first time they failed to win their top-flight curtain-raiser since 2002. Porto UEFA Champions League statistics • Rolando serves a one-game ban on matchday one following his dismissal in February's 4-0 UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg defeat by Manchester City FC. International duty • Eight Porto players were on senior duty at the start of September: João Moutinho, Miguel Lopes, Silvestre Varela (Portugal), Jackson Martínez, James Rodríguez (Colombia), Alex Sandro (Brazil), Christian Atsu (Ghana) and Steven Defour (Belgium). • Second-half substitute Varela scored within 30 seconds of his introduction as Portugal beat Azerbaijan 3-0 in a FIFA World Cup qualifier held in Braga on 11 September; Moutinho also featured. • James Rodríguez scored Colombia's opener in a 3-1 qualifying win away to Chile on 11 September. Four days earlier he claimed two assists in the 4-0 triumph over Uruguay. • Eliaquim Mangala captained France Under-21s in a 4-0 friendly win against Chile on 10 September, three days after their 100% UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying record was ended with a 2-1 loss in Slovakia. • Atsu opened the scoring as Ghana defeated Mali 2-0 in Accra on 8 September in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.