UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Malmö FF (first leg: 1-4) GNK Dinamo Zagreb Play-offs, second leg Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Tuesday 23 August 2011 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Squad list...........................................................................................................................4 Match officials....................................................................................................................6 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................7 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................10 Team facts.......................................................................................................................12 Competition format..........................................................................................................14 Legend............................................................................................................................16 Malmö FF - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 23 August 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 17/08/11 PO GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Malmö FF 4-1 Zagreb Sammir 4, 60(p), Rukavina 56, Beqiraj 84; Mehmeti 17 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Malmö FF 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 Malmö FF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/08/98 QR2 Malmö FF - HNK Hajduk Split 1-2 Malmo Ohlsson 88; Vucko 41, 55 agg: 2-3 11/08/98 QR2 HNK Hajduk Split - Malmö FF 1-1 Split Brajković 44; Bjarnason 73 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/08/97 QR2 Malmö FF - HNK Hajduk Split 0-2 Malmo Vucko 45, Erceg 90 agg: 2-5 12/08/97 QR2 HNK Hajduk Split - Malmö FF 3-2 Split Skoko 77, Sedloski 79, Saar 89; Wirmola 11, Gudmundsson 59 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/09/04 R1 IF Elfsborg - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 0-0 Boras agg: 0-2 16/09/04 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - IF Elfsborg 2-0 Zagreb Karić 6, Bošnjak 79 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 Malmö FF 2 0 0 2 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 5 12 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 6 1 Last updated 23/08/11 20:15:51CET 2 Previous meetings Malmö FF - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 23 August 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Match background It is 12 years since GNK Dinamo Zagreb last graced the group stage but they are well placed to put that right against a Malmö FF side competing in Europe for the first time since 2005/06. • The Croatian champions were in dominant form in the first leg despite Agon Mehmeti's 17th-minute goal cancelling out Sammir's fourth-minute opener. Ante Rukavina (56) and Sammir again (60, penalty) put Dinamo in command, substitute Fatos Bećiraj adding a late fourth. Previous meetings • The teams had never met in UEFA club competition before the first leg. • Dinamo's only previous experience of Swedish opposition came in the first round of the 2004/05 UEFA Cup, where they eliminated IF Elfsborg, winning 2-0 at home and drawing 0-0 away. • Malmö came up against Dinamo's arch-rivals HNK Hajduk Split in their only past matches against Croatian opposition, bowing out to them in the 1997/98 and 1998/99 UEFA Cup second qualifying rounds. They lost three of those individual games – including both their home fixtures − and drew the other. Match background • Malmö have won only one of their last four European games at home, beating HB Tórshavn 2-0 in this season's second qualifying round. • Dinamo have won three and lost only two of their last seven European fixtures on the road, at Villarreal CF and PAOK FC in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage. • Dinamo have won their opening five league matches of the season without conceding a goal. Agon Mehmeti's effort for Malmö in the first leg is the only time they have been breached in any competition this term. • Twelve years after last gracing the UEFA Champions League group stage, Dinamo have their sights set on a return to Europe's elite following aggregate victories against Neftçi PFK (3-0) and HJK Helsinki (3-1). • Dinamo participated in the 1998/99 group stage and while they finished second behind Olympiacos FC, their record was not good enough to reach the quarter-finals as one of the two best runners-up. • The following season Dinamo finished bottom of a first group stage pool which included Manchester United FC, Olympique de Marseille and SK Sturm Graz. • Since their last group stage appearance, the Croatian club have fallen at the last on five occasions, losing third qualifying round ties to AC Milan in 2000/01, FC Dynamo Kyiv (2003/04), Arsenal FC (2006/07), SV Werder Bremen (2007/08) and FC Shakhtar Donetsk (2008/09). • In 2010/11, Dinamo failed to make it out of the UEFA Europa League group stage. • Malmö have never played in the group stage of a UEFA competition, but reached the 1978/79 European Champion Clubs' Cup final under Bob Houghton, where they lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest FC in Munich. • This is only their second appearance in qualifying since the advent of the UEFA Champions League. They beat Maccabi Haifa FC (agg: 5-4) to reach the final hurdle in 2005/06, but unexpectedly lost out to Swiss outsiders FC Thun (agg: 4-0). • They have come through two rounds to reach the play-offs this season, beating HB Tórshavn (agg: 3-1) and, rather more impressively, Scottish champions Rangers FC (agg: 2-1). Team ties • Dinamo were linked with Malmö defender Ricardinho before the start of the season, but the deal was never completed. • Dinamo's Swedish defender Walid Atta played under Malmö coach Rikard Norling at AIK Solna, and also played alongside Malmö goalkeeper Johan Dahlin in the Sweden Under-21 side. • Malmö striker-turned-footballing superstar Zlatan Ibrahimović has a cult following in Croatia by virtue of his Croatian mother, Jurka Gravić. Last updated 23/08/11 20:15:51CET 3 Match background Malmö FF - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 23 August 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Malmö New Stadium, Malmo Squad list Malmö FF Current season All-time QUAL UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 25 Dušan Melichárek CZE 29/11/83 27 - 5 - - - 17 - - - 5 - 27 Johan Dahlin SWE 08/09/86 24 - - - - - 3 - - - 1 - 30 Dejan Garača SWE 21/07/91 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 50 Tobias Uddenäs SWE 18/11/92 18 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Ulrich Vinzents DEN 04/11/76 34 - 1 - - - 13 - - - 12 - 4 Daniel Andersson SWE 28/08/77 33 - 5 - - - 17 - - - 21 1 6 Markus Halsti FIN 19/03/84 27 - 4 - - - 11 1 - - 10 1 14 Miiko Albornoz SWE 30/11/90 20 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 15 Pontus Jansson SWE 13/02/91 20 - 5 - - - 8 1 - - 5 - 16 Yago Fernández POR 05/01/88 23 - 1 - - - 10 1 - - 1 - 20 Ricardinho BRA 09/09/84 26 - 3 - - - 19 - - - 3 - 22 Filip Stenström SWE 03/07/91 20 - 1 - - - 2 - - - 1 - 23 Tobias Malm SWE 21/01/92 19 - - - - - 3 - - - - - 31 Filip Helander SWE 22/04/93 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 32 Pa Konate SWE 25/04/94 17 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 5 Miljan Mutavdžić SRB 03/02/86 25 - 5 - - - 16 1 - - 5 - 10 Jiloan Hamad SWE 06/11/90 20 - 4 1 - - 12 1 - - 4 1 11 Jeffrey Aubynn SWE 12/05/77 34 - 2 - - - 14 1 - - 12 1 17 Ivo Pekalski SWE 03/11/90 20 - 5 - - - 11 2 - - 5 - 18 Amin Nazari SWE 26/04/93 18 - 1 - - - 4 - - - 1 - 21 Jimmy Durmaz SWE 22/03/89 22 - 5 - - - 18 2 - - 5 - 26 Simon Kroon SWE 16/06/93 18 - - - - - 4 - - - - - 29 Omid Nazari SWE 29/04/91 20 - 1 - - - 3 - - - 1 - 33 Tobias Lewicki SWE 02/05/93 18 - - - - - - - - - - - Forwards 7 Daniel Larsson SWE 25/01/87 24 - 5 1 - - 17 4 - - 10 1 9 Wílton Figueiredo BRA 17/03/82 29 - 5 1 - - 16 1 - - 9 5 19 Dardan Rexhepi SWE 16/01/92 19 - 5 1 - - 16 1 - - 5 1 24 Agon Mehmeti SWE 20/11/89 21 - 5 1 - - 13 2 - - 5 1 28 Alex Nilsson SWE 23/10/92 18 - 1 - - - 3 - - - 1 - Coach - Rikard Norling SWE 04/06/71 40 - 5 - - - - - - - 11 - Last updated 23/08/11 20:15:51CET 4 Squad list Malmö FF - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 23 August 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Malmö New Stadium, Malmo GNK Dinamo Zagreb Current season All-time QUAL UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 12 Filip Lončarić CRO 17/09/86 24 - - - - - - - - - 5 - 30 Ivan Kelava CRO 20/02/88 23 - 5 - - - 5 - - - 17 - 31 Oliver Zelenika CRO 14/05/93 18 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Karlo Bručić CRO 17/04/92 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Luis Ibáñez ARG 15/07/88 23 - 5 1 - - 4 1 - - 25 1 11 Ivan Tomečak CRO 07/12/89 21 - 1 - - - 3 1 - - 13 1 13 Tonel POR 13/04/80 31 - 5 - - - 5 1 17 2 46 2 14 Šime Vrsaljko CRO 10/01/92 19 - 5 - - - 3 - - - 13 - 19 Tomislav Barbarić CRO 29/03/89 22 - - - - - - - - - 14 - 22 Igor Bišćan CRO 04/05/78 33 - - - - - - - 23 - 77 4 24 Domagoj Vida CRO 29/04/89 22 - 5 - - - 5 - - - 13 - 25 Leandro Cufré ARG 09/05/78 33 - 1 - - - 3 - 12 - 35 1 26