FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FC MATCH PRESS KIT Arena Aufschalke, Gelsenkirchen Thursday 27 November 2008 - 19.00CET (19.00 Local Time) Group a - Matchday 3
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FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FC MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Thursday 27 November 2008 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Group A - Matchday 3 Contents 1 - Match background 6 - Competition facts 2 - Squad list 7 - Team facts 3 - Match officials 8 - Competition information 4 - Domestic information 9 - Legend 5 - Match-by-match lineups This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Cup match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html Match background FC Schalke 04 will look to put an early end to their Group A qualification campaign and avenge an old defeat as they meet Manchester City FC in their third UEFA Cup group-stage fixture. • Schalke have four points after beating Paris Saint-Germain FC 3-1 in their opening fixture before drawing 1-1 at Real Racing Club. City kicked off on Matchday 2 with a 3-2 win at home against FC Twente, and are second in the section with three points. • A win for Schalke will guarantee them a place in the last 32. No side has ever been eliminated from the UEFA Cup group stage with seven points, though it is theoretically possible for four sides to finish level with seven points, with one team being eliminated on goal difference. • A win for City will most likely send them through too. Only once in the history of the UEFA Cup group stage has a total of six points not been enough to qualify, with a Rangers FC side featuring Schalke striker Peter Løvenkrands missing out in the 2004/05 edition. • City and Schalke have met before, the English side beating their German opponents 5-2 on aggregate in the semi-final of the 1969/70 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Joe Mercer's side then went on to beat Poland's Górnik Zabrze in the final to win what remains the club's only major European trophy. • Schalke won the first leg 1-0 in Gelsenkirchen thanks to a 76th-minute Reinhard Libuda strike, meaning they have won their sole home game against City. • However, they were overwhelmed at Maine Road, as the English side won 5-1 with Mike Doyle (8), Neil Young (22, 28), Francis Lee (50) and Colin Bell (81) all scoring against Rudi Gutendorf's side, for whome Libuda's late goal was scant consolation. • The teams for the first leg in Germany on 1 April 1970 were: Schalke: Norbert Nigbur, Waldemar Slomiany, Hans-Jürgen Becher (Alban Wüst, 70), Hermann Erlhoff, Klaus Fichtel, Heinz van Haaren, Reinhard Libuda, Gerd Neuser, Manfred Pohlschmidt, Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp (Klaus Scheer, 46), Hans Pirkner. City: Joe Corrigan, Tony Book, Glyn Pardoe, Mike Doyle, Derek Jeffries, Alan Oakes, Tommy Booth, Colin Bell, Francis Lee, Neil Young, Mike Summerbee. Last updated 25.11.2008 15:23:56CET www.uefa.com Match background 1 FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FCThursday 27 November 2008 - 19.00 CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen • The only other German side City have faced in European competition is VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, to whom they lost to 4-2 on aggregate in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup quarter finals having followed a 1-1 home draw with a 3-1 defeat in German against the eventual winners. Their complete record in games against Bundesliga sides reads W1 D1 L2, with both of those defeats coming in Germany. • Schalke have played eight UEFA club competition games against English teams and met Chelsea FC in the group stage of last season's UEFA Champions League, losing 2-0 in London and drawing 0-0 at home. Their record in all of those matches reads W3 D2 L3. They have won three and drawn one of their home games against English opponents. • Schalke coach Fred Rutten has never encountered English opponents. • City manager Mark Hughes, meanwhile has yet to win against German opposition as a coach, with his Blackburn Rovers FC side drawing one 2006/07 UEFA Cup game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and losing the other. He played three matches against German sides with FC Barcelona and Chelsea FC, winning all of them. • Hughes also played in Germany, spending the 1987/88 season on loan at FC Bayern München from FC Barcelona and scoring six goals in 18 league games for the Munich club, who finished third in the table. • Three City players have experience of German football. Vincent Kompany played at Hamburger SV from 2006 to 2008, Berti Glauber joined from 1. FC Nürnberg in the summer and the injured Martin Petrov was at VfL Wolfsburg from 2001 to 2005. • In 2003/04 Petrov and Schalke's Albert Streit were team-mates at Wolfsburg. • PSG play Racing in Thursday's other Group A tie. Twente are the only side in the section not in action on Matchday 3. Last updated 25.11.2008 15:23:56CET www.uefa.com Match background 2 FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FCThursday 27 November 2008 - 19.00 CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Squad list Schalke Current season All-time UIC UCL UCUP UCUP UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age BL Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Manuel Neuer GER 27.03.1986 22 - - - - - 3 - 3 - 13 - 33 Mathias Schober GER 08.04.1976 32 - - - 2 - - - 3 - 5 - Defenders 2 Heiko Westermann GER 14.08.1983 25 - - - 2 - 4 1 4 1 16 1 5 Marcelo Bordon BRA 07.01.1976 32 - - - 2 - 4 - 30 2 70 3 18 Rafinha BRA 07.09.1985 23 * - - 1 - 4 - 13 - 29 1 20 Mladen Krstajić SRB 04.03.1974 34 - - - 1 - 2 - 24 1 61 4 24 Christian Pander GER 28.08.1983 25 - - - 2 1 1 1 9 1 17 3 25 Carlos Zambrano PER 10.07.1989 19 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 3 Levan Kobiashvili GEO 10.07.1977 31 - - - 1 - 4 - 34 5 65 9 6 Albert Streit GER 28.03.1980 28 - - - - - 1 - 6 1 8 1 7 Gustavo Varela URU 14.05.1978 30 - - - - - - - 15 4 24 4 9 Fabian Ernst GER 30.05.1979 29 - - - 2 - 3 - 21 2 51 2 10 Ivan Rakitić CRO 10.03.1988 20 - - - 2 - 4 1 10 1 23 1 13 Jermaine Jones GER 03.11.1981 27 - - - 2 - 2 - 2 - 14 1 15 Zé Roberto BRA 09.12.1980 27 - - - - - - - - - - - 21 Carlos Grossmüller GER 04.05.1983 25 - - - - - - - - - 8 - 28 Markus Heppke GER 11.04.1986 22 - - - - - - - - - - - 30 Levan Kenia GEO 18.10.1990 18 - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - 37 Orlando Engelaar NED 24.08.1979 29 - - - 1 - 4 1 8 2 12 2 Forwards 11 Peter Løvenkrands DEN 29.01.1980 28 - - - - - 1 - 15 2 42 8 14 Gerald Asamoah GER 03.10.1978 30 - - - 2 - 3 - 30 2 61 7 17 Jefferson Farfán PER 26.10.1984 24 - - - 1 - 3 - 6 1 42 5 19 Halil Altıntop TUR 08.12.1982 25 - - - 2 - 4 2 7 2 16 2 22 Kevin Kuranyi GER 02.03.1982 26 - - - 2 - 3 1 25 10 50 19 27 Vicente Sánchez URU 07.12.1979 28 - - - - - 1 1 1 1 4 1 Coach - Fred Rutten NED 05.12.1962 45 - - - 2 - 4 - 10 - 16 - Last updated 25.11.2008 15:23:58CET www.uefa.com Squad list 1 FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FCThursday 27 November 2008 - 19.00 CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Manchester City Current season All-time UIC UCL UCUP UCUP UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age BL Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Joe Hart ENG 19.04.1987 21 - - - - - 3 - 3 - 7 - 13 Richard Martin ENG 01.09.1987 21 - - - - - - - - - - - 16 Kasper Schmeichel DEN 05.11.1986 22 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 3 Michael Ball ENG 02.10.1979 29 - - - - - - - 4 1 17 1 4 Nedum Onuoha ENG 12.11.1986 22 - - - - - - - - - 1 - 15 Javier Garrido ESP 15.03.1985 23 - - - - - 3 - 3 - 3 - 22 Richard Dunne IRL 21.09.1979 29 - - - - - 2 - 5 - 10 - 26 Tal Ben Haim ISR 31.03.1982 26 - - - - - 1 - 14 - 22 - 33 Vincent Kompany BEL 10.04.1986 22 - - - - - 2 - 9 1 40 3 36 Berti Glauber ITA 05.08.1983 25 - - - - - - - 4 - 4 - Midfielders 2 Micah Richards ENG 24.06.1988 20 - - - - - 3 - 3 - 7 - 5 Pablo Zabaleta ARG 16.01.1985 23 - - - - - 3 - 19 - 19 - 6 Michael Johnson ENG 24.02.1988 20 - - - - - - - - - 4 - 7 Stephen Ireland IRL 22.08.1986 22 - - - - - 3 - 3 - 5 - 8 Shaun Wright-Phillips ENG 25.10.1981 27 - - - - - 3 2 7 2 26 4 11 Elano BRA 14.06.1981 27 - - - - - 3 1 18 6 29 8 17 Martin Petrov BUL 15.01.1979 29 - - - - - 1 - 5 1 30 12 19 Gelson Fernandes SUI 02.09.1986 22 - - - - - 2 - 4 1 9 1 20 Felipe Caicedo ECU 05.09.1988 20 - - - - - - - 6 1 9 3 21 Dietmar Hamann GER 27.08.1973 35 - - - - - 2 - 33 1 89 4 29 Kelvin Etuhu ENG 30.05.1988 20 - - - - - - - - - 2 - Forwards 10 Robinho BRA 25.01.1984 24 - - - - - 3 1 3 1 24 6 12 Darius Vassell ENG 13.06.1980 28 - - - - - 1 - 5 1 17 4 14 Jô BRA 20.03.1987 21 - - - - - 3 2 5 2 14 4 27 Benjani Mwaruwari ZIM 13.08.1978 30 - - - - - 1 1 21 5 30 7 Coach - Mark Hughes WAL 01.11.1963 45 - - - - - 3 - 13 - 21 - Last updated 25.11.2008 15:23:58CET www.uefa.com Squad list 2 FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FCThursday 27 November 2008 - 19.00 CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Match officials Referee Alexandru Tudor (ROU) Assistant referees Aurel Onita (ROU), Cristian Constantin Nica (ROU) Fourth official Sorin Corpodean (ROU) UEFA Delegate Sergio Di Cesare (ITA) UEFA Referee observer László Vagner (HUN) Referee UEFA Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match Date Comp.