Uefa Champions League 2011/12 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT KRC Genk Bayer 04 Leverkusen Group E - Matchday 6 KRC Genk Arena, Genk Tuesday 6 December 2011 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..................................................................................................14 Competition facts.............................................................................................................16 Team facts.......................................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................20 KRC Genk - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Tuesday 6 December 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT KRC Genk Arena, Genk Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 28/09/11 GS Bayer 04 Leverkusen - KRC Genk 2-0 Leverkusen Bender 30, Ballack 90+1 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA KRC Genk 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 KRC Genk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/07/04 R3 Borussia Dortmund - KRC Genk 1-2 Dortmund Dedê 55; De Camargo 13, 86 agg: 2-2 ag 17/07/04 R3 KRC Genk - Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Genk Odonkor 42 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 09/11/00 R2 KRC Genk - SV Werder Bremen 2-5 Genk Thijs 27, Zokora 59; Pizarro 25, 29(p), agg: 3-9 45, Stalteri 76, Maximov 81 24/10/00 R2 SV Werder Bremen - KRC Genk 4-1 Bremen Ernst 17, Herzog 28, Baumann 55, Bode 70; Sonck 35 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/10/98 R1 KRC Genk - MSV Duisburg 5-0 Brussels Oulare 13, 49, Strupar 32, T. agg: 6-1 Gudjónsson 73, 79 17/09/98 R1 MSV Duisburg - KRC Genk 1-1 Duisburg Wedau 84; Reini 61 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/10/06 GS Club Brugge KV - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-1 Bruges Clement 46; Schneider 34 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/11/97 GS K. Lierse SK - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0-2 Gent Emerson 54, Kirsten 66 17/09/97 GS Bayer 04 Leverkusen - K. Lierse SK 1-0 Leverkusen Beinlich 40(p) 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 KRC Genk 3 1 0 2 4 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 7 2 1 4 11 14 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 6 1 Last updated 04/12/11 20:23:38CET 2 Previous meetings KRC Genk - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Tuesday 6 December 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT KRC Genk Arena, Genk Match background A third successive home win on matchday five sent Bayer 04 Leverkusen through to the UEFA Champions League last 16 for the first time in seven years. Their final challenge at this stage is to finish as Group E winners and they will be hopeful of picking up their first away points at bottom side KRC Genk. • The German team owe their position to the win against Chelsea FC last time out when Manuel Friedrich scored in added time after Eren Derdiyok had wiped out Didier Drogba's opener. • On the same night Genk slipped to a 7-0 reverse at Valencia CF and, though the Belgian outfit are certain to finish fourth, they will be seeking a first victory to end their European campaign on a high. • The matchday two meeting between these teams – their first competitive encounter – ended 2-0 to Leverkusen, with Lars Bender's first goal in European competition putting the German side on their way. Substitute Michael Ballack then struck in added time to secure the points. • On their return to the competition after nine years, Genk opened with a goalless draw at home to Valencia but after the defeat in Leverkusen they went down 5-0 at Chelsea. Some pride was restored back in Belgium with a 1-1 draw against the London team, meaning Mario Been's side have drawn both home games so far and conceded 14 without scoring in losing all three away matches. • On matchday one Leverkusen lost 2-0 at Chelsea and in the two games with Valencia they won 2-1 at the BayArena but went down 3-1 in Spain. They have won all three home matches but lost both away. Match background • The sides came face to face for a friendly on 23 July this year. Leverkusen won 4-1, Derdiyok scoring a hat-trick. • Genk have had some interesting results at home to German opponents, winning the first such fixture 5-0 against MSV Duisburg in the 1998/99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round. The other two they lost – 5-2 against SV Werder Bremen in the 2000/01 UEFA Cup second round and 1-0 against Borussia Dortmund in the 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup third round. • In four games against Belgian opponents Leverkusen have a record showing three wins and a draw. Before this season their most recent contest, a 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage away game against Club Brugge KV, ended 1-1. • The other matches – against K. Lierse SK in the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League group stage – were won 1-0 at home and 2-0 away. Team ties • Been scored the second goal for Feyenoord in a 2-2 draw with Leverkusen in a 1987/88 UEFA Cup third round tie. Feyenoord lost the away leg 1-0 against a team who went on to win that season's competition. • Daniel Pudil and Michal Kadlec are international team-mates with the Czech Republic. • In a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Tel Aviv in September 2008, Tranquillo Barnetta played for Switzerland in a 2-2 draw against Israel, who brought on Elyaniv Barda after an hour. • The return game in Basle 13 months later ended goalless. Derdiyok and Barnetta featured for Switzerland while Barda played for Israel. • André Schürrle scored Germany's second goal in the 3-1 UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying win against Marvin Ogunjimi's Belgium on 11 October. • Germany beat Belgium 2-0 in an August 2008 friendly in Nuremberg. Simon Rolfes was in the German side while Thomas Buffel and Stijn Huysegems appeared as substitutes for the visitors. • Rolfes was a substitute for Germany as they lost 3-0 to the Czech Republic in a UEFA EURO 2008 qualifier played in Munich in October 2007. Pudil started for the winning team. Last updated 04/12/11 20:23:38CET 3 Match background KRC Genk - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Tuesday 6 December 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT KRC Genk Arena, Genk Match facts Genk UEFA milestones • The 7-0 defeat at Valencia CF on matchday five was Genk's heaviest in UEFA competition, eclipsing a 6-0 UEFA Champions League first group stage loss to Real Madrid CF in September 2002. UEFA Champions League statistics • Genk have scored only one goal, fewer than any other side; their tally of 15 conceded is the joint highest along with GNK Dinamo Zagreb. Latest domestic information • Friday 2 December: K. Beerschot AC 2-0 KRC Genk (MacDonald 21 45+1) Köteles; Vanden Borre, Ngongca, Nadson, Pudil; Buffel (Ndabashinze 64), Camus (Benteke 81), Tőzsér, De Bruyne (Limbombe 46); Nwanganga, Barda • Mario Been's side suffered their third successive defeat – all away – a run that has seen them concede 11 goals and score none. Genk are four matches unbeaten at home, though. • It was Genk's fifth loss in 16 league games this season; one more than they suffered all last term in the 30-match regular season. • Starting with their 2-0 reverse at Leverkusen on matchday two, Genk have lost eight of their last 13 games. • Genk are on 23 points in the First League; at this stage last term they had 36 and were two points clear at the summit. • Of the 24 league goals Genk have conceded this season, 17 have come in the second half of games. • Kevin De Bruyne struck his first professional hat-trick as Genk recovered from 4-2 down to beat Club Brugge KV 5-4 on 29 October. • Dániel Tőzsér struck the only goal as Genk claimed their first Belgian Super Cup at the sixth attempt on 21 July, beating R. Standard de Liège despite playing over an hour with ten men after Jelle Vossen's dismissal. Injury news • De Bruyne has been ruled out for three weeks after breaking his toe on Friday. • Khaleem Hyland missed the Beerschot game after injuring his foot in training last week; Vossen was out with flu. • Abel Masuero has been out since picking up a calf muscle injury in training on 25 October. • David Hubert (stomach, out since 28 September) and Jeroen Simaeys (broken toe, 5 October) have been sidelined. • Torben Joneleit could be out until April after tearing knee ligaments against KV Mechelen on 27 August. Miscellaneous • On 30 November, Been signed a new contract which ties him to Genk until summer 2014. He took the reins on 30 August, 12 days after Frank Vercauteren's departure for United Arab Emirates outfit Al-Jazira Club.