SC Braga - Paris Saint-Germain FC MATCH PRESS KIT Municipal, Braga Thursday 19 March 2009 - 21.30CET (20.30 Local Time) Matchday 9 - Round of 16, Second Leg
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SC Braga - Paris Saint-Germain FC MATCH PRESS KIT Municipal, Braga Thursday 19 March 2009 - 21.30CET (20.30 local time) Matchday 9 - Round of 16, second leg 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 Something has to give as SC Braga host Paris Saint-Germain FC in the second leg of their UEFA Cup Round of 16 tie, with a 0-0 draw in Paris having left both sides feeling reasonably optimistic. • PSG boss Paul Le Guen pronounced himself "generally satisfied" after the inconclusive first leg, while Braga coach Jorge Jesus said: "It was not the best result for Braga, but it is still 50-50." • PSG have a strong affiliation with Portuguese football. The biggest connection is provided by Pauleta, Portugal's highest goalscorer with 47 strikes in 88 international games, who played at the Parc des Princes from 2003 to 2008, scoring 76 goals in 168 Ligue 1 matches. • The 'Eagle from the Azores' scored a record 109 goals in all competitions for the club, and is now working for PSG in an advisory and ambassadorial capacity. • Erstwhile coach Artur Jorge is also remembered fondly in Paris. The former Portugal striker led PSG to their last French title in 1993/94 and returned to the capital more recently as coach of US Créteil Lusitanos – the club that has traditionally represented the capital's Portuguese community. • Humberto Coelho, who led Portugal to the last four at UEFA EURO 2000™, was a PSG centre-back between 1975 and 1977 and later coached Braga in the 1986/87 season. • Capped once by Portugal, midfielder Hugo Leal was part of the PSG squad that won the French Cup in 2003/04 and later played for Braga from 2005 to 2007. • The first leg was PSG and Braga's first meeting in UEFA club competition. • PSG's record against Portuguese clubs now reads P7 W3 D2 L2. They have never won an away game against a Portuguese outfit, with their three previous trips ending in two defeats and a goalless draw. • Braga had never come up against French opposition before the first leg, nor had coach Jorge Jesus. • PSG coach Le Guen has now been involved in five games against Portuguese sides as a coach: three with his current club and two with Olympique Lyonnais. His record in those games reads P5 W1 D2 L2. Both of his away games ended in defeat. • Le Guen's Lyon lost out to José Mourinho's FC Porto in the quarter-finals of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League. PSG's Péguy Luyindula played in both legs of that match, which Lyon lost 4-2 on aggregate, while Braga's César Peixoto was an unused substitute in both games for Porto. Last updated 17.03.2009 16:27:06CET www.uefa.com Match background 1 SC Braga - Paris Saint-Germain FC Thursday 19 March 2009 - 21.30CET (20.30 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Municipal, Braga • Braga's Filipe Oliveira was a team-mate of Claude Makelele and Mateja Kežman at Chelsea FC in the 2004/05 season. • Braga's Albert Meyong and PSG's Luyindula were team-mates at Spanish side Levante UD in the 2006/07 season, while the latter was on loan from Olympique de Marseille. • The Portuguese club's Colombian forward Renteria has French football experience, having joined RC Strasbourg on loan from Porto in the 2007/08 season. He scored nine Ligue 1 goals, including one in a 2-1 home defeat by PSG. • PSG are unbeaten in six European games since losing 3-1 at FC Schalke 04 in the UEFA Cup group stage, with that run comprising three wins and three draws. • Braga are unbeaten in their last four UEFA Cup games. They have won all but one of their six European home games this season, losing 3-2 to VfL Wolfsburg – the side PSG knocked out in the Round of 32 – in the UEFA Cup group stage. • As the last of the eleven sides that qualified for UEFA Cup places as winners of the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup, Braga have been declared the official victors of the final edition of the traditional summer competition. They will be presented with an official plaque in recognition of this achievement before this second leg. • This decider will be PSG's 50th UEFA Cup game. • PSG's top European marksman this season is Luyindula, whose six goals make him the joint second highest scorer in the UEFA Cup along with Hamburger SV's Ivica Olić, VfB Stuttgart's Mario Gómez and Braga's Luis Aguiar. • Luis Aguiar has scored six times since the first round of the UEFA Cup and also struck once for his side in their UEFA Intertoto Cup win against Sivasspor, though this goal does not count towards his total for the season. His team-mate Albert Meyong, meanwhile, has scored five times in this edition of the UEFA Cup. • French League Cup holders PSG qualified for the Round of 32 as third-placed finishers in Group A. They proved to be too strong for Wolfsburg in the first knockout round, winning 2-0 at home and 3-1 away. • Braga finished third in UEFA Cup Group E, having taken seventh place in the Liga in 2007/08. They reached the Round of 16 at the expense of R. Standard de Liège, winning 3-0 in Portugal and drawing the return leg in Belgium 1-1. • Braga have never been involved in a penalty shoot-out in UEFA club competition. • In their only UEFA club competition tie decided on penalties, PSG lost 4-3 on spot-kicks at home against Rangers FC in the third round of the 2001/02 UEFA Cup. • Braga's Vandinho, Renteria, César Peixoto and Evaldo are within a caution of a one-match ban. • Marseille's Luyindula is also a booking shy of a suspension. • The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals takes place in Nyon on 20 March, exactly two months before the final at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Istanbul on 20 May. Last updated 17.03.2009 16:27:06CET www.uefa.com Match background 2 SC Braga - Paris Saint-Germain FC Thursday 19 March 2009 - 21.30CET (20.30 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Municipal, Braga Squad list Braga 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 Eduardo POR 19.09.1982 26 - 2 - - - 9 - 9 - 13 - 12 Christiano POR 29.11.1990 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 24 Mário Felgueiras POR 12.12.1986 22 - - - - - - - - - - - 74 Rui Vieira POR 13.11.1991 17 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Rodriguez PER 31.03.1984 24 - - - - - 6 - 16 - 18 - 3 Paulo Jorge POR 16.06.1980 28 - - - - - - - 20 2 20 2 5 Moisés BRA 25.07.1979 29 - 2 1 - - 6 - 10 - 19 1 6 Evaldo BRA 18.03.1982 26 * 2 - - - 9 1 9 1 13 1 21 César Peixoto POR 12.05.1980 28 * - - - - 8 - 15 - 24 1 34 Zé Pedro POR 13.11.1990 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 35 Dani POR 17.01.1990 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 37 Alex POR 13.10.1990 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 42 Aníbal POR 08.05.1991 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 44 Andre Leone BRA 12.02.1979 30 - 2 - - - 4 1 4 1 6 1 47 João Pereira POR 25.02.1984 25 - 2 - - - 7 - 28 1 36 1 52 Tiago POR 20.08.1991 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 54 Hugo POR 10.02.1990 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 66 Edimar BRA 21.05.1986 22 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 7 Mossoró BRA 04.07.1983 25 - - - - - 2 - 2 - 4 - 13 Stélvio Cruz POR 24.01.1989 20 - 2 - - - 5 - 9 - 12 - 17 Frechaut POR 24.09.1977 31 - 2 - - - 7 - 22 - 35 - 22 Luis Aguiar URU 17.11.1985 23 - 2 1 - - 9 6 9 6 13 7 30 Alan BRA 19.09.1979 29 - - - - - 8 1 11 1 20 1 38 Lucas POR 06.03.1991 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 56 Nuninho POR 22.11.1991 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 57 Nani POR 27.04.1990 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 88 Vandinho BRA 15.01.1978 31 * 2 - - - 9 - 24 - 27 - Forwards 9 Paulo César BRA 05.01.1980 29 - 1 - - - 6 - 7 - 15 - 10 Jorginho BRA 06.05.1977 31 - 1 - - - 3 - 10 - 20 - 11 Orlando Sá POR 26.05.1988 20 - 1 - - - 3 - 3 - 4 - 18 Renteria COL 04.07.1985 23 * - - - - 9 3 9 3 9 3 19 Albert Meyong CMR 19.10.1980 28 - - - - - 8 5 8 5 10 5 27 Filipe Oliveira POR 27.05.1984 24 - 1 - - - - - 1 - 2 - 49 Ruca POR 24.01.1990 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 99 Matheus BRA 15.01.1983 26 - 2 1 - - 6 - 9 - 13 2 Coach - Jorge Jesus POR 24.07.1954 54 - 2 - - - 9 - 11 - 17 - Last updated 17.03.2009 16:27:08CET www.uefa.com Squad list 1 SC Braga - Paris Saint-Germain FC Thursday 19 March 2009 - 21.30CET (20.30 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Municipal, Braga PSG 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 Mickaël Landreau FRA 14.05.1979 29 - - - - - 7 - 32 - 48 - 16 Stéphane Veron FRA 31.01.1986 23 - - - - - - - - - - - 30 Édel CMR 17.06.1986 22 - - - - - 2 - 2 - 2 - 40 Anthony Dauvergne FRA 15.03.1989 20 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Ceará BRA 18.06.1980 28 - - - - - 6 - 6 - 6 - 3 Mamadou Sakho FRA 13.02.1990 19 - - - - - 6 - 8 - 8 - 5 Sammy Traoré FRA 25.02.1976 33 - - - - - 7 - 12 1 15 1 6 Grégory Bourillon FRA 01.07.1984 24 - - - - - 5 - 9 - 9 - 15 Zoumana Camara FRA 03.04.1979 29 - - - - - 6 - 6 - 8 - 17 Larrys Mabiala FRA 08.10.1987 21 - - - - - 3 - 4 - 4 - 22 Sylvain Armand FRA 01.08.1980 28 - - - - - 9 - 22 1 42 2 26 Chris Mavinga FRA 26.05.1991 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 27 Florian Makhedjouf FRA 11.01.1991 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 31 Bafode Diakhaby FRA 15.02.1989 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 35 Kevin Reuzeau FRA 23.04.1989 19 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 4 Claude Makelele FRA 18.02.1973 36 - - - - - 4 - 30 3 130 4 10 Stéphane Sessegnon BEN 01.06.1984 24 - - - - - 6 1 6 1 6 1 20 Clément Chantôme