Olympique De Marseille - FC Twente MATCH PRESS KIT Vélodrome, Marseille Thursday 19 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 Local Time) Matchday 6 - Round of 32, First Leg
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Olympique de Marseille - FC Twente MATCH PRESS KIT Vélodrome, Marseille Thursday 19 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Matchday 6 - Round of 32, first 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 Losing finalists in 1998/99 and 2003/04, when they fell foul of Parma AC and Valencia CF respectively, Olympique de Marseille are set to launch a fresh bid for UEFA Cup glory at home against FC Twente in the Round of 32. • This will be the two sides' first meeting in European club competition. • Twente have played five matches against opponents from France, losing four and winning just one. Their three competitive games on French soil to date have all ended in defeat. • Marseille will be Twente's third Ligue 1 opponents this campaign. They edged out Stade Rennais FC on away goals in the first round and lost 4-0 at Paris Saint-Germain FC in Group A. Those encounters are Twente head coach Steve McClaren's only previous experience of facing French opposition. • Marseille have played nine games against Dutch sides, and their overall record reads W3 D1 L5. At home their record is W2 D1 L2, which includes wins in their last two matches against Eredivisie outfits at the Stade Vélodrome. • Marseille met one of coach Erik Gerets's former clubs, Twente's Dutch rivals PSV Eindhoven, in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage. OM lost 2-0 in the Netherlands and won 3-0 at home. • Former Belgium international right-back Gerets played in the Netherlands for MVV Maastricht in the 1984/85 season before a seven-year spell at PSV between 1985 and 1992. He later coached the Eindhoven club from 1999 to 2002. • In his coaching career thus far, Gerets has met Dutch opposition in four UEFA club competition matches – recording W1 D0 L3. Of two home fixtures, his teams have won one and lost one. • Gerets also represented Belgium in four matches against the Netherlands, accruing a record of W1 D1 L2. His solitary success against the Oranje came on home soil. • Though opposite number McClaren had not encountered French opposition prior to this season, he did come up against Gerets's PSV in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League group stage in his role as assistant to Manchester United FC manager Sir Alex Ferguson. United lost 3-1 in Eindhoven but returned the favour in kind at Old Trafford. • Marseille's Dutch midfielder Boudewijn Zenden has Eredivisie experience in abundance, having represented PSV from 1994 until 1998. • Zenden may also have some useful insights on Twente's tactical approach. The midfielder played under McClaren for two seasons at Middlesbrough FC between 2003 and 2005. Last updated 17.02.2009 19:59:31CET www.uefa.com Match background 1 Olympique de Marseille - FC TwenteThursday 19 February 2009 - 20.45 CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Vélodrome, Marseille • Indeed, Zenden enjoyed an impressive stint under McClaren at the Riverside Stadium. He was the scorer of Boro's second goal in the 2003/04 League Cup final win over Bolton Wanderers FC, the club's first major trophy success, and was voted the fans' player of the year in 2004/05 – his second and final season on Teesside. • Mamadou Niang, scorer of two goals in UEFA Champions League qualifying and three in Group D, is the only OM player to have found the net more than once in Europe this season. • Romano Denneboom and Rob Wielaert, who hit two goals apiece, are Twente's top European scorers so far this campaign. Wielaert left the club for AFC Ajax during the January transfer window. • Since a 1-0 home defeat by FC Zenit St. Petersburg on 9 March 2006 in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup Round of 16, Liverpool FC are the only team to have beaten Marseille in 12 European games at the Stade Vélodrome. The Reds have claimed two group-stage victories on OM's turf during that period, wins which came in the last two editions of the UEFA Champions League. • Twente have lost their last eight away games in UEFA competition, a run which stretches back to a 2-1 win at KSP Polonia Warszawa on 20 September 2001. • The second leg of this tie will be Marseille's 50th UEFA Cup fixture. • Twente are just two strikes shy of their 100th UEFA Cup goal. • Third in Ligue 1 last season, Marseille also finished third in UEFA Champions League Group D to qualify for the UEFA Cup Round of 32. Twente, who came fourth in the 2007/08 Eredivisie and earned a UEFA Champions League qualifying place via the end-of-season play-offs, were second in UEFA Cup Group A. • Marseille's Ronald Zubar and Twente's Eljero Elia are within a booking of one-match suspensions. • January squad changes:- Marseille Players added to squad list: Tyrone Mears, Renato Civelli, Guy Gnabouyou. Players removed from squad list: Elamine Erbate, Elliot Grandin, Daouda Mbow. Twente Players added to squad list: Nikita Rukavytsya, Lesley Nahrwold, Alexander Bannink, Theoder Vogeslang. Players removed from squad list: Rob Wielaert, Stein Huysegems, Tjarron Chery, Jules Reinenink, Paddy John. • The winners of this tie will meet ACF Fiorentina or AFC Ajax in the Round of 16 on 12 and 18/19 March, playing the first leg at home. • Therefore, there is the possibility of an all-Dutch affair in the next round if both Twente and Ajax come through their ties. Last updated 17.02.2009 19:59:31CET www.uefa.com Match background 2 Olympique de Marseille - FC TwenteThursday 19 February 2009 - 20.45 CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Vélodrome, Marseille Squad list Marseille 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 Rudy Riou FRA 22.01.1980 29 - - - - - - - 1 - 4 - 16 Hilaire Munoz FRA 21.04.1983 25 - - - - - - - - - - - 30 Steve Mandanda FRA 28.03.1985 23 - - - 8 - - - 4 - 18 - Defenders 2 Renato Civelli ITA 14.10.1983 25 - - - - - - - 4 - 7 - 3 Taye Taiwo NGA 16.04.1985 23 - - - 8 - - - 14 3 37 5 4 Julien Rodriguez FRA 11.06.1978 30 - - - - - - - 5 - 38 1 5 Vitorino Hilton BRA 13.09.1977 31 - - - 8 - - - 22 2 41 3 8 Tyrone Mears ENG 18.02.1983 25 - - - - - - - 1 - 1 - 15 Ronald Zubar FRA 20.09.1985 23 * - - 7 - - - 1 - 13 1 24 Laurent Bonnart FRA 25.12.1979 29 - - - 8 - - - 4 - 18 - Midfielders 6 Karim Ziani ALG 17.08.1982 26 - - - 7 - - - 1 - 11 - 7 Benoît Cheyrou FRA 03.05.1981 27 - - - 8 1 - - 18 3 41 4 10 Boudewijn Zenden NED 15.08.1976 32 - - - 4 - - - 24 4 76 6 12 Charles Kaboré BFA 09.02.1988 21 - - - 4 - - - 3 - 7 - 19 Lorik Cana ALB 27.07.1983 25 - - - 8 1 - - 13 - 36 1 20 Hatem Ben Arfa FRA 07.03.1987 21 - - - 8 - - - - - 22 2 23 Modeste M'Bami CMR 09.10.1982 26 - - - 4 - - - 4 - 16 - 28 Mathieu Valbuena FRA 28.09.1984 24 - - - 6 - - - 4 - 17 1 Forwards 11 Mamadou Niang SEN 13.10.1979 29 - - - 7 5 - - 16 3 48 17 14 Bakari Koné CIV 17.09.1981 27 - - - 8 1 - - - - 8 1 17 Mamadou Samassa FRA 01.05.1986 22 - - - 3 - - - - - 3 - Coach - Erik Gerets BEL 18.05.1954 54 - - - 8 - - - 32 - 87 - Last updated 17.02.2009 19:59:32CET www.uefa.com Squad list 1 Olympique de Marseille - FC TwenteThursday 19 February 2009 - 20.45 CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Vélodrome, Marseille Twente 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 Sander Boschker NED 20.10.1970 38 - - - 1 - 5 - 21 - 30 - 13 Nikolay Mihaylov BUL 28.06.1988 20 - - - 1 - - - 1 - 3 - 16 Cees Paauwe NED 03.11.1977 31 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 3 Edson Braafheid NED 08.04.1983 25 - - - 2 - 4 - 10 - 12 - 5 Slobodan Rajković SRB 03.02.1989 20 - - - 1 - - - 4 - 9 - 12 Jeroen Heubach NED 24.09.1974 34 - - - 2 - 1 - 5 - 11 1 18 Cheik Tioté CIV 21.06.1986 22 - - - 2 - 5 - 5 - 8 - 19 Douglas BRA 12.01.1988 21 - - - 2 - 5 - 5 - 7 - 22 Niels Wellenberg NED 09.08.1982 26 - - - 1 - 5 - 7 - 9 - Midfielders 6 Wout Brama NED 21.08.1986 22 - - - 2 - 5 - 7 - 13 - 8 Ronnie Stam NED 18.06.1984 24 - 2 - - - 5 - 6 - 8 - 10 Kenneth Perez DEN 29.08.1974 34 - - - - - 4 1 27 5 38 8 17 Youssouf Hersi NED 20.08.1982 26 - - - - - 3 - 6 - 6 - 24 Theo Janssen NED 27.07.1981 27 - - - 2 - 3 - 17 - 19 - 26 Bjarni Thor Vidarsson ISL 05.03.1988 20 - - - - - - - 1 - 1 - 27 Ibrahim Maaroufi BEL 18.01.1989 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 46 Dario Vujičević BIH 01.04.1990 18 - - - - - - - - - - - Forwards 7 Romano Denneboom NED 29.01.1981 28 - - - 2 - 4 2 8 3 26 4 9 Blaise Nkufo SUI 25.05.1975 33 - - - - - 3 1 8 1 18 5 14 Nikita Rukavytsya AUS 22.06.1987 21 - - - - - - - - - - - 15 Eljero Elia NED 13.02.1987 22 * - - 2 - 4 1 6 1 8 1 21 Marko Arnautovic AUT 19.04.1989 19 - - - 1 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 23 Patrick Gerritsen NED 13.03.1987 21 - - - 1 - - - - - 4 - 25 Andrej Rendla SVK 13.10.1990 18 - - - - - - - - - - - Coach - Steve McClaren ENG 03.05.1961 47 - - - - - 1 - 26 - 26 - Last updated 17.02.2009 19:59:32CET www.uefa.com Squad list 2 Olympique de Marseille - FC TwenteThursday 19 February 2009 - 20.45 CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Vélodrome, Marseille Match officials Referee Stanislav Sukhina (RUS) Assistant referees Vladislav Khodeev (RUS), Vitali Drozdov (RUS) Fourth official Igor Egorov (RUS) UEFA Delegate Adrian Titcombe (ENG) UEFA Referee observer Rune Pedersen (NOR) Referee UEFA Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match Date Comp.