UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS José Alvalade - Lisbon Tuesday 18 October 2016 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Sporting Clube de Borussia Dortmund Portugal Group F - Matchday 3 Last updated 17/10/2016 03:08CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 4 1 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Borussia Dortmund Tuesday 18 October 2016 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon Match background Sporting Clube de Portugal will hope to put recent setbacks against Bundesliga opposition behind them when they host Borussia Dortmund in the Group F rivals' first-ever meeting on matchday three. Match background Sporting • Sporting lost 2-1 at Real Madrid CF on matchday one but bounced back with a 2-0 home victory over Legia Warszawa last time out. • The Lisbon club have won only two of their previous 12 home meetings with German teams (D5 L5). • In each of the last two seasons Sporting have suffered UEFA Europa League elimination against German sides, losing to Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1-4 agg) in 2015/16 and VfL Wolfsburg (0-2 agg) in 2014/15. Bas Dost scored both goals for a Wolfsburg team also including André Schürrle. • Sporting's last home victory over visitors from the Bundesliga was against FC Schalke 04 (4-2) in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Adrien Silva scored the only goal when they beat German opponents for the first time at the 17th attempt – home or away – when defeating Hertha BSC Berlin 1-0 in Lisbon in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League group stage. Łukasz Piszczek and Adrián Ramos were in the Hertha side. Dortmund • Thomas Tuchel's men sit top of Group F with four points having won 6-0 at Legia on matchday one – their record European away victory – then drawn 2-2 at home against Madrid. • Dortmund have won six of their last nine European away games (W6 D1 L2) since the start of last season. • Dortmund won in Portugal for the first time in February this year when defeating FC Porto 1-0, through an Iker Casillas own goal, in the UEFA Europa League round of 32. They had won the home leg 2-0, Piszczek and Marco Reus scoring. • Dortmund's away record against Portuguese sides is W1 D0 L3. Coach and player links • Jorge Jesus's record against German clubs is P15 W5 D2 L8. • The UEFA Intertoto Cup aside, Jesus had his first taste of European competition as coach of CF Os Belenenses against FC Bayern München in the first round of the UEFA Cup in 2007/08 (0-1 a, 0-2 h). • His biggest victory over German opposition was with SL Benfica – a 4-0 UEFA Europa League round of 32 home success over a Hertha side containing Piszczek and Ramos in February 2010. • Schürrle got the better of Sporting with two different clubs in 2014/15. After playing in two Chelsea FC wins in the UEFA Champions League group stage – 1-0 away, 3-1 home, scoring past Rui Patrício in the latter – he appeared in both legs of Wolfsburg's UEFA Europa League round of 32 success. • Dost scored in Wolfsburg's 3-1 victory over Dortmund in the 2015 German Cup final. He had got Wolfsburg's winner in a 3-2 success at Dortmund in the 2012/13 Bundesliga season. • Dost was also a scorer when Wolfsburg beat Tuchel's Mainz 3-0 in the 2013/14 Bundesliga. • Also played in Germany: Luc Castaignos (Eintracht Frankfurt, 2015/16 – P1 W1 v Dortmund) João Pereira (Hannover 96, 2014/15) • Piszczek was in the Poland side beaten on penalties in the UEFA EURO 2016 quarter-finals by a Portugal side including Rui Patrício, William Carvalho and Adrien Silva. • Matthias Ginter scored in Germany's 4-0 win over a Portugal side captained by Sporting B defender Ricardo Esgaio at the Rio Olympics. • Sokratis Papastathopoulos hit a 91st-minute Greece equaliser to cancel out Bryan Ruiz's goal for Costa Rica when the countries drew 1-1 in the last 16 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Ruiz had the final word, converting a spot kick in Costa Rica's 5-3 shoot-out success. • Ruiz also traded goals with Shinji Kagawa when his Costa Rica side lost 3-1 to Japan in a 2014 friendly. • Have played together: Sebastián Coates & Nuri Şahin (Liverpool FC, 2012/13) 2 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Borussia Dortmund Tuesday 18 October 2016 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon Bas Dost & Andre Schürrle (VfL Wolfsburg, 2015–16) Match facts Sporting CP • Jorge Jesus completes a two-match touchline ban. • Sporting have won their last nine home games in all competitions, since a 1-0 loss to SL Benfica in March. • Sporting have conceded ten goals in their last six matches. • Sporting have scored in each of their last 19 matches in all competitions. • Dost has scored five goals in six appearances since arriving from VfL Wolfsburg in late August. • For the first time in Liga history, Sporting let a three-goal lead slip against Vitória SC on 1 October. The visitors conceded three in the last 16 minutes to draw 3-3. • Sporting captain Adrien had knee surgery at the start of October and will be sidelined until mid-November. • Gelson Martins earned his first caps for Portugal in 6-0 wins against Andorra (7 October) and Faroe Islands (10 October). He made two assists in 20 minutes after coming on against the Faroes. • Bryan Ruiz and Joel Campbell scored in Costa Rica's 4-3 victory over Russia in a friendly on 9 October. Rúben Semedo was on target for Portugal in their 7-1 U21 EURO qualifying win against Liechtenstein two days later. Dortmund • Dortmund have gone 25 home Bundesliga fixtures without defeat (W21 D4), breaking a club record set between January 1965 and April 1966 and equalled from November 2001 to March 2003. Their last defeat was to FC Bayern München on 4 April 2015 (0-1). • Marc Bartra is available again after three games out with an adductor problem. Gonzalo Castro (adductors) and Schürrle (knee) are both carrying knocks. • Sven Bender (ankle), Reus (adductors), Neven Subotić (ribs) and Erik Durm (knee) are long-term injury absentees. Reus resumed light training on 11 October. • Papastathopoulos will sit out matchday three after picking up an adductor injury while on duty with Greece. Raphaël Guerreiro (thigh) and Piszczek (knee) also returned from international duty with knocks. • Ousmane Dembélé sat out France U21 duty because of an ankle injury but came on as a substitute during Friday's 1-1 draw with Hertha BSC Berlin. • Marcel Schmelzer limped off with an adductor injury against Hertha and will be unavailable for up to three weeks. • Schürrle is the first German player to score for four different teams in the UEFA Champions League (Leverkusen, Chelsea, Wolfsburg and Dortmund). 3 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Borussia Dortmund Tuesday 18 October 2016 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit José Alvalade, Lisbon Legend ALL-TIME STATISTICS The all-time record of the competing clubs in UEFA club competition. UEFA club competition: These are the official statistics considered valid for communicating official records in UEFA club competition defined as European Champion Clubs' Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Cup Winner's Cup UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Intertoto Cup and European/South American Cup. Matches in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and the 1972 Super Cup are not included as they were not held under UEFA auspices, while the FIFA Club World Cup is excluded. Match officials UCL: Total matches officiated in the UEFA Champions League from 1992/93 season, group stage to final only. Matches where the official has acted as the fourth official are not included in these statistics. These are the official statistics considered valid for communicating official records. UEFA: Total matches officiated in UEFA club competition including all qualifying round matches. Matches where the official has acted as the fourth official are not included in these statistics. These are the official statistics considered valid for communicating official records. Competitions Club competitions National team competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League EURO: UEFA European Football Championship ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup WC: FIFA World Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup UCUP: UEFA Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals SCUP: UEFA Super Cup U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship Competition stages Other abbreviations F: Final GS: Group stage (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties GS1: First group stage GS2: Second group stage No.: Number og: Own goal 3QR: Third qualifying round R1: First round ag: Match decided on away P: Penalty R2: Second round R3: Third round goals agg: Aggregate R4: Fourth round PR: Preliminary round Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances SF: Semi-finals QF: Quarter-finals Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition R16: round of 16 QR: Qualifying round Pts: Points D: Drawn R32: Round of 32 1QR: First qualifying round R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth 1st: first leg 2QR: Second qualifying Res.: Result ET: Extra Time round sg: Match decided by silver GA: Goals against 2nd: second leg FT: Final tournament goal t: Match decided by toss of a PO: Play-off ELITE: Elite round coin Rep: Replay 3rdPO: Third-place play-off GF: Goals for W: Won PO - FT: Play-off for Final GS-FT: Group stage – final gg: Match decided by golden Y: Booked Tournament tournament