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Uefa Champions League UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS City of Manchester Stadium - Manchester Wednesday 27 November 2013 Manchester City FC 20.45CET (19.45 local time) FC Viktoria Plzeň Group D - Matchday 5 Last updated 12/09/2014 17:47CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Match facts 4 Squad list 5 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Group Standings 10 Competition facts 11 Team facts 12 Legend 14 1 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Previous meetings Execption in [/mediaservices/presskits/uefachampionsleague/season=2014/round=2000479/day=5/session=2/match=2011830/chapters/previousmeetings Slot [] ExceptionInfo [Error executing child request for /code/PressKits/prevMeetings.aspx.] Inner Exception [Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.] 2 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Match background Having secured early qualification for the UEFA Champions League round of 16, Manchester City FC will now focus their attention on closing the three-point gap separating them from Group D leaders FC Bayern München when they host FC Viktoria Plzeň on matchday five. • With a visit to Bayern still to come, City will look to take three points against Plzeň – and hope that the reigning champions slip up at PFC CSKA Moskva in the group's other game. • While City have reached the knockout stage for the first time, Plzeň have yet to take a single point but retain hope of snatching third place from CSKA and, with it, a UEFA Europa League slot. Match background • Eliminated from the UEFA Champions League, Pavel Vrba's Plzeň arrive in Manchester three points adrift of third- placed CSKA. To keep alive their chances of leapfrogging the Russian side, who they host on matchday six, they must match in Manchester whatever result the Russian side earn against Bayern. • This is Plzeň's first visit to England while City have lost just one of their last 22 UEFA competition fixtures in Manchester. • City will enter the game buoyed by their 5-2 matchday four victory over CSKA – the first time they have scored five goals in a European Cup game. • Plzeň, by contrast, are on a four-game losing streak in Group D – the worst run in their European history. • Prior to this group stage campaign, Plzeň had actually gone seven games unbeaten on the road in Europe. They posted three straight wins in this season's UEFA Champions League qualifiers and had a memorable 3-0 victory at SSC Napoli in last term's UEFA Europa League round of 32. • City will surpass their previous highest points haul in a UEFA Champions League group stage campaign – ten in 2011/12 – if they record a second victory over a Plzeň side they beat 3-0 in the Czech Republic in September. Team ties • When Manuel Pellegrini's Villarreal CF side won 2-1 at FK Mladá Boleslav in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage, Václav Procházka was in the beaten home team. • Costel Pantilimon and Marián Čišovský were team-mates for three seasons at Romanian club FC Timişoara between 2008 and 2011. They played together in the Timişoara side beaten 1-0 at home by City in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League play-off first leg, lining up against Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent Kompany, Joleon Lescott, Yaya Touré and David Silva. In the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, they helped Timişoara beat Fernandinho's FC Shakhtar Donetsk on away goals. • Pavel Horváth, David Limberský and Daniel Kolář played in the AC Sparta Praha side beaten 5-0 on aggregate by an Arsenal FC team that included Gaël Clichy in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. • Horváth played in England in SK Slavia Praha's 3-0 first-leg defeat at Leeds United AFC in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup quarter-finals. • Silva played in the Spain side that beat Kolář's Czech Republic 2-0 in a UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier in Prague in October 2011. Jesús Navas featured in Spain's 2-1 home win in March the same year but no Plzeň players were involved. • Roman Hubník, František Rajtoral and Kolář played in the Czech Republic's 0-0 draw with James Milner's England in Arnhem in their opening group game at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. • Stevan Jovetič played for Montenegro in their UEFA EURO 2012 play-off defeat against a Czech Republic side featuring Kolář. • Edin Džeko played in the Czech top flight in 2005/06 and 2006/07, scoring 16 times in 43 league appearances for FK Teplice. He played three games against Plzeň, losing two and drawing one – a 3-3 away draw in March 2006 in which he scored. • Kompany helped RSC Anderlecht beat Slavia Praha home and away in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League third round qualifying round. • Limberský had a loan spell at Tottenham Hotspur FC between January and May 2005 but did not make a first-team appearance. • Jack Rodwell scored twice against Tomáš Hořava's SK Sigma Olomouc to help Everton FC beat the Czech side 6-2 on aggregate in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League play-offs. 3 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Match facts Manchester City UEFA milestones and competition statistics • City have reached the UEFA Champions League round of 16 for the first time. • Álvaro Negredo became the first City player to score a UEFA Champions League hat-trick on matchday four. • Sergio Agüero is City's 11-goal highest scorer in European competition. He has scored seven in his last six UEFA Champions League outings. • Samir Nasri, Ángel Di María and Thiago Motta have made a competition high four assists apiece. General information • Sergio Agüero scored twice in Sunday's 6-0 defeat of Tottenham Hotspur FC and has now found the net in seven of his last eight games for City, 11 goals in all. • City beat Norwich City FC 7-0 on 2 November, scoring seven in a top-flight match for the first time since December 1968 and a 7-0 win against Burnley FC. Costel Pantilimon made his Premier League debut in place of Joe Hart, who sat out a top-flight game for the first time since April 2010, ending a run of 127 successive league starts. • City have won 12 of their last 13 home league games, the only exception a 3-2 defeat by Norwich in May. They have scored 26 goals at home in the league this season, more than any other club has managed in total. • Vincent Kompany suffered a thigh injury on 5 October and has not featured since. International duty • City had 13 players on senior duty during the international break: Hart, James Milner (England), Gaël Clichy, Nasri (France), Pantilimon (Romania), Edin Džeko (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jesús Navas, Negredo (Spain), Matija Nastasić, Aleksandar Kolarov (Serbia), Pablo Zabaleta, Agüero (Argentina), Yaya Touré (Ivory Coast). • Nasri started France's 2-0 first-leg FIFA World Cup play-off defeat to Ukraine, but was an unused substitute, alongside Clichy, for the return, which Les Bleus won 3-0. Touré helped the Ivory Coast complete a 4-2 aggregate win against Senegal to reach Brazil 2014. • Agüero scored both goals in Argentina's 2-0 friendly defeat of a Bosnia and Herzegovina side including Džeko. Plzeň UEFA milestones and competition statistics • Plzeň's only UEFA Champions League group stage victory came on matchday five in 2011/12, Marek Bakoš scoring the only goal at FC BATE Borisov. • The 5-0 loss at FC Bayern München was Plzeň's heaviest UEFA Champions League defeat, equalling their worst in UEFA competition set when Bayern beat them 6-1 in the 1971/72 European Cup Winners' Cup. • Čišovský and FC Zenit's Roman Shirokov were the five-goal top scorers in the qualification phase. • Plzeň and PFC CSKA Moskva have each conceded 12 goals, more than any other team ahead of matchday five. • David Limberský and Roman Hubník are both a booking away from a suspension. General information • Stanislav Tecl scored twice on Friday as Plzeň came from behind to win 3-1 at FC Zbrojovka Brno. The 23-year-old has scored eight goals in 11 starts for the club this season. • On 18 November it was announced that coach Pavel Vrba will leave the club on 15 December after agreeing to lead the Czech Republic through UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying. Vrba, 49, triggered a release clause in his contract to end a successful five-and-a-half-year spell with a club that had not won a major honour before his arrival. • Plzeň's 11-match unbeaten start to the Czech First League – seven wins and four draws – ended on 26 October with a 1-0 loss to FK Teplice. They have won three out of three since. • Plzeň, shorn of their international players, won 3-0 at third division TJ Jiskra Domažlice in the first leg of their Czech Cup last-16 tie on 16 November. International duty • Six Plzeň players were called up for senior duty during the international break: Tomáš Hořava, František Rajtoral (Czech Republic), Matúš Kozáčik, Čišovský, Michal Ďuriš, Bakoš (Slovakia). • Substitute Hořava scored his first goal for the Czech Republic in a 2-0 win against Canada on 15 November.
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