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

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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

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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 '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 , 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. • , 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 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.

4 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Squad list

5 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Head coach FC Viktoria Plzeň: Pavel Vrba Date of birth: 6 December 1963 Nationality: Czech Playing career: FC Baník Ostrava (twice), TJ Železárny Prostějov, RH Cheb, TJ Baník Havířov, FC Přerov Coaching career: FC Přerov, FC Baník Ostrava (youth, assistant), Czech Republic Under-20, FK Púchov, MŠK Žilina, Slovakia (assistant), FC Viktoria Plzeň • The defender was part of the Czechoslovakia side that reached the final of the 1982 UEFA European Under-18 Championship and also appeared at the FIFA U-20 World Cup the following year; the Czechs lost in the quarter-finals to a Brazil team including Bebeto and Dunga. • His club career did not hit the same highs, Vrba making a handful of appearances for Cheb and Baník before finishing his playing days in the lower leagues with hometown club Přerov. • Returned to Baník as a youth coach and also went back to the U20 World Cup, taking charge of the Czech Republic in the 2003 edition. Became assistant at Baník and, despite a 7-0 loss to SK Slavia Praha in his first match in temporary charge in May 2003, ended the next season with the league title. • That summer crossed the border into Slovakia, winning a championship as head coach of Žilina in 2007, by which time he was also working as assistant to Ján Kocián with the country's national side. • Moved on to Plzeň in 2008, winning the Czech Cup in his second season – when he was voted the country's coach of the year – and the league in 2011. Led the club into the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time in 2011/12 and repeated the trick two years later following another title in 2013. In November 2013, agreed to take charge of Czech Republic national team at the end of Plzeň's group stage campaign.

6 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 officials Referee Firat Aydinus Referee since: 1999 First division: 2003 FIFA badge: 2006

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7 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Fixtures and results

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8 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-by-match lineups

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9 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Group Standings

10 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Competition facts

11 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Team facts

Manchester City FC Formed: 1880 Nickname: The Citizens UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1970 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2012) FA Cup: 5 (2011) League Cup: 2 (1976) Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: group stage 2011/12: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2010/11: UEFA Europa League round of 16 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: UEFA Cup quarter-finals 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2005/06: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2004/05: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2003/04: UEFA Cup second round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Manchester City v The New Saints FC 14/08/03, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg 5-0: Manchester City v K. Lierse SK 26/11/69, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3 three times, most recently v FC Viktoria Plzeň 18/09/13, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Manchester City v FC Bayern München 02/10/13, UEFA Champions League group stage 0-2: Manchester City v FC Barcelona 18/02/14, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg • Heaviest away defeat 3-1 on five occasions, most recently v AFC Ajax 24/10/12, UEFA Champions League group stage 2-0 on five occasions, most recently v FC Bayern München 27/09/11, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Champions League (group stage to final) • Biggest home win 5-2: Manchester City v PFC CSKA Moskva 05/11/13, group stage • Biggest away win 0-3: twice, most recently FC Viktoria Plzeň v Manchester City (see above for details) • Heaviest home defeat 1-3: Manchester City v FC Bayern München (see above for details) 0-2: Manchester City v FC Barcelona (see above for details) • Heaviest away defeat 3-1: AFC Ajax v Manchester City (see above for details) 2-0: FC Bayern München v Manchester City (see above for details)

12 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester

FC Viktoria Plzeň Formed: 1911 Nickname: Viktorka UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 2 (2013) Czechoslovakian/Czech Cup: 1 (2010) Ten-year record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise) 2013/14: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2012/13: UEFA Europa League round of 16 2011/12: UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2010/11: UEFA Europa League third qualifying round 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA competition 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA competition 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA competition 2005/06: did not take part in UEFA competition 2004/05: did not take part in UEFA competition 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Plzeň v Ruch Chorzów 09/08/12, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-4: FC Pyunik v Plzeň 12/07/11, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Plzeň v FC Barcelona 01/11/11, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-1: FC Bayern München v Plzeň 29/09/71, European Cup Winners' Cup first round second leg 5-0: FC Bayern München v Plzeň 23/10/13, UEFA Champions League group stage UEFA Champions League (group stage to final) • Biggest home win 2-1: Plzeň v PFC CSKA Moskva 10/12/13, group stage • Biggest away win 0-1: FC BATE Borisov v Plzeň 23/11/11, group stage • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Plzeň v FC Barcelona (see above for details) • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: FC Bayern München v Plzeň (see above for details)

13 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester 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 goal L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow Nat.: Nationality cards) N/A: Not applicable f: Match forfeited Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted

14 Manchester City FC - FC Viktoria Plzeň Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended UCLQ: Current season total UEFA Champions League appearances in the qualifying rounds and play-offs only UCL: Current season total UEFA Champions League appearances from group stage onwards prior to current matchday UCL: Total appearances in the UEFA Champions League from 1992/93 season, group stage to final only UEFA: All-time total appearances in UEFA club competition including qualifying Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com.

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