Galatasaray AŞ - Olympiacos CFP MATCH PRESS KIT Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul Thursday 23 October 2008 - 20.15CET (21.15 Local Time) Group B - Matchday 1
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Galatasaray AŞ - Olympiacos CFP MATCH PRESS KIT Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul Thursday 23 October 2008 - 20.15CET (21.15 local time) Group B - Matchday 1 Contents 1 - Match background 7 - Match-by-match lineups 3 - Squad list 8 - Competition facts 5 - Match officials 9 - Team facts 6 - Domestic information 10 - Legend 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 Matchday 1 has thrown up a spectacular opening-night fixture in Group B with the champions of Turkey and Greece meeting in Istanbul, as Michael Skibbe's Galatasaray AŞ play host to Ernesto Valverde's Olympiacos CFP. • The two clubs have met before, having been drawn together in the group stage of the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League, with Galatasaray winning 1-0 in Istanbul and Olympiacos triumphing 3-0 in the corresponding game in Greece. • Cihan Haspolatlı, who now plays for Konyaspor, scored the only goal in the first fixture after nine minutes. • The team lineups for that game on 21 October 2003 were: Galatasaray: Faryd Mondragón, Bülent Korkmaz, Frank de Boer, Arif Erdem (Ovidiu Petre), João Batista, Hakan Şükür, Ayhan Akman, Cihan Haspolatlı, César Prates (Hakan Ünsal), Sabri Sarıoğlu (Suat Usta), Ergün Penbe. Olympiacos: Juraj Buček, Stelios Venetidis, Christian Karembeu, Ieroklis Stoltidis (Pantelis Kafes), Nery Castillo (Giorgos Georgiadis), Giovanni, Predrag Djordjević, Dimitris Mavrogenidis (Alekos Tatsis), Paraskevas Antzas, Tasos Pantos, Giorgos Anatolakis. • Dimitris Mavrogenidis and Nery Castillo scored to put Olympiacos 2-0 up by half-time in the second game, with Giovanni poaching a third in added time after Galatasaray's Ayhan Akman and Olympiacos's Predrag Djordjević had been dismissed. • The lineups for that match a fortnight later were: Olympiacos: Fanis Katergiannakis, Stelios Venetidis, Christian Karembeu, Ieroklis Stoltidis, Nery Castillo (Pantelis Kafes), Giorgos Georgiadis (Andreas Niniadis), Giovanni, Predrag Djordjević, Dimitris Mavrogenidis (Athanasios Kostoulas), Paraskevas Antzas, Giorgos Anatolakis. Galatasaray: Faryd Mondragón, Bülent Korkmaz, Orhan Ak, Frank de Boer, Hakan Şükür, Hasan Şaş, Ayhan Akman, Cihan Haspolatlı (Elvir Baljić), Ovidiu Petre, César Prates (Sabri Sarıoğlu), Ergün Penbe (Mabula Lukunku). • Neither side progressed to the knockout stage in that campaign, though Galatasaray finished above Olympiacos in third to move in to the UEFA Cup. • Aside from those games against Olympiacos, Galatasaray have played only one other match against a Greek side, winning 3-0 at Panionios GSS in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage. • Those games against Galatasaray represent Olympiacos's only experience of Turkish opposition. They were drawn to play against Beşiktaş JK in the preliminary round of the 1958/59 European Champion Clubs' Cup, but withdrew from the competition. Last updated 21.10.2008 23:21:55CET www.uefa.com Match background 1 Galatasaray AŞ - Olympiacos CFP Thursday 23 October 2008 - 20.15 CET (21.15 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul • This will not be the first time that Olympiacos coach Valverde has come up against Turkish opposition. He was the coach of Athletic Club Bilbao when they met Trabzonspor in the first round of the 2004/05 UEFA Cup. The Black Sea club beat Athletic 3-2 at home but the Spanish side advanced with a 2-0 victory in Bilbao. • Galatasaray lost 3-2 on aggregate to FC Steaua Bucureşti in the third qualifying round of this season's UEFA Champions League, then beat Switzerland's AC Bellinzona 6-4 overall to reach the UEFA Cup group stage. • Anorthosis Famagusta FC ended Olympiacos's UEFA Champions League dream this season, winning 3-1 over two legs, but a 7-0 aggregate defeat of Denmark's FC Nordsjælland put them into the UEFA Cup group stage. • Galatasaray's Harry Kewell and Olympiacos's Sebastian Leto were team-mates at Liverpool FC last season. • Hertha BSC Berlin take on SL Benfica in Matchday 1's other Group B game. FC Metalist Kharkhiv are the only side in the section not in action on 23 October. Last updated 21.10.2008 23:21:55CET www.uefa.com Match background 2 Galatasaray AŞ - Olympiacos CFP Thursday 23 October 2008 - 20.15 CET (21.15 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul Squad list Galatasaray 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 Aykut Erçetin TUR 14.09.1982 26 - - - 2 - - - 1 - 3 - 26 Morgan De Sanctis ITA 26.03.1977 31 - - - - - 2 - 12 - 21 - 54 Orkun Uşak TUR 05.11.1980 27 - - - - - - - 7 - 9 - Defenders 2 Emre Güngör TUR 01.08.1984 24 - - - 1 - - - 2 - 3 - 5 Fernando Meira POR 06.01.1978 30 - - - 2 - 2 - 2 - 4 - 21 Emre Aşık TUR 13.12.1973 34 - - - 1 - 2 - 8 - 39 - 60 Erdem Alparslan TUR 11.12.1988 19 - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - 74 Volkan Yaman TUR 27.08.1982 26 - - - - - 2 - 10 - 12 1 76 Servet Çetin TUR 17.03.1981 27 - - - 2 - 2 - 20 - 30 - Midfielders 6 Tobias Linderoth SWE 21.04.1979 29 - - - 1 - - - 9 1 25 3 7 Aydın Yılmaz TUR 29.01.1988 20 - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 8 Barış Özbek GER 14.09.1986 22 - - - 1 - - - 6 - 9 - 10 Lincoln BRA 22.01.1979 29 - - - 2 - 2 1 21 7 36 10 11 Hasan Şaş TUR 01.08.1976 32 - - - 2 - - - 19 1 81 7 14 Mehmet Topal TUR 03.03.1986 22 - - - 2 - 1 - 6 - 12 - 18 Ayhan Akman TUR 23.02.1977 31 - - - 1 - 2 - 6 - 43 2 19 Harry Kewell AUS 22.09.1978 30 - - - 1 - 1 1 37 12 69 12 22 Hakan Balta TUR 23.03.1983 25 - - - 2 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 23 Serkan Kurtuluş TUR 01.01.1990 18 - - - - - 2 - 2 - 2 - 55 Sabri Sarıoğlu TUR 26.07.1984 24 - - - 1 - - - 7 - 25 2 66 Arda Turan TUR 30.01.1987 21 - - - 2 - 1 - 8 1 17 3 Forwards 15 Milan Baroš CZE 28.10.1981 26 - - - - - 2 3 10 4 34 7 17 Yaser Yıldız TUR 01.06.1988 20 - - - - - 2 1 2 1 2 1 20 Shabani Nonda CGO 06.03.1977 31 - - - 2 2 1 - 19 5 39 12 99 Ümit Karan TUR 01.10.1976 32 - - - 1 - - - 11 2 38 12 Coach - Michael Skibbe GER 04.08.1965 43 - - - 2 - 2 - 28 - 38 - Last updated 21.10.2008 23:21:56CET www.uefa.com Squad list 1 Galatasaray AŞ - Olympiacos CFP Thursday 23 October 2008 - 20.15 CET (21.15 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul Olympiacos 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 50 Pavol Kovác SVK 12.08.1974 34 - - - 1 - - - - - 4 - 71 Antonis Nikopolidis GRE 14.01.1971 37 - - - 2 - 2 - 21 - 84 - Defenders 2 Christos Patsatzoglou GRE 19.03.1979 29 - - - 2 - 1 - 3 - 32 1 3 Didier Domi FRA 02.05.1978 30 - - - - - 2 - 13 - 34 - 4 Leonardo BRA 04.08.1985 23 - - - 2 - 1 - 1 - 5 - 5 Georgios Galitsios GRE 06.07.1986 22 - - - - - 1 - 7 - 9 - 14 Michał Żewłakow POL 22.04.1976 32 - - - 1 - 1 - 6 - 44 - 18 Paraskevas Antzas GRE 18.08.1976 32 - - - 1 - 2 - 7 - 33 1 21 Avraam Papadopoulos GRE 03.12.1984 23 - - - 2 - 2 - 11 1 13 1 30 Anastasios Pantos GRE 05.05.1976 32 - - - - - - - 3 - 26 - 35 Vassilis Torosidis GRE 10.06.1985 23 - - - 2 - 2 1 5 1 14 1 Midfielders 6 Ieroklis Stoltidis GRE 02.02.1975 33 - - - 2 - 1 - 11 2 50 8 8 Oscar ESP 12.11.1982 25 - - - 1 - 1 - 7 - 8 - Javier Gonzalez Marcos 11 Predrag Djordjević SRB 04.08.1972 36 - - - 2 - 1 - 11 3 79 14 19 Konstantinos Mendrinos GRE 28.05.1985 23 - - - - - 1 - 1 - 4 - 20 Dudu BRA 15.04.1983 25 - - - 1 - 1 - 6 - 21 1 22 Konstantinos Mitroglou GRE 12.03.1988 20 - - - 2 - 1 1 1 1 5 1 23 Sebastian Leto ARG 30.08.1986 22 - - - 2 - 2 1 2 1 6 1 25 Fernando Belluschi ARG 10.09.1983 25 - - - 1 1 2 - 2 - 5 1 Forwards 7 Luciano Galletti ARG 09.04.1980 28 - - - 2 - 1 - 13 2 22 5 9 Darko Kovačević SRB 18.11.1973 34 - - - 2 - 1 2 15 20 47 27 10 Diogo Luis Santo BRA 26.05.1987 21 - - - - - 2 2 2 2 2 2 Coach - Ernesto Valverde ESP 09.02.1964 44 - - - 2 - 2 - 25 - 27 - Last updated 21.10.2008 23:21:56CET www.uefa.com Squad list 2 Galatasaray AŞ - Olympiacos CFP Thursday 23 October 2008 - 20.15 CET (21.15 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul Match officials Referee Eduardo Iturralde González (ESP) Assistant referees Juan Carlos Yuste Jiménez (ESP), Jon Nunez Fernandez (ESP) Fourth official Javier Turienzo Alvarez (ESP) UEFA Delegate Roland Tis (BEL) UEFA Referee observer Marcello Nicchi (ITA) Referee UEFA Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match Date Comp. Stage Match Res. Venue 19.10.2006 UCUP GS Panathinaikos FC - Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC 2-0 Athens 14.02.2007 UCUP 1/16 Fenerbahçe SK - AZ Alkmaar 3-3 Istanbul 29.11.2007 UCUP GS Bolton Wanderers FC - Aris Thessaloniki FC 1-1 Bolton Other matches - Matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Date Comp. Stage Match Res. Venue 05.10.2001 U21 QR England - Greece 2-1 Blackburn 04.09.2004 WC QR Albania - Greece 2-1 Tirana Last updated 21.10.2008 23:21:58CET www.uefa.com Match officials 1 Galatasaray AŞ - Olympiacos CFP Thursday 23 October 2008 - 20.15 CET (21.15 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul Domestic information Galatasaray AŞ (Super League) Comp.