UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEASON 2009/10 MATCH PRESS KIT Maccabi Haifa FC Juventus Ramat Gan, Ramat Gan Tuesday 3 November 2009 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Group A - Matchday 4 Contents Match background.........................................................................................2 Match facts....................................................................................................3 Squad list.......................................................................................................6 Head coach....................................................................................................8 Match officials................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results......................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups...............................................................................12 Competition facts..........................................................................................14 Team facts....................................................................................................15 Legend.........................................................................................................18 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Champions League 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 Maccabi Haifa FC - Juventus Tuesday 3 November 2009 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat Gan, Ramat Gan Match background Previous meetings UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/10/09 GS Juventus - Maccabi Haifa FC 1-0 Turin Chiellini 47 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Maccabi Haifa FC 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 Juventus 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 Maccabi Haifa FC - record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/11/06 GS AS Livorno Calcio - Maccabi Haifa FC 1-1 Livorno Lucarelli 20; Colautti 90+3 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/11/93 R2 Parma FC - Maccabi Haifa FC 0-1 Parma Mizrahi 11 agg: 1-1 (3-1aetps) 20/10/93 R2 Maccabi Haifa FC - Parma FC 0-1 Haifa Brolin 88 Juventus - record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 08/12/04 GS Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Juventus 1-1 Ramat Gan Dego 29(p); Del Piero 71 28/09/04 GS Juventus - Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 1-0 Turin Camoranesi 37 Record versus clubs from opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Maccabi Haifa FC 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 2 3 Juventus 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 3 1 Maccabi Haifa FC welcome Juventus to Tel Aviv on Matchday 4 still seeking an elusive first UEFA Champions League point of the season. The visitors from Turin are unlikely to take anything for granted against Elisha Levi's team given how they narrowly escaped defeat on their one previous visit to Israel five years ago. • Juve were made to work hard for their win in the reverse fixture on Matchday 3, only Giorgio Chiellini's 47th-minute header separating the sides. The win left Ciro Ferrara's team in second place in Group A with five points, two behind FC Girondins de Bordeaux while Haifa are still to get off the mark in terms of goals or points and know a fourth straight defeat could spell an early end to their European season. Match background • Haifa lost 1-0 to then holders Parma FC when they first welcomed Italian visitors in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round in 1993/94. Tomas Brolin scored Parma's 88th-minute winner but Haifa bounced back with a 1-0 victory in the return leg. Alon Harazi, who is still at the club, provided the assist for Alon Mizrahi's goal but then missed a penalty in the ensuing 3-1 shoot-out defeat. • Maccabi won all three home games in qualifying – scoring 13 goals – but went down 3-0 to FC Bayern München in their opening Group A match at the Ramat Gan Stadium. In their previous group-stage appearance in 2002/03 they took six points from their three home fixtures. • This is Juventus's second visit to the Ramat Gan Stadium where they earned a 1-1 draw at Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League group stage. It took a 71st-minute Alessandro Del Piero equaliser to salvage a point for the Bianconeri, who had earlier beaten Tel-Aviv 1-0 at home through a Mauro Camoranesi goal. Last updated 02/11/09 22:15:47CET Match background 2 Maccabi Haifa FC - Juventus Tuesday 3 November 2009 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat Gan, Ramat Gan • Current Juve coach Ferrara made his penultimate European appearance for the club in that December 2004 draw in Israel. • Juventus claimed a goalless draw at Bayern on Matchday 2 but have won just two and lost four of their last ten away matches in Europe, qualifying ties included. Team ties • Maccabi midfielder Gustavo Boccoli spent part of the 1999/00 season training in Italy with Brescia Calcio but returned to his native Brazil without playing a game. • Mohamed Sissoko played in the Liverpool FC team that beat Haifa 3-2 on aggregate in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. • David Trezeguet has scored each time he has faced Israel on the international stage. He struck in a 2-1 victory in a UEFA EURO 2004™ qualifier in Palermo in April 2003 and found the net again in a 3-0 win in the return fixture six months later, firing past Haifa goalkeeper Nir Davidovitch. • Trezeguet also hit France's goal at the Ramat Gan Stadium when the countries met again in a 1-1 draw in FIFA World Cup qualifying in March 2005. The evening ended unhappily for Trezeguet, however, as he was sent off five minutes after scoring. • Zdeněk Grygera was in the AFC Ajax team beaten 2-1 at Maccabi Tel-Aviv during the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Hasan Salihamidžić also faced Tel-Aviv that season, scoring one of Bayern's goals in a 5-1 home win in November 2004. Match facts Maccabi Haifa UEFA milestones • None UEFA Champions League statistics • Haifa are one of only two teams yet to score in this season's group stage; Club Atlético de Madrid are the other. • Baram Kayal completes a two-game suspension on Matchday 4 following his red card at FC Girondins de Bordeaux while Tiago Dutra is also banned for the match with Juventus. • Gustavo Boccoli will miss the next game if he collects another booking. Latest domestic information • Saturday 31 October: Maccabi Haifa FC 2-0 Maccabi Netanya FC (Arbeitman 69 90+1) Davidovitch; Meshumar, Keinan, Teixeira, Masilela; Culma, Kayal, Boccoli (Arbeitman 46); Katan, Ghadir (Refaelov 60), Dvalishvili (Osman 77). • Shlomi Arbeitman struck his 12th and 13th goals of the campaign in all competitions as Haifa continued their 100 per cent start to the Ligat Ha'Al season. • They had preceded that triumph by defeating Beitar Jerusalem FC 2-1 on 26 October. Having fallen behind early on, Yaniv Katan − fit again after being admitted to hospital with flu-like symptoms prior to Matchday 3 − had a 39th-minute penalty saved, moments before Mohammad Ghadir levelled. Vladimer Dvalishvili completed the comeback nine minutes after the break. • Nir Davidovitch, Jorge Teixeira and Tsepo Masilela have yet to miss a minute of league action this term. • Haifa have gone 20 matches unbeaten in Ligat Ha'Al since a 1-0 defeat at Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona FC on 28 February. • The Israeli titleholders have claimed maximum points after eight league matches for the first time since 2005/06. Then they went on to win their opening eleven games en route to the title. • Dvalishvili has scored six goals in his last seven games for club and country. • Israeli Under-21 international Eyal Golasa has scored four goals so far this season. He mustered just one in 37 competitive games for club and country last term. Last updated 02/11/09 22:15:47CET Match facts 3 Maccabi Haifa FC - Juventus Tuesday 3 November 2009 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat Gan, Ramat Gan Injury news • Eyal Golasa – out since 30 September (hip) • Amir Edri − out since 30 September (shoulder) • Yaniv Katan − out 17-26 October (flu) • Mohammad Ghadir − out 26-31 October (ankle) • Golasa is expected to be sidelined for a further four weeks after undergoing surgery on 30 October in Munich on the stress fracture to his hip he sustained against Bordeaux on Matchday 2. • Boccoli was replaced at half-time against Maccabi Netanya after taking a blow to the ankle. Miscellaneous • Haifa sold an unprecedented 33,000 'season' tickets for their three UEFA Champions League group-stage matches at the Ramat Gan stadium within four days of going on sale. The Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, their usual home ground, has a capacity of 14,000. • Alon Harazi – who has featured in more UEFA club competition matches (65) than any other Israeli player – will retire at the end of Haifa's European campaign. • Davidovitch will celebrate 14 years in the Haifa lineup a day after the visit of Juventus. The goalkeeper made his debut against Beitar Jerusalem on 4 November 1995. Juventus UEFA milestones • The Matchday 3 victory was Juventus' 99th success in the European Champion Clubs' Cup; they have also drawn 49 matches. • The Turin team have conceded 194 goals in the European Cup. UEFA Champions League statistics • Juventus are one of three sides to have conceded only one goal in the group stage so far, with Chelsea FC alone in boasting three clean sheets.