Uefa Champions League 2012/13 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic FC SL Benfica Group G - Matchday 1 Celtic Park, Glasgow Wednesday 19 September 2012 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Match facts........................................................................................................................5 Squad list...........................................................................................................................7 Head coach.......................................................................................................................9 Match officials..................................................................................................................10 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................11 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................13 Group Standings.............................................................................................................15 Competition facts.............................................................................................................17 Team facts.......................................................................................................................18 Legend............................................................................................................................20 Celtic FC - SL Benfica Wednesday 19 September 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/07 GS Celtic FC - SL Benfica 1-0 Glasgow McGeady 45 24/10/07 GS SL Benfica - Celtic FC 1-0 Lisbon Óscar Cardozo 87 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/06 GS SL Benfica - Celtic FC 3-0 Lisbon G. Caldwell 10(og), Nuno Gomes 22, Karyaka 76 17/10/06 GS Celtic FC - SL Benfica 3-0 Glasgow Miller 56, 66, Pearson 90 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/11/69 R2 SL Benfica - Celtic FC 3-0 Lisbon Eusébio 35, Graça 40, Vieira Costa 90 agg: 3-3 t 12/11/69 R2 Celtic FC - SL Benfica 3-0 Glasgow Gemmell 2, Wallace 14, Hood 70 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Celtic FC 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 3 7 7 SL Benfica 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 3 7 7 Celtic FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/08/10 QR3 Celtic FC - SC Braga 2-1 Glasgow Hooper 52, Juárez 79; Paulo César 20 agg: 2-4 28/07/10 QR3 SC Braga - Celtic FC 3-0 Braga Alan 26(p), Elderson 76, Matheus 88 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/05/03 F Celtic FC - FC Porto 2-3 Seville Larsson 47, 57; Derlei 45+1, 115 ET, (aet) Alenichev 54 24/04/03 SF Boavista FC - Celtic FC 0-1 Porto Larsson 79 agg: 1-2 10/04/03 SF Celtic FC - Boavista FC 1-1 Glasgow Larsson 49; Valgaeren 48(og) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 17/10/01 GS FC Porto - Celtic FC 3-0 Porto Clayton 1, 61, Silva 45+1 25/09/01 GS Celtic FC - FC Porto 1-0 Glasgow Larsson 36 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/09/98 R1 Celtic FC - Vitória SC 2-1 Glasgow Stubbs 37, Larsson 89; Söderström 87 agg: 4-2 15/09/98 R1 Vitória SC - Celtic FC 1-2 Guimaraes Silva Junior 86; Larsson 1, Donnelly 70 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/11/93 R2 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Celtic FC 2-0 Lisbon Cadete 19, 62 agg: 2-1 20/10/93 R2 Celtic FC - Sporting Clube de Portugal 1-0 Glasgow Creaney 9 Last updated 19/09/12 9:46:19CET 2 Previous meetings Celtic FC - SL Benfica Wednesday 19 September 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/11/83 R2 Celtic FC - Sporting Clube de Portugal 5-0 Glasgow Burns 17, McAdam 43, McClair 44, agg: 5-2 MacLeod 57, McGarvey 59 19/10/83 R2 Sporting Clube de Portugal - Celtic FC 2-0 Lisbon Rui Jordão 29, 65 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 05/11/75 R2 Celtic FC - Boavista FC 3-1 Glasgow Dalglish 1, Edvaldsson 21, Deans 85; agg: 3-1 Chagas 39 22/10/75 R2 Boavista FC - Celtic FC 0-0 Porto SL Benfica - Record versus clubs from opponents' country European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 05/10/60 PR SL Benfica - Heart of Midlothian FC 3-0 Lisbon Águas 7, 60, José Augusto 49 agg: 5-1 29/09/60 PR Heart of Midlothian FC - SL Benfica 1-2 Edinburgh Young 80; Águas 36, José Augusto 74 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 Celtic FC 10 9 1 0 10 2 1 7 1 0 0 1 21 11 2 8 27 25 SL Benfica 4 4 0 0 4 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 8 5 0 3 12 8 Last updated 19/09/12 9:46:19CET 3 Previous meetings Celtic FC - SL Benfica Wednesday 19 September 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Match background Celtic FC mark their return to the UEFA Champions League after a three-season absence with a home fixture against last season's quarter-finalists, SL Benfica. • Celtic will be hoping to get the better of Benfica, fellow former European champions, for the third time in the group stage. On the two previous occasions the clubs met at this phase, Celtic qualified in second place with the Lisbon side third. Past meetings • The clubs first met in 1969/70 when it took a coin toss to decide their European Champion Clubs' Cup second round tie. Goals from Tommy Gemmell, Willie Wallace and Harry Hood gave Celtic a 3-0 first-leg win in Glasgow but Benfica responded with an identical victory in Lisbon thanks to Eusébio, Jaime Graça and Diamantino. Celtic went on to the final where they lost 2-1 to Feyenoord. • As in 1969, the two clubs posted identical home results in their UEFA Champions League meetings. In the 2006/07 group stage, Celtic won 3-0 through goals from Kenny Miller (2) and Stephen Pearson, while Benfica reversed the score in Lisbon with Gary Caldwell's own goal and strikes from Nuno Gomes and Andrei Karyaka. • In 2007/08, Óscar Cardozo earned Benfica a 1-0 home victory before Aiden McGeady, now playing for Group G rivals FC Spartak Moskva, did the same for Celtic. The lineups in Glasgow on 6 November 2007 were: Celtic: Boruc, Naylor, Caldwell, Kennedy, McManus, Brown (Sno 89), Hartley, Jarošík (Donati 66), McGeady, Vennegoor of Hesselink (Killen 66), McDonald. Benfica: Quim, Luís Felipe, Edcarlos, Luisão, Léo, Katsouranis, Rui Costa (Bergessio 77), Pereira (Di María 61), Binya, Rodríguez, Cardozo (Nuno Gomes 77). Match background • Celtic are competing in the group stage for the seventh time and have made it to the last 16 twice before – on the two occasions they were grouped with Benfica. • Celtic have already posted two victories at home in this season's competition, beating HJK Helsinki 2-1 in the third qualifying round and Helsingborgs IF 2-0 in the play-offs. • Benfica reached the quarter-finals last season, their best campaign since 2005/06 and only the third time they have got beyond the group stage in seven attempts. • The Lisbon club went five away games unbeaten from the third qualifying round through the group stage last season, but lost their knockout matches at FC Zenit St Petersburg and Chelsea FC. • Celtic have recorded nine wins and one draw from ten home matches against Portuguese opponents. Their most recent visitors were SC Braga for a UEFA Champions League qualifier in 2010/11 but a 2-1 victory failed to undo the damage of a 3-0 away defeat in Neil Lennon's first European tie as manager. • Benfica's only other trip to Scotland brought a 2-1 success at Heart of Midlothian FC in the 1960/61 European Cup preliminary round, the first step on the road to their first continental crown. Team ties • Lennon played in both Celtic's matches against Benfica in 2006/07 – lining up against Luisão – and was in the team that beat Boavista FC in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup semi-finals but lost to FC Porto in the final. With Northern Ireland he faced Benfica director Rui Costa in a 0-0 home qualifier for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. • Benfica assistant coach Minervino Pietra faced Scotland twice with Portugal, a 1-0 home win in 1980 UEFA European Championship qualifying and a 0-0 away draw in 1982 World Cup qualifying. Shéu, another Benfica director, played in both matches along with a 4-1 loss in Glasgow in the earlier campaign. • Lima was in the Braga side that eliminated Celtic in 2010/11 with Artur on the bench. • Eduardo Salvio played for Club Atlético de Madrid in their 1-0 win at Celtic in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage. • Nicolás Fedor has faced Argentina's Ezequiel Garay and Uruguay's Maxi Pereira with his Venezuela national side. Fedor was at Valencia CF at the same time as Pablo Aimar but never featured alongside him in the first team. Last updated 19/09/12 9:46:19CET 4 Match background Celtic FC - SL Benfica Wednesday 19 September 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Celtic Park, Glasgow Match facts Celtic UEFA Champions League statistics • Fraser Forster, Emilio Izaguirre, Charlie Mulgrew and Scott Brown each played all 360 minutes of qualifying. • Celtic have lost only one of their 18 home fixtures in the UEFA Champions League group stage. International duty • Seven Celtic players were on duty during the international break: James Forrest (Scotland), Giorgos Samaras (Greece), Adam Matthews (Wales), Mikael Lustig (Sweden), Efe Ambrose (Nigeria), Nicolás Fedor (Venezuela) and Izaguirre (Honduras).