UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC BATE Borisov LOSC Lille Group F - Matchday 5 Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Tuesday 20 November 2012 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................5 Head coach.......................................................................................................................7 Match officials....................................................................................................................8 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................9 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................13 Group Standings.............................................................................................................15 Competition facts.............................................................................................................17 Team facts.......................................................................................................................18 Legend............................................................................................................................20 FC BATE Borisov - LOSC Lille Tuesday 20 November 2012 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/09/12 GS LOSC Lille - FC BATE Borisov 1-3 Villeneuve d'Ascq Chedjou 60; Volodko 6, Rodionov 20, Olekhnovich 43 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC BATE Borisov 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 LOSC Lille 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 FC BATE Borisov - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/02/11 R32 Paris Saint-Germain FC - 0-0 Paris FC BATE Borisov agg: 2-2 ag 17/02/11 R32 FC BATE Borisov - Paris Saint-Germain FC 2-2 Minsk Renan Bressan 16, Gordeychuk 80; Mevlüt Erdinç 29, Luyindula 89 LOSC Lille - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/07/04 R3 FC Dinamo Minsk - LOSC Lille 2-2 Minsk Razin 33, Kovel 50; Moussilou 41, 66 agg: 3-4 17/07/04 R3 LOSC Lille - FC Dinamo Minsk 2-1 Villeneuve d'Ascq Plestan 23, Moussilou 29; Kovel 26 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 FC BATE Borisov 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 5 3 LOSC Lille 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 5 6 Last updated 18/11/12 23:16:41CET 2 Previous meetings FC BATE Borisov - LOSC Lille Tuesday 20 November 2012 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Match background It was against LOSC Lille on 19 September that FC BATE Borisov finally recorded their first UEFA Champions League group stage win at the 13th attempt and they will hope to make it a double on matchday five. • In Group F's first round of matches, BATE scored three first-half goals at the Grand Stade Lille Métropole through Aleksandr Volodko (6), Vitali Rodionov (20) and Edgar Olekhnovich (43), with Aurélien Chedjou's second-half header scant consolation for LOSC. • That first victory was swiftly followed by a second for BATE as they beat FC Bayern München by the same 3-1 scoreline at home, before Valencia CF brought them back to earth with a 3-0 away success in Minsk. The return ended 4-2 to the Spanish side to leave BATE third in the section on six points, three behind Bayern and Valencia. • LOSC lost 2-0 at Valencia on matchday two and then suffered a third reverse when Bayern won 1-0 in northern France. The return fixture with the German team two weeks later finished in LOSC's heaviest European defeat as they were overwhelmed 6-1, ending their UEFA Champions League aspirations for the season; they must now win by a greater margin than 3-1 at BATE to have any hope of overtaking their opponents for third place. Previous meetings • The matchday one encounter was the sides' first ever meeting while previous experience of opposition from the other team's country is also scarce. • BATE faced Paris Saint-Germain FC in the 2010/11 UEFA Cup round of 32 and went out on away goals. The games ended 2-2 at the Dinamo Stadion, Renan Bressan scoring BATE's first goal, and 0-0 in Paris. • LOSC played FC Dinamo Minsk in the 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup third round, winning 2-1 at home before a 2-2 away draw. Match background • BATE lifted a sixth straight Belarusian title in 2011 – and clinched a seventh on 11 November – to earn a chance of claiming their third appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage. They overcame FK Vardar 3-2 at home and on aggregate in the second qualifying round, and then relied on an own goal in a 1-1 draw with Debreceni VSC in Belarus before a 2-0 away success. • A 2-0 home win against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC put BATE in control of their play-off tie, before a 1-1 draw in Israel sent Viktor Goncharenko's side through 3-1 on aggregate. • Remaining unbeaten at home in UEFA Champions League qualifying maintained a trend for BATE, who did the same in 2011/12 (two wins, one draw) and 2008/09 (one win, two draws), prior to their two previous group stage appearances. • However, beyond the qualifying rounds it is a different story: including this season, their two preceding group stage campaigns and their UEFA Europa League participations of 2010/11 and 2009/10, BATE's home record is W4 D2 L8. • At home in last term's UEFA Champions League group stage the Belarusian outfit lost 5-0 to FC Barcelona and 1-0 against FC Viktoria Plzeň, and drew 1-1 with AC Milan. • LOSC overcame FC København in the play-offs to make the group stage for the fifth time, losing 1-0 in Denmark before a 2-0 extra-time triumph in the return, the first European match at their new home. • Les Dogues drew 1-1 at Trabzonspor AŞ in this competition last season, lost 2-1 at FC Internazionale Milano and won 2-0 at PFC CSKA Moskva. Team ties • Rio Mavuba was in the France team that beat Belarus 3-1 in a FIFA World Cup qualifier at the Stade de France on 11 September. Mickaël Landreau was an unused substitute, with Artem Radkov, Bressan, Denis Polyakov and Rodionov all starting for the visitors. Aleksandr Gutor remained on the bench. Last updated 18/11/12 23:16:41CET 3 Match background FC BATE Borisov - LOSC Lille Tuesday 20 November 2012 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Dinamo Stadion, Minsk Match facts BATE UEFA Champions League statistics • BATE won their first two Group F fixtures, having failed to triumph in any of their previous 12. • Aleksandr Hleb has made 86 appearances in UEFA club competition, a Belarusian record. BATE captain Dmitri Likhtarovich is one behind. Vitali Rodionov is Belarus' top scorer in UEFA club competition with 17 goals. • Andrei Gorbunov and Maksim Bordachev have played all 900 minutes of BATE's UEFA Champions League campaign, qualifying included; Denis Polyakov has featured in all 360 group stage minutes. • BATE have committed 74 fouls, more than any other team; their 13 yellow cards is the joint highest total in the group stage along with LOSC. • Rodionov has committed 20 fouls; seven more than any other player. • Aleksandr Pavlov is available having served a one-match ban after accruing three group stage yellow cards. Bordachev and Rodionov will incur a suspension with their next bookings. International duty • Yegor Filipenko, Aleksandr Volodko, Bordachev and Renan Bressan were all in action for Belarus last Wednesday, Bressan claiming an assist in a 2-1 victory in Israel. • BATE provided seven of Belarus' starting XI for their 2-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying win against Georgia on 16 October: Bressan, Bordachev, Filipenko, Hleb, Rodionov, Pavlov and Polyakov. An eighth BATE player, Volodko, replaced goalscorer Bressan with five minutes left. Miscellaneous • BATE secured their ninth Belarusian Premier League title with two games to spare on 11 November after an emphatic 5-1 victory against FC Minsk. • BATE lost 1-0 to bottom side FC Naftan Novopolotsk on 3 November, ending their 17-game unbeaten run away from home in all competitions. Since starting the season in March with back-to-back defeats, including a 2-0 loss to FC Gomel in the Belarusian Super Cup, BATE had won 13 and drawn four on their travels. • BATE's 18-game unbeaten run in all competitions, since 1 July, ended on 13 October when they lost 1-0 at home to FC Torpedo Zhodino in the third round of the Belarusian Cup. LOSC UEFA Champions League statistics • GNK Dinamo Zagreb and LOSC are the only teams without a point after four matchdays. • LOSC have conceded 12 goals; more than any other team in the group stage. • LOSC have won just two of their 15 away games in the UEFA Champions League proper, drawing four and losing nine. Their record at home is three wins from 15, with four defeats and eight draws. • Florent Balmont has suffered 18 fouls; more than any other player. • The French club have collected 13 yellow cards, the joint highest total in the competition along with BATE. • Mickaël Landreau and Balmont have played every minute of LOSC's group stage campaign. • Rio Mavuba, Lucas Digne and Benoît Pedretti will incur a suspension with their next bookings. International duty • Mathieu Debuchy (Italy 1-2 France), Salomon Kalou (Austria 0-3 Ivory Coast) and Marko Baša (Montenegro 3-0 San Marino) were all on international duty last Wednesday.