Uefa Champions League 2011/12 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Viktoria Plzeň FC Barcelona Group H - Matchday 4 Eden, Prague Tuesday 1 November 2011 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Head coach.......................................................................................................................8 Match officials....................................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................14 Competition facts.............................................................................................................16 Team facts.......................................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................19 FC Viktoria Plzeň - FC Barcelona Tuesday 1 November 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Eden, Prague Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/10/11 GS FC Barcelona - FC Viktoria Plzeň 2-0 Barcelona Iniesta 10, Villa 82 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Viktoria Plzeň 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 FC Barcelona 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 FC Viktoria Plzeň - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None FC Barcelona - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/03/00 2ndGS AC Sparta Praha - FC Barcelona 1-2 Prague Svoboda 16; Gabri 52, 89 08/12/99 2ndGS FC Barcelona - AC Sparta Praha 5-0 Barcelona Kluivert 44, 63, Luis Enrique 45, 76, Guardiola 60 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/04/92 R3 (GS) AC Sparta Praha - FC Barcelona 1-0 Prague Siegl 67 27/11/91 R3 (GS) FC Barcelona - AC Sparta Praha 3-2 Barcelona Amor 16, Laudrup 34, Bakero 63; Vrabec 17, Němeček 65 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/10/85 R1 FC Barcelona - AC Sparta Praha 0-1 Barcelona Griga 8 agg: 2-2 ag 18/09/85 R1 AC Sparta Praha - FC Barcelona 1-2 Prague Calta 8; Clos 50, 69 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/81 R2 FC Barcelona - 1. FK Příbram 4-0 Barcelona Schuster 3, 84, Tente Sánchez 10, agg: 4-1 Simonsen 39 21/10/81 R2 1. FK Příbram - FC Barcelona 1-0 Pribram Kozák 13 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 15/03/61 QF FC Hradec Králové - FC Barcelona 1-1 Prague Zikán 33; Suárez 23 agg: 1-5 08/03/61 QF FC Barcelona - FC Hradec Králové 4-0 Barcelona Tejada 11, 64, Evaristo 29, Kubala 90(p) 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 Viktoria Plzeň 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 FC Barcelona 6 5 0 1 5 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 11 7 1 3 23 8 Last updated 01/11/11 9:36:21CET 2 Previous meetings FC Viktoria Plzeň - FC Barcelona Tuesday 1 November 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Eden, Prague Match background FC Viktoria Plzeň's four-match unbeaten home run in this season's UEFA Champions League receives the ultimate test when they welcome title holders FC Barcelona. • Barcelona beat Plzeň 2-0 at the Camp Nou on matchday three and with another victory will secure qualification so long as FC BATE Borisov fail to beat AC Milan in the other Group H fixture. Bottom-placed Plzeň's hopes of progress are already faint and their elimination will be confirmed if they fail to at least match Milan's result in Belarus. Match background • Pavel Vrba's Plzeň have played four home games so far in this first UEFA Champions League adventure – beating FC Pyunik (5-1), Rosenborg BK (3-2) and FC København (2-1) in qualifying before drawing 1-1 with BATE on matchday one. • Prior to this season Plzeň had only played two European home games in their history, against FC Bayern München (0-1) in the 1971/72 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round and Beşiktaş JK (1-1) in last season's UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. • Those two fixtures, together with the ties against Pyunik and Rosenborg, were played at Plzeň's Stadion města Plzně. Prague's Eden Stadium has been their base from the play-offs onwards but at both venues, the club have failed to keep a clean sheet in Europe. • Ominously, Barcelona won 5-0 at BATE in their first game on the road in this season's UEFA Champions League. It was the third in a row in the competition for a team who have lost just one of their last seven European away fixtures. • Josep Guardiola was playing when Barcelona last faced Czech opposition in the 1999/2000 UEFA Champions League second group stage. He scored the third goal in a 5-0 defeat of AC Sparta Praha at the Camp Nou, and also appeared in Barcelona's 2-1 victory in Prague. He had suffered defeat on Czech soil when Barcelona lost 1-0 at Sparta in the group stage of the 1991/92 European Champion Clubs' Cup, although they won 3-2 at home. • Barcelona's away record against Czech sides is W2 D1 L2. Their overall record reads W7 D1 L3. Team ties • Pavel Horváth is still seeking a first win against Spanish opposition; he was in the SK Slavia Praha side beaten 1-0 on aggregate by Valencia CF in the 1996/97 UEFA Cup second round and faced Real Madrid CF with Sporting Clube de Portugal in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League first group stage, earning a 2-2 home draw. • David Villa became Spain's all-time leading scorer after striking twice in the 2-1 home win against the Czech Republic in UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying last March. Gerard Piqué, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández and Sergio Busquets also featured in the triumph in Granada. • Xavi, Busquets and Piqué started the return fixture on 7 October, while Villa and Carles Puyol came on in Spain's 2-0 victory. Daniel Kolář and Petr Jiráček started for the Czechs with Milan Petržela an unused substitute. • Villa made his UEFA club competition debut for Real Zaragoza in a two-legged victory against SK Sigma Olomouc in the 2004/05 UEFA Cup first round. He appeared as a 62nd-minute substitute against Slavia for Valencia CF in the UEFA Europa League on 22 October 2009, but was sent off 23 minutes later. • Daniel Alves helped Sevilla FC beat Slavia home and away in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage, scoring in a 3-0 win in the Czech capital. Seydou Keita and Adriano featured alongside him in the 4-2 home success. • Cesc Fàbregas scored twice as his Arsenal FC side defeated Slavia 7-0 at home in the same group on 23 October 2007. Fàbregas had already found the net in both legs of Arsenal's third qualifying round win against Sparta that season. • Ibrahim Afellay played for PSV Eindhoven in a 1-0 home victory against Sparta in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League. • Sergi Gómez and Gerard Deulofeu helped Spain beat a Czech Republic side including Plzeň's Martin Sladký 3-2 after extra time in the 2011 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final in Romania. Last updated 01/11/11 9:36:21CET 3 Match background FC Viktoria Plzeň - FC Barcelona Tuesday 1 November 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Eden, Prague Match facts Plzeň UEFA milestones • None UEFA Champions League statistics • None Latest domestic information • Friday 28 October: FC Viktoria Plzeň 5-0 FC Hradec Králové (Čišovský 11, Bakoš 60 79, Petržela 65, Fukal og 71) Pavlík; Rajtoral (Řezník 85), Čišovský, Bystroň, Limberský; Petržela, Horváth, Jiráček, Kolář (Darida 80); Ďuriš (Fillo 61), Bakoš • With on-loan Václav Pilař ineligible against his parent club, Pavel Vrba's side claimed only their third win in their last seven games in all competitions, although they have won three of the last four matches. • Marek Bakoš and Milan Petržela each scored for the third successive league game, the latter a stunning solo effort that began inside his own half. • At this stage last term, Plzeň were unbeaten and top of the league on 34 points – ten more than this time around. • Marián Čišovský, on target again on Friday, scored his first goal for the club on 23 October as Plzeň beat FK Viktoria Žižkov 4-1. • None of Daniel Kolář's eight goals this season have come earlier than first-half added time. • A 2-0 loss to AC Sparta Praha on 29 August represents Plzeň's only home league defeat in 35 games. • Vrba's side began the domestic season with victory in the Czech Super Cup, beating Czech Cup holders FK Mladá Boleslav 4-2 on penalties following a 1-1 draw. Injury news • Marek Čech has not played since injuring his knee in Barcelona. The Žižkov win marked Roman Pavlík's return to action after suffering ligament damage at Rosenborg BK on 27 July; Čech was signed from FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi as cover. Miscellaneous • Kolář, Petr Jiráček and Pilař are likely to be on duty on 11 and 15 November when the Czech Republic face Montenegro in the UEFA EURO 2012 play-offs. Barcelona UEFA milestones • Barcelona have conceded 395 goals in UEFA competition. UEFA Champions League statistics • Barcelona have scored more goals (9) and won more corners (29) than any other side.