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2009/10 UEFA Champions League Technical Report TECHNICAL REPORT 2009/10 ENGLISH SECTION PARTIE FRANÇAISE DEUTSCHER TEIL STATISTICS THOMAS / POPPERFOTO / GETTY IMAGES TECHNICAL REPORT This report has been published as a permanent record of the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League, which was the competition’s 18th season. In addition to the factual and statistical data that make it a reference work, it contains analysis, reflections and debating points which, it is hoped, will give technicians food for thought and, by highlighting tendencies and trends at the peak of professional football, also offer coaches who are active in the development levels of the game information that may be helpful in terms of working on the qualities which will be needed by the UEFA Champions League performers of the future. A full house at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid watches the opening ceremony raise the curtain on the UEFA Champions League’s first-ever Saturday final. REWIND AND FAST FORWARD Rewinding images of 125 games is a valid antidote to the tendency to read the 2009/10 season as a story of Milan, Munich and Madrid. It is easy to forget that FC Internazionale Milano won once in their first five games and that FC Bayern München took four points from the opening four fixtures. Both finalists qualified in extremis from a group phase in which three former UEFA Champions League winners were eliminated. Among the eight group winners, only three were former champions of Europe. There was no shortage of cameos which underlined that, in the UEFA Champions League, lapses of concentration are usually punished. The 2006 finalists, Arsenal FC, opening their campaign against R. Standard de Liège away from home, found themselves 2-0 down within five minutes. Manchester United FC, seemingly home and dry with 10 points in the bag, were beaten 1-0 at Old Trafford by Besiktas JK. Few would have predicted that the 2005 champions, Liverpool FC, would exit in the group stage, having only beaten Debreceni VSC, that AC Milan would not win a home game, that Rangers FC would concede ten goals in three successive defeats in Glasgow, or that Club Atlético de Madrid would be eliminated with two games to spare and bow out with three goals scored and a dozen VILLA / GETTY IMAGES conceded – or, for that matter, that they would go on to Juventus striker Amauri is thwarted as FC Girondins de Bordeaux goalkeeper Cédric Carrasso makes a clean catch during the 1-1 draw in Turin on the opening win the inaugural UEFA Europa League. Chelsea FC and matchday. FC Girondins de Bordeaux were the only teams to remain unbeaten in their six matches and the only contestant were beaten 2-1 at home by debutants FC Rubin Kazan to equal the French club’s total of five victories was and took only one point from the Russian champions. ACF Fiorentina. Nine of the teams who ultimately qualified Like FC Internazionale Milano, they scored only seven did so on the last day. times during the group stage, with four of those goals arriving on the last two matchdays. FC Bayern München, Among them were the two who ultimately made the trip to having scored five goals in as many games, scored four Madrid and the defending champions, FC Barcelona, who in the last one against Juventus in Turin to eliminate the former champions. In some groups, the form book ultimately prevailed because the favourites possessed a big-match mentality and, when obliged to go for a win, had sufficient physical and mental resources to do so. FC Bayern’s resilience in adverse situations, for example, was one of the major elements in the Bavarian club’s run to the final. So was efficiency in front of goal. During their six games, Club Atlético de Madrid had 86 attempts at goal, yet scored only three. In the group stage, 12 of the 32 participants averaged less than one goal per game and, in most cases, can point to the lack of a knockout punch as one of the reasons for hitting the canvas in the first round. The glaring exception to this rule was Olympiacos FC, who passed the cut despite scoring only four times in six group matches. The Greeks were the only team to qualify with a negative goal difference – something which CSKA Moskva avoided during added time of their final match against Besiktas JK DAVY / EMPICS DAVY in Istanbul. The Russian side’s 2-1 victory allowed them to become their country’s first representative in the Sent clear by a headed pass from Seydou Keita, Lionel Messi rounds off a solo run by chipping the ball over Arsenal FC goalkeeper Manuel Almunia to put knockout stages since their Moscow rivals, FC Lokomotiv, FC Barcelona 3-1 ahead and complete his hat-trick. reached that stage in 2004. 4•5 one of the results which added question marks to the customarily accepted advantage of playing return legs of knockout ties at home. These were underlined when only one of the four quarter- finals was won by the team playing the second leg at home. That privilege belonged to FC Barcelona who, after producing a stunning first hour against Arsenal FC in London during a sublimely attractive tie, came from a goal down to beat Arsène Wenger’s team 4-1 at the Camp Nou, with Lionel Messi scoring all four. The encounter between Olympique Lyonnais and FC Girondins de Bordeaux ensured that a French side would be in the semi-finals for the first time since 2004, FC Internazionale Milano efficiently put an end to CSKA Moskva’s run and FC Bayern, just as they had done against ACF Fiorentina in the previous round, fought back from a 3-0 deficit against Manchester United DOYLE / GETTY IMAGES DOYLE FC at Old Trafford to go through on the away-goals rule Sandwiched between Olympique Lyonnais’ 20 and 4, Aly Cissokho and Jean-Alain Boumsong, Real striker Gonzalo Higuaín tries to control the ball during before conclusively putting an end to Olympique Lyonnais’ the 1-1 draw in Madrid which eliminated the nine-time champions. campaign with a 4-0 aggregate win in the semi-finals. In the meantime, FC Internazionale came from a goal down When the home-and-away format kicked in during to beat FC Barcelona 3-1 at San Siro and then, playing with February, they were joined on the starting grid by teams ten for two thirds of the return at the Camp Nou, limited from seven other national associations, with England, the champions to a 1-0 victory with a determined, well- Spain and Italy supplying three apiece. As usual, this organised rearguard action. hurdle produced surprise fallers, although FC Barcelona, despite a problematic first leg in Stuttgart, avoided adding Although the campaign yielded no additions to the paltry their name to the list of defending champions eliminated list of five home-and-away ties decided by penalty shoot- in the first knockout round. The 2008 silver medallists, outs in the competition’s 18-year lifespan, the knockout Chelsea FC, were beaten at Stamford Bridge despite rounds had emphasised that, in the UEFA Champions taking a seemingly acceptable 2-1 deficit home from League, margins between advancement and elimination Milan. It was the first of two knockout ties which took José can depend on details such as a moment of genius, the Mourinho back to his former clubs. CSKA Moskva, having woodwork, an individual decision by a player, an inspired conceded a 1-1 draw in snowbound Moscow, sprang a substitution, a refereeing decision or, simply, a slice of luck. surprise by winning the return match 2-1 in Seville. The The implications for the technician remain unchanged. By other significant upset came when Olympique Lyonnais, the end of the season, 16 of the UEFA Champions League having beaten Real Madrid CF 1-0 at the Stade de Gerland, coaches were no longer on the bench where they had drew 1-1 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu thanks, in great started it – among them the coach of the winning team part, to a shrewd change of team structure by Claude Puel in Madrid, where direct counterattacking prevailed over at half-time. The result dashed the Spanish club’s dreams possession play. The rewind of the 2009/10 season ends of winning a tenth title in their own stadium. It was also with a triumph for fast-forward football. Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar and a trio of Manchester United defenders watch Arjen Robben’s volley hit the net at Old Trafford to give FC Bayern München an away-goals victory. LIVESEY / GETTY IMAGES MILITO DELIVERS THE GOLD IN MADRID year was the Rolling Stones’ “Can’t Get No Satisfaction”. Neither side, on a balmy Spanish evening, wanted that song to be associated with them, and the two coaches, Inter’s José Mourinho and Bayern’s Louis van Gaal (both previous winners, with FC Porto and AFC Ajax respectively) had their own plans for a triumphant night under an ashless Spanish sky. Inter, clad in their traditional black and blue, kicked off facing the Bayern team and its supporters – the sea of red and white massed behind Jörg Butt’s goal was in a frenzy of anticipation with another European success at their fingertips. José Mourinho’s men had other ideas and immediately took the initiative. An inswinging corner from the left by Wesley Sneijder forced the German keeper to punch the ball away. But gradually the predicted pattern set in and Bayern started to dictate the possession while BOTTERILL / GETTY IMAGES Inter closed ranks, occasionally countering with pace and FC Internazionale striker Samuel Eto’o contributed to collective defensive efforts by dropping deep to pressurise FC Bayern’s central midfielder Bastian menace.
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