UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS BayArena - Leverkusen Wednesday 23 October 2013 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Bayer 04 Leverkusen Group A - Matchday 3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk Last updated 03/09/2014 16:18CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Match facts 5 Squad list 6 Head coach 7 Match officials 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 11 Group Standings 12 Competition facts 13 Team facts 15 Legend 17 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 23 October 2013 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Previous meetings Execption in [/mediaservices/presskits/uefachampionsleague/season=2014/round=2000479/day=3/session=2/match=2011791/chapters/previousmeetings Slot [] ExceptionInfo [Error executing child request for /code/PressKits/prevMeetings.aspx.] Inner Exception [Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.] 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 23 October 2013 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Match background Early Group A leaders FC Shakhtar Donetsk visit Bayer 04 Leverkusen hoping for a better night than they managed on their last visit to Germany. • Shakhtar's UEFA Champions League hopes crumbled with a 3-0 defeat at Borussia Dortmund in last season's last 16 but return to Germany buoyed by a positive start this term, having already won at Real Sociedad de Fútbol and drawn with Manchester United FC. • Leverkusen will be looking to build on their matchday two win over La Real – and leapfrog Shakhtar in the process. Match background • Leverkusen have an unbeaten home record against Ukrainian opposition, even if they took just one point from FC Metalist Kharkiv in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage, drawing 0-0 at home and losing 2-0 away. • The Bundesliga side had previously defeated Metalist 6-0 on aggregate in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 32, winning 4-0 in Ukraine – where Eren Derdiyok, Gonzalo Castro and Sidney Sam (2) scored – and then prevailing 2-0 at home, Simon Rolfes and Michael Ballack on target. Taison, now a Shakhtar player, was involved in all four matches for Metalist. • Leverkusen's overall home record against Ukrainian sides is W3 D2 L0. The last Ukrainian visitors to the BayArena in the UEFA Champions League were FC Dynamo Kyiv in December 2004 when a 3-0 home victory took Klaus Augenthaler's side into the round of 16 at their opponents' expense. • Leverkusen's matchday two win over Real Sociedad was their seventh in a row in home matches in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, including their 2011/12 and 2004/05 campaigns. • Shakhtar's aforementioned defeat at Dortmund in last season's UEFA Champions League round of 16 consigned them to a 5-2 aggregate reverse. They had led twice in the 2-2 first-leg draw – Darijo Srna and Douglas Costa scoring – but each time Dortmund came back to equalise. • Shakhtar's most recent victory on German soil came at VfB Stuttgart in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage, Fernandinho and Ciprian Marica earning a 2-0 win. Srna played that night with Tomáš Hübschman on the bench. The Ukrainian side's overall record in Germany is: W2 D1 L3. • Shakhtar's most memorable meeting with a Bundesliga side was their 2-1 defeat of SV Werder Bremen in the 2009 UEFA Cup final. Luiz Adriano hit the opening goal for a Shakhtar team also including Andriy Pyatov, Srna, Olexandr Kucher, Dmytro Chygrynskiy and Ilsinho. Sebastian Boenisch was in the Bremen side. Team ties • In the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League, Sami Hyypiä helped Liverpool FC beat Dynamo Kyiv home and away in the first group stage – winning 1-0 in England and 2-1 in Ukraine – and then faced a Galatasaray AŞ side coached by Mircea Lucescu in the second group stage. Lucescu's Galatasaray earned two draws, 0-0 at Anfield and 1-1 in Turkey, but still finished bottom of the group, with Liverpool advancing to the last eight where they lost to Leverkusen. • Lucescu's first meeting with German opposition came on 23 October 1974 when his FC Dinamo Bucureşti side were held 1-1 at home by 1. FC Köln en route to a 4-3 aggregate defeat in the 1974/75 UEFA Cup second round. As a coach he was in charge of the Romania team beaten 2-1 by West Germany at the 1984 UEFA European Championship. • Goalkeeper Andrés Palop scored a crucial goal against Shakhtar at their old RSC Olympiyskiy Stadium for his former club Sevilla FC in March 2007. His header four minutes into added time in the second leg of a UEFA Cup round of 16 tie made it 2-2 on the night – and 4-4 on aggregate – and Sevilla went on to win the tie in extra time. It remains Palop's only career goal and was a key moment in holders Sevilla retaining the UEFA Cup that season. • Derdiyok suffered at Shakhtar's hands with FC Basel 1893 in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League group stage, losing 2-1 at home and 5-0 in Donetsk. • Pyatov, Vyacheslav Shevchuk, Kucher and Taras Stepanenko were in the Ukraine team that won 3-1 at Boenisch's Poland in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier in March this year. • On 11 October Pyatov, Shevchuk, Stepanenko and Yaroslav Rakitskiy helped Ukraine to a 1-0 win against Poland in Kharkiv. • Boenisch's Poland were eliminated from UEFA EURO 2012 after a 1-0 loss to Hübschman's Czech Republic in the group stage. • Ömer Toprak was in the Turkey side eliminated by the Croatia of Srna and Eduardo in the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying play-offs. In June 2012, ahead of the EURO finals, he helped Turkey to a 2-0 friendly win over a Ukraine 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 23 October 2013 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen side including Pyatov, Shevchuk, Kucher and Rakitsky. • Robbie Kruse suffered a 6-0 defeat with Australia in a 7 September friendly against a Brazil side including Bernard and unused substitute Fernando. Three days later Son Heung-Min's South Korea succumbed 2-1 in a home friendly against Srna and Eduardo's Croatia. 4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 23 October 2013 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Match facts Leverkusen UEFA milestones and competition statistics • Jens Hegeler's added-time goal against Real Sociedad de Fútbol was Leverkusen's 100th in the UEFA Champions League. The midfielder had come on for his competition debut seven minutes earlier. General information • With seven wins in the first nine top-flight games, Leverkusen made their best start to a Bundesliga season. • Sidney Sam has scored ten goals in all competitions this season, double what he mustered in the whole of 2012/13. • Gonzalo Castro returned from four weeks out with a muscle problem as the Leverkusen players not on international duty beat second-tier Fortuna Düsseldorf 2-0 in a friendly on 10 October. • Coach Sami Hyypiä spent five days of the international break working with the England manager Roy Hodgson during preparations for the 4-1 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory over Montenegro at their St George's Park base. • A 2-0 loss at FC Schalke 04 on 31 August ended a club record run of eight consecutive Bundesliga wins. International duty • Six Leverkusen players were on senior duty during the international break: Sam (Germany), Robbie Kruse (Australia), Son Heung-Min (South Korea), Emir Spahić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Eren Derdiyok (Switzerland), Ömer Toprak (Turkey). Lars Bender was named in the Germany squad but pulled out with a thigh injury. • Spahić was captain as Bosnia and Herzegovina booked their first major tournament berth with a 1-0 victory away to Lithuania last Tuesday. • Son scored the decisive goal as South Korea beat Mali in a friendly last Tuesday. Shakhtar UEFA milestones and competition statistics • This is Shakhtar's fourth successive season in the group stage, a club record. General information • Darijo Srna converted two penalties as Shakhtar recovered from Taras Stepanenko's own goal to win 3-1 at FC Illychivets Mariupil. It took Srna's tally to four league goals this season, matching his best return set in 2008/09. • Shakhtar recorded their biggest win since June 2001 on 5 October, beating FC Arsenal Kyiv 7-0. Facundo Ferreyra scored his first hat-trick for the club. • The Pitmen have dropped ten points in the league this season, only one fewer than in the whole of 2012/13. • The Donetsk side have scored at least once in each of their last 31 games in all competitions. Shakhtar are 29 home games unbeaten in the Ukrainian top flight, winning 26. • Mircea Lucescu is Shakhtar's longest-serving coach, surpassing Oleh Oshenkov's previous mark of 3,416 days set between June 1960 and October 1969 on 23 September. The Arsenal win came in his 450th match in charge. • The Shakhtar players not on international duty travelled to Antalya, Turkey for a training camp and played a friendly with Romanian champions FC Steaua Bucureşti on 11 October. Douglas Costa, Alex Teixeira, Ferreyra and fit-again Wellington Nem (penalty) scored in a 4-1 win. • Wellington Nem was left out of Shakhtar's UEFA Champions League squad following knee surgery in August. • The €40m paid for Fernandinho to Manchester City FC was the highest transfer fee ever received by a Ukrainian club; Bernard, at €25m, is the most expensive signing by a Ukrainian side.