UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Shakhtar Donetsk Chelsea FC Group E - Matchday 3 Donbass Arena, Donetsk Tuesday 23 October 2012 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................5 Head coach.......................................................................................................................7 Match officials....................................................................................................................8 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................13 Group Standings.............................................................................................................14 Competition facts.............................................................................................................16 Team facts.......................................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................19 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Chelsea FC Tuesday 23 October 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Donbass Arena, Donetsk Previous meetings Head to Head None FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/11/10 GS FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Arsenal FC 2-1 Donetsk Chygrynskiy 28, Eduardo 45; Walcott 10 19/10/10 GS Arsenal FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 5-1 London Song 19, Nasri 42, Fàbregas 60(p), Wilshere 66, Chamakh 69; Eduardo 82 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/02/10 R32 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Fulham FC 1-1 Donetsk Jadson 69; Hangeland 33 agg: 2-3 18/02/10 R32 Fulham FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 London Gera 3, Zamora 63; Luiz Adriano 32 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/02/09 R32 Tottenham Hotspur FC - 1-1 London Dos Santos 55; Fernandinho 86 FC Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 1-3 19/02/09 R32 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - 2-0 Donetsk Seleznyov 79, Jadson 88 Tottenham Hotspur FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/11/00 GS FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Arsenal FC 3-0 Donetsk Atelkin 34, Vorobey 57, Bielik 66 20/09/00 GS Arsenal FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 London Wiltord 45(p), Keown 85, 90; Bakharev 26, Vorobey 29 Chelsea FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None 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 Shakhtar Donetsk 4 3 1 0 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 8 3 2 3 13 13 Chelsea FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Last updated 21/10/12 21:19:58CET 2 Previous meetings FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Chelsea FC Tuesday 23 October 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match background An emphatic away victory on matchday two has put UEFA Champions League holders Chelsea FC in pole position in Group E and they now travel to Ukraine for a first meeting with FC Shakhtar Donetsk. • The Blues' 4-0 win at FC Nordsjælland followed an opening 2-2 draw at home to Juventus. Shakhtar had seized the early initiative in the section with a 2-0 home defeat of the Danish debutants and followed up with a 1-1 draw at Juventus. Match background • These are the first opponents from Ukraine Chelsea have met but this is the fourth time in five seasons Shakhtar have faced an English side. Most recently they beat Arsenal FC 2-1 at home in the 2010/11 group stage thanks to goals from Dmytro Chygrynskiy and Eduardo, having gone down 5-1 in London. • In 2008/09 Shakhtar overcame Tottenham Hotspur FC 2-0 in Donetsk in the UEFA Cup round of 32 for a 3-1 aggregate success en route to lifting the trophy. A year later their title defence was ended by a 1-1 home draw against Fulham FC at the same stage after a 2-1 first-leg loss in London. • Shakhtar have won three of their four home games against English opposition, starting with a 3-0 victory over an Arsenal side including Ashley Cole in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League first group stage. • The victory over Nordsjælland ended a run of four home European games without a win for Shakhtar. In Donetsk last season they drew with APOEL FC (1-1) and FC Zenit St Petersburg (2-2) before a 2-0 defeat by FC Porto ensured they finished bottom of the group. • Chelsea have lost only two of their last 11 away group games, winning five, though they failed to record a victory on their travels in last year's group stage, drawing 1-1 at Valencia CF and KRC Genk before going down 2-1 at Bayer 04 Leverkusen. • Chelsea are unbeaten in 27 group stage fixtures at Stamford Bridge. Their last defeat came on 1 October 2003 when Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu guided Beşiktaş JK to a 2-0 win. Team ties • Tomáš Hübschman was part of the AC Sparta Praha team that lost 1-0 at home to Chelsea before drawing 0-0 away in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Petr Čech and Hübschman are team-mates for the Czech Republic and played together at Sparta in 2001/02. • In his three-year spell with Arsenal FC between 2007 and 2010, Eduardo only once faced Chelsea, losing 3-0 at home in the Premier League on 29 November 2009. • On 9 September 2009 Eduardo scored in Croatia's 5-1 defeat by England in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier at Wembley. Frank Lampard struck twice for the home team. • Lampard was on target again at Wembley on 11 September, beating Andriy Pyatov from the penalty spot to earn England a 1-1 draw against Ukraine in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup. Yaroslav Rakitskiy played the whole match with Marko Dević and Vyacheslav Shevchuk coming on. Daniel Sturridge and Ryan Bertrand made substitute appearances for England on their competitive senior international debuts. • Pyatov, Rakitskiy and Dević all started the 1-0 group stage loss to England in Donetsk that eliminated co-hosts Ukraine from UEFA EURO 2012 on 19 June. Shevchuk and Olexandr Kucher were unused substitutes while Cole and John Terry played 90 minutes for England. • Last year Oscar played alongside Ilsinho for SC Internacional. • David Luiz helped SL Benfica to a 2-1 win against Shakhtar in Donetsk in the 2007/08 group stage. • Fernandinho and Willian play with David Luiz, Ramires and Oscar in the Brazilian national team. FARE Action Week • Matchday three of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League will contribute to the fight against all forms of discrimination in football stadiums as UEFA gives its full support to Europe's biggest anti-discrimination campaign – the FARE Action Week. Forty matches across the competitions on 23, 24 and 25 October will reinstate UEFA's commitment to ensuring that European football is free of racism, intolerance and xenophobia. Last updated 21/10/12 21:19:58CET 3 Match background FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Chelsea FC Tuesday 23 October 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match facts Shakhtar UEFA Champions League statistics • Matchday one ended Shakhtar's four-game winless run in the UEFA Champions League at the Donbass Arena. The Pitmen had lost two and drawn two since their 3-0 round of 16 triumph over AS Roma in March 2011. • Shakhtar have scored 248 goals in UEFA competition. International duty • Seven Shakhtar players were on senior duty during the international break: Andriy Pyatov, Olexandr Kucher (Ukraine), Tomáš Hübschman (Czech Republic), Darijo Srna, Eduardo (Croatia), Henrik Mkhitaryan (Armenia) and Răzvan Raţ (Romania). • Mkhitaryan scored Armenia's goal in a 3-1 FIFA World Cup qualifying defeat by Italy on 12 October. • Eduardo was on target in Croatia's 2-0 home win against Wales on 16 October. • Pyatov saved a penalty but could not avoid defeat as a Ukraine side also including Kucher went down 1-0 at home to Montenegro on 16 October. Pyatov had kept a clean sheet four days earlier in a 0-0 draw in Moldova. Miscellaneous • Mircea Lucescu side's beat FC Illychivets Mariupil 2-1 on Friday, their 21st successive top-flight victory – a Ukrainian Premier League record. They are the first team to win the first 12 games of a Ukrainian top-flight season and their run of scoring in each of their last 31 league matches is also a national record. • Mkhitaryan has scored 14 goals in 12 league games this term; already his best ever return for a season. • Shakhtar beat FC Dynamo Kyiv 4-1 in the Ukrainian Cup on 23 September, with Dynamo coach Yuri Semin sacked the following day. The Donetsk outfit will travel to FC Hoverla Uzhgorod in the last 16 on 31 October. • Shakhtar signed 24-year-old striker Maicon Oliveira, last season's 14-goal joint highest Premier League scorer, from FC Volyn Lutsk during the summer and loaned him to FC Zorya Luhansk. Chelsea UEFA Champions League statistics • Chelsea's 4-0 victory at FC Nordsjælland on matchday two was the fifth time the Blues have scored four or more goals in an away UEFA Champions League