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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-0) AZ Stadion - Alkmaar Thursday 27 February 2014 AZ Alkmaar 21.05CET (21.05 local time) FC Slovan Liberec Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 07/10/2014 16:29CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 AZ Alkmaar - FC Slovan Liberec Thursday 27 February 2014 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit AZ Stadion, Alkmaar Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/02/2014 R32 FC Slovan Liberec - AZ Alkmaar 0-1 Liberec Viergever 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Steinsson 70, Jenner 29/11/2006 GS AZ Alkmaar - FC Slovan Liberec 2-2 Alkmaar 89; Zápotočný 26, Papoušek 85 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AZ Alkmaar 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 2 FC Slovan Liberec 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 3 AZ Alkmaar - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Jablonec nad Loučka 80; Benschop 04/08/2011 QR3 FK Jablonec - AZ Alkmaar agg: 1-3 Nisou 45 Wernbloom 64, 28/07/2011 QR3 AZ Alkmaar - FK Jablonec 2-0 Alkmaar Gudmundsson 88 FC Slovan Liberec - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Došek 80; Pacheco 23/07/2005 R3 FC Slovan Liberec - Roda JC Liberec agg: 1-1 ag Oliveira 38 16/07/2005 R3 Roda JC - FC Slovan Liberec 0-0 Kerkrade UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Cristiano 6; Hološko 24/07/2004 R3 Roda JC - FC Slovan Liberec Kerkrade agg 1-2 (aet) 108 ET 17/07/2004 R3 FC Slovan Liberec - Roda JC 1-0 Liberec Papoušek 19 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AZ Alkmaar 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 2 0 6 3 FC Slovan Liberec 3 1 1 1 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 4 1 5 5 2 AZ Alkmaar - FC Slovan Liberec Thursday 27 February 2014 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit AZ Stadion, Alkmaar Match background AZ Alkmaar will look to ensure coach Dick Advocaat has reason to remember his 100th UEFA club competition game as a coach fondly as FC Slovan Liberec return to Alkmaar. Previous meetings • Nick Viergiver pounced following a goalkeeping mistake in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League round of 32 tie to give AZ a 1-0 lead to take home; it was Liberec's first defeat against Dutch opposition. • The sides previously faced each other in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage, Louis van Gaal's AZ twice coming from behind to earn a 2-2 draw at home to Vitězslav Lavička's Liberec. • The teams for that fixture on 29 November 2006 were: AZ: Sinouh (Boulters 38), Opdam, De Cler, Gudjonsson, Schaars, Arveladze, Martens*, Dembélé (Lens 78), Koevermans (Jenner 59), Steinsson, Mendes. Liberec: Čech, Zápotočný, Bílek, Koštál, Parks (Pospěch 79), Janů, Šinglár, Frejlach, Papoušek (Dohnálek 89), Pudil, Blažek (Hodúr 89). *registered to play for the club in this season's competition Match background • AZ's four games against Czech sides to date have ended W2 D2 L0 (W1 D1 L0 at home). • Liberec's six games against Dutch sides have ended: W1 D4 L1 (W0 D3 L0 in the Netherlands). • AZ came through the group stage unbeaten (W3 D3) and have not lost at home since they went down 2-0 to Atromitos FC in the play-offs (W2 D1). • AZ have reached the round of 32 for the fifth time since the advent of the UEFA Cup group stage – they have progressed to the next phase on three occasions, beating TSV Alemannia Aachen in 2004/05, Fenerbahçe SK in 2006/07 and RSC Anderlecht in 2011/12. • Liberec failed to make it through to the round of 32 in their only previous group stage appearance, in 2006/07, but reached the last eight of the 2001/02 UEFA Cup, bowing out with a 4-0 aggregate loss to Borussia Dortmund. Team facts • Liberec have committed 142 fouls since the start of the group stage, 23 more than any other side. • This is Liberec's 14th European game of the season; their longest previous campaign was that ten-match journey to the 2001/02 UEFA Cup quarter-finals. Coach information • AZ dismissed Gertjan Verbeek ahead of matchday two. He had been in charge since 2010 and led the club to Dutch Cup success last season. • Dick Advocaat was named AZ coach on 16 October, returning to the club where he spent five months in charge at the end of 2009/10. Twice Netherlands coach, he won the 2007/08 UEFA Cup with FC Zenit, as well as national titles with PSV Eindhoven (1997/98), Rangers FC (1998/99, 1999/2000) and FC Zenit (2007). • This is Advocaat's 100th UEFA club competition game as a coach. • Advocaat is one of five coaches in the round of 32 to have led a side to victory in this competition before. FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk's Juande Ramos (Sevilla FC, 2006 & 2007), PAOK FC's Huub Stevens, who won it as a player (PSV, 1978) and coach (FC Schalke 04, 1997), FC Shakhtar Donetsk's Mircea Lucescu (Shakhtar, 2009) and SSC Napoli's Rafael Benítez (Valencia CF, 2004 & Chelsea FC, 2013) are the others. • Hired in June 2011, Jaroslav Šilhavý led Liberec to the Czech championship in his first season at the club. It was his first major title, with the coach having gained experience on the national team staff and by taking charge of SK Kladno, home-town club FC Viktoria Plzeň and Dynamo České Budějovice. As a defender he played a Czech record 465 league games for Plzeň, RH Cheb, SK Slavia Praha, FK Drnovice and FK Viktoria Žižkov. Shoot-out record • AZ's only UEFA penalty shoot-out to date ended in a 5-4 loss to FC Barcelona at Camp Nou in the 1977/78 UEFA Cup second round • Liberec's record in two UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W1 L1: lost 9-8 (home) v FC Dinamo Bucuresti, 2009/10 UEFA Europa League play-offs won 4-2 (home) v Ipswich Town FC, 2002/03 UEFA Cup second round Round of 16 • The winners of this tie will meet FC Anji Makhachkala or KRC Genk in the round of 16, playing the first leg at home. 3 AZ Alkmaar - FC Slovan Liberec Thursday 27 February 2014 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit AZ Stadion, Alkmaar • AZ have not faced Genk, but will remember Anji with a shudder. Under Dutchman Guus Hiddink, Anji eliminated AZ from last season's UEFA Europa League play-offs. AZ lost 1-0 in Moscow then 5-0 at home: Anji's biggest continental away win and AZ's heaviest European home defeat. • Liberec have yet to meet either side. 4 AZ Alkmaar - FC Slovan Liberec Thursday 27 February 2014 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit AZ Stadion, Alkmaar Team facts AZ Alkmaar Formed: 1967 Nickname: Kaaskoppen (Cheeseheads) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: (1981) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 2 (2009) Dutch Cup: 4 (2013) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2012/13: play-offs 2011/12: quarter-finals 2010/11: group stage 2009/10: UEFA Champions League group stage 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2007/08: group stage 2006/07: quarter-finals 2005/06: round of 32 2004/05: semi-finals 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA club competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 11-1: AZ v FC Differdange 03 14/09/77, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Biggest away win 0-5: FC Differdange 03 v AZ 27/09/77, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: AZ v FC Anji Makhachkala 30/08/12, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Valencia CF v AZ 05/04/12, UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 11-1: AZ v FC Differdange 03 (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: FC Differdange 03 v AZ (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-5: AZ v FC Anji Makhachkala (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Valencia v AZ (see above) FC Slovan Liberec Formed: 1958 Nickname: Modrobílí (Blue and Whites) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2004 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 3 (2012) Czech Cup: 1 (2000) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 5 AZ Alkmaar - FC Slovan Liberec Thursday 27 February 2014 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit AZ Stadion, Alkmaar 2012/13: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: play-offs 2008/09: second qualifying round 2007/08: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2006/07: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2005/06: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2004/05: UEFA Intertoto Cup finals 2003/04: UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-finals Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Liberec v MFK Dubnica 10/07/04, UEFA Intertoto Cup second round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3 (default): FC Dinamo Bucureşti v Liberec 20/08/09, UEFA Europa League play-off first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Liberec v FC Dinamo Bucureşti 27/08/09, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: SC Braga v Liberec 02/11/06, UEFA Cup group stage 4-0: Borussia Dortmund v Liberec 21/03/02, UEFA Cup quarter-finals second leg UEFA Cup/Europa League • Biggest home win 4-1: Liberec v Grasshopper Club 23/11/06, group stage 4-1: Liberec v Olympique Lyonnais 28/02/02, fourth round second leg 3-0: Liberec v RC Celta de Vigo 01/11/01, second round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3 (default): FC Dinamo Bucureşti v Liberec (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Liberec v FC Dinamo Bucureşti (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: SC Braga v Liberec (see above) 4-0: Borussia Dortmund v Liberec (see above for details) 6 AZ Alkmaar - FC Slovan Liberec Thursday 27 February 2014 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit AZ Stadion, Alkmaar Squad list AZ Alkmaar Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No.