UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT AC Milan FC Zenit St Petersburg Group C - Matchday 6 Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Tuesday 4 December 2012 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................5 Head coach.......................................................................................................................7 Match officials....................................................................................................................8 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................9 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................13 Group Standings.............................................................................................................14 Competition facts.............................................................................................................16 Team facts.......................................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................19 AC Milan - FC Zenit St Petersburg Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/10/12 GS FC Zenit St Petersburg - AC Milan 2-3 St Petersburg Hulk 45+2, Shirokov 49; Emanuelson 13, El Shaarawy 16, Hubočan 75(og) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AC Milan 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 FC Zenit St Petersburg 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 AC Milan - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/02/03 2ndGS FC Lokomotiv Moskva - AC Milan 0-1 Moscow Rivaldo 34(p) 19/02/03 2ndGS AC Milan - FC Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Milan Tomasson 62 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 10/12/75 R3 FC Spartak Moskva - AC Milan 2-0 Sochi Papayev 60, Lovchev 84 agg: 2-4 26/11/75 R3 AC Milan - FC Spartak Moskva 4-0 Milan Calloni 19, 71, Bigon 48, Maldera 51 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/03/73 QF AC Milan - FC Spartak Moskva 1-1 Milan Bigon 2; Piskarev 7 agg: 2-1 07/03/73 QF FC Spartak Moskva - AC Milan 0-1 Sochi Benetti 62 FC Zenit St Petersburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/03/09 R16 FC Zenit St Petersburg - Udinese Calcio 1-0 St Petersburg Tymoshchuk 34 agg: 1-2 12/03/09 R16 Udinese Calcio - FC Zenit St Petersburg 2-0 Udine Quagliarella 85, Di Natale 88(p) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/11/08 GS FC Zenit St Petersburg - Juventus 0-0 St Petersburg 17/09/08 GS Juventus - FC Zenit St Petersburg 1-0 Turin Del Piero 76 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/09/99 R1 Bologna FC - FC Zenit St Petersburg 2-2 Bologna Fontolan 38, Cipriani 76; Panov 34, agg: 5-2 Kondrashov 89 16/09/99 R1 FC Zenit St Petersburg - Bologna FC 0-3 St Petersburg Ventola 39, Signori 68, 90 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 AC Milan 3 2 1 0 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 5 1 1 11 5 FC Zenit St Petersburg 4 1 1 2 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 7 1 2 4 5 11 Last updated 03/12/12 18:13:46CET 2 Previous meetings AC Milan - FC Zenit St Petersburg Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Match background Luciano Spalletti returns to Italy as his FC Zenit St Petersburg side visit AC Milan for their concluding Group C fixture looking to seal third place and entry into the UEFA Europa League. • Zenit are currently tied on four points with RSC Anderlecht, with whom they have an identical head-to-head record although Zenit hold the edge on goal difference, and they require a better result than the Belgian champions manage at Málaga CF to make sure of their progress. • By contrast, Milan – who inflicted Zenit's first European home defeat since 2008 when winning 3-2 in Russia in October – are already sure of second place and a fourth successive last-16 appearance. Match background • Milan are looking for their first home victory in Group C having posted two draws to date. Zenit have lost both away fixtures without scoring; their only UEFA Champions League victory on the road in eight attempts came at FC BATE Borisov during their 2008/09 debut campaign. • Zenit have never won in Italy, where they suffered two defeats in 2008/09. They fell 1-0 at Juventus in their first match in the UEFA Champions League in September 2008, then lost 2-0 at Udinese Calcio in the UEFA Cup round of 16 the following spring. • Vyacheslav Malafeev, Aleksandr Anyukov, Danny, Igor Denisov, Viktor Fayzulin, Roman Shirokov and Konstantin Zyryanov featured in one or both of those games. • The only time Zenit avoided defeat in Italy was in a 2-2 draw at Bologna FC in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup first round, but they still lost the tie 5-2 overall. • Milan last hosted Russian opponents in 2002/03 when beating FC Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 in that season's second group stage, en route to winning the trophy. Prior to that they twice faced FC Spartak Moskva at San Siro in the 1970s, earning a draw and a win. Team ties • Spalletti and his Milan counterpart Massimiliano Allegri both played, at different times, for amateur side UC Cuoiopelli. Both from Tuscany, they were born 80km apart, in Certaldo and Livorno respectively. • As coaches in Serie A, the pair crossed swords only in 2008/09. Spalletti's Roma beat Allegri's Cagliari Calcio 3-2 with a last-minute goal at the Stadio Olimpico and then came from two down to earn a 2-2 away draw. • Spalletti has a record of three wins from four Serie A visits to Milan with Roma. His overall record against the Rossoneri with Roma was W5 D2 L1. Philippe Mexès was with him throughout his four years in Rome. • With Udinese – where he was coach in 2001 and again from 2002 to 2005 – Spalletti's Serie A record against the Rossoneri was: W2 D2 L3. • Spalletti also coached Empoli FC, UC Sampdoria, AC Venezia and AC Ancona in Italy. • Domenico Criscito played for Genoa CFC and Juventus and was a team-mate of Marco Amelia and Stephan El Shaarawy at Genoa in 2009/10. • Criscito has played for Italy alongside Ignazio Abate, Riccardo Montolivo, Antonio Nocerino and Giampaolo Pazzini. • Shirokov (2) and Aleksandr Kerzhakov scored as Russia overcame Montolivo and Nocerino's Italy 3-0 in a Zurich friendly on 1 June. Denisov, Malafeev and Zyryanov also played for Russia. • Kerzhakov was a substitute in the Sevilla FC side beaten 3-1 by Milan in the 2007 UEFA Super Cup. • Aleksandar Luković spent four seasons with Udinese, including a loan spell at Ascoli Calcio. He played alongside Cristián Zapata in Udinese's 2008/09 tie against Zenit, appearing in the second leg. • Sergei Semak and Mario Yepes were team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain FC from 2005 to 2006. • Semak played in Russia's 1-0 reverse at Italy in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-off. With PFC CSKA Moskva he lost 3-2 at Parma FC in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup first round despite scoring twice and was in the FC Rubin Kazan team beaten 2-0 by FC Internazionale Milano in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League group stage. Last updated 03/12/12 18:13:46CET 3 Match background AC Milan - FC Zenit St Petersburg Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Match facts Milan UEFA Champions League statistics • Milan have scored 399 goals in the European Cup. • At 19 years and 342 days, Stephan El Shaarawy became Milan's youngest UEFA Champions League goalscorer when he struck against Zenit on matchday two. • Philippe Mexès serves a one-game ban after collecting his third yellow card of the group stage on matchday five; Daniele Bonera and Riccardo Montolivo will incur a suspension with their next bookings. Miscellaneous • Kevin-Prince Boateng scored (56) before being sent off (90) as Milan came from behind to beat Calcio Catania 3-1 on Friday. The home side were down to ten men for the last 41 minutes. • El Shaarawy struck twice, taking his tally to 18 goals in 21 games for club and country this season. • Of the 31 goals Milan have scored this season in all competitions, 22 have come after half-time. • Ignazio Abate (thigh) has not played since matchday four, while Bonera is out with a similar injury. • A Robinho penalty earned Milan a 1-0 win against Serie A leaders Juventus on 25 November; Montolivo captained the side for the first time. • The Rossoneri have lost four times in eight league games at San Siro this term. They only suffered two home reverses in each of the two previous Serie A campaigns. • Milan lost six of their first 14 Serie A fixtures, their worst start since suffering seven defeats from 13 in 1941/42. • El Shaarawy, who made his competitive debut for Italy last month, scored his first international goal in the Azzurri's 2-1 friendly defeat by France on 14 November. Zenit UEFA Champions League statistics • Zenit have only won one of their 11 away games in the UEFA Champions League, qualifying included. • Zenit's 1-0 success against RSC Anderlecht and FC Spartak Moskva's 2-1 triumph over SL Benfica made matchday three the first UEFA Champions League matchday on which two Russian clubs registered victories.