Uefa Europa League 2012/13 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT VfB Stuttgart S.S. Lazio Matchday 9 - round of 16, first leg VfB Arena, Stuttgart Thursday 7 March 2013 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Team facts.........................................................................................................................6 Squad list...........................................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................11 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................15 Match officials..................................................................................................................19 Legend............................................................................................................................20 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html VfB Stuttgart - S.S. Lazio Thursday 7 March 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT VfB Arena, Stuttgart Previous meetings Head to Head None VfB Stuttgart - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/11/08 GS UC Sampdoria - VfB Stuttgart 1-1 Genoa Sammarco 39; Marica 8 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/02/05 R32 VfB Stuttgart - Parma FC 0-2 Stuttgart Marchionni 100 ET, Pisanu 116 ET agg: 0-2 (aet) 16/02/05 R32 Parma FC - VfB Stuttgart 0-0 Parma UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/07/02 R3 AC Perugia - VfB Stuttgart 2-1 Bolzano Miccoli 73, Berrettoni 90; I Ganea 52 agg: 3-4 20/07/02 R3 VfB Stuttgart - AC Perugia 3-1 Stuttgart Bordon 66, I Ganea 71, Seitz 90+1; Miccoli 14 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 17/05/89 F VfB Stuttgart - SSC Napoli 3-3 Stuttgart Klinsmann 25, Gaudino 68, Schmäler agg: 4-5 89; Alemão 18, Ferrara 39, Careca 61 03/05/89 F SSC Napoli - VfB Stuttgart 2-1 Naples Maradona 67, Careca 88; Gaudino 17 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/10/79 R1 Torino FC - VfB Stuttgart 2-1 Turin Sala 65, Graziani 104 ET; Klotz 120 ET agg: 2-2 ag (aet) 19/09/79 R1 VfB Stuttgart - Torino FC 1-0 Stuttgart Kelsch 70 S.S. Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/02/13 R32 S.S. Lazio - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Rome Candreva 10, González 33 agg: 5-3 14/02/13 R32 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - S.S. Lazio 3-3 Monchengladbach Stranzl 17(p), Marx 84(p), Arango 88; Floccari 57, Kozák 64, 90+4 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/07 GS S.S. Lazio - SV Werder Bremen 2-1 Rome Rocchi 57, 68; Diego 88(p) 24/10/07 GS SV Werder Bremen - S.S. Lazio 2-1 Bremen Sanogo 28, Hugo Almeida 54; Manfredini 82 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/10/99 GS S.S. Lazio - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-1 Rome Nedvěd 1; Kirsten 44 14/09/99 GS Bayer 04 Leverkusen - S.S. Lazio 1-1 Leverkusen Neuville 14; Mihajlović 18 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 14/03/95 QF Borussia Dortmund - S.S. Lazio 2-0 Dortmund Chapuisat 11(p), Riedle 90 agg: 2-1 28/02/95 QF S.S. Lazio - Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Rome Freund 67(og) Last updated 05/03/13 12:39:27CET 2 Previous meetings VfB Stuttgart - S.S. Lazio Thursday 7 March 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT VfB Arena, Stuttgart 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 VfB Stuttgart 3 2 0 1 4 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 9 2 3 4 11 13 S.S. Lazio 4 3 1 0 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 8 3 3 2 11 10 Last updated 05/03/13 12:39:27CET 3 Previous meetings VfB Stuttgart - S.S. Lazio Thursday 7 March 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT VfB Arena, Stuttgart Match background VfB Stuttgart will look to overcome their shyness at home in the UEFA Europa League as they take on S.S. Lazio, who feature a famous German striker in the shape of Miroslav Klose. Previous meetings • The sides are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition. Stuttgart's record in nine games against Italian sides is W2 D3 L4 (W2 D1 L1 at home). Those matches include the two-legged final of the 1988/89 UEFA Cup, which they lost 5-4 on aggregate to SSC Napoli. • Stuttgart have not won in their last four games against Serie A opponents since a 3-1 home win against AC Perugia in the 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup. • Stuttgart also lost 1-0 to Napoli in the first round of the 1969/70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup – the non-UEFA affiliated precursor to the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. • Lazio's record in eight games against German clubs is W3 D3 L2 (W0 D2 L2 in Germany). They have yet to win in Germany or lose to Bundesliga opponents in Rome. • Lazio did eliminate another German side, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, in the round of 32, winning 2-0 at home after a 3-3 draw in Germany. Match background • Stuttgart have not won a UEFA Europa League home game (D3 L1) since the play-offs, but have won three of their four games on the road. They have scored three goals at the VfB Arena in that period and nine away. • Prior to their round of 32 success against KRC Genk, Stuttgart had not won a two-legged springtime European tie in eight attempts since losing the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final. • Stuttgart have not featured in the last 16 since the advent of the UEFA Cup group stage in 2004/05. Their last appearance at this stage of a UEFA competition came in 2009/10, when they lost out to FC Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League round of 16. • Lazio are unbeaten in ten European games this season (W6 D4). In their five European home games this season (W4 D1) they have conceded just once and have kept four successive clean sheets at the Stadio Olimpico. • Lazio most recently reached the last 16 of a major European tournament in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup, beating Wisła Kraków en route to a semi-final defeat against FC Porto. Team facts • Lazio boast German talent in the form of Klose; Stuttgart defender Georg Niedermeier played in the reserve team at FC Bayern München while Klose (2004-07) was starring for the first XI. • Stuttgart's Italian left-back Cristian Molinaro played for Salernitana Sport (2002-05), AC Siena (2005-07) and Juventus (2007-09) before moving to Germany: he and Lazio's Abdoulay Konko played together at Siena (2006-07). • On loan from Manchester United FC, Stuttgart forward Federico Macheda was born in Rome and briefly played in Serie A on loan at UC Sampdoria in 2010/11: that spell included a 20-minute cameo in a 1-0 league defeat at Lazio. • Lazio defender André Dias celebrates his 34th birthday on the day of the UEFA Europa League final – 15 May. • Libor Kozák is level with FC Internazionale Milano's Rodrigo Palacio and Raúl Bobadilla – who moved to FC Basel 1893 in January after scoring five in the group stage for BSC Young Boys – in second place in this season's UEFA Europa League scorers rankings, with five goals each. SSC Napoli's Edinson Cavani tops the table with seven. • Goalkeeper Sven Ulreich is the only player to have featured in every minute of Stuttgart's eight games since the start of the group stage – 720 minutes in total. • Stuttgart defender Thomas Geyer celebrates his 22nd birthday on the eve of this tie. • Stuttgart have been losing finalists in major UEFA competitions twice: they lost to Napoli in the 1988/89 UEFA Cup final and Chelsea FC in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. • Lazio's biggest success in this competition came when they reached the 1998 UEFA Cup final, where they lost 3-0 to Serie A rivals Inter in Paris. • Stuttgart coach Bruno Labbadia played up front for some of Germany's top clubs – Hamburger SV, FC Bayern München and SV Werder Bremen among others – and is the only player to have scored more than 100 goals in both Last updated 05/03/13 12:39:27CET 4 Match background VfB Stuttgart - S.S. Lazio Thursday 7 March 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT VfB Arena, Stuttgart of Germany's top divisions. Since starting his coaching career at hometown side SV Darmstadt 98, he has been in charge at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Hamburg, taking over at Stuttgart in 2010. • Lazio's coach since June has been Vladimir Petković, who won a Yugoslavian title as a midfielder with hometown club FK Sarajevo in 1984/85 before moving to Switzerland, where he played at a lower level and coached AC Bellinzona, BSC Young Boys and FC Sion, as well as moving to Turkey to take charge of Samsunspor. Last updated 05/03/13 12:39:27CET 5 Match background VfB Stuttgart - S.S. Lazio Thursday 7 March 2013 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT VfB Arena, Stuttgart Team facts VfB Stuttgart Formed: 1893 Nicknames: Die Roten (The Reds), Die Schwaben (Swabians) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: (1989) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: (1998) • UEFA Intertoto Cup (3): 2000, 2002, 2008 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 5 (2007) German Cup: 3 (1997) Ten-year