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AC Milan - FC Bayern München MATCH PRESS KIT Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Tuesday, 3 April 2007 - 20:45CET Quarter-Finals, First Leg - Matchday 9 AC Milan - FC Bayern München MATCH PRESS KIT Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Tuesday, 3 April 2007 - 20:45CET Quarter-finals, first leg - Matchday 9 Contents 1 - Match background 7 - UEFA information 2 - Match facts 8 - Match-by-match lineups 3 - Squad list 9 - Competition facts 4 - Head coach profiles 10 - Team facts 5 - Match officials 11 - Competition information 6 - Domestic information 12 - Legend Match background After ending an 18-year wait for a victory on Italian soil only last September, FC Bayern München have to repeat the trick when they visit the Giuseppe Meazza for a second time this term for their UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg against AC Milan. • Bayern had suffered six straight losses in Italy before Claudio Pizarro and Lukas Podolski secured a 2-0 win at FC Internazionale Milano in the group stage in September. Repeating the feat against Inter's neighbours is a daunting-looking challenge, however, given Milan have won 15 of their last 18 UEFA Champions League home fixtures – including a 4-1 triumph against Bayern in the first knockout round last season. • Milan won through to their sixth successive quarter-final thanks to a 1-0 aggregate victory against Celtic FC in the first knockout round. After a goalless draw in Glasgow, the Rossoneri finally broke down Celtic's resistance through a Kaká goal three minutes into extra time in the return. It was the Brazilian's sixth UEFA Champions League goal of 2006/07. • Bayern overcame Real Madrid CF in the first knockout round, advancing on the away goals rule after a 4-4 aggregate draw. Despite losing 3-2 at the Santiago Bernabéu, the goals scored there by Lucio and Mark van Bommel ultimately proved decisive after Bayern's 2-1 second-leg success. Roy Makaay opened the scoring in Munich with a first-minute goal - the fastest in UEFA Champions League history - and Lucio added a second after 66 minutes before Madrid's Ruud van Nistelrooy replied with a late penalty. • Milan have won three of their four UEFA Champions League home fixtures this term. In the group stage they defeated AEK Athens FC 3-0 and RSC Anderlecht 4-1 before losing 2-0 to LOSC Lille Métropole with qualification already assured. • Prior to losing in Madrid, Bayern were undefeated on their European travels this season. Besides beating Inter, they won 1-0 at Sporting Clube de Portugal and drew 2-2 at FC Spartak Moskva. • Bayern's overall record at Italian opposition is poor, with seven defeats and three victories from ten visits. On the positive side, they won the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League final in Milan, with a 5-4 success on penalties against Valencia CF after a 1-1 draw. Last updated 02.04.2007 11:08:38CET www.uefa.com Page 1 AC Milan - FC Bayern München MATCH PRESS KIT • Milan have an impressive record against German teams at San Siro with 12 wins and just two defeats from 15 encounters. All four previous home meetings with Bayern have produced victories – most recently, that 4-1 success in the last 16 on 8 March last year. Filippo Inzaghi (2), Andriy Shevchenko and Kaká were Milan's scorers on a night where Valérien Ismaël's goal provided no consolation for a Bayern side beaten 5-2 on aggregate. • Milan's subsequent semi-final loss to FC Barcelona meant that for the first time a victory against Bayern had failed to provide a stepping stone to European success. The Rossoneri defeated the German club in the semi-finals of both the 1967/68 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and 1989/90 European Champion Clubs' Cup and also both home and away in the first group stage of the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League. All three campaigns ended with silverware for Milan. • Bayern's only victory in eight attempts against their Italian rivals came in the second leg of the 1989/90 European Cup semi-final. They won 2-1 in Munich but were still eliminated on away goals having gone down 1-0 at San Siro. Milan veteran Paolo Maldini appeared in both of those games. • The Milan trio of Gennaro Gattuso, Alberto Gilardino and Andrea Pirlo last lined up against Bayern's Philipp Lahm, Podolski and Bastian Schweinsteiger in last year's FIFA World Cup semi-final between Germany and Italy in Dortmund, which the Azzurri won 2-0. • Van Bommel, suspended for the first leg of this tie, was in the PSV Eindhoven side beaten in the last four by Milan in 2005. • The second leg will be played on 11 April in Munich. The winners will go through to face either AS Roma or Manchester United FC in the semi-finals on 24/25 April and 1/2 May. Match facts Milan • Only Kaká has featured in all ten UEFA Champions League matches to date, including qualifying: Clarence Seedorf had appeared in the first eight games but missed the first leg against Celtic, although he did return for the return. Marek Jankulovski, meanwhile, played in all six Group H games and both legs against Celtic. • Paolo Maldini made his 100th UEFA Champions League appearance in the first leg with Celtic in Glasgow. Raúl González, Roberto Carlos, David Beckham and Bayern's Oliver Kahn have already reached that landmark, the latter bringing up his century on Matchday 6. The record relates to 'group stage to final' matches played since the 1992/93 start of the UEFA Champions League. • Cafu, meanwhile, made his 50th appearance in the competition away to Lille on Matchday 2, the eleventh Milan player to achieve that feat. The full-back has since taken his total to 52 games. • Maldini also leads the way in terms of UEFA club competition appearances having played 164 times. Alessandro Costacurta (121 appearances) and Seedorf (119) have also passed the century mark while Kakha Kaladze and Alessandro Nesta are on 92 and 91 appearances respectively. • Filippo Inzaghi is Milan's top scorer both in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA club competition overall with 35 goals in the former and 55 in total. Kaká is next with 17 goals, all of which have come in the UEFA Champions League while new signing Ronaldo - who is ineligible - has 14 UEFA Champions League goals and 37 in UEFA club matches. Last updated 02.04.2007 11:08:38 CET www.uefa.com Page 2 AC Milan - FC Bayern München MATCH PRESS KIT • Yoann Gourcuff made his debut in the UEFA Champions League group stage on Matchday 1 and marked the occasion with the second goal against AEK Athens FC. It was the former Stade Rennais FC midfielder's seventh European appearance and his first goal, although he had to wait for the Matchday 4 meeting with Anderlecht to make his second appearance. • Daniele Bonera made a less successful UEFA Champions League debut on Matchday 3 at Anderlecht as he was sent off for a second bookable offence early in the second half. • Andrea Pirlo made his 75th appearance in UEFA club competition in the first leg against Celtic. • Kaká is the joint leading scorer in this season's UEFA Champions League after the first knockout round; Ruud van Nistelrooy also has six goals to his name but is no longer involved. • Alberto Gilardino's goal on Matchday 4 was his first in the competition in his ninth appearance. • Kaká has had 16 shots on goal so far, the most in the competition. Inzaghi has managed eleven attempts. • Kaká has had 12 shots wide after eight games, two fewer than Thierry Henry who has had the most but is no longer involved. Seedorf has had eleven shots miss the target. • Inzaghi has been caught offside ten times in the first eight games, with Mohamed Tchite, who is no longer involved, and Francesco Totti having been penalised on 17 occasions. • Gennaro Gattuso has committed 15 fouls after Matchday 8, nine fewer than the most penalised players in the competition, Brandão, who is no longer involved, and Michael Ballack. The Milan midfielder has also been impeded on 14 occasions, two fewer than Gourcuff and four behind Kaká. • Milan have had a total of 120 shots so far, the most of the eight teams left in the competition. • Milan have had 66 shots wide and are the most prolific of the quarter-finalists in terms of missing the target. In addition, no terms has managed more shots on goal than Milan's total of 54. • Only Chelsea FC, with 141, have committed more fouls than Milan's total of 132 - which is the same as Bayern. • The Italian side won 56 corners in the first eight matches, the most of the teams in the last eight. • Milan have conceded only four goals to date, with AS Roma the lowest total in the quarter-finals. • Only PSV Eindhoven, with eight, have scored fewer goals than Milan's total of nine. • Gilardino and Maldini both picked up their second yellow cards of the competition in the first leg against Celtic, meaning they each face a one-match suspension if booked again. • Milan's first eight games have yielded just 13 goals - nine for and four against - fewer than any other team in the quarter-finals. • Pirlo and Gattuso were both part of an all-star Europe XI that took on Manchester United FC in the UEFA celebration match on Tuesday 13 March at Old Trafford, Manchester. • Nesta celebrated his 31st birthday on 19 March while Seedorf reached the same mark on 1 April. Kaká will turn 25 on 22 April and Costacurta will be 41 two days later.
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