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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS BayArena - Leverkusen Wednesday 7 December 2016 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Bayer 04 Leverkusen Group E - Matchday 6 AS Monaco FC UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Squad list 7 Head coach 9 Match officials 10 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Competition facts 17 Team facts 18 Legend 21 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 7 December 2016 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - Bayer 04 Glik 90+4; Hernández 27/09/2016 GS 1-1 Monaco Leverkusen 74 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AS 26/11/2014 GS 0-1 Leverkusen Ocampos 72 Monaco FC AS Monaco FC - Bayer 04 16/09/2014 GS 1-0 Monaco João Moutinho 61 Leverkusen UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AS Beinlich 29, Meijer 57; 10/12/1997 GS 2-2 Leverkusen Monaco FC Pignol 63, Henry 81 AS Monaco FC - Bayer 04 Henry 30, 83, Ikpeba 01/10/1997 GS 4-0 Monaco Leverkusen 72, 90 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 0 1 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 3 3 9 AS Monaco FC 3 2 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 2 0 9 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Paris Saint-Germain - Bayer 04 2-1 Marquinhos 13, 12/03/2014 R16 Paris Leverkusen agg: 6-1 Lavezzi 53; Sam 6 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Paris Matuidi 3, Ibrahimović 18/02/2014 R16 0-4 Leverkusen Saint-Germain 39 (P), 42, Cabaye 88 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Toulouse 25/10/2007 GS 1-0 Leverkusen Kiessling 35 FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Voronin 36, Barbarez 14/03/2007 R16 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - RC Lens Leverkusen agg: 4-2 56, Juan 70 Monterrubio 16, 08/03/2007 R16 RC Lens - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-1 Lens Cousin 69 (P); Haggui 51 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 7 December 2016 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sebescen 45+2, Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Berbatov 52; Carrière 31/10/2001 GS1 2-4 Leverkusen Olympique Lyonnais 32, 38, Née 64, Govou 81 Olympique Lyonnais - Bayer 04 18/09/2001 GS1 0-1 Lyon Kirsten 75 Leverkusen UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Nantes - Bayer 04 0-0 14/03/1995 QF Nantes Leverkusen agg: 1-5 Lehnhoff 9, Kirsten Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC 28/02/1995 QF 5-1 Leverkusen 18, 88, Paulo Sérgio Nantes 79, 85; Ouédec 63 (P) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Toulouse 1-0 04/11/1987 R2 Leverkusen Schreier 80 FC agg: 2-1 Toulouse FC - Bayer 04 Tarantini 68 (P); 21/10/1987 R2 1-1 Toulouse Leverkusen Schreier 33 AS Monaco FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Adebayor 44, Meriem 24/11/2005 GS AS Monaco FC - Hamburger SV 2-0 Monaco 47 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-2 Ikpeba 62, Benarbia 03/12/1996 R3 Hamburger SV - AS Monaco FC Hamburg agg: 0-5 89 (P) Anderson 49, Ikpeba 19/11/1996 R3 AS Monaco FC - Hamburger SV 3-0 Monaco 70, Blondeau 76 AS Monaco FC - VfL Borussia 0-1 29/10/1996 R2 Monaco Klinkert 69 Mönchengladbach agg: 4-3 Hochstätter 57, Patrik VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - Andersson 72; Collins 15/10/1996 R2 2-4 Cologne AS Monaco FC 12, Ikpeba 58, 89, Henry 77 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - SV Werder 06/05/1992 F 0-2 Lisbon K. Allofs 40, Rufer 55 Bremen 3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 7 December 2016 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Berliner FC Dynamo - AS 1-1 Küttner 110 ET; Díaz 01/11/1989 R2 Berlin Monaco FC agg: 1-1 ag (aet) 118 ET AS Monaco FC - Berliner FC 17/10/1989 R2 0-0 Monaco Dynamo UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Onnis 49, Petit 51; AS Monaco FC - Eintracht 2-2 02/10/1974 R1 Monaco Beverungen 4, Nickel Frankfurt agg: 2-5 7 Eintracht Frankfurt - AS Monaco Frankfurt am Hölzenbein 8, 57, 17/09/1974 R1 3-0 FC Main Rohrbach 26 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Bayer 04 Leverkusen 8 4 1 3 8 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 16 5 4 7 19 23 AS Monaco FC 8 4 3 1 6 3 2 1 1 0 0 1 15 7 5 3 23 14 4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 7 December 2016 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Match background Both AS Monaco FC and Bayer 04 Leverkusen are safe in the knowledge that they are guaranteed first and second place respectively in Group F so they can approach their matchday six encounter relatively free of pressure. • On matchday two the German team were leading 1-0 in France through Javier Hernández's strike before Kamil Glik saved a point for Monaco with a 94th-minute equaliser. • Monaco secured first place with a 2-1 home win against Tottenham Hotspur FC on matchday five, while Leverkusen drew 1-1 at CSKA Moskva. Previous meetings • Monaco are unbeaten in five previous matches against Leverkusen (W3 D2). • They earned 1-0 home and away victories over Leverkusen in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League group stage, when both teams qualified for the knockout stage. Lucas Ocampo scored the winner at the BayArena and João Moutinho made the difference at the Stade Louis II. • The line-ups in Germany on 26 November 2014 were: Leverkusen: Leno, Donati, Toprak, Spahić, Bender (Rolfes 76), Castro, Bellarabi (Brandt 77), Çalhanoğlu, Wendell, Son (Drmić 59), Kiessling. Monaco: Subašić, Abdennour, Carvalho, Raggi, Bakayoko, Dirar (Fabinho 83), Toulalan, Moutinho, Carrasco (Ocampos 70), Elderson, Berbatov (Traoré 90). • The clubs first met in the 1997/98 group stage and ended level on points at the top of their section. Monaco won the head-to-head duel, winning 4-0 at home – Thierry Henry and Victor Ikpeba both scoring twice – and coming from two goals down to draw 2-2 away, with Henry hitting the equaliser. Match background Leverkusen • Third in last season's Bundesliga, Leverkusen conceded a 2-0 lead at home to CSKA on matchday one and had to settle for a 2-2 draw. On matchday three they drew 0-0 with Tottenham at home and won 1-0 away in the return. • Roger Schmidt's men were eliminated in the group stage last term and went on to reach the UEFA Europa League round of 16 before losing 2-0 on aggregate to Villarreal CF. • Leverkusen are unbeaten at home in UEFA competition since that 2014 defeat by Monaco. Their European record at the BayArena since then is P9 W4 D5. • That reverse was one of three victories inflicted on Leverkusen by French visitors. The Germans have won four of the eight encounters with the other one drawn. Overall their record against Ligue 1 opposition is W5 D4 L7. • Their last encounter with French opposition before this season brought a 6-1 aggregate defeat by Paris Saint- Germain in the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (0-4 home, 1-2 away). Monaco • The French side got their seventh group stage campaign off to a great start with a 2-1 win at Tottenham. In the double-header with CSKA they drew 1-1 away and then won 3-0 at home. • They are unbeaten on their last five visits to Germany (W3 D2). • Monaco, returning to the UEFA Champions League after a season's absence, came through two qualifying rounds to reach the group stage, beating Fenerbahçe SK (4-3 on aggregate) and Villarreal CF (3-1 agg). • On their last group stage participation, in 2014/15, they reached the quarter-finals, going out to eventual runners-up Juventus 1-0 on aggregate. Apart from the game at Leverkusen they also won at Arsenal FC, drawing at FC Zenit and losing at SL Benfica and Juventus. • Monaco lost the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup final 2-0 against SV Werder Bremen in Lisbon. Coach and player links • As coach of Olympiacos FC, Leonardo Jardim lost home (1-2) and away (0-1) against FC Schalke 04 in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Admir Mehmedi scored for Switzerland in a 2-0 win over Moutinho's Portugal in their opening 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 6 September. • Mehmedi was on the losing Swiss side against Kamil Glik's Poland in the UEFA EURO 2016 round of 16, with Glik converting a penalty in the deciding shoot-out. • Other players who met at UEFA EURO 2016 were: 5 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 7 December 2016 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit BayArena, Leverkusen Danijel Subašić & Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Croatia 1-0 Turkey) João Moutinho & Julian Baumgartlinger (Portugal 0-0 Austria) • Morgan De Sanctis played at Leverkusen for Udinese Calcio in a 2-1 win in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup third round, albeit losing the tie on away goals (2-2 agg).