Uefa Euro 2012 Match Press Kit
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UEFA EURO 2012 MATCH PRESS KIT Germany Portugal Group B - Matchday 1 Arena Lviv, Lviv Saturday 9 June 2012 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................5 Team facts.........................................................................................................................7 Squad list...........................................................................................................................9 Head coach.....................................................................................................................11 Match officials..................................................................................................................12 Competition facts.............................................................................................................13 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................15 UEFA information............................................................................................................16 Legend............................................................................................................................17 Germany v Portugal Saturday 9 June 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena Lviv, Lviv Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA EURO 2008 Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/06/08 QF Portugal - Germany 2-3 Basel Nuno Gomes 40, Hélder Postiga 87; Schweinsteiger 22, Klose 26, Ballack 61 FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 08/07/06 3rdPO Germany - Portugal 3-1 Stuttgart Schweinsteiger 56, 78, Petit 60(og); Nuno Gomes 88 UEFA EURO 2000 Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/06/00 GS-FT Portugal - Germany 3-0 Rotterdam Conceição 35, 54, 71 FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/09/97 QR (GS) Germany - Portugal 1-1 Berlin Kirsten 81; Barbosa 71 14/12/96 QR (GS) Portugal - Germany 0-0 Lisbon FIFA World Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/10/85 QR (GS) Germany - Portugal 0-1 Stuttgart Carlos Manuel 54 24/02/85 QR (GS) Portugal - Germany 1-2 Oeiras Diamantino 56; Littbarski 27, Völler 36 1984 UEFA European Championship Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 14/06/84 GS-FT Germany - Portugal 0-0 Strasbourg Qualifying Final tournament Total Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA EURO Germany - - - - - - - - 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 5 Portugal - - - - - - - - 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 5 3 FIFA* Germany 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 - - - - 5 2 2 1 6 4 Portugal 2 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 - - - - 5 1 2 2 4 6 Friendly matches Germany - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 5 2 1 15 7 Portugal - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 1 2 5 7 15 Total Germany 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 3 1 1 1 16 8 5 3 24 16 Portugal 2 0 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 16 3 5 8 16 24 * FIFA World Cup / FIFA Confederations Cup Last updated 14/06/12 17:45:26CET 2 Previous meetings Germany v Portugal Saturday 9 June 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena Lviv, Lviv Match background Germany are on a two-game winning streak against opening UEFA EURO 2012 opponents Portugal, but they will not expect to have it easy against the side who inflicted their heaviest EURO finals defeat. Head-to-head record • The teams are meeting for the 17th time. In their previous contests, Germany's record is W8 D5 L3. • Their three past UEFA European Championship matches produced a win each and a draw. Overall Germany hold a slight advantage in final tournament encounters, with two wins, one draw and one defeat. • The sides first met in a 27 February 1936 friendly in Lisbon, Germany winning 3-1. Portugal lost four of their first five meetings before breaking their duck against West Germany on 23 February 1983, with Dito securing a 1-0 success in Lisbon. • Portugal also played three games against East Germany before German reunification, winning two and losing the other. Selected previous meetings 19 June 2008: Portugal 2-3 Germany (Nuno Gomes 40, Hélder Postiga 87; Schweinsteiger 22, Klose 26, Ballack 61) – St. Jakob-Park, Basel, UEFA EURO 2008 quarter-finals Portugal: Ricardo, José Bosingwa, Pepe, Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira, João Moutinho (Raul Meireles 31), Petit (Hélder Postiga 73), Deco, Simão, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nuno Gomes (Nani 67). Germany: Lehmann, Friedrich, Mertesacker, Metzelder, Lahm, Hitzlsperger (Borowski 73), Rolfes, Schweinsteiger (Fritz 83), Ballack, Podolski, Klose (Jansen 89). • In their most recent encounter a Germany side led by Hans-Dieter Flick – in the absence of the suspended Joachim Löw – beat Luiz Felipe Scolari's Portugal en route to a 1-0 final defeat by Spain. 8 July 2006: Germany 3-1 Portugal (Schweinsteiger 56 78, Petit og 61; Nuno Gomes 88) – VfB Arena, Stuttgart, 2006 FIFA World Cup third-place play-off Germany: Kahn, Lahm, Nowotny, Metzelder, Jansen, Schneider, Kehl, Frings, Schweinsteiger (Hitzlsperger 79), Klose (Neuville 65), Podolski (Hanke 71). Portugal: Ricardo, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Costa, Fernando Meira, Nuno Valente (Nuno Gomes 69), Costinha (Petit 46), Maniche, Deco, Simão, Pauleta (Luís Figo 77), Cristiano Ronaldo. • Two years earlier, Jürgen Klinsmann's Germany had overcome Scolari's side to take the bronze medal at the FIFA World Cup finals on home soil. The 2006 fixture marked Luís Figo's 127th and last cap, Portugal's record appearance maker setting up Nuno Gomes' goal with his final touch in international football. 20 June 2000: Portugal 3-0 Germany (Sérgio Conceição 35 54 71) – De Kuip, Rotterdam, UEFA EURO 2000 group stage Portugal: Pedro Espinha (Quim 90), Beto, Fernando Couto, Jorge Costa, Rui Jorge, Sérgio Conceição, Costinha, Paulo Sousa (Vidigal 67), Capucho, Sá Pinto, Pauleta (Nuno Gomes 72). Germany: Kahn, Nowotny, Matthäus, Linke, Rehmer, Ballack (Rink 46), Scholl (Hässler 60), Hamann, Deisler, Jancker (Kirsten 69), Bode. • Sérgio Conceição's hat-trick meant that Humberto Coelho's Portugal eliminated Erich Ribbeck's Germany at the group stage. It remains Germany's worst ever result at a UEFA European Championship final tournament and left them bottom of the group. Portugal went on to lose 2-1 to France in the semi-finals. 14 June 1984: Germany 0-0 Portugal – La Meinau, Strasbourg, 1984 UEFA European Championship group stage West Germany: Schumacher, B Förster, Stielike, K Förster, Briegel, Rolff (Bommer 67), Buchwald (Matthäus 67), Rummenigge, Brehme, Völler, Allofs. Portugal: Bento, João Pinto, Lima Pereira, Eurico Gomes, Álvaro Magalhães, Carlos Manuel, António Sousa, Frasco (Veloso 79), Chalana, Jaime Pacheco, Rui Jordão (Fernando Gomes 85). • Jupp Derwall's West Germany and Fernando Cabrita's Portugal drew 0-0 in Strasbourg in their only other major finals meeting. It was Portugal's first game at a EURO final tournament. Form guide • Germany and Spain were the only teams to come through qualifying without dropping a point, though Germany played ten games to Spain's eight. Löw's side have not lost a competitive fixture since succumbing 1-0 against Spain in the 2010 World Cup semi-final. Last updated 14/06/12 17:45:26CET 3 Match background Germany v Portugal Saturday 9 June 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena Lviv, Lviv • Löw's side won the subsequent third-place play-off game 3-2 against Uruguay in Port Elizabeth, meaning they are now on a run of 11 straight competitive wins. • Portugal have scored 16 goals in their last five competitive outings – three wins, a draw and a defeat – including six in their most recent fixture, a 6-2 play-off win against Bosnia and Herzegovina. • Portugal's only previous game in Ukraine ended in a 2-1 World Cup qualifying defeat by the home side in Kyiv on 5 October 1996. • Germany have drawn all three of their previous matches in Ukraine: two World Cup games – 0-0 on 7 June 1997, 1-1 on 10 November 2002 – and a friendly on 11 November 2011, which finished 3-3. All three games were staged in Kyiv. Team ties • Portugal's Pepe, Fábio Coentrão and Cristiano Ronaldo play alongside Germany's Sami Khedira and Mesut Özil at Real Madrid CF. • All five players appeared as Madrid lost to FC Bayern München in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Coentrão featuring only in Bayern's 2-1 first-leg win in Germany. Manuel Neuer, Jérôme Boateng, Philipp Lahm, Holger Badstuber, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller and Mario Gomez played both games, Gomez scoring Bayern's first-leg winner. Ronaldo struck twice in the Madrid return but was denied by Neuer in the penalty shoot-ou; Kroos and Lahm also missed for Bayern, but Gomez scored and Schweinsteiger's kick sent them into the final. • Raul Meireles and Badstuber were suspended for Chelsea FC's penalty shoot-out win against Bayern in May's UEFA Champions League final in Munich; Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Müller and Gomez were all in the beaten Bayern team. • Ricardo Costa played in Germany for VfL Wolfsburg from 2007 to 2010 and was an unused substitute in FC Porto's 2004 UEFA Champions League final win against AS Monaco FC in Gelsenkirchen's Arena AufSchalke. • Hugo Almeida represented SV Werder Bremen from 2006 to 2010, winning the 2008/09 German Cup and but losing that year's UEFA Cup final against Ukrainian side