UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Olympiacos FC FC Schalke 04 Group B - Matchday 1 Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Tuesday 18 September 2012 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Head coach.......................................................................................................................8 Match officials....................................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................12 Group Standings.............................................................................................................13 Competition facts.............................................................................................................15 Team facts.......................................................................................................................16 Legend............................................................................................................................18 Olympiacos FC - FC Schalke 04 Tuesday 18 September 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Previous meetings Head to Head None Olympiacos FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/11 GS Borussia Dortmund - Olympiacos FC 1-0 Dortmund Grosskreutz 7 19/10/11 GS Olympiacos FC - Borussia Dortmund 3-1 Piraeus Holebas 8, Djebbour 40, Modesto 78; Lewandowski 26 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/12/08 GS Olympiacos FC - Hertha BSC Berlin 4-0 Piraeus Dudu 55, Galletti 68(p), Torossidis 87, Diogo 88 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 11/12/07 GS Olympiacos FC - SV Werder Bremen 3-0 Piraeus Stoltidis 12, 74, Kovačević 70 03/10/07 GS SV Werder Bremen - Olympiacos FC 1-3 Bremen Hugo Almeida 32; Stoltidis 73, Patsatzoglou 82, Kovačević 87 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/10/02 GS Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Olympiacos FC 2-0 Leverkusen Juan 14, Schneider 90(p) 18/09/02 GS Olympiacos FC - Bayer 04 Leverkusen 6-2 Athens Kleine 27(og), Giannakopoulos 38, P. Djordjević 44, 64(p), 73, Zetterberg 87; Eleftheropoulos 22(og), Schneider 78(p) European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/11/82 R2 Olympiacos FC - Hamburger SV 0-4 Athens Magath 26, Hrubesch 50, Rolff 53, agg: 0-5 Bastrup 85 20/10/82 R2 Hamburger SV - Olympiacos FC 1-0 Hamburg Von Heesen 70 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/10/80 R1 FC Bayern München - Olympiacos FC 3-0 Munich Hoeness 2, Rummenigge 7, Janzon agg: 7-2 65(p) 17/09/80 R1 Olympiacos FC - FC Bayern München 2-4 Piraeus Galakos 26, Ahlström 83; Dremmler 23, 63, Rummenigge 57, Kraus 67 FC Schalke 04 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/10/01 GS Panathinaikos FC - FC Schalke 04 2-0 Athens Olisadebe 31, Konstantinou 60 11/09/01 GS FC Schalke 04 - Panathinaikos FC 0-2 Gelsenkirchen Vlaović 75, Basinas 80 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 Olympiacos FC 6 4 0 2 5 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 11 5 0 6 21 19 FC Schalke 04 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 4 Last updated 17/09/12 23:59:25CET 2 Previous meetings Olympiacos FC - FC Schalke 04 Tuesday 18 September 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Match background FC Schalke 04's last UEFA Champions League foray took them all the way to the semi-finals and they will be dreaming of reaching those heights again when they kick off a new campaign with an away game against Olympiacos FC. • Schalke lost out to Manchester United FC in the 2010/11 last four and will be eager to make a positive start in Piraeus. Previous meetings • This is the second successive season in which Olympiacos have faced German opposition in the group stage; 12 months ago they beat Borussia Dortmund 3-1 at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on matchday three. • The Greek club have enjoyed some remarkable home games against German teams, including a 6-2 victory over Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League first group stage and a 4-0 defeat by Hamburger SV in the 1982/83 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round. • In six home competitive fixtures against Bundesliga opponents there have been a total of 29 goals scored, Olympiacos winning four of those matches with two losses. Match background • Olympiacos are in their 14th participation in the UEFA Champions League and will be hoping to at least match their feats of both 2009/10 and 2007/08 when they reached the round of 16. • Last year's defeat of Dortmund followed a 1-0 home loss to Olympique de Marseille on matchday one. They also beat Arsenal FC 3-1 in Greece, and have won five of their last six home group games in the competition. They still finished only third in Group F last term. • Schalke are making their fifth appearance in the competition; in their four previous campaigns they were defeated on matchday one without scoring a goal, against Olympique Lyonnais (0-1 away, 2010/11), Valencia CF (0-1 home, 2007/08), PSV Eindhoven (0-1 away, 2005/06) and Panathinaikos FC (0-2 home, 2001/02). • The German club recovered from that Lyon loss to win seven of their next nine fixtures with the other two drawn. They finished first in their group before overcoming Valencia and holders FC Internazionale Milano in the knockout rounds but then came unstuck against Manchester United, losing 2-0 at home and 4-1 away. Team ties • Kyriakos Papadopoulos played for Olympiacos from 2007 until 2010. Aged 15 years and 283 days, he became the youngest player to appear in the Greek league against Atromitos FC on 2 December 2007. • Papadopoulos plays with Vassilis Torossidis, José Holebas, Avraam Papadopoulos, Dimitris Siovas, Giannis Maniatis, Kostas Mitroglou and Giannis Fetfatzidis for the Greece national side. • Ciprian Marica scored the second equaliser for FC Shakhtar Donetsk in a 2-2 home draw with Olympiacos in a UEFA Champions League group stage fixture on 27 September 2006. • Ibrahim Afellay scored once past half-time substitute Roy Carroll, his second of the game, in the Netherlands' 6-0 win against Northern Ireland in a friendly on 2 June 2012. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar appeared off the bench for the Dutch. • Teemu Pukki also beat Carroll as Finland and Northern Ireland drew 3-3 in a friendly international on 15 August. • Marko Pantelić and Marica were both on the scoresheet when Serbia beat Romania 3-2 away and 5-0 at home in qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. • Torossidis scored Greece's winner, making it 2-1, against a Nigeria team including Chinedu Obasi in the 2010 World Cup group stage. • Mitroglou was brought up in Germany and started his career with VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach while Holebas was born in Bavaria and began his career with TSV 1860 München. • Christian Fuchs scored his only international goal as Austria lost 2-1 to Greece in November 2010; Torossidis, Avraam Papadopoulos and Fetfatzidis, a substitute, were in the opposition. • Mitroglou scored in Greece's 3-2 victory over Germany in the semi-finals of the 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Austria. Siovas was a substitute for Greece while Germany included Benedikt Höwedes. Last updated 17/09/12 23:59:25CET 3 Match background Olympiacos FC - FC Schalke 04 Tuesday 18 September 2012 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Match facts Olympiacos UEFA Champions League statistics • Olympiacos have scored 96 UEFA Champions League goals, group stage to final. International duty • Nine Olympiacos players were on senior duty at the start of September: Vassilis Torossidis, Giannis Maniatis, Kostas Mitroglou, José Holebas, Dimitris Siovas (Greece), Rafik Djebbour (Algeria), Balázs Megyeri (Hungary), Ljubomir Fejsa (Serbia) and Roy Carroll (Northern Ireland). • Mitroglou came off the bench to score Greece's second goal in their 2-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying defeat of Lithuania. • Carroll made his first competitive appearance for Northern Ireland in six years when he started the 2-0 qualifying defeat in Russia on 7 September, retaining his place for the 1-1 draw with Luxembourg four days later. • Siovas made his Greece debut on 15 August in a friendly against Norway, when Mitroglou's first international goal proved decisive in a 3-2 win. Summer transfers • In Pablo Contreras (CSD Colo-Colo) Drissa Diakité (OGC Nice) Paulo Machado (Toulouse FC) Leandro Greco (AS Roma) Dimitris Siovas (Panionios GSS) Kostas Manolas (AEK Athens FC) Andreas Gianniotis (Ethnikos Gazoros FC)* Panagiotis Vlachodimos (Xanthi FC)* Vassilis Karagounis (Udinese Calcio)* *not in UEFA Champions