UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Zenit St Petersburg APOEL FC Group G - Matchday 5 Petrovski Stadion, St Petersburg Wednesday 23 November 2011 18.00CET (21.00 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..................................................................................................13 Competition facts.............................................................................................................15 Team facts.......................................................................................................................16 Legend............................................................................................................................18 FC Zenit St Petersburg - APOEL FC Wednesday 23 November 2011 - 18.00CET (21.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Petrovski Stadion, St Petersburg Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 13/09/11 GS APOEL FC - FC Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 Nicosia Manduca 73, Aílton 75; Zyryanov 63 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit St Petersburg 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 APOEL FC 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 FC Zenit St Petersburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None APOEL FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None Last updated 22/11/11 1:26:17CET 2 Previous meetings FC Zenit St Petersburg - APOEL FC Wednesday 23 November 2011 - 18.00CET (21.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Petrovski Stadion, St Petersburg Match background APOEL FC have a piece of history within their grasp as they visit FC Zenit St Petersburg in their penultimate Group G fixture. • The surprise section leaders, APOEL can become the first Cypriot team to secure a place in the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League by beating Zenit, while even a draw might suffice depending on the result between FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Porto. • APOEL head to Russia as the pool's only unbeaten side but will face a tough test against second-placed Zenit who have a formidable home record and can leapfrog their rivals with victory. Match background • Like APOEL, Zenit are competing in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the second time and they too would qualify for the knockout phase for the first time with victory at the Petrovski Stadion, as long as Porto fail to beat Shakhtar. • Zenit lost 2-1 to APOEL in Nicosia on matchday one yet they have won their last nine European home fixtures. • In addition to this season's wins against Porto and Shakhtar, Luciano Spalletti's side posted seven consecutive home victories en route to last term's UEFA Europa League last 16. The last European visitors to avoid defeat against Zenit were CD Nacional, with a 1-1 draw on 27 August 2009. • APOEL have lost only one of five away games in this season's competition, qualifying included. • Ivan Jovanović's team also performed creditably on the road in their UEFA Champions League debut campaign in 2009/10 with draws at Club Atlético de Madrid and Chelsea FC. • Before last season clubs from the two countries had never met, but Russian and Cypriot sides played in two UEFA Europa League ties in 2010/11. FC Sibir Novosibirsk eliminated Apollon Limassol FC on away goals in the third qualifying round, and PFC CSKA Moskva beat Anorthosis Famagusta FC 6-1 on aggregate in the play-offs. In both cases the Cypriot team suffered defeat on Russian soil. Team ties • Bruno Alves was in the Portugal side that faced Sanel Jahić's Bosnia and Herzegovina in the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying play-offs, winning 6-2 on aggregate. • Bruno Alves and Danny had earlier featured against Cyprus in a 4-4 draw in Guimaraes on 12 October 2010, with APOEL's Marios Elia, Constantinos Charalambides, Marinos Satsias and Savvas Poursaitides on the opposite side. • Danny was a late substitute when Portugal won the return fixture 4-0 in Cyprus on 2 September this year, hitting the final goal two minutes into added time. Bruno Alves played 90 minutes against a Cyprus team including Poursaitides and Charalambides – replaced by APOEL club-mate Nektarios Alexandrou just past the hour – while Athos Solomou and Tasos Kissas were unused substitutes. • Jahić played against Zenit in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage, his AEK Athens FC side losing 4-2 at the Petrovski Stadion. • Alexandrou scored for Greece's Larissa FC in a 3-2 loss to Zenit in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage. • Aílton found the net in FC København's 2-0 friendly win against Zenit on 28 June 2008. • William Boaventura played in two 2-0 defeats by Zenit while on loan at FC Kuban Krasnodar from FC Metalurh Donetsk in 2009. • Ivan Tričkovski came up against Zenit's Aleksandr Anyukov, Roman Shirokov, Igor Denisov, Konstantin Zyryanov and Vladimir Bystrov when the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia lost 1-0 to Russia in a UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier on 12 October 2010. • Tričkovski was also in the FYROM team that lost 1-0 in Russia on 2 September this year, Anyukov, Shirokov, Denisov and Zyryanov again featuring. Zenit's Vyacheslav Malafeev and Aleksandr Kerzhakov both came into the home team for the game in Moscow. • Danny and APOEL defender Nuno Morais were team-mates at CS Marítimo and with the Portugal Under-21 side. • Bruno Alves was Porto captain in 2009/10 when they played APOEL in the UEFA Champions League group stage. • Kerzhakov faced Satsias as Russia met Cyprus in a friendly on 12 February 2003 in Limassol. Russia won 1-0. Last updated 22/11/11 1:26:17CET 3 Match background FC Zenit St Petersburg - APOEL FC Wednesday 23 November 2011 - 18.00CET (21.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Petrovski Stadion, St Petersburg Match facts Zenit UEFA milestones • Zenit's next win in UEFA competition will be their 50th. UEFA Champions League statistics • Zenit have had 41 shots wide so far; more than any other side. Latest domestic information • Friday 18 November: FC Zenit St Petersburg 0-0 FC Anzhi Makhachkala Malafeev; Anyukov, Lombaerts, Hubočan, Criscito; Bystrov (Lazović 58), Denisov, Zyryanov (Rosina 80), Shirokov, Fayzulin; Bukharov (Danny 70) • Vladimir Bystrov made his first league start in over a year as Luciano Spalletti's side stretched their unbeaten run at home to 17 matches, winning 11 and drawing six since a 2-0 Russian Cup defeat by PFC CSKA Moskva on 20 April. Anzhi played the last nine minutes with ten men after Mbark Boussoufa was sent off. • Zenit are 12 matches unbeaten in all competitions, winning seven since the matchday one defeat by APOEL FC. • Leaders Zenit were two points clear of CSKA when the Premier-Liga split in two for the second stage of this 18-month transitional championship, which began on Friday; the top eight will now play each other twice. Whereas past Russian seasons followed the calendar year, from 2012/13 the competition will run from summer to summer. • Roman Shirokov has scored eight goals in his last 14 appearances for Zenit; Danny has managed eight in 14 for club and country. Aleksandr Kerzhakov has found the net nine times in as many league outings. • Zenit will face FC Dinamo Moskva at home in the Russian Cup quarter-finals on 20 March. Injury news • Nicolas Lombaerts started on Friday on his return from a muscle problem, picked up in training, that ruled him out of international duty. • Danny came on as a substitute, his first outing since spraining knee ligaments on matchday four. • Kerzhakov has been out since suffering an ankle injury in the 2-2 draw at FC Spartak Moskva on 2 October. International duty • Bruno Alves played every minute as Portugal booked their UEFA EURO 2012 spot with a play-off triumph over Bosnia and Herzegovina, following a 0-0 away draw on 11 November with a 6-2 home win four days later. • Vyacheslav Malafeev extended his national record to 606 minutes without conceding an international goal as Russia drew 1-1 with Greece on 11 November (he had been substituted when the visitors replied late on). Shirokov struck for Russia in a game that also featured Aleksandr Anyukov, Konstantin Zyryanov and Igor Denisov. • Domenico Criscito started Italy's 2-0 friendly win against Poland the same night. APOEL UEFA milestones • None UEFA Champions League statistics • APOEL have had seven shots wide, the lowest total in the competition along with Arsenal FC. • Hélio Pinto's next yellow card will incur a suspension. Latest domestic information • Saturday 19 November: APOEL FC 2-0 Ermis Aradippou FC (Manduca 78, Belaid 82) Pardo; Poursaitides, Ilia, Paulo Jorge, Oliveira; Nuno Morais, Manduca (Adorno 84), Marcinho, Charalambides (Hélio Pinto 60); Tričkovski, Solari (Belaid 71) • Gustavo Manduca's