UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Louis II - Monaco Tuesday 17 August 2021 21.00CET (21.00 local time) AS Monaco FC Play-off, First leg FC Shakhtar Donetsk Last updated 29/09/2021 17:12CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 13 Team facts 14 Legend 16 1 AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Louis II, Monaco Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar 2-0 03/10/1979 R1 Monaco Onnis 49, Dalger 53 Donetsk agg: 3-2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Sokolovski 48, 70; 19/09/1979 R1 2-1 Donetsk Monaco FC Petit 80 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AS Monaco FC 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 3 AS Monaco FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - FC 1-0 07/11/1990 R2 Monaco Weah 14 Chornomorets Odesa agg: 1-0 FC Chornomorets Odesa - AS 24/10/1990 R2 0-0 Odessa Monaco FC FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Olympique Júnior Moraes 22; 12/12/2018 GS 1-1 Kyiv Lyonnais Fekir 65 Dembélé 70, Dubois Olympique Lyonnais - FC 02/10/2018 GS 2-2 Decines 72; Júnior Moraes 44, Shakhtar Donetsk 55 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Paris Saint-Germain - FC Moura 57, Ibrahimović 08/12/2015 GS 2-0 Paris Shakhtar Donetsk 86 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Paris Aurier 7, David Luiz 30/09/2015 GS 0-3 Lviv Saint-Germain 23, Srna 90 (og) UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Toulouse FC - FC Shakhtar Luiz Adriano 49, Gai 05/11/2009 GS 0-2 Toulouse Donetsk 63 Fernandinho 7 (P), FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Toulouse 22/10/2009 GS 4-0 Donetsk Luiz Adriano 24, 56, FC Hübschman 38 2 AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Louis II, Monaco UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ben Arfa 43; Olympique de Marseille - FC 1-2 16/04/2009 QF Marseille Fernandinho 30, Luiz Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 1-4 Adriano 90+3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Hübschman 39, 09/04/2009 QF 2-0 Donetsk Olympique de Marseille Jádson 65 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Nancy-Lorraine - FC Shakhtar 0-1 22/02/2007 R3 Nancy Fernandinho 71 Donetsk agg: 1-2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Nancy- 14/02/2007 R3 1-1 Donetsk Srna 84; Fortuné 81 Lorraine UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - LOSC 0-0 23/02/2006 R3 Donetsk Lille agg: 2-3 Fauvergue 19, Dernis LOSC Lille - FC Shakhtar Villeneuve 57, Odemwingie 77; 15/02/2006 R3 3-2 Donetsk d'Ascq Brandão 89, Marica 90+1 Stade Rennais FC - FC Shakhtar 01/12/2005 GS 0-1 Rennes Elano 38 (P) Donetsk Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA AS Monaco FC 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 4 2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 7 3 3 1 8 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 15 7 4 4 20 16 3 AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Louis II, Monaco Match background Two clubs with plenty of UEFA Champions League pedigree meet at the Stade Louis II as Monaco welcome Shakhtar Donetsk for the first leg of their play-off tie. • The sides have made 24 UEFA Champions League group appearances between them, although Monaco are bidding to feature for the first time in three seasons while their Ukrainian opponents have not missed out since 2016/17. Previous meetings • This is the sides' first meeting since their only previous tie, in the 1979/80 UEFA Cup first round. Shakhtar were 2-1 winners in the home first leg in Donetsk, Mykhaylo Sokolovsky scoring both goals, but Monaco turned the tie round with a 2-0 second-leg victory thanks to two goals in five second-half minutes from Delio Onnis (49) and Christian Dalger (53). Form guide Monaco • Third in Ligue 1 in 2020/21, five points behind champions LOSC Lille, Monaco are aiming to reach the group stage for the tenth time and the first since 2018/19. • Monaco's last UEFA Champions League campaign, three years ago, was also their most recent foray into European football before this season. In 2018/19 they finished fourth in Group A behind Borussia Dortmund, Atlético de Madrid and Club Brugge, picking up only one point from their six matches (D1 L5). • That extended Monaco's winless European run to 14 games (D3 L11), since a 3-1 home victory against Dortmund in the quarter-final second leg in April 2017. • Niko Kovač's side ended that long sequence without a victory in this season's third qualifying round, winning 2-0 at Sparta Praha before a 3-1 home success. • This is Monaco's third UEFA Champions League play-off. They lost to Valencia in 2015/16 (1-3 a, 2-1 h) before beating Villarreal the following season (2-1 a, 1-0 h) – making it three wins in their four play-off matches. • Runners-up in 2004, Monaco have also reached the UEFA Champions League semi-finals on three further occasions, in 1993/94, 1997/98 and 2016/17. • Aside from their two games against Shakhtar, Monaco's only other fixtures against a Ukrainian club came in the 1990/91 UEFA Cup second round, George Weah scoring the only goal of their tie against Chornomorets Odesa 14 minutes into the second leg at the Stade Louis II. Shakhtar • Shakhtar's run of four successive Ukrainian Premier League titles was ended in 2020/21 as they finished second to great rivals Dynamo Kyiv, ending the season 11 points adrift in second place. Defeat in the Ukrainian Cup quarter- finals ensured the Pitmen finished without a trophy for the first time since 2014/15. • That meant Shakhtar started the 2021/22 European campaign in the third qualifying round, where they beat Genk 2- 1 in both Belgium and Ukraine. • This is only Shakhtar's second UEFA Champions League play-off. They defeated Rapid Wien 3-2 on aggregate in 2015/16 (1-0 a, 2-2 h), Marlos scoring in both legs. • Shakhtar's 2020/21 European campaign started in the UEFA Champions League group stage where, despite wins away (3-2) and home (2-0) against Real Madrid, they finished third in Group B behind the Spanish side and Borussia Mönchengladbach having picked up only two more points, although they did edge out eventual Italian champions Internazionale. A team coached by Luís Castro then overcame Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 (2-0 a, 1-0 h) before losing to Roma in the last 16 (0-3 a, 1-2 h). • Castro was replaced after two years as Shakhtar coach by Roberto De Zerbi, who joined from Sassuolo in the summer. • UEFA Champions League quarter-finalists in 2010/11, Shakhtar are aiming to reach the group stage for the 16th time and have been eliminated in the group stage on 11 of the previous 15 occasions, including the last three. • Shakhtar are without a win in their last four games against French clubs (D2 L2), most recently drawing away (2-2) and home (1-1) with Lyon in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League group stage. They have won four of their eight games in France (D1 L3), the last success a 2-0 victory at Toulouse in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League group stage. Links and trivia 4 AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Louis II, Monaco • Monaco coach Kovač was in the Salzburg side beaten 3-2 on aggregate (1-0 h, 1-3 a) by Shakhtar in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. The second leg was the Croatian's last match as a player in the competition. • Shakhtar's Marlon spent 2017/18 on loan at French side Nice, making his debut in a 4-0 Ligue 1 win at home to Monaco on 9 September 2017. • Shakhtar's Andriy Pyatov saved a penalty from Cesc Fàbregas in Ukraine's 1-0 loss to Spain in Kyiv in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying on 12 October 2015. • Fàbregas had, however, scored a penalty past Pyatov in Arsenal's 5-1 defeat of Shakhtar in the UEFA Champions League group stage on 19 October 2010. • Wissam Ben Yedder and Yevhen Konoplyanka played one game together for Sevilla – a 3-0 loss to Barcelona in the second leg of the 2016 Spanish Super Cup. • Have also played together: Alexander Nübel & Yevhen Konoplyanka (Schalke, 2016–18) Caio Henrique & Dodô, Maycon (Brazil U20 and U23, 2016–20) Caio Henrique & Pedrinho (Brazil U23, 2019–20) Caio Henrique & Marcos Antônio, Tetê (Brazil U23, 2020) 5 AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Tuesday 17 August 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Louis II, Monaco Squad list AS Monaco FC Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No.