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Uefa Champions League UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Donbass Arena - Donetsk Wednesday 27 November 2013 20.45CET (21.45 local time) FC Shakhtar Donetsk Group A - Matchday 5 Real Sociedad de Fútbol Last updated 12/09/2014 17:46CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Match facts 4 Squad list 5 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Fixtures and results 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Group Standings 10 Competition facts 11 Team facts 12 Legend 14 1 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Real Sociedad de Fútbol Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Donbass Arena, Donetsk Previous meetings Execption in [/mediaservices/presskits/uefachampionsleague/season=2014/round=2000479/day=5/session=2/match=2011824/chapters/previousmeetings Slot [] ExceptionInfo [Error executing child request for /code/PressKits/prevMeetings.aspx.] Inner Exception [Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.] 2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Real Sociedad de Fútbol Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match background Real Sociedad de Fútbol visit Ukraine for the first time to face FC Shakhtar Donetsk in a match that could seal their fate in Group A. • Jagoba Arrasate's men earned their first point when holding Manchester United FC 0-0 on matchday four but they remain bottom of the group and four points adrift of third-placed Shakhtar. The San Sebastian side will only keep their faint UEFA Champions League hopes alive if they beat Shakhtar and United win at Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the group's other game. • Shakhtar need only a draw to make sure of third place ahead of La Real, while a victory would lift them above Leverkusen into second place if the German team were to lose. Match background • Shakhtar are seeking their first home success in five matches in the UEFA Champions League. With their two Group A home draws against United and Leverkusen, they have now gone four matches without a victory at the Donbass Arena – a sequence that also includes last season's defeat by Juventus and draw with Borussia Dortmund. • Beaten by a single goal at both Leverkusen and United, La Real had previously won at Olympique Lyonnais in the play-offs. Their last away success in the UEFA Champions League proper came at Galatasaray AŞ in September 2003. • Shakhtar's last home meeting with Liga opposition brought a 1-0 loss against FC Barcelona in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, a result that completed a 6-1 aggregate defeat. Andriy Pyatov, Tomáš Hübschman, Luiz Adriano, Vyacheslav Shevchuk, Douglas Costa, Vasil Kobin, Eduardo and Yaroslav Rakitskiy – scorer of Shakhtar's first-leg goal – all featured in the second leg at the Donbass Arena. • Ilsinho scored when Shakhtar lost 2-1 at home to Barcelona in the 2008/09 group stage. • Shakhtar's overall home record against Liga clubs is W1 D3 L3. That solitary victory came in the 2004/05 group stage when Julius Aghahowa scored both goals in a 2-0 win over Barcelona – a result that came in Mircea Lucescu's first campaign at the club and secured them third place and passage to the UEFA Cup. Hübschman, Darijo Srna and Dmytro Chygrynskiy all played for Shakhtar. • Shakhtar lost the 2009 UEFA Super Cup 1-0 against Barcelona in Monaco. Team ties • Lucescu's first home meeting with Spanish opposition came 40 years ago with FC Dinamo Bucureşti in a 2-0 defeat by Club Atlético de Madrid in the 1973/74 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round. His overall home record against teams from Spain, as player and coach, is W4 D3 L6. • As Romania coach, Lucescu oversaw his country's 1-1 draw with Spain at the 1984 UEFA European Championship finals in France. As Galatasaray coach he guided the Turkish club to a 2-1 victory against Real Madrid CF in the 2000 UEFA Super Cup. • Chygrynskiy became the first Ukrainian to play for Barcelona when he swapped Shakhtar for the Camp Nou in August 2009. He made 12 Liga appearances and another two in the Copa del Rey before returning to Donetsk the following summer. • Carlos Vela and Eduardo were team-mates at Arsenal FC from 2008 to 2010. They played together four times during 2009/10, with the Mexican coming on to replace Eduardo on another five occasions. • Vela appeared as a 59th-minute substitute in Arsenal's 2-1 loss at Shakhtar in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League group stage – a match in which Eduardo scored the winning goal. • On 17 September 2008, Vela made his UEFA Champions League debut as an 84th-minute substitute in a 1-1 draw at FC Dynamo Kyiv. His first start came in the return fixture which Arsenal won 1-0. • Haris Seferovic played against Fernando in Switzerland's 1-0 friendly win over Brazil in August. 3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Real Sociedad de Fútbol Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match facts Shakhtar UEFA milestones and competition statistics • The 4-0 loss at Bayer 04 Leverkusen on matchday three equalled Shakhtar's heaviest ever defeat in UEFA competition. They have lost by a four-goal margin on eight occasions. • Alex Teixeira is a booking away from a suspension after picking up two yellow cards. General information • Dmytro Chygrynskiy, making his second appearance since 10 August, scored his first goal in 13 months as Shakhtar beat PFC Sevastopol 4-0 on Saturday. Darijo Srna scored his fifth league goal of the season, his best ever return. • Shakhtar have lost three league games this season – they suffered just one top-flight reverse in each of the previous two campaigns. They have dropped 13 points in the league this term, two more than in the whole of 2012/13. • Shakhtar are 31 home games unbeaten in the Ukrainian top flight, winning 28. • Mircea Lucescu's squad travelled to Istanbul during the international break, with Ilsinho, Douglas Costa and Fred (2) scoring in a 4-1 friendly victory over Beşiktaş JK on 14 November. Ilsinho was on target again two days later, this time from the spot, in a 2-1 win against Galatasaray AŞ. Facundo Ferreyra had earlier equalised. • Wellington Nem was left out of Shakhtar's UEFA Champions League squad following knee surgery in August but has since regained fitness and made his competitive debut on 26 October. International duty • Nine Shakhtar players were called up for senior duty during the international break: Andriy Pyatov, Olexandr Kucher, Vyacheslav Shevchuk, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Taras Stepanenko (Ukraine), Tomáš Hübschman (Czech Republic), Bernard (Brazil), Srna, Eduardo (Croatia). • Pyatov kept a record eighth successive clean sheet for Ukraine in a 2-0 victory over France on 15 November. He extended the run to 752 minutes four days later (beating Olexandr Shovkovskiy's record of 728 minutes) before Mamadou Sakho struck in St Denis. Pyatov conceded two more as Ukraine lost the FIFA World Cup play-off 3-2 on aggregate. Srna scored ten-man Croatia's second goal in a 2-0 win against Iceland last Tuesday to seal a place in Brazil next summer following a first-leg 0-0 draw. • Bernard scored his first goal for Brazil in a 5-0 win against Honduras in Miami on 16 November. Real Sociedad UEFA milestones and competition statistics • The own goal by midfielder Iñigo Martínez after 69 seconds of the matchday three loss to Manchester United FC was the fastest in UEFA Champions League history. • Markel Bergara serves a one-game ban after picking up three yellow cards; Carlos Vela is a booking away from a suspension. General information • Vela scored four in one game for the first time on Saturday as Real Sociedad recovered from 3-1 down to beat RC Celta de Vigo 4-3 after the visitors had Andreu Fontàs sent off (65). • Real Sociedad beat CA Osasuna 5-0 on 2 November, their biggest win in ten years. Their next Liga outing ended with a 5-1 defeat at Real Madrid CF, however, their worst loss since going down by the same scoreline against FC Barcelona on the first day of last season. • Antoine Griezmann has scored six goals in Real Sociedad's last six games. • Jon Ansotegi (until 2015) and Imanol Agirretxe (2018) agreed new deals during the international break. • The Basque outfit lost seven of their first 11 games in 2012/13, but only two of the subsequent 29. Jagoba Arrasate's side have the same number of Liga points as they had at the same stage last season. • On-loan Esteban Granero has not played since rupturing knee ligaments on matchday one. International duty • Four Real Sociedad players were called up for senior duty during the international break: Claudio Bravo (Chile), Iñigo Martínez (Spain), Haris Seferovic (Switzerland), Liassine Cadamuro (Algeria). 4 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Real Sociedad de Fútbol Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Donbass Arena, Donetsk Squad list 5 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Real Sociedad de Fútbol Wednesday 27 November 2013 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Donbass Arena, Donetsk Head coach FC Shakhtar Donetsk: Mircea Lucescu Date of birth: 29 July 1945 Nationality: Romanian Playing career: FC Dinamo Bucureşti, FC Sportul Studenţesc Bucureşti, FC Corvinul Hunedoara Coaching career: FC Corvinul Hunedoara, Romania, FC Dinamo Bucureşti, AC Pisa 1909, Brescia Calcio, AC Reggiana 1919, FC Rapid Bucureşti (twice), FC Internazionale Milano, Galatasaray AŞ, Beşiktaş JK, FC Shakhtar Donetsk • A useful striker for Dinamo in the 1960s and 1970s, winning six league titles and 70 caps for Romania as well as playing at the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Lucescu became Corvinul player-coach in his early 30s and went on to win three Romanian championships with Dinamo.
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