Uefa Europa League 2011/12 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Vaslui S.S. Lazio Group D - Matchday 5 Stadionul Municipal Vaslui, Piatra Neamt Thursday 1 December 2011 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Team facts.........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................8 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................11 Match officials..................................................................................................................13 Legend............................................................................................................................14 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html FC Vaslui - S.S. Lazio Thursday 1 December 2011 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadionul Municipal Vaslui, Piatra Neamt Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 15/09/11 GS S.S. Lazio - FC Vaslui 2-2 Rome Cissé 35(p), Sculli 71; Wesley 59, 63(p) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Vaslui 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 S.S. Lazio 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 FC Vaslui - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None S.S. Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 28/08/07 QR3 FC Dinamo Bucureşti - S.S. Lazio 1-3 Bucharest Bratu 27; Rocchi 47(p), 66, Pandev 53 agg: 2-4 14/08/07 QR3 S.S. Lazio - FC Dinamo Bucureşti 1-1 Rome Mutarelli 54; Dănciulescu 22 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 FC Vaslui 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 S.S. Lazio 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 6 4 Last updated 30/11/11 9:29:10CET 2 Previous meetings FC Vaslui - S.S. Lazio Thursday 1 December 2011 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadionul Municipal Vaslui, Piatra Neamt Match background FC Vaslui host S.S. Lazio with victory for either side guaranteeing them a place alongside UEFA Europa League Group D leaders Sporting Clube de Portugal in the round of 32. Previous meetings • Giuseppe Sculli (71) earned Lazio a 2-2 draw when the sides met for the first time in Rome on matchday one, scoring after Vaslui captain Wesley had struck twice (59 & 63) to cancel out Djibril Cissé's 35th-minute opener from the spot. It was Vaslui's first game against Italian opposition. • Lazio had previously taken on FC Dinamo Bucureşti in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, prevailing 3-1 in Bucharest after a 1-1 draw in Rome. Match background • Vaslui are yet to be beaten at home in UEFA club competition, recording six wins and four draws in their ten outings to date since making their European debut in 2008. They have maintained that unbeaten run despite playing their European home games this season in in Piatra Neamt, a little over 100km from their home town. • Lazio have lost three of their last five European away games, with a 3-1 win at FK Rabotnicki in this season's UEFA Europa League play-offs the only victory in that run. Team facts • Vaslui midfielder Adrian Gheorghiu will play his first game since turning 30 on the eve of the match. • Vaslui centre-back Gladstone has played in Italy; he was loaned to Juventus at the start of the 2006 campaign by EC Cruzeiro, featuring in one Coppa Italia game before being moved on to Hellas-Verona FC. • Vaslui striker Adaílton also played in Italy for Parma FC (1997-98), Verona (1999-2006), Genoa CFC (2006-07) and Bologna FC (2007-10). • Lazio striker Tommaso Rocchi's two goals in the play-offs took his total to 99 in all competitions for the club. • Lazio boast Romanian talent in the form of left-back Ştefan Radu, who joined the club in 2008 from FC Dinamo Bucureşti following a successful loan spell. He and Vaslui's Silviu Bălace were team-mates at Dinamo in 2007. • Once a midfield colleague of Fabio Capello's at SPAL 1907, Lazio boss Edoardo Reja has been coaching since 1979, but did not make his Serie A debut until 1998, and had to wait another decade to make his European debut with SSC Napoli. • Vaslui coach Viorel Hizo twice took both FC Rapid Bucureşti and FC Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ into Europe. Now 64, he has coached Vaslui (2006-07, 2008 and 2010-present) and Ceahlăul three times (1998-2000, 2003-04 and 2007-08), and has been Rapid coach in five separate spells (1993-95, 1995-96, 2001-02, 2004 and 2009). • He came up against Italian opposition with Ceahlăul, taking on Juventus in the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup third round. His side lost the tie on the away goals rule, following a 1-1 draw in Romania and a 0-0 tie in Cesena. • Hizo has yet to lose a European game at the Stadionul Ceahlăul, his record reading W6 D3 L0. Last updated 30/11/11 9:29:10CET 3 Match background FC Vaslui - S.S. Lazio Thursday 1 December 2011 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadionul Municipal Vaslui, Piatra Neamt Team facts FC Vaslui Formed: 2002 Nickname: Galben-verzii (Yellow Greens) UEFA club competition honours • none Domestic honours none Ten-year record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: play-offs 2009/10: play-offs 2008/09: first round 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA competition 2005/06: did not take part in UEFA competition 2004/05: did not take part in UEFA competition 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA competition 2002/03: did not take part in UEFA competition 2001/02: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 3-1: Vaslui v SK Liepājas Metalurgs 28/08/08, UEFA Cup second qualifying round second leg 2-0 on three occasions, most recently v AC Sparta Praha 18/08/11, UEFA Europa League play-offs first leg • Biggest away win 0-2: SK Liepājas Metalurgs v Vaslui 14/08/08, UEFA Cup second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat 3-0: AEK Athens FC v Vaslui 27/08/09, UEFA Europa League play-offs second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 3-1: Vaslui v SK Liepājas Metalurgs (see above for details) • Biggest away win 0-2: SK Liepājas Metalurgs v Vaslui (see above for details) • Heaviest home defeat N/A • Heaviest away defeat 3-0: AEK Athens FC v Vaslui (see above for details) Last updated 30/11/11 9:29:10CET 4 Team facts FC Vaslui - S.S. Lazio Thursday 1 December 2011 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadionul Municipal Vaslui, Piatra Neamt S.S. Lazio Formed: 1900 Nickname: The Biancocelesti (The White and Sky Blues) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1999 • UEFA Cup: (1998) • UEFA Super Cup (1): 1999 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 2 (2000) Italian Cup: 5 (2009) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2007/08: UEFA Champions League group stage 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2005/06: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2004/05: group stage 2003/04: UEFA Champions League group stage 2002/03: semi-finals 2001/02: UEFA Champions League first group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0: Lazio v FK Rabotnicki 18/08/11, UEFA Europa League play-off first leg • Biggest away win 0-4 on four occasions, most recently vPFC Levski Sofia (01/10/09, UEFA Europa League group stage) • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Lazio v Chelsea FC 04/11/03, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: RC Lens v Lazio 02/11/77, UEFA Cup second round second leg UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0: Lazio v FK Rabotnicki (see above) • Biggest away win 0-4: on two occasions, most recently v PFC Levski Sofia (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Lazio v FC Barcelona 22/10/75, second round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 6-0: RC Lens v Lazio (see above) Last updated 30/11/11 9:29:10CET 5 Team facts FC Vaslui - S.S. Lazio Thursday 1 December 2011 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadionul Municipal Vaslui, Piatra Neamt Squad list FC Vaslui Current season All-time QUAL Tournament League Tournament UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 12 Vytautas Černiauskas LTU 12/03/89 22 - 4 - 4 - 15 - 4 - 12 - 22 Claudiu Puia ROU 06/06/87 24 - - - - - - - - - 1 - Defenders 3 Paul Papp ROU 11/11/89 22 * 2 - 3 - 9 - 3 - 7 - 17 Silviu Bălace ROU 11/11/78 33 - 3 - - - 4 1 3 - 11 - 20 Zhivko Milanov BUL 15/07/84 27 * 4 1 4 - 10 - 20 - 46 1 26 Pavol Farkaš SVK 27/03/85 26 - 4 - 4 - 14 - 7 - 24 1 27 Hugo Luz POR 24/02/82 29 - - - - - 2 - 1 -