Uefa Champions League 2011/12 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Maccabi Haifa FC KRC Genk Play-offs, first leg Ramat-Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Wednesday 17 August 2011 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Squad list...........................................................................................................................4 Match officials....................................................................................................................6 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................7 Match-by-match lineups....................................................................................................9 Team facts.......................................................................................................................10 Competition format..........................................................................................................12 Legend............................................................................................................................14 Maccabi Haifa FC - KRC Genk Wednesday 17 August 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat-Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Previous meetings Head to Head None Maccabi Haifa FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None KRC Genk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None Last updated 16/08/11 20:22:42CET 2 Previous meetings Maccabi Haifa FC - KRC Genk Wednesday 17 August 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat-Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Match background Maccabi Haifa FC are aiming to complete a hat-trick of UEFA Champions League group-stage appearances but find in their way a KRC Genk side seeking entry into Europe's elite for the first time since 2002/03. Previous meetings • The teams are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition. This is Haifa's first encounter with a Belgian club and the same goes for Genk and Israeli opposition. • There have only been ten games played between Israeli and Belgian club sides in UEFA competition and the Belgians have the upper hand with a record of W6 D2 L2. • Genk coach Frank Vercauteren oversaw one of those Belgian victories, his RSC Anderlecht side beating Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC 2-0 in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage. • Four of those games were played in Israel, the home side losing the first two but winning the two most recent fixtures. • No Israeli club has won in Belgium in six attempts, with the home sides' record reading W4 D2 L0. Match background • Haifa are on a three-game winning streak at home in Europe since losing all three of their matches in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Genk suffered a 4-2 away defeat at eventual winners FC Porto in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League play-offs but earned a 1-1 draw at FK Partizan in the third qualifying round this season and have lost just two of their last seven European away outings. • Genk's 2-1 win against Partizan was only their third in seven European home games, the other four having ended in defeat. • Genk's only previous appearance in the UEFA Champions League proper came in the 2002/03 first group stage, where under Sef Vergoossen they failed to win a game and finished bottom, despite draws against AEK Athens FC twice, AS Roma and Real Madrid CF. • This is the Belgian title holders' fourth UEFA Champions League qualifying campaign. They lost to NK Maribor in the second qualifying round in 1999/2000 (agg: 4-5) but beat AC Sparta Praha on away goals in the third qualifying round to make it to the group stage in 2002/03. • FK Sarajevo blocked their progress in the 2007/08 second qualifying phase (agg: 2-2, Sarajevo won on away goals), but they beat Partizan (agg: 3-2) to reach this season's play-offs. • Haifa have not won in six European away games, since a 2-1 victory at FC Salzburg in the first leg of the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League play-offs, though a 1-1 draw at Maribor in their most recent tie ended a run of five straight losses. • Elisha Levi's team comfortably dispatched FK Borac Banja Luka in the second qualifying round, 7-4 on aggregate, before edging past Slovenia's Maribor 3-2 overall to reach the play-offs. • Haifa lost their sole tie in European competition last season, 3-2 on aggregate against FC Dinamo Minsk in the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. • Haifa have happy memories of their only previous appearance in the play-offs, a 5-1 aggregate victory against Salzburg in 2009/10. • While that secured the Israeli club their second group-stage appearance, they will need no reminding of how things unfolded subsequently. Haifa not only lost all six games but also became the second club after RC Deportivo La Coruña in 2004/05 to go through a group stage without scoring. • In 2002/03 Haifa competed in the first group stage, recording two wins – including a 3-0 home success against Manchester United FC – and a draw. Last updated 16/08/11 20:22:42CET 3 Match background Maccabi Haifa FC - KRC Genk Wednesday 17 August 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat-Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Squad list Maccabi Haifa FC Current season All-time QUAL UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Nir Davidovitch ISR 17/12/76 34 * 4 - - - - - 6 - 56 - 22 Bojan Shranov SRB 22/09/87 23 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 44 Amir Edri ISR 26/07/85 26 - - - - - - - - - 2 - Defenders 2 Sari Falach ISR 22/11/91 19 - 2 - - - - - - - 2 - 3 Jurica Buljat CRO 12/09/86 24 S 4 - - - - - - - 20 1 4 Shai Maymon ISR 18/03/86 25 - - - - - - - 1 - 7 1 5 Itzhak Cohen ISR 22/04/83 28 - - - - - - - - - - - 8 Haim Magrashvili ISR 04/07/82 29 - - - - - - - - - 12 1 18 Ali Osman ISR 08/02/87 24 - 2 - - - - - 4 - 12 - 24 Andriy Pylyavskyi UKR 04/12/88 22 - 3 - - - - - - - 3 - 27 Eyal Meshumar ISR 10/08/83 28 * 4 - - - - - 6 - 26 - 29 Gavriel Griner ISR 24/01/92 19 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 6 Seidu Yahaya GHA 31/12/89 21 - 3 - - - - - - - 5 - 7 Gustavo Boccoli BRA 16/02/78 33 - 3 - - - - - 4 - 33 3 11 Idan Vered ISR 25/05/89 22 * 4 1 - - - - - - 4 1 12 Shadi Shaban ISR 04/03/92 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 13 Talb Twatha ISR 21/06/92 19 * 4 - - - - - 1 - 5 - 15 Eyal Golasa ISR 07/10/91 19 * 4 1 - - - - 4 - 16 3 21 Tamir Cohen ISR 04/03/84 27 - - - - - - - 6 - 15 - 23 Eran Rozenbom ISR 26/08/92 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 26 Dela Yampolsky ISR 28/07/88 23 - 4 2 - - - - - - 11 3 Forwards 9 Vladimir Dvalishvili GEO 20/04/86 25 * 4 3 - - - - 6 - 20 10 14 Weaam Amasha ISR 08/08/85 26 * 4 3 - - - - - - 4 3 16 Mohammad Ghadir ISR 21/01/91 20 - 3 - - - - - 6 - 16 3 17 Alon Turgeman ISR 09/06/91 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 19 Shlomi Azulay ISR 18/10/89 21 - 2 - - - - - - - 2 - 20 Yaniv Katan ISR 27/01/81 30 - 1 - - - - - 10 3 58 12 25 Hen Azriel ISR 26/06/88 23 - - - - - - - - - - - Coach - Elisha Levi ISR 18/11/57 53 - 4 - - - - - 6 - 18 - Last updated 16/08/11 20:22:42CET 4 Squad list Maccabi Haifa FC - KRC Genk Wednesday 17 August 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat-Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan KRC Genk Current season All-time QUAL UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 25 Davino Verhulst BEL 25/11/87 23 - - - - - - - - - 3 - 26 László Koteles HUN 01/09/84 26 - 2 - - - 3 - - - 3 - 53 Stijn Wertelaers BEL 19/04/94 17 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 4 Torben Joneleit GER 17/05/87 24 - 2 - - - 3 1 - - 5 - 11 Anthony Vanden Borre BEL 24/10/87 23 S 2 - - - 3 - 14 1 24 1 16 Anele Ngcongca RSA 20/10/87 23 S 1 - - - 3 - - - 7 - 17 Jeroen Simaeys BEL 12/05/85 26 - - - - - - - - - 19 - 52 Sandy Walsh BEL 30/11/94 16 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 2 Balázs Tóth HUN 24/09/81 29 - - - - - - - - - 6 - 6 David Hubert BEL 13/02/88 23 - 2 - - - 3 1 - - 7 - 7 Khaleem Hyland TRI 05/06/89 22 - - - - - - - - - - - 8 Dániel Tőzsér HUN 12/05/85 26 - 2 - - - 3 - 6 - 35 4 15 Fabien Camus TUN 28/02/85 26 - - - - - - - - - 7 - 20 José Nadson BRA 18/10/84 26 * 2 - - - 3 - - - 23 2 21 Dugary Ndabashinze BDI 08/10/89 21 - - - - - 1 - - - 4 - 27 Kennedy Nwanganga NGA 15/08/90 21 - 2 - - - 2 - - - 5 - 33 Daniel Pudil CZE 27/09/85 25 - 2 - - - 3 - 6 1 28 1 Forwards 5 Istvan Bakx NED 20/01/86 25 - - - - - - - - - 1 - 9 Jelle Vossen BEL 22/03/89 22 - 2 2 - - 2 1 - - 5 6 18 Elyaniv Barda ISR 15/12/81 29 - 2 - - - 3 1 - - 22 5 19 Thomas Buffel BEL 19/02/81 30 - 1 - - - 2 - 11 - 34 5 31 Marvin Ogunjimi BEL 12/10/87 23 - 2 1 - - 2 - - - 8 3 35 Anthony Limbombe BEL 15/07/94 17 - - - - - 3 - - - - - 44 Ayub Masika KEN 10/09/92 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 50 Stein Huysegems BEL 16/06/82 29 - - - - - - - - - 42 8 Coach - Frank Vercauteren BEL 28/10/56 54 - 2 - - - - - 12 - 28 - Last updated 16/08/11 20:22:42CET 5 Squad list Maccabi Haifa FC - KRC Genk Wednesday 17 August 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramat-Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan Match officials Referee Wolfgang Stark (GER) Assistant referees Jan-Hendrik Salver (GER), Mike Pickel (GER) Additional assistant referees Peter Sippel (GER), Christian Dingert (GER) Fourth official Guido Winkmann (GER) UEFA Delegate Balázs Makray (HUN) UEFA Referee observer Dragutin Karlo Poljak (CRO) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA Champions UEFA matches League matches Wolfgang Stark 20/11/1969 40 92 UEFA Champions League matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match Date Competition Stage Home Away Result Venue 13/09/05 UCL GS Chelsea FC RSC Anderlecht 1-0 London 09/08/06 UCL 3QR Liverpool FC Maccabi Haifa FC 2-1 Liverpool 19/08/09 UCL PO Olympique Lyonnais RSC Anderlecht 5-1 Lyon 29/09/09 UCL GS AZ Alkmaar R.