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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEASON 2009/10 MATCH PRESS KIT Sevilla FC Rangers FC Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, Seville Wednesday 9 December 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Group G - Matchday 6 Contents Match background.........................................................................................2 Match facts....................................................................................................4 Squad list.......................................................................................................6 Head coach....................................................................................................8 Match officials................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results......................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups...............................................................................13 Competition facts..........................................................................................14 Team facts....................................................................................................15 Legend.........................................................................................................18 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Champions 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 Sevilla FC - Rangers FC Wednesday 9 December 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, Seville Match background Previous meetings UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/09/09 GS Rangers FC - Sevilla FC 1-4 Glasgow Novo 88; Konko 50, Adriano 64, Luis Fabiano 72, Kanouté 74 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/09/62 R1 Sevilla FC - Rangers FC 2-0 Seville Dieguez 16, Mateos 48 agg: 2-4 05/09/62 R1 Rangers FC - Sevilla FC 4-0 Glasgow Millar 14, 17, 63, Brand 64 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Sevilla FC 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 6 5 Rangers FC 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 5 6 Sevilla FC - record versus clubs from opponents' country None Rangers FC - record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/11/07 GS FC Barcelona - Rangers FC 2-0 Barcelona Henry 6, Messi 43 23/10/07 GS Rangers FC - FC Barcelona 0-0 Glasgow UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 14/03/07 R16 CA Osasuna - Rangers FC 1-0 Pamplona Webó 71 agg: 2-1 08/03/07 R16 Rangers FC - CA Osasuna 1-1 Glasgow Hemdani 90+2; Raúl García 17 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/03/06 KO1 Villarreal CF - Rangers FC 1-1 Villarreal Arruabarrena 49; Løvenkrands 12 agg: 3-3 ag 22/02/06 KO1 Rangers FC - Villarreal CF 2-2 Glasgow Løvenkrands 22, Peña 82(og); Riquelme 8(p), Forlán 35 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/10/99 GS Rangers FC - Valencia CF 1-2 Glasgow Moore 59; Mendieta 35, Claudio López 45 15/09/99 GS Valencia CF - Rangers FC 2-0 Valencia Kily González 57, 74 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/10/85 R1 CA Osasuna - Rangers FC 2-0 Pamplona Ripodas 13, Monreal 40 agg: 2-1 18/09/85 R1 Rangers FC - CA Osasuna 1-0 Glasgow Paterson 55 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/11/79 R2 Rangers FC - Valencia CF 1-3 Glasgow Johnstone 24; Bonhof 16, Kempes 43, agg: 2-4 77 24/10/79 R2 Valencia CF - Rangers FC 1-1 Valencia Kempes 24; McLean 45 Last updated 07/12/09 23:07:24CET Match background 2 Sevilla FC - Rangers FC Wednesday 9 December 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, Seville UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 22/03/67 QF Real Zaragoza - Rangers FC 2-0 Zaragoza Lapetra 24, Santos 86(p) agg: 2-2 t 01/03/67 QF Rangers FC - Real Zaragoza 2-0 Glasgow Smith 9, Willoughby 27 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 09/10/63 PR Real Madrid CF - Rangers FC 6-0 Madrid Puskás 3, 24, 49, Evaristo 10, Gento agg: 7-0 19, Félix Ruiz 78 25/09/63 PR Rangers FC - Real Madrid CF 0-1 Glasgow Puskás 86 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 Sevilla FC 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 6 5 Rangers FC 10 3 3 4 9 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 19 3 5 11 15 32 Despite the Matchday 5 defeat at FC Unirea Urziceni, Sevilla FC have not made too many false moves in their Group G campaign and will be looking to secure first place against a Rangers FC side who are already certain to finish fourth in the section. • Both teams lost their most recent outing, Rangers recording a third home reverse with a 2-0 defeat by VfB Stuttgart at Ibrox, but that aside their campaigns could scarcely have been more different. Sevilla reached the last 16 with two matches to spare thanks mainly to victories in their first three matches, including Matchday 2's 4-1 win at Rangers, who have collected two points from their first five games. • A point would therefore be enough for the Spanish side to reach the first knockout round as group winners. Previous meetings • On 29 September Sevilla scored four goals in 24 second-half minutes to claim a convincing away victory in Glasgow. Abdoulay Konko opened the floodgates five minutes after the restart before Adriano, Luis Fabiano and Frédéric Kanouté extended the lead, Rangers substitute Nacho Novo scoring a late consolation. • The teams' only previous meeting – the only other time Sevilla have faced opponents from Scotland – came in the 1962/63 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round. Sevilla won 2-0 at home but Rangers had scored four without reply in the first game. Match background • The 1-1 draw with Stuttgart on Matchday 4 spoiled Sevilla's unblemished record at home in the UEFA Champions League. Previously they had won all six games, starting with a 2-0 victory against AEK Athens FC in the 2007/08 third qualifying round. They followed that by winning all three home games in the group stage and then beat Fenerbahçe SK 3-2 at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán in the first knockout round. • During their successive UEFA Cup triumphs in 2006 and 2007, Sevilla lost just one of their 14 home games, winning eleven. • Rangers have recorded two draws and seven defeats from nine visits to Spain. They failed to score in every game they lost. • The Scottish champions are unbeaten on their travels in this season's competition but have not won in four away games. Their last success came in the 2007/08 group stage with a 3-0 triumph at Olympique Lyonnais. Team ties • Former manager Jock Wallace, who in 1976 and 1978 guided Rangers to the treble of league title, Scottish FA Cup and League Cup, was Sevilla coach between 1986 and 1987. Manuel Jiménez was among his charges at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, Wallace making the current Sevilla coach vice-captain. Former Rangers winger Ted McMinn was also on Sevilla's books during Wallace's year in Spain. • Sevilla lifted the 2007 UEFA Cup at Hampden Park in Glasgow with victory on penalties against Liga rivals RCD Espanyol following a 2-2 draw after extra time. Sevilla's goals were scored by Adriano and Kanouté, while Andrés Palop made three saves in the shoot-out. Last updated 07/12/09 23:07:24CET Match background 3 Sevilla FC - Rangers FC Wednesday 9 December 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, Seville • Kanouté and Rangers midfielder Pedro Mendes were team-mates at Tottenham Hotspur FC between 2003 and 2005. • Sevilla's Sébastien Squillaci and Jérôme Rothen of Rangers spent two seasons together at AS Monaco FC between 2002 and 2004, culminating in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League final and a 3-0 defeat by FC Porto. • Rangers striker Nacho Novo began his playing career in Spain with SD Huesca, then in the fourth tier. • Ikechi Anya, who was brought up in Glasgow's Castlemilk area, has earned a two-year contract with Sevilla Atletico, Sevilla's reserves, after impressing at Glenn Hoddle's academy – for promising young players who have been released from their clubs – in Spain. Match facts Sevilla UEFA milestones • Sevilla have scored 149 goals in UEFA club competition and won 49 games. UEFA Champions League statistics • Luis Fabiano has set up four goals, the joint highest total in the competition with FC Girondins de Bordeaux's Wendel. • Fernando Navarro's next yellow card will incur a one-match suspension. Latest domestic information • Saturday 5 December: Sevilla FC 1-1 Real Valladolid CF (Manucho 33; Fabiano 45+2pen) Palop; Sánchez, Squillaci (Konko 46), Dragutinović, Navarro; Navas, Renato, Lolo (Romaric 46), Perotti; Fabiano, Negredo (Koné 78). • Despite having a numerical advantage for 52 minutes after Borja Fernández's dismissal, Sevilla's winless streak was extended to three games. • Fabiano's equaliser was his 16th goal in 22 appearances this term, eight coming in the Liga. That is as many as he mustered in the Spanish top flight all last season out of a total of 30 goals, including 13 for Brazil. • Manuel Jiménez's side are 12 games unbeaten at home, since losing 4-2 to Real Madrid CF on 26 April. • The sequence almost ended on 28 November as Sevilla went 2-0 down against Málaga CF, former midfielder Duda on target for the visitors. Second-half goals from Fabiano earned Los Rojiblancos a 2-2 draw. • Sevilla are yet to concede in the first 20 minutes of a Liga game this season.