Uefa Champions League 2010/11 Season Match Press Kit
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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2010/11 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT SV Werder Bremen Tottenham Hotspur FC Group A - Matchday 1 Weserstadion, Bremen Tuesday 14 September 2010 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Match facts........................................................................................................................5 Squad list...........................................................................................................................8 Head coach.....................................................................................................................10 Match officials..................................................................................................................11 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................13 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................15 Competition facts.............................................................................................................17 Team facts.......................................................................................................................18 Legend............................................................................................................................21 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 SV Werder Bremen - Tottenham Hotspur FC Tuesday 14 September 2010 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Weserstadion, Bremen Previous meetings Head to Head None SV Werder Bremen - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 22/11/06 GS SV Werder Bremen - Chelsea FC 1-0 Bremen Mertesacker 27 12/09/06 GS Chelsea FC - SV Werder Bremen 2-0 London Essien 24, Ballack 68(p) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/03/00 QF SV Werder Bremen - Arsenal FC 2-4 Bremen Bode 41, Bogdanovic 59; Parlour 8, 25, agg: 2-6 70, Henry 59 16/03/00 QF Arsenal FC - SV Werder Bremen 2-0 London Henry 21, Ljungberg 76 Tottenham Hotspur FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/11/06 GS Bayer 04 Leverkusen - 0-1 Leverkusen Berbatov 36 Tottenham Hotspur FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/11/99 R2 1. FC Kaiserslautern - 2-0 Kaiserslautern Buck 89, Carr 90(og) Tottenham Hotspur FC agg: 2-1 28/10/99 R2 Tottenham Hotspur FC - 1-0 London Iversen 33 1. FC Kaiserslautern UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 22/07/95 GS - FT 1. FC Köln - Tottenham Hotspur FC 8-0 Cologne D Munteanu 3, 50, Labbadia 10, 30, 81, Polster 37, Steinmann 57, Kohn 87 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/83 R3 Tottenham Hotspur FC - 2-0 London Archibald 53, Falco 87 FC Bayern München agg: 2-1 23/11/83 R3 FC Bayern München - 1-0 Munich Rummenigge 85 Tottenham Hotspur FC UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/11/82 R2 FC Bayern München - 4-1 Munich Hoeness 16, Horsmann 52, Breitner 73, Tottenham Hotspur FC agg: 5-2 Rummenigge 80; Hughton 79 20/10/82 R2 Tottenham Hotspur FC - 1-1 London Archibald 2; Breitner 52 FC Bayern München UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 17/03/82 QF Eintracht Frankfurt - 2-1 Frankfurt am Borchers 2, Cha 14; Hoddle 80 Tottenham Hotspur FC agg: 2-3 Main 03/03/82 QF Tottenham Hotspur FC - 2-0 London Miller 57, Hazard 81 Eintracht Frankfurt Last updated 14/09/10 00:36:28CET 2 Previous meetings SV Werder Bremen - Tottenham Hotspur FC Tuesday 14 September 2010 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Weserstadion, Bremen UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/04/74 SF Tottenham Hotspur FC - VfB Leipzig 2-0 London McGrath 57, Chivers 87 agg: 4-1 10/04/74 SF VfB Leipzig - Tottenham Hotspur FC 1-2 Leipzig Löwe 57; Peters 15, Coates 27 20/03/74 QF Tottenham Hotspur FC - 1. FC Köln 3-0 London Chivers 11, Coates 15, Peters 49 agg: 5-1 06/03/74 QF 1. FC Köln - Tottenham Hotspur FC 1-2 Cologne Müller 54; McGrath 18, Peters 75 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 SV Werder Bremen 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 3 3 8 Tottenham Hotspur FC 6 5 1 0 8 3 0 5 0 0 0 0 14 8 1 5 18 20 Last updated 14/09/10 00:36:28CET 3 Previous meetings SV Werder Bremen - Tottenham Hotspur FC Tuesday 14 September 2010 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Weserstadion, Bremen Match background Tottenham Hotspur FC will make their debut in the UEFA Champions League group stage at the Weserstadion, home of a SV Werder Bremen side who have waited rather less time to return to the European limelight. • Spurs' only previous European Champion Clubs' Cup appearance was back in 1961/62 when they reached the semi-finals before losing to SL Benfica. Bremen, by contrast, are back in the group stage after an absence of only 12 months, their failure to qualify last term halting a sequence of five consecutive appearances. Match background • This is the first meeting between two teams who both qualified through the play-offs. Bremen, third in the Bundesliga last term, defeated UC Sampdoria 5-4 on aggregate, winning 3-1 at home before losing the return 3-2 after extra time in Genoa. • Harry Redknapp's Tottenham, who finished fourth in the Premier League in 2009/10, also suffered a 3-2 away defeat in their play-off against BSC Young Boys but bounced back with a 4-0 home victory in the second leg. • Bremen won five and drew one of six home games in reaching the round of 16 of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League, where they lost out to Valencia CF on away goals. • Bremen have only faced English opposition twice before – and both times during coach Thomas Schaaf's reign. Torsten Frings and Claudio Pizarro are the only survivors of the team that lost home and away to Tottenham's neighbours Arsenal FC in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup quarter-finals. • Per Mertesacker scored the only goal when Bremen beat Chelsea FC at the Weserstadion in the 2006/07 group stage. Schaaf's men had lost 2-0 in London on the opening matchday and eventually finished third in the group behind Chelsea and FC Barcelona. • Tottenham's last visit to Germany was for a 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage game at Bayer 04 Leverkusen that they won 1-0 through a Dimitar Berbatov goal. • The London club first faced German opposition in the 1973/74 UEFA Cup when they achieved 2-1 wins at 1. FC Köln and VfB Leipzig in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively to make the final. • The Premier League club suffered their heaviest European defeat when going down 8-0 to Köln in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1995. • Tottenham's record from eight away matches against Bundesliga outfits is three wins and five defeats. Team ties • Pizarro spent 2007/08 in England with Chelsea but scored only two league goals. He played against Tottenham in Chelsea's 2-0 victory at Stamford Bridge in January 2008, lasting 58 minutes before making way for Nicolas Anelka. • This fixture brings together several players who met during the summer's FIFA World Cup. Bremen midfielder Daniel Jensen featured in Denmark's 2-1 win against a Cameroon side that included Tottenham duo Benoît Assou-Ekotto and Sébastien Bassong – a result that eliminated the west Africans. Mertesacker was in the Germany side that ran out 4-1 winners in the last 16 against an England team featuring Tottenham forward Jermain Defoe. • Tottenham trio Vedran Ćorluka, Niko Kranjčar and Luka Modrić helped Croatia beat Germany 2-1 at UEFA EURO 2008. Bremen's Mertesacker, Frings and Clemens Fritz were on the losing side. The Bundesliga club's Austria defender Sebastian Prödl also lost to Croatia in the same tournament, a game in which Modrić scored the only goal. • Modrić scored a penalty in the second leg but finished on the losing side when NK Dinamo Zagreb lost home and away to Bremen in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round in 2007/08. Last updated 14/09/10 00:36:28CET 4 Match background SV Werder Bremen - Tottenham Hotspur FC Tuesday 14 September 2010 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Weserstadion, Bremen Match facts Bremen UEFA milestones • Bremen have conceded 95 goals in the European Champion Clubs' Cup. UEFA Champions League statistics • None Latest domestic information • Saturday 11 September: FC Bayern München 0-0 SV Werder Bremen Wiese; Fritz, Prödl, Pasanen, Silvestre; Bargfrede, Frings; Marin (Almeida 85), Wesley (Borowski 69), Hunt (Jensen 90); Arnautović • Wesley and Mikaël Silvestre made their Bundesliga debuts against Bayern, two of four changes to the team which defeated 1. FC Köln on 28 August. They replaced injured duo Claudio Pizarro and Per Mertesacker, while Petri Pasanen and Aaron Hunt were preferred to Sebastian Boenisch and Tim Borowski. • The result ended Bremen's 18-match scoring run in the Bundesliga while it was also their first goalless draw in any competition this calendar year. • Bremen were, however, the first team to prevent Bayern scoring in front of their home fans since FC Girondins de Bordeaux on 3 November 2009. The German champions had subsequently scored 45 goals in 18 home matches in all competitions. • Bremen kicked off their Bundesliga campaign by losing 4-1 at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim on 21 August. Having opened the scoring in that game from the penalty spot, Torsten Frings repeated the feat at home to Köln a week later in a 4-2 win. • Marko Arnautović has scored three goals in three games for Bremen and Austria Under-21s. Injury news • Mertesacker fractured his eye socket in Germany's UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier against Azerbaijan on 7 September.