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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stade Pierre Mauroy - Villeneuve d'Ascq Tuesday 14 September 2021 LOSC Lille 21.00CET (21.00 local time) VfL Wolfsburg Group G - Matchday 1 Last updated 21/09/2021 20:25CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 7 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Competition facts 16 Team facts 18 Legend 20 1 LOSC Lille - VfL Wolfsburg Tuesday 14 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Villeneuve Vieirinha 45+1, 11/12/2014 GS LOSC Lille - VfL Wolfsburg 0-3 d'Ascq Rodríguez 65, 89 (P) De Bruyne 82; Origi 02/10/2014 GS VfL Wolfsburg - LOSC Lille 1-1 Wolfsburg 77 (P) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA LOSC Lille 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 4 VfL Wolfsburg 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 1 LOSC Lille - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Schweinsteiger 5, FC Bayern München - LOSC Pizarro 18, 28, 33, 07/11/2012 GS 6-1 Munich Lille Robben 23, Kroos 66; Kalou 57 LOSC Lille - FC Bayern Villeneuve 23/10/2012 GS 0-1 Müller 20 (P) München d'Ascq UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers TSV Alemannia Aachen - LOSC 21/10/2004 GS 1-0 Cologne Meijer 67 Lille UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Balakov 81, Kuranyi 27/08/2002 F VfB Stuttgart - LOSC Lille Stuttgart agg: 2-1 88 13/08/2002 F LOSC Lille - VfB Stuttgart 1-0 Lille Bonnal 20 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 28/02/2002 R4 Borussia Dortmund - LOSC Lille Dortmund agg: 1-1 ag Bassir 72; Ewerthon 21/02/2002 R4 LOSC Lille - Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Lille 67 VfL Wolfsburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfL Wolfsburg - AS Saint- 12/12/2019 GS 1-0 Wolfsburg Paulo Otávio 52 Étienne 2 LOSC Lille - VfL Wolfsburg Tuesday 14 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq UEFA Europa League Kolodziejczak 13; 03/10/2019 GS AS Saint-Étienne - VfL Wolfsburg 1-1 Saint-Etienne William 15 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfL Wolfsburg - Paris Saint- 1-3 Hasebe 63; Luyindula 26/02/2009 R3 Wolfsburg Germain agg: 1-5 38 (P), 73, Rothen 60 Paris Saint-Germain - VfL 18/02/2009 R3 2-0 Paris Hoarau 80, 83 Wolfsburg UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 4-0 Dindane 42, Keita 48, 03/08/2005 SF RC Lens - VfL Wolfsburg Lens agg: 4-0 Jemaa 89, 90 27/07/2005 SF VfL Wolfsburg - RC Lens 0-0 Wolfsburg UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers M.Petrov 22, Biliskov 2-2 01/08/2001 SF VfL Wolfsburg - ES Troyes AC Wolfsburg 35; Amzine 29, agg: 2-3 Rothen 90 25/07/2001 SF ES Troyes AC - VfL Wolfsburg 1-0 Troyes Goussé 8 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Tomislav Maric 50; 02/08/2000 SF VfL Wolfsburg - AJ Auxerre Wolfsburg agg 2-3 (aet) Kłos 26, Cissé 100 ET Sebescen 71 (og); 26/07/2000 SF AJ Auxerre - VfL Wolfsburg 1-1 Auxerre Rische 21 VfL Wolfsburg - CS Sedan- 2-1 Akonnor 33, Adjaoud 22/07/2000 R3 Wolfsburg Ardennes agg: 2-1 78 (og); N'diefi 57 CS Sedan-Ardennes - VfL 15/07/2000 R3 0-0 Sedan Wolfsburg Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA LOSC Lille 3 0 1 2 4 0 2 2 2 1 0 1 9 1 3 5 4 15 VfL Wolfsburg 7 2 3 2 7 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 14 3 6 5 13 18 3 LOSC Lille - VfL Wolfsburg Tuesday 14 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Match background LOSC Lille's second group stage campaign in three seasons kicks off against a Wolfsburg side featuring at this stage for the first time since 2015. • The French champions, who are joined by Seville and Salzburg in Group G, are aiming to improve on their 2019/20 campaign when they picked up a single point from their six fixtures. Indeed, LOSC have progressed to the knockout stages only once in six previous attempts, while Wolfsburg got as far as the quarter-finals in that 2015/16 campaign. Previous meetings • The sides were paired together in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League group stage. The drama in the first game in Germany was saved for the final 15 minutes, Divock Origi's penalty giving visitors LOSC a 77th-minute advantage that was cancelled out five minutes later by Kevin De Bruyne. • Wolfsburg were 3-0 victors in the reverse fixture in northern France thanks to goals from Vieirinha (45+1) and Ricardo Rodríguez (65, 89pen). • That Matchday 6 win at LOSC took Wolfsburg into the round of 32 as section runners-up behind Everton, leaving their French opponents bottom of the group. Form guide LOSC • This is LOSC's seventh UEFA Champions League group stage campaign, but just their second in the past nine seasons. • Les Dogues' last appearance came in 2019/20, when they finished bottom of a section that also included Valencia, Chelsea and Ajax. LOSC lost five of their six games, the exception a 1-1 draw at home to Valencia on Matchday 3. • Only one of those previous six campaigns has extended into the knockout phase, in 2006/07 when they lost 1-0 home and away against Manchester United in the round of 16. • In 2020/21, LOSC's European campaign began in the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they finished second in their section behind AC Milan on 11 points, recording a notable 3-0 away win against the Rossoneri to help them finish above Sparta Praha and Celtic. • LOSC's campaign was ended by Ajax in the round of 32, the Amsterdam club winning 2-1 in both France and the Netherlands. • LOSC claimed their fourth Ligue 1 title, and first since 2010/11, last season, finishing a point clear of Paris Saint- Germain. Their tally of 83 points was the highest in the club's history; LOSC suffered only three league defeats all season. • The coach who oversaw that title triumph, Christophe Galtier, departed for Nice in the summer after four years in charge; former Guingamp and Bordeaux boss Jocelyn Gourvennec replaced him. • The 2014 games with Wolfsburg were LOSC's last against a Bundesliga club. They have won just one of their nine matches with German teams (D3 L5), a 1-0 victory against Stuttgart in the first leg of a 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup final (1-2 agg). At home it is W1 D1 L2, with defeats in the last two. Wolfsburg • Wolfsburg are making their third group stage appearance, after 2009/10 – when they failed to progress to the round of 16 – and 2015/16, when they reached the quarter-finals. • The Wolves were first in their section six years ago, collecting 12 points from a group that also included Manchester United, PSV Eindhoven and CSKA Moskva. They beat Gent in the round of 16 (3-2 a, 1-0 h) before being thwarted by eventual winners Real Madrid in the last eight (2-0 h, 0-3 a). • Wolfsburg have since featured in the UEFA Europa League twice; they were eliminated by Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2019/20 round of 16 (1-2 h, 0-3 a). • In 2020/21, the German club were 4-0 winners at Albania's Kukësi in the one-off second qualifying round before a 2- 0 home victory against Desna Chernihiv; they then lost 2-1 at AEK Athens in their play-off. • Wolfsburg were fourth in the 2020/21 Bundesliga, their highest finish since ending as runners-up in 2014/15. • The Wolves last faced French opponents in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League group stage, beating St-Étienne 1-0 at home after a 1-1 draw in France. That 2014 win at LOSC is their only victory in their seven games in France (D3 L3). Links and trivia • Have played in France: 4 LOSC Lille - VfL Wolfsburg Tuesday 14 September 2021 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stade Pierre Mauroy, Villeneuve d'Ascq Josuha Guilavogui (St-Étienne 2005–13, 2014 loan) Jérôme Roussillon (Sochaux 2009–15, Montpellier 2015–18) Maxence Lacroix (Sochaux 2015–20) • Have played in Germany: Renato Sanches (Bayern München 2016/17, 2018/19) Amadou Onana (Hoffenheim 2017–20, Hamburg 2020/21) • International team-mates: Timothy Weah & John Brooks (United States) • The late Junior Malanda (LOSC 2007–12, Wolfsburg 2013–15) represented both clubs. Latest news LOSC • Summer transfers In: Amadou Onana (Hamburg), Ivo Grbić (Atlético de Madrid, loan), Gabriel Gudmundsson (Groningen) Out: Boubakary Soumaré (Leicester City), Mike Maignan (AC Milan), Hervé Koffi (Charleroi), Adama Soumaoro (Bologna, loan made permanent), Rominigue Kouamé (Troyes, loan made permanent), Luiz Araújo (Atlanta United), Darly Nlandu (Avranches, loan) • The French champions failed to win any of their first three league games of the season, drawing at Metz (3-3) and St-Étienne (1-1) either side of a 4-0 home loss against Christophe Galtier's Nice on 14 August; Galtier had guided LOSC to the Ligue 1 title in 2020/21.