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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Petrovskiy - St Petersburg Tuesday 4 November 2014 18.00CET (20.00 local time) FC Zenit Group C - Matchday 4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen Last updated 29/08/2015 15:18CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Head coach 9 Match officials 10 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Group Standings 18 Competition facts 20 Team facts 21 Legend 23 1 FC Zenit - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Tuesday 4 November 2014 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Donati 58, K. 22/10/2014 GS Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Zenit 2-0 Leverkusen Papadopoulos 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 10/04/2008 QF FC Zenit - Bayer 04 Leverkusen St Petersburg Bulykin 18 agg: 4-2 Kiessling 33; Arshavin 20, Pogrebnyak 52, 03/04/2008 QF Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC Zenit 1-4 Leverkusen Anyukov 61, Denisov 64 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 4 4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 4 4 FC Zenit - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Kehl 38; Hulk 16, 19/03/2014 R16 Borussia Dortmund - FC Zenit Dortmund agg: 5-4 Rondón 73 Shatov 57, Hulk 69 (P); Mkhitaryan 4, 25/02/2014 R16 FC Zenit - Borussia Dortmund 2-4 St Petersburg Reus 5, R. Lewandowski 61, 71 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Gebhart 80; Semshov 26/02/2009 R3 VfB Stuttgart - FC Zenit Stuttgart agg: 2-4 42, Fayzulin 86 Huszti 2, Tymoshchuk 18/02/2009 R3 FC Zenit - VfB Stuttgart 2-1 St Petersburg 45+3; Gomez 15 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pogrebnyak 4, 73, 4-0 01/05/2008 SF FC Zenit - FC Bayern München St Petersburg Zyryanov 39, Fayzulin agg: 5-1 54 Ribéry 18; Lúcio 60 24/04/2008 SF FC Bayern München - FC Zenit 1-1 Munich (og) Pogrebnyak 76, Ionov 29/11/2007 GS FC Zenit - 1. FC Nürnberg 2-2 St Petersburg 79; Charisteas 25, Benko 84 2 FC Zenit - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Tuesday 4 November 2014 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Meijer 25, Blank 88 TSV Alemannia Aachen - FC 02/12/2004 GS 2-2 Cologne (P); Radimov 37 (P), Zenit Gorshkov 75 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Walter 27, 5-0 Sigurvinsson 41, 45, 01/11/1989 R2 VfB Stuttgart - FC Zenit Stuttgart agg: 6-0 Allgöwer 43, Buchwald 49 18/10/1989 R2 FC Zenit - VfB Stuttgart 0-1 Leningrad Allgöwer 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Trautmann 9, 1. FC Dynamo Dresden - FC 4-1 Schmuck 14, Minge 30/09/1981 R1 Dresden Zenit agg: 6-2 49, Heidler 71; Kazachyenok 39 FC Zenit - 1. FC Dynamo Zheludkov 14; Dörner 16/09/1981 R1 1-2 Leningrad Dresden 32, Heidler 36 Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pavlyuchenko 63 (P), FC Spartak Moskva - Bayer 04 08/11/2007 GS 2-1 Moscow Mozart 77 (P); Freier Leverkusen 90+1 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bayer 04 Leverkusen - FC 25/10/2000 GS 1-0 Leverkusen Ballack 52 Spartak Moskva FC Spartak Moskva - Bayer 04 12/09/2000 GS 2-0 Moscow Titov 51, Bezrodny 87 Leverkusen Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit 7 2 1 4 8 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 15 5 3 7 23 28 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 3 2 0 1 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 3 6 8 3 FC Zenit - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Tuesday 4 November 2014 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Match background Bayer 04 Leverkusen overtook FC Zenit with their victory on matchday three and will be looking to strengthen their hold on the Group C leadership when the sides renew acquaintance in Russia. • Giulio Donati broke the deadlock at the BayArena, substitute Kyriakos Papadopoulos securing Leverkusen's 2-0 win three minutes after coming on. The hosts, who have a one-point advantage over AS Monaco FC in second place, had Wendell dismissed late on. Previous meetings • The sides met in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup quarter-final with the Russian side triumphing 4-2 on aggregate en route to lifting the trophy. Both teams won the away legs, Dmitri Bulykin scoring the only goal in St Petersburg to give Leverkusen a measure of revenge for their 4-1 defeat in Germany. Anatoliy Tymoshchuk missed a late penalty for Zenit in the second leg. • The lineups at the Stadion Petrovski on 10 April 2008 were: Zenit: Malafeev, Anyukov, Shirokov, Križanac, Šírl, Denisov, Tymoshchuk, Zyryanov, Arshavin, Pogrebnyak, Fayzulin (Radimov 89). Leverkusen: Adler, Castro, Callsen-Bracker, Haggui, Sarpei, Schwegler (Rolfes 61), Sinkiewicz, Freier (Kiessling 70), Schneider, Dum (Gekas 77), Bulykin. • In Germany, Zenit had scored three second-half goals in 12 minutes. Andrey Arshavin opened the scoring, and Aleksandr Anyukov made it 3-1 after Stefan Kiessling had struck a first-half equaliser. Match background Zenit • Zenit have lost four of their seven home games against German sides, the most recent the 4-2 reverse against Borussia Dortmund which meant they exited last season's competition in the round of 16 5-4 on aggregate. • Before 2007/08, Zenit had not defeated a German club in European competition but under Dutch coach Dick Advocaat they played five games against Bundesliga sides on their way to lifting the UEFA Cup. • They first drew 2-2 at home to 1. FC Nürnberg in the group stage and then, after overcoming Leverkusen, drew 1-1 at FC Bayern München before a 4-0 victory at the Stadion Petrovski. • Zenit's overall record against German sides in 15 games is W5 D3 L7. • They won 2-0 at Benfica on matchday one and two weeks later drew 0-0 at home to Monaco. They are third with four points, one point behind Monaco and another one adrift of Leverkusen. Last season, Zenit reached the round of 16 with just six points – the lowest total in UEFA Champions League history. Leverkusen • Leverkusen's only other experience of Russian opponents came against FC Spartak Moskva. The teams met in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League first group stage, Leverkusen losing 2-0 in Moscow but winning 1-0 at home. • They returned to the Luzhniki Stadium in the group stage of the 2007/08 UEFA Cup, losing 2-1. • The Werkself lost 1-0 at Monaco on matchday one but bounced back with a 3-1 win over Benfica. Coach and player links • In January Zenit defeated Roger Schmidt's FC Salzburg 1-0 in a friendly in Qatar. • Emir Spahić played for FC Lokomotiv Moskva from 2006 to 2009, scoring in a 1-0 win over Zenit on 7 October 2007. • Spahić also played for FC Shinnik Yaroslavl, FC Torpedo Moskva and FC Anji where he was a team-mate of Oleg Shatov. • Axel Witsel was sent off for Belgium in a FIFA 2010 World Cup qualifier against Spahić's Bosnia and Herzegovina in Zenica on 1 April 2009. • Andrey Arshavin scored in Russia's 2-1 defeat in Dortmund on 11 October 2008 in a World Cup qualifier against Simon Rolfes' Germany. Aleksandr Anyukov also played for the visitors while Vyacheslav Malafeev was on the bench. • Giulio Donati and Domenico Criscito were team-mates in Italy's Under-21s. • Aleksandr Kerzhakov scored in Russia's 1-1 draw with Son Heung-Min's South Korea at the 2014 World Cup. Viktor Fayzulin and Shatov also played for Russia in the Cuiaba fixture. Match facts Zenit 4 FC Zenit - Bayer 04 Leverkusen Tuesday 4 November 2014 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg • Javi García is a yellow card away from a suspension after being booked on matchdays one and three. • Zenit opened up a seven-point lead over second-placed PFC CSKA Moskva after defeating the capital club 1-0 away from home on Saturday, Javi García registering early on. • Kerzhakov scored an overhead kick as Zenit put five without reply past FC Mordovia Saransk on 26 October for their first win in four matches. Danny rounded things off with his first goal since mid-August. • Three days later, however, a near full-strength Zenit XI squandered a two-goal lead in losing 3-2 after extra time to the Premier-Liga's bottom club, FC Arsenal Tula, in the Russian Cup round of 16. • Including the final game of last season, André Villas-Boas's side are 13 Premier-Liga matches unbeaten. Leverkusen • Wendell is suspended following his red card on matchday three. • Leverkusen suffered their first defeat in nine games on Saturday, losing 1-0 at Hamburger SV. • Following their victory over Zenit, Leverkusen were 1-0 home winners against FC Schalke 04 thanks to Hakan Çalhanoğlu's free-kick.