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TECHNICAL REPORT

2019/20 CONTENTS 4 6 16 22 INTRODUCTION STORY OF THE FINAL Q&A: THE SEASON 28 30 34 44 RESULTS SQUAD OF TALKING GOALS OF THE SEASON POINTS THE SEASON

ANALYSIS 46 54 58 62 GOALSCORING SET PLAYS CORNERS PRESSING

66 70 71 72 GOALKEEPING POSSESSION CROSSING FITNESS

74 106 TEAM ROLL OF PROFILES HONOUR

COVER: and Kylian Mbappé battle for the ball in the final XXXXXXXINTRODUCTION UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TECHNICAL REPORT 2019/20

GROUP A GROUP B

Paris Real CF Club Brugge Galatasaray AŞ FC Bayern Tottenham Olympiacos FC FK Crvena Saint-Germain (RM) (BRU) (GAL) München Hotspur FC (OLY) zvezda (PAR) (BAY) (TOT) (CRV)

GROUP C GROUP D

Paris and Bayern line up before the final in Lisbon Manchester Atalanta BC FC Shakhtar GNK Dinamo Juventus Club Atlético Bayer 04 FC Lokomotiv City FC (ATA) Donetsk (JUV) de Madrid Leverkusen Moskva (MC) (SHK) (DZ) (ATL) (BL) (LMO) This review of the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League season serves as a record of a campaign UNDER THE that spanned 119 matches between the start of the group stage in September 2019 and GROUP E GROUP F the final in Lisbon on 23 August 2020. MICROSCOPE The 21st UEFA Champions League technical report of its kind, it aims to provide a meaningful analysis of the action via the input of UEFA’s A UNIQUE UEFA CHAMPIONS Technical Observers’ Group. A member of this group LEAGUE SEASON PROMPTED MUCH analysed every fixture played in the knockout rounds and their insights provide the basis for the talking REFLECTION AS UEFA’S TECHNICAL points featured in the report, as well as shaping OBSERVERS ANALYSED THE KEY the reflections on the playing styles of the top 16 Liverpool FC SSC Napoli FC Salzburg KRC Genk FC Borussia FC Internazionale SK Slavia clubs that feature in the team profiles section. (LIV) (NAP) (SBG) (GNK) (BAR) Dortmund Milano Praha (BVB) (INT) (SLP) TRENDS AND TALKING POINTS UEFA’s team of technical observers for 2019/20 comprised Packie Bonner (UEFA technical adviser), Cosmin Contra (Dinamo Bucureşti head coach), Aitor Karanka (Birmingham City manager), Roberto Martínez ( national team head coach), GROUP G GROUP H Ginés Meléndez (Football Federation of Armenia technical director), Phil Neville (England women’s national team head coach), (England national team head coach) and Willi Ruttensteiner ( national team head coach). The report is backed by statistical analysis and, with the tendencies identified in the following pages, UEFA aims to provide a meaningful tool for coaches across the continent. It will be made available to RB Leipzig Olympique SL Benfica FC Zenit Valencia CF Chelsea FC AFC Ajax LOSC Lille members of the coaching family and, hopefully, (LEI) Lyonnais (SLB) (ZEN) (VAL) (CHE) (AJX) (LIL) will help inform development coaches about the (OL) prevailing styles and strategies, as well as the qualities required, at the elite end of the club game.

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UNSTOPPABLE FORCE

ONCE BAYERN HAD HIT THEIR GROOVE UNDER HANSI FLICK, NOTHING COULD KNOCK Bayern’s Joshua THEM OFF THEIR STRIDE – NOT EVEN AN Kimmich lines up a corner during their first-leg win at Chelsea UNPRECEDENTED PAUSE IN ACTION in the last 16

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Jürgen Klopp’s holders was the Reds’ sole red cards when letting slip a three- lead in defeat in any competition before December. a 4-4 draw at Stamford Bridge. 308 For Napoli, their own Matchday 6 win over Genk No such regrets for Juventus, undefeated was the last act of ’s reign: he Group D winners ahead of Atlético de Madrid, Record number lost his job a few hours later. and Barcelona, who prevailed in Group F and of goals scored in Tottenham changed coach too as two-time posted a notable milestone along the way as the group stage Champions League winner José Mourinho Ansu Fati became the youngest scorer of the replaced Mauricio Pochettino, the man Champions League era when finding the net in who had led Spurs to last season’s final. In a 2-1 Matchday 6 win at , aged 17 Mourinho’s first home fixture on 26 November, years and 40 days. It was the second time Inter his new side overturned a two-goal deficit to had surrendered a lead to lose to Barcelona; 16 beat Olympiacos 4-2 and secure second place even more costly was Dortmund’s comeback Record number of in their section behind Bayern. from 2-0 down to beat ’s away goals scored by One of the most intriguing encounters, with side, three points that proved the difference hindsight, came on 2 October between eventual between the teams come December. Bayern in Group B semi-finalists RB Leipzig and Olympique For drama, nothing matched the revival of Lyonnais in Group G. Sylvinho lost his job as Lyon tournament debutants Atalanta. After their 5-1 coach six days later but the 1-3-5-2 formation thrashing at Group C winners Manchester City tried out in their 2-0 away win was a glimpse of on 22 October they had three defeats with 11 13 the template that served the next coach, Rudi goals conceded. Yet their six attempts on target Garcia, so well later on. That loss was the only in Manchester was an easily ignored sign of life; Consecutive seasons hiccup for Leipzig’s who, at after Gabriel Jesus’s penalty miss when the teams Barcelona have won 32, became the youngest coach to lead a team met again in Milan, Mario Pašalić’s header rescued their group into the last 16, three points clear of Lyon. a 1-1 draw and Atalanta grabbed their lifeline by

Kylian Mbappé Two other upcoming coaches, Albert Celades beating Dinamo and Shakhtar to become the first scored one of and , steered their respective team since Newcastle United in 2002 to reach the the nine group stage hat-tricks clubs, Valencia and Chelsea, into the top two last 16 after three opening losses. It took them at Club Brugge positions in Group H, doing so at the expense of until the 66th minute of their last group fixture to 9 2019 semi-finalists Ajax, who were left ruing two climb into second place, but it was worth the wait. Hat-tricks scored in the group stage GROUP STAGE GROUP STAGE GOALS OVER LAST Start as you mean to carry on. This was certainly their own marker in Group A, beginning with a the case for Bayern München as they registered 3-0 home triumph against Real Madrid. Ángel 6 FIVE SEASONS 34 shots in their 3-0 opening victory over Di María struck twice against his old club though Crvena zvezda. The 7-2 rout of Tottenham those charting football trends will have noted a Unbeaten teams 2019/20 308 Hotspur, the 2019 runners-up, in their next third goal in which full-backs in the group stage 2018/19 275 fixture was an even bigger statement – it was and Juan Bernat combined on a counter. Only the heaviest home defeat for an English side in a 2-2 draw in Madrid denied Paris a spotless 2017/18 306 European competition and featured four goals defensive record – even then they showed by a former Arsenal player, winger Serge Gnabry. resilience in coming back from two down. 2016/17 278 As it was, the more modest 2-0 home If ’s team had the tightest 5 success over Olympiacos on 6 November proved defence, they also had one of the group 2015/16 280 For the first time Bayern’s most significant night in Group B. phase’s nine hat-trick heroes after Kylian only clubs from five Coming four days after a 5-1 defeat at Eintracht Mbappé’s treble at Club Brugge. It was countries (England, and Niko Kovač’s subsequent sacking, teenager Erling Braut Haaland who had set France, , , it was Hansi Flick’s first game as interim coach that ball rolling with a first-half hat-trick on his Spain) survived the and featured the Champions League debut competition debut in Salzburg’s 6-2 opening of , a winger asked to play victory over Genk. Haaland became the first group stage at left-back four days after his 19th birthday. teenager to score in five consecutive matches, Three weeks later, with a 6-0 crushing of Crvena which was enough for him to earn a midwinter zvezda facilitated by ’s move to but not Salzburg 16-minute, four-goal scoring spree, Flick had qualification from Group D. Liverpool’s 2-0 made the best start of any Bayern coach. win in on Matchday 6 made it three

While Bayern reached Christmas as only the years running that they had advanced at the Liverpool qualified on Matchday 6 for the seventh club to end the group stage with a last, earning first place ahead of an unbeaten third season in a row perfect record, Paris Saint-Germain laid down Napoli side whose September success against

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Leipzig reached a first quarter-final ROUND OF 16 at the expense of 6 Tottenham ’s Owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the round header from Ángel Di María’s corner made it goal in Turin meant of 16 started on 18 February and did not advantage Paris before full-back Juan Bernat conclude until 8 August. This meant half of the capped an impressive evening spent stymying he had scored in six eight ties ending long after they had begun, Dortmund’s wingers with a second goal. matches running in and six second legs unfolding behind closed If that meant a first quarter-final since the competition doors. In this context, the red, flare-lit sky that 2016 for Paris, for newcomers Atalanta a greeted Atlético de Madrid’s squad on arrival first last-eight appearance in any European for their home leg against Liverpool now feels competition since 1991 beckoned thanks to even more special. an 8-4 aggregate triumph over Valencia. They “We started winning the game at the created intense pressure with five or six players 32 roundabout,” said coach of that attacking in the opposition half yet took risks Tackles by Leipzig in stirring welcome for Atlético whose 1-0 success, too – Valencia had 17 attempts but took just the second leg against through Saúl Ñíguez’s early goal, was a triumph one, through , as Atalanta Tottenham; the most of defensive discipline and organisation from a won 4-1 in Milan. The return at Mestalla was a in any knockout round home team who sat deep and counterattacked famous night for Atalanta’s Slovenian forward match strongly against a Liverpool side who had Josip Iličić, who became the first player to 71.7% of possession. The holders did not hit four goals in a Champions League away manage a shot on target but it was a different knockout tie. story at where they had 27 chances, Leipzig ensured another new name in the with and last eight by overcoming Tottenham Hotspur. 70 scoring from two of 47 crosses. ’s nine Their quick counterattacking was a feature saves were critical in keeping the visitors alive of an away leg settled by ’s spot Clearances by before an extra-time twist as Marcos Llorente (2) kick; back in Germany it was their midfield Atlético at Anfield, and Álvaro Morata struck to inflict Liverpool’s dominance, through the energy and adventure a competition high first home European loss under Jürgen Klopp. of and two-goal , If Liverpool’s reign was over, Paris Saint- which caught the eye before they rounded off Germain were beginning to dream. Across a 3-0 win with a rapid advance through the the previous two seasons had missed lines, begun by goalkeeper Péter Gulácsi and three of their four games in the round of 16. concluded by . 130 This time he was fit and his conversion of Kylian There was a surprise in store on the ’s Mbappé’s cross diluted the impact of Erling competition’s resumption in August as Juventus from Isco created by Vinícius, the focal point featuring two goals and two assists from Champions League Braut Haaland’s two goals in a first-leg loss at succumbed on away goals to a Lyon side who of their attack out on the left, City came back: Robert Lewandowski as Bayern warmed up for goal total after his Borussia Dortmund. Back in France, Neymar’s had played only one official match since 8 De Bruyne crossed for Jesus, now back up front, Lisbon with an admirable show of intensity. March. Though Cristiano Ronaldo struck twice Finally to Barcelona, whose last-16 tie with double against Lyon to pull them level, then converted a penalty in Turin, an early Memphis Depay penalty was to seal the win. Back in Manchester, Madrid Napoli featured two men coaching for the enough for the side to prevail. Lyon set were without , sent off late in the first time in the competition: Quique Setién, up in the 1-3-5-2 formation that coach Rudi first leg, and wilted in the face of City’s intense appointed after the January dismissal of Garcia had introduced for a domestic fixture pressing as errors by Raphäel Varane brought , and Gennaro Gattuso, who five days before the first leg. ’s goals for Raheem Sterling and Jesus. had succeeded Carlo Ancelotti in in ability to take on and beat a man was vital – That left City as the last English survivors December. A Champions League winner in leading both to ’s first-leg winner after Bayern München overwhelmed Chelsea, the AC Milan midfield, Gattuso saw Napoli and the second-leg penalty – and so too the beginning with a 3-0 away victory in February. earn a 1-1 first-leg draw with the help of solidity of a deep defensive block from which It was another night for the two-goal Serge an influential display by Diego Demme, Lyon sprang the ball forward more quickly than Gnabry to shine in though this was an positioned in front of the back four to help any other side among the last 16 (1.69m per exceptional team effort as Bayern controlled keep the hosts compact and limit Barcelona to second on average). the tempo through Thiago Alcántara and one shot on target – the Real Madrid were another former winner to , and countered ruthlessly. effort that equalised ’ strike. fall, though their 4-2 aggregate elimination by Chelsea’s starting formation of 1-3-4-2-1 Napoli saw nearly as much of the ball (49%) Manchester City was less of a surprise given became a 1-5-2-3 with Jorginho and Mateo as Barcelona in the return but had their first-leg reverse at the Santiago Bernabéu. Kovačić both working deep and wing-backs no answer to the brilliance of , Josep Guardiola tweaked his tactics, with Kevin Reece James and Marcos Alonso pinned back who produced the competition’s Goal of A heat map of Bernardo De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva operating as false by the fierce pressing that stopped the hosts the Season – beating three defenders with a Silva’s touches at Real Madrid nines and Gabriel Jesus as a left . finding any rhythm. The second leg in Munich dribble into the box and finding the far corner And though Madrid scored an opening goal offered more of the same: a 4-1 victory despite falling – in Barcelona’s 3-1 victory.

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Germain’s late fightback against Atalanta. On seasons – after Lyon broke with characteristic their club’s 50th birthday, Thomas Tuchel’s speed beyond their high line. In a change 3 men exorcised the ghosts of past failures in the from his usual formation, Josep Guardiola knockout rounds – four losses in the last eight, had fielded a back three of Fernandinho, Eric Manchester City conceded and three more in the last 16 – by scoring twice García and Aymeric Laporte – to bring extra three for the fifth time in in added time to reach their first semi-final security against Lyon’s front two – and also seven last-eight matches since 1995. Neymar put behind him an early two holding in Rodri and İlkay under Guardiola miss when clean through by driving his team Gündoğan. Yet despite having so much of on: he completed 16 dribbles, the most by any the ball, City struggled to find their usual player in a Champions League match since passing patterns without their more mobile Lionel Messi against Manchester United in April midfielders to find space between the lines. 2008, and created the 90th-minute equaliser The 56th-minute introduction of Riyad 5 for with his low cross. Precisely 149 Mahrez prompted a return to a 1-4-3-3 shape Number of substitutes who seconds later, Neymar’s pass released Kylian and extra pressure on Lyon’s impressively scored in the quarter-finals Mbappé to set up fellow substitute Eric Maxim solid centre-back trio but despite a superbly Choupo-Moting to complete the turnaround. worked equaliser, Dembélé’s For an Atalanta side missing round of 16 late double – following, respectively, an hero Josip Iličić, it was a heartbreaking finish. errant Laporte pass and an Ederson fumble They had played their usual high-risk game, – left Guardiola still seeking a first semi- 14 with as many seven players pressing in the final appearance with City. It might have Paris half in the first period. Either side of been a different story had Raheem Sterling Shots on target for Bayern Mario Pašalić’s first-half goal were other converted into an unguarded net at 1-2; against Barcelona clear chances: a header from instead he missed and 59 seconds later Lyon (befitting their status as the team with the had their third goal. most successful crosses, 28.9%) and a shot sliced wide by . There was more late drama the next night 126.1km Robert Lewandowski heads Bayern’s fifth and again it was a substitute with the final say goal in a remarkable Distance run by Atlético, quarter-final as ’ deflected shot in the 88th the most of the quarter- minute took Leipzig into their first semi- final teams final at the expense of Atlético de Madrid. Atlético coach If the 21-year-old American was an unlikely Diego Simeone reacts during defeat QUARTER-FINALS match winner – he had never scored before by Leipzig for Leipzig – the provider of the cut-back to When UEFA’s group of technical observers tirelessly and finding space between the him, Angeliño, was merely highlighting his reflected on the football produced at the lines. Though Barcelona regained parity sizeable contribution down the left. Julian ‘Final 8’ tournament in Lisbon, Packie Bonner with ’s own goal, they were Nagelsmann’s team had opened the scoring remarked that in spite of the absence of overwhelmed in a spell of three Bayern with a goal that showcased their intelligent spectators “there was a really good tempo goals in ten minutes, moving the score to positional play, every outfield player touching to the games”. Nowhere was the tempo 4-1 just past the half-hour. Luis Suárez’s the ball in an 18-pass sequence before Dani greater than at the Estádio do Sport Lisboa fine second Barcelona goal, after 57 Olmo headed in Marcel Sabitzer’s cross. With e Benfica on the night of 14 August as minutes, was merely the cue for four more his dribbling ability, João Félix made his own Bayern München delivered a staggering show from Bayern, the pick of the bunch the fifth impact as an Atlético substitute, winning of intensity in a record-breaking 8-2 quarter- when Alphonso Davies beat Messi, Vidal then converting the spot-kick equaliser, but final victory over Barcelona. and José Semedo down the left before ultimately it was another replacement’s night. Quique Setién set Barça up in a cautious- teeing up Joshua Kimmich. According The potential significance of the five- looking 1-4-4-2 formation with Sergi to defender Gerard Piqué, this was “rock substitute rule was a topic discussed by Lyon Roberto and Arturo Vidal in the wide midfield bottom” for a Barcelona team who had coach coach ahead of the final roles, and Antoine Griezmann starting on the entered the contest with their oldest quarter-final against Manchester City. It came bench, yet the Blaugrana had no answer to starting XI in the Champions League – an up again post-match after Moussa Dembélé the speed and energy of a Bayern side whose average age of 29 years 329 days – and entered the action on 75 minutes and scored high pressing and swift attacking were ended it having covered less ground than the two goals that secured Lyon’s 3-1 victory. fundamental in inflicting their opponents’ any of the quarter-final teams (107.1km). City had 71.2% of possession and completed heaviest defeat since 1951. If that quarter-final delivered the biggest 552 passes to their opponents’ 177 yet fell Thomas Müller set the tone, not only with headlines, there was plenty to savour in the behind to ’s 24th-minute goal the fourth-minute opener but by working other three ties, beginning with Paris Saint- – his fourth against the English club in two

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9 SEMI-FINALS Robert Lewandowski For the first time since 1991 the last four If Neymar’s own luck in front of goal was became the third man of the Champions League featured not a out – he had earlier brushed a shot against after Ruud van Nistelrooy single team from England, Italy or Spain. the same post when released by Mbappé – Coincidentally, the 1990s was the decade of his cute back-heel touch put Di María in the and Cristiano Ronaldo Paris Saint-Germain’s only previous European clear to double the lead on the ground that he to score in nine finals – a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup final won called home as an Benfica player and where consecutive matches in 1996, a second lost a year later – and they he was a final winner with Real Madrid in now had another to look forward to after 2014. It was a goal originating from Gulácsi’s winning the first of the two Franco-German misplaced pass under pressure – reward semi-finals against Leipzig. for Paris’s high pressing, with Tuchel’s men With Kylian Mbappé and Ángel Di María back making life particularly awkward for Lukas 17 in their starting XI – the latter after his quarter- Klostermann, the right-footed Leipzig centre- Ángel Di María has never final suspension – the French champions had back playing as the left-sided centre-half in a lost in the 17 Champions the bit firmly between their teeth from the changed 1-4-1-4-1 formation. League matches in outset at the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica For Leipzig, the mere fact of contesting which he has scored according to UEFA observer Cosmin Contra. a Champions League semi-final 11 years “After winning like they did against Atalanta, after their formation – and with a 33-year- against Leipzig we saw another Paris – with old coach, Julian Nagelsmann, at the helm more confidence, pressing more aggressively, – was a major achievement yet the journey playing very good football,” he said. Thomas had reached its end. “After the second goal, 4 Tuchel’s team gained an early advantage the belief of our players went down a little through Marquinhos’s header from Di María’s bit,” admitted Nagelsmann and their fate European semi-final free-kick and in a campaign with a scarcity of was confirmed after 58 minutes with Juan defeats for Lyon who inventiveness from dead-ball situations, it is Bernat’s header from a Di María cross after Bayern’s Serge have still to reach a worth noting Neymar hit the near post later in Ander Herrera’s pressure had led to Nordi Gnabry celebrates one of his two major UEFA club the half with a cheeky attempt to catch out Mukiele slipping and losing the ball by the semi-final goals competition final Péter Gulácsi from a position out wide. corner flag.

Marquinhos rises to The pre-match favourites, Bayern, also credit, their heads did not drop; players head Paris in front against Leipzig prevailed in the second semi-final 24 hours like – singled out for later at the Estádio José Alvalade, albeit only praise by Contra – kept on covering the after surviving two early scares against Lyon. ground in midfield, his distance travelled From winning the ball in their own half, Lyon (12.2km) surpassed only by Thomas Müller used their forwards’ pace to exploit the space (12.6km). Yet when Houssem Aouar left behind Bayern’s high defensive line and first Ekambi alone in front of , the Memphis Depay raced clear but shot into the goalkeeper made the save. side-netting, before struck a For expected goals, the scoreline was post after cutting in past two defenders. narrow –2.65 to 1.85 in Bayern’s favour “We didn’t have any luck at the start of – but it finished 3-0 out on the pitch the match because we had the two biggest through Robert Lewandowski’s back-post chances,” said Lyon coach Rudi Garcia header from a Joshua Kimmich free-kick afterwards, the ruefulness compounded by two minutes from the end. It was his the fact a minute after Ekambi’s miss, Serge 15th goal of the competition and Bayern Gnabry burst infield from the right, cutting were through to their 11th European Cup a swathe through the black shirts before final, though coach Hansi Flick, even after unleashing a fierce shot past . his side’s tenth straight victory in the By the 33rd minute, when the same player competition, was left wanting more. “Lyon forced the ball over the goal-line, Bayern had are strong tactically and they caused us the game in their grip. problems early on,” he admitted. “We know Ten years earlier, Lyon had lost their only we need to defend better – we said before previous Champions League semi-final we couldn’t afford to give away the ball 4-0 on aggregate against Bayern. To their easily, but we did.”

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COMAN PUTS BAYERN BACK ON TOP ’S HEADER AGAINST HIS FORMER CLUB TOOK THE TROPHY TO MUNICH FOR THE SIXTH TIME

An August evening in Lisbon and an empty fit four days after limping out of Bayern’s stadium. No one could have foreseen such a semi-final with a muscle injury. The name scenario for the 2019/20 Champions League that really leapt out, though, was Kingsley final when the group stage began 11 months Coman, the one-time Paris prodigy picked previously. In no way, though, did it dilute the to start against his boyhood club in place intrigue or anticipation for the hundreds of of Ivan Perišić. Coman had come on for the millions watching around the world. Could Croatian during the second half of Bayern’s first-time finalists Paris Saint-Germain really previous two matches; now coach Hansi Flick stop Bayern München, the five-time winners had entrusted him to start and the 24-year- entering their 11th showpiece on a run of ten old winger would repay that faith in the best straight wins across the campaign? Would possible fashion with the only goal and a Man Bayern alter their high-risk strategy because of the Match performance. of the counterattacking threat of opponents The tale of the Parisian breaking Paris who had scored in 34 consecutive European hearts ensured a compelling conclusion even matches? Or would these two German- if, as Italian referee Daniele Orsato gave the coached teams deliver a goal feast in keeping first blast on his whistle, few would have with this high-scoring campaign? predicted the lowest-scoring final since 2003. The team sheets inside the Estádio do Sport Not least with Bayern’s instant aggression Lisboa e Benfica offered other talking points suggesting business as usual for the Bavarian with back from the hamstring side. Within 75 seconds, their front four problem sustained in Paris’s quarter-final attackers – Robert Lewandowski, Thomas against Atalanta and Jérôme Boateng passed Müller, Serge Gnabry and Coman – were

Kingsley Coman heads the only goal of the final

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all pressing high in the top right quarter of the worth noting that Paris goalkeeper Navas had only one save to make in the first period, opposition half. Gnabry put Leandro Paredes 2 under pressure and stole the ball. when Lewandowski, adjusting impressively, For the second time misplaced his attempted through pass but the twisted his neck muscles to get his head to a two German coaches intent was clear. Indeed by the six-minute mark – deflected Müller cross. met in the final, seven when Thiago Alcántara struck Bayern’s first shot, Given Bayern had scored at least three years after Jupp wayward from 30 metres – Bayern had registered times in each of their previous six European Heynckes’ Bayern six regains already in the opposition half. fixtures, this was credit to Paris’s defensive According to UEFA technical observer Roberto organisation, led by the assured faced Jürgen Klopp’s Martínez, here was a team with an absolute on his farewell appearance. According to Borussia Dortmund belief in their methods: “They accept it’s a risk Martínez there were at least “five players that they take. They are Bayern.” always behind the front four of Bayern”, with After the early storm had subsided, a key Marquinhos in the pivot role, working closely feature of Paris’s attacking strategy became with centre-backs Thiago Silva and Presnel 7 clear: to exploit the space between full-back Kimpembe and providing some important Joshua Kimmich and Boateng, Bayern’s right- defensive headers. It was the seventh sided centre-back. Paredes was first to try in the Ander Herrera also caught the eye of UEFA’s final involving 15th minute as he collected a pass from Thiago observers who wondered whether it was his a French club and Silva inside his own half and angled the ball higher position in the midfield, or simply all but one has out left for Kylian Mbappé, advancing beyond caution, which kept Goretzka deeper than ended in defeat Kimmich. It brought a crossing opportunity in previous Bayern matches. “He’s always in for Juan Bernat, and when this was blocked, the right position and with the ball he always the ball span back for Mbappé to shoot but makes the right passes,” said Aitor Karanka Goretzka was in the way. of Herrera. Certainly no player had a higher Paredes soon repeated the ploy after ratio of completed passes in the final (95%) Neymar is denied by Manuel Neuer’s 35 pouncing on a loose David Alaba pass, fizzing and the Spaniard was involved in his team’s left leg with Ángel the ball between Boateng and Kimmich yet next attack of menace, after Mbappé’s Di María poised Paris failed to score Mbappé, cutting inside on to his right foot, saw flick over the head of Boateng left Neymar for the first time his shot blocked by the full-back. That was the surging forward. The No10 supplied Di María in 35 European quarter-hour and three minutes later a clearer and when he laid the ball back to Herrera, a on the left and asked repeated questions enhancing the atmosphere by using a knife and fixtures dating back opening arrived. This time Marquinhos, from lovely return pass by the midfielder gave the of Kehrer. Silva headed one cross clear after fork to create a rattling noise on a stadium rail. to April 2016 the halfway line, picked out Mbappé in that Argentinian a sight of goal from the right of Coman had nutmegged the right-back. Another There was a touch of needle too. Neymar went same target space with Kimmich caught upfield. the box. Yet with his right foot, Di María drilled time the winger whipped the ball over early to ground with a shout after collecting a throw- Mbappé fed the ball on to Neymar, breaking over. If that was a let-off for Bayern, there was into the danger zone, where Bernat did well in between Gnabry and Goretzka. Gnabry between the centre-backs, and from 15 metres still a price to pay: Boateng’s efforts to chase to put off Lewandowski. When Coman got in protested his innocence but soon after earned out, the Brazilian aimed a low shot across back in that action left him injured again, front of Kehrer again just before the break and a yellow card after making contact with the 500 Manuel Neuer. Yet the goalkeeper, arms and prompting his replacement by Niklas Süle. went down in the box, Orsato waved play on – a Brazilian’s right ankle down the same stretch of Coman’s winner legs wide in the five-point save position, blocked One view expressed in the post-final discussion point Coman reopened with the touchline. Paredes’ angry reaction – grabbing was Bayern’s with his left leg and reacted superbly to the meeting was that Paris did not have the official as they left the field for the interval. the back of Gnabry’s shirt – brought him a profile of players to press as insistently as By that point, Paris had another nearly 500th Champions follow-up, sticking out a foot to stop Neymar’s booking too. While Thiago was the Bayern cross reaching Ángel Di María. Cue a chest bump Bayern with their “amazing balance between moment to digest. Following Alaba’s misdirected player most vocal in that heated discussion League goal for the goalkeeper from Alaba as Di María put technical capacity and physical power” as pass out of defence, Mbappé gathered the with Paredes, it was his eloquence on the ball his hands to his head. Paris ranked first for shot Willi Ruttensteiner described it. Yet Neymar ball, stepped inside Kimmich and slipped it to that shone through. conversion (18.7%) across the season but not was showing willing, putting Neuer under Herrera, whose cute return pass gave him a clear The Spaniard sat deep, supporting his defence here, causing Tuchel to lament afterwards: “I’m pressure more than once. “When they could, sight of goal in a central position. The first-time and linking the game with a range of passes convinced that if we’d got the first goal, we they pressed aggressively in their half,” said strike was straight at Neuer. Tuchel said it was and, typically, it was his penetrating diagonal would have won that same game 1-0.” Cosmin Contra. From one such Neymar “a miracle” Mbappé was even available a month ball to Kimmich that started the move for the Bayern’s own best attempt of the half came action, the goalkeeper’s ball to the head of after suffering an ankle injury in the French Cup decisive goal after 59 minutes. He even signalled four minutes later, following an Alphonso Davies Davies out on the left led to a turnover and final. He had played 86 minutes against Leipzig the pass to Davies before collecting from the cross. With his back to goal, Lewandowski the first yellow card of the match for Bayern’s in the semi-final but this was another step up Canadian and moving play beyond the Paris stopped the ball with his left foot, then swivelled teenage full-back as he pulled Thilo Kehrer to in intensity and a lack of sharpness seemed midfield line to Kimmich. Next, Gnabry, receiving and shot into the ground with his right, the ball ground down by the dead-ball line. apparent in his finishing. from Kimmich, drove in a low ball and Müller was spinning towards the far post, then bouncing In truth, that was a rare opportunity for Though the misses were mounting, there were first to it, touching it back to his right-back who on to the goalframe. If that prompted loud Kehrer to get forward. Whereas Gnabry on loud shouts of support for the Paris players as floated a cross over five defenders’ heads to encouragement from the Bayern delegation in the other wing was coming inside to free the second half resumed; indeed more than the space beyond the back post. There, Kehrer, the stand – “Super Bayern” came the cry – it is space for Kimmich, Coman stayed wide one member of the Parisian entourage took to with an eye on Lewandowski, was too late to

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It was then a quickly taken free-kick from Bayern lift the trophy MATCH STATISTICS after securing their Verratti, lofted over the back line for Di María, sixth European Cup that created their next opportunity. Davies missed his chance to clear and Di María produced one of the passes of the match, a reverse ball through Alaba’s legs to meet Marquinhos’ run into the box. Yet his shot from the corner of the five-metre box was stopped by the right foot of Neuer. “The best goalkeeper in the world” was PARIS BAYERN how a grateful Flick described Neuer afterwards 0-1 and this performance was a persuasive SAINT-GERMAIN MÜNCHEN argument. With that familiar star shape, Neuer foiled Mbappé one last time after Verratti and NAVAS 1 SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2020 1 NEUER fellow substitute Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting had Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon played him in. The fact Mbappé was offside did KEHRER 4 32 KIMMICH not stop Neuer striking a pose, arms outstretched GOAL BOATENG and fists clenched like a prize fighter. THIAGO SILVA 2 Coman 59 17 4 Süle 25 There was defiance right through the REFEREE Bayern ranks. Müller stretched out a long leg KIMPEMBE 3 27 ALABA to dispossess Marquinhos in the centre circle Daniele Orsato (Italy) and set Lewandowski off on a run ended by  BERNAT 20 Kurzawa 80 14 19 DAVIES a Silva trip (and booking), and a Coutinho TEAM SHAPES spot Coman’s run behind. Cue a glancing header free-kick curled wide. Perišić then had Bayern  HERRERA PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN BAYERN THIAGO ALCÁNTARA 21 6 low past Navas, the ball bouncing once on its substitutes punching the air for his sliding 23 Draxler 72 24 Tolisso 86 way inside the far post. Coman, who at 16 made tackle on Kimpembe. MARQUINHOS 5 18 GORETZKA history as Paris’s youngest player, had scored Mbappé could have been forgiven for 14 22 32 against them in the Champions League final thinking it was not his night earlier, in the 73rd  PAREDES GNABRY 8 8 10 22 seven years later. minute to be precise, when he tricked his way 6 Verratti 65 3 6 17 10 Coutinho 68 inside Süle in the box but then went to ground His threat persisted. Only Kimpembe’s DI MARÍA 25 MÜLLER stooping header stopped Lewandowski as Kimmich stuck out a foot and appeared to 17 Choupo-Moting 80 11 1 5 7 9 25 1 profiting after Coman engineered space catch his right heel. It was a penalty appeal 18 27 COMAN beyond Kehrer for another cross. Coman was overlooked by Orsato and his match officials, MBAPPÉ 7 2 29 21 11 14 Perišić 68 close to adding a second goal himself from and the same applied to Lewandowski when he Goretzka’s ball to the back post, placing his went down under a Kehrer challenge in added NEYMAR 10 4 29 19 9 LEWANDOWSKI volley past Navas but without the sharpness of time. Immediately Verratti set Mbappé away angle to beat Silva, covering behind – a move, down the left. His clever pass found Neymar UNUSED SUBSTITUTES UNUSED SUBSTITUTES incidentally, begun by another crossfield ball to running right to left across the box and, turning Kimmich from Thiago, who would end the night on the corner of the five-metre box, the RICO 16 26 ULREICH with an unsurpassed total of 80 completed Brazilian curled one last ball across goal where passes (from 87 attempted). Choupo-Moting dangled a foot but could not BULKA 30 PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN BAYERN 39 HOFFMANN After 68 minutes, Flick switched his wide connect. It was the final chance gone. 0 GOALS 1 players, replacing Coman and Gnabry with Soon the whistle sounded and Lewandowski ICARDI 18 39% POSSESSION 61% 2 ODRIOZOLA and Perišić, a double change was on his knees, kissing the turf, and Neymar 9 TOTAL ATTEMPTS 12 that, according to Packie Bonner, helped Bayern in tears. Tuchel’s team had finished with SARABIA 19 5 PAVARD 3 ON TARGET 2 continue to press as a unit of four high up the three attempts on target – one more than 3 OFF TARGET 5 pitch. That said, Tuchel’s own first change – Bayern – but a first blank in the competition DIALLO 22 8 JAVI MARTÍNEZ the introduction of for Paredes since April 2016. As Ginés Meléndez, another 3 BLOCKED 5 three minutes before – had an undoubted of UEFA’s team of technical observers, noted: BAKKER 25 0 AGAINST WOODWORK 1 11 CUISANCE impact too. Injury meant the Italian’s only prior “Playing a final isn’t like playing a normal 4 CORNERS 4 contribution in Lisbon had been a seven-minute match – you always pay for your errors.” GUEYE 27 4 YELLOW CARDS 4 21 HERNÁNDEZ run-out against Leipzig yet here he misplaced Which, in this case, meant opportunities 0 RED CARDS 0 just two of his 15 passes. Indeed his first missed in the first single-goal final since 1998. DAGBA 31 35 ZIRKZEE involvement was to help his side break the high Nine months after taking the Bayern reins, 339 PASSES ATTEMPTED 548 press in a move that concluded with Mbappé Flick had his hands on Bayern’s second-ever COACH 262 PASSES COMPLETED 462 COACH just failing to connect with Di María’s angled ball treble of , DFB-Pokal and, last but THOMAS TUCHEL 99.5km DISTANCE COVERED 103.9km HANSI FLICK in from the right. definitely not least, UEFA Champions League.

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‘IT’S ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER’

BAYERN COACH HANSI FLICK COMBINED AN ATTACK-FIRST PHILOSOPHY WITH A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO CONQUER EUROPE JUST TEN MONTHS AFTER TAKING THE HELM

Hansi Flick had not worked as a head coach chatting with three of his players as the stadium for 14 years when he took the helm at Bayern lights dimmed on the night of their final München in November 2019. The one-time triumph, spoke loudly of his success in building Bayern midfielder had served successfully as a strong relationship with his squad, and here assistant coach to Joachim Löw with Germany’s the 55-year-old explains not just his attack-first 2014 FIFA World Cup winners and had also tactical principles but how he created the right worked as of the German atmosphere in which Bayern’s players could Football Association (DFB). Taking the reins at flourish, with good communication pivotal. Bayern was a different challenge altogether, yet “There are three elements that are important in within ten months he had guided the Bavarians a team,” he says, citing first trust, then quality to a treble trophy haul in the Champions and finally fun – something Flick and his players League, Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal. delivered in abundance for their supporters at The sight of Flick sitting in the centre circle, the long campaign’s conclusion.

Hansi Flick prepares to lift the trophy in front of his jubilant Bayern players

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After winning the UEFA Champions strengths 100%. And how can you do that Does a coach have to adjust their whether from the coach or the players, and League, you spoke about the headlines 100%? When you have trust, and when you principles, and is this something you have to have fun together. If those three you’d seen back in November saying that enjoy what you’re doing, and when you feel you’ve had to do at Bayern? conditions are met, I think you have a good people were no longer afraid of Bayern. comfortable within the group, the team. I think Ultimately, it’s about knowing your team, and chance of working successfully. How did you go about changing things we did an awesome job, my whole coaching for me it’s important in order to get the best when you took charge of the team? team as well as the club’s staff, moving step by out of the team. Every group, every company, You have a big variety in the squad in Well, it’s always a question of success and if step. That’s why I think that, at the end of the and every team have their requirements to terms of youth and experience, from you win like we did, by pressuring the other day, this was a successful journey that we went be successful so you have to know what the Manuel Neuer and Thomas Müller to team, then of course they will have respect. on together. team needs. What do I have to do? For me, Alphonso Davies. How do the players work And that just came back. It comes with playing it’s important to have a good atmosphere together and complement each other? successfully and dominantly, just like we did. How would you describe your and good communication in the team, and Do you mean on the pitch or more generally? I And since we played an impressive series of tactical approach? if there’s something negative to say that it’s think right now we just have a good vibe within games, it’s natural that your opponents have We want to have the ball. When the opposition always for the sake of our success – not to the team. That might be in training, when more respect. have the ball, we have to be active; we want to discourage somebody but to improve, and I players help each other to surpass themselves actively win the ball back. I think it’s been obvious think we did that very well. I didn’t do this on in every situation, but it’s also in matches. You hadn’t been a head coach since leaving throughout the games how we want to act. my own either; I have a very good team of What’s helped us in particular in the time of Hoffenheim in 2005. Did you have any And when we’re in possession of the ball, experts by my side. I think it’s very important COVID is that we have players who just talk to doubts when you replaced Niko Kovač? we want to be determined to deliver an end as a coach to always have experts by your side each other a lot, who communicate with each No. Ultimately, it’s the same as in every other product – we don’t want to just play it around. and I feel very comfortable at the moment other and coach each other. That’s helped us position of leadership; there are different If there’s a possibility of creating a chance, of because I get very good input from them, a lot on the pitch. mechanisms but similar ones as well. In the course we’re going to do that. Apart from that, and I learn something new every day. That’s end, you’re a leader – you have to lead a team. it’s always easier when you’re in possession important too. And so, I think we’re on a very The match against Barcelona was What came easily to me, especially with this of the ball and when you can control your promising path here at Bayern. incredible to watch. Where did that team – and this is something you have to opponents. But if we lose the ball, of course, intensity come from as your team just look out for – is that every player can use his we want to pressure the opposition. When a player offers tactical kept on going forward, looking for more? advice, do you listen? Well, there are several points. One of them I always listen and take everyone seriously. goes back to the match against Borussia For me, that’s very important and that’s Dortmund in November, my second match. Flick succeeded Niko something that I did as sporting director at the The first was Olympiacos at home, but then Kovač as Bayern coach in November 2019 DFB. I always said that in a meeting every word there was this highlight against Dortmund was equally important, be it from the sporting [a 4-0 victory]. There was one situation that director, the coach, or the youth coaches. arose because we’d played quite differently Every word is important and you can always say before; we wanted to be more offensive, something. I think you can only benefit from to defend from the front, and there was a being open-minded, and the players might moment where a player asked me, “Isn’t then sometimes feel a little better about that a bit too dangerous?” And I said, “No, what’s possible on the pitch. Why should I say, when we go through with it – and we can “Hey, I’m the boss here!” just because I’m the count on staying secure at the back – then coach? It’s about working together, and I’m we can get the ball in our possession.” And someone who expects and wants that from it worked well, and I think it was a kind of the team – that others point things out to me confirmation for the players that they could and contribute something. Ultimately, it’s the actually do it and that there was something coach who decides, but input from the players to fall back on. Also, that unity is immensely and coaching staff can make decisions easier. important – that you defend together as a team, collectively, against the ball, not just How important is the human individually. Those are things that did us a “IT’S VERY side of your job? lot of good and that the team has put into IMPORTANT TO Everybody has a different approach to how practice brilliantly. And against the ball, it was they lead a team, especially as coach. For me, important that we had somebody up front KNOW YOUR it became very important after gaining so like Robert Lewandowski, who sets the tone, much experience over the years, even decades. and then at the back somebody like Manuel TEAM IN ORDER I always say that there are three elements that Neuer who, as the last man, has the backs TO GET THE BEST are important in a team. First, there has to be of the central defenders and can save us in trust and loyalty. Quality has to be there too, some situations from long passes. OUT OF THEM”

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Going into the final, were you concerned Lisbon was like an international tournament. The Bayern coach is about the chances Lyon had had in Did your experience with the German hoisted into the air by his squad after the semi-final when exploiting the national team help in this respect? victory in Lisbon space behind your back line? Yes, it’s like every experience you have in life; it No, I wasn’t. Of course, you can’t always can help in a certain situation. I’m not one to neutralise players like that. In the match look too fondly into the past, only in a certain against Barcelona, they too had a phase in situation when such experience is needed. which they had a lot of good opportunities, Therefore, you could say that I was very relaxed but we got through it and defended well and there are always points, such as the semi- against them. Against Lyon, after that final, where you’ve already achieved a lot. I match against Barcelona, it was one of those know from my time at the World Cup that moments when you need a little time to settle when we’d got to the semi-finals we’d already into the game. We’d hoped to do better at the achieved a lot, and so we’d definitely fulfilled beginning, but it’s testament to the team’s the goals and requirements of the club. That quality that they were able to get back into gives you a certain security or satisfaction, but the game after that spell, which we were you also know you have a great chance to get lucky to get through. Yet the players coped to the final, that in two matches a great dream with it and showed their strength and won could be made reality. That was the case for us. the match. We knew that Lyon were strong We believed in our strengths and we knew from offensively but also steady in defence. Their the beginning we could win. Even on the day of game is more straightforward – they like the final, we had a very good feeling. playing directly to the strikers, and we had a few more problems with that than we had Now that the dust has settled on your against Barcelona, and also Paris. triumph, has your evaluation of the team’s achievement changed at all? Does a coach have to just accept No. You always define your goals before a certain degree of risk? going into tournaments – with the national For me personally, I focus on the positive team as well. And of course, we had the aim potential outcome. If I were to always worry of winning after getting so far. After playing about what could go wrong in that situation, that convincing first part of the season [prior with that action… I’m just more of an optimist. to lockdown], we said, “Maybe we have the That’s also why it’s important to me that chance to win the Champions League” and the team acts in a certain way, that they that became our goal. That was how we want to play on the attack and create goal wanted to go into every match. But it was opportunities. Then again, of course we also crucial for us to think from match to match and need a bit of security in defence, which we do not have our eyes set on the final just yet, or on great team around me, with experts. In every sure of the effects of the coronavirus. There usually have. And then we also have the best what could possibly happen there. Instead, it situation, we stuck to our original plan. We was a lot of uncertainty. But I believe that keeper in the world between the posts, Manuel was important to think about the next match never thought, “Okay, what happens when here in Germany we’ve done very well in this Neuer, who’s saved us a few times with his stops each time, as we did after playing against X or Y happens?” Instead we focused on the regard. We were the first to introduce certain and his very good positional play and that’s why Barcelona and Lyon. And then when you facts that we could recognise better. Clearly, steps, and the first league to return to playing. I think everything works so well for us right now. win, you celebrate, and we did that this time the coronavirus crisis and the lockdown were Plaudits must go to all who contributed and too, in line with the [COVID-19] regulations. situations [which affected daily life], but in ensured that we could do it but, as good as Going back to the final, your choice to Ultimately, while being proud of the team’s football we could still practise our profession that is, we must also recognise that many start Kingsley Coman paid off in style. achievement, you focus on what is to come. and we earn good money. Everybody made others are in a different situation, and we must Why did you make that decision? And that’s a new start, a new season, and a sacrifices in their families, in their friendship be aware of this. Therefore, I’m all the more “I FOCUS ON In those positions, Kingsley and Philippe new team. We need to prove ourselves again. groups, their surroundings and, like many proud of the team that they took everyone THE POSITIVE Coutinho had just trained very well. And like people, they suffered and still suffer and have a with them – not just the Bayern fans – who I’ve said, Kingsley was brought up at Paris If it was a dream season on the field, lot of anxiety in their lives. I believe all, or many, said, “You’ve performed really well, we can POTENTIAL Saint-Germain and against your [former] off the pitch it was a difficult time for of our players and people at the club tried to identify with such an achievement.” When you club, you’re always a bit more motivated or everyone because of the pandemic. support many things to the best of our ability. don’t see the world through red-and-white- OUTCOME. I’M your motivation is just up a notch, and then How was this experience for you and We have a responsibility, which we showed, tinted spectacles, that shows the real team MORE OF AN to score a goal is even better. But he also just what have you learned from it? and that’s what we could do. For me as coach, spirit, the team effort, which the players put in, showed us his quality as a player and that we It’s difficult to answer. What was a massive clearly, in the beginning you had to convey that they’re absolutely down to earth. It makes OPTIMIST” can rely on him. plus for us, as I’ve told friends, was to have a information, even when I wasn’t absolutely me really happy to see that.

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PLAY-OFFS – LEAGUE PATH PLAY-OFFS – CHAMPIONS PATH (Aggregate scores played over two legs; the first-named club played at home in the first leg)

LASK Linz 1-3 Club Brugge KV GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-1 Rosenborg BK CFR 1907 Cluj 0-2 Slavia Praha RESULTS First leg 0-1 Second leg 1-2 First leg 2-0 Second leg 1-1 First leg 0-1 Second leg 0-1 Olympiacos FC 6-1 FC Krasnodar BSC Young Boys 3-3 FK Crvena zvezda APOEL FC 0-2 AFC Ajax GROUP STAGE First leg 4-0 Second leg 2-1 First leg 2-2 Crvena zvezda win on away goals Second leg 1-1 First leg 0-0 Second leg 0-2

GROUP A P W D L F A Pts GROUP B P W D L F A Pts GROUP C P W D L F A Pts GROUP D P W D L F A Pts Paris Saint-Germain 6 5 1 0 17 2 16 FC Bayern München 6 6 0 0 24 5 18 Manchester City FC 6 4 2 0 16 4 14 Juventus 6 5 1 0 12 4 16 Real Madrid CF 6 3 2 1 14 8 11 Tottenham Hotspur FC 6 3 1 2 18 14 10 Atalanta BC 6 2 1 3 8 12 7 Club Atlético de Madrid 6 3 1 2 8 5 10 Club Brugge 6 0 3 3 4 12 3 Olympiacos FC 6 1 1 4 8 14 4 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 6 1 3 2 8 13 6 6 2 0 4 5 9 6 Galatasaray AŞ 6 0 2 4 1 14 2 FK Crvena zvezda 6 1 0 5 3 20 3 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 6 1 2 3 10 13 5 FC Lokomotiv Moskva 6 1 0 5 4 11 3

18/09 Club Brugge 0-0 Galatasaray 06/11 Real Madrid 6-0 Galatasaray 18/09 Olympiacos 2-2 Tottenham 06/11 Bayern 2-0 Olympiacos 18/09 Shakhtar 0-3 Man City 06/11 Dinamo Zagreb 3-3 Shakhtar 18/09 Atlético 2-2 Juventus 06/11 Lokomotiv 1-2 Juventus 18/09 Paris 3-0 Real Madrid 06/11 Paris 1-0 Club Brugge 18/09 Bayern 3-0 Crvena zvezda 06/11 Crvena zvezda 0-4 Tottenham 18/09 Dinamo Zagreb 4-0 Atalanta 06/11 Atalanta 1-1 Man City 18/09 Leverkusen 1-2 Lokomotiv 06/11 Leverkusen 2-1 Atlético 01/10 Real Madrid 2-2 Club Brugge 26/11 Galatasaray 1-1 Club Brugge 01/10 Crvena zvezda 3-1 Olympiacos 26/11 Tottenham 4-2 Olympiacos 01/10 Atalanta 1-2 Shakhtar 26/11 Man City 1-1 Shakhtar 01/10 Juventus 3-0 Leverkusen 26/11 Lokomotiv 0-2 Leverkusen 01/10 Galatasaray 0-1 Paris 26/11 Real Madrid 2-2 Paris 01/10 Tottenham 2-7 Bayern 26/11 Crvena zvezda 0-6 Bayern 01/10 Man City 2-0 Dinamo Zagreb 26/11 Atalanta 2-0 Dinamo Zagreb 01/10 Lokomotiv 0-2 Atlético 26/11 Juventus 1-0 Atlético 22/10 Galatasaray 0-1 Real Madrid 11/12 Club Brugge 1-3 Real Madrid 22/10 Tottenham 5-0 Crvena zvezda 11/12 Olympiacos 1-0 Crvena zvezda 22/10 Shakhtar 2-2 Dinamo Zagreb 11/12 Shakhtar 0-3 Atalanta 22/10 Atlético 1-0 Leverkusen 11/12 Atlético 2-0 Lokomotiv 22/10 Club Brugge 0-5 Paris 11/12 Paris 5-0 Galatasaray 22/10 Olympiacos 2-3 Bayern 11/12 Bayern 3-1 Tottenham 22/10 Man City 5-1 Atalanta 11/12 Dinamo Zagreb 1-4 Man City 22/10 Juventus 2-1 Lokomotiv 11/12 Leverkusen 0-2 Juventus

GROUP E P W D L F A Pts GROUP F P W D L F A Pts GROUP G P W D L F A Pts GROUP H P W D L F A Pts Liverpool FC 6 4 1 1 13 8 13 FC Barcelona 6 4 2 0 9 4 14 RB Leipzig 6 3 2 1 10 8 11 Valencia CF 6 3 2 1 9 7 11 SSC Napoli 6 3 3 0 11 4 12 Borussia Dortmund 6 3 1 2 8 8 10 6 2 2 2 9 8 8 Chelsea FC 6 3 2 1 11 9 11 FC Salzburg 6 2 1 3 16 13 7 FC Internazionale Milano 6 2 1 3 10 9 7 SL Benfica 6 2 1 3 10 11 7 AFC Ajax 6 3 1 2 12 6 10 KRC Genk 6 0 1 5 5 20 1 SK Slavia Praha 6 0 2 4 4 10 2 FC Zenit 6 2 1 3 7 9 7 LOSC Lille 6 0 1 5 4 14 1

17/09 Napoli 2-0 Liverpool 05/11 Liverpool 2-1 Genk 17/09 Inter 1-1 Slavia Praha 05/11 Barcelona 0-0 Slavia Praha 17/09 Lyon 1-1 Zenit 05/11 Zenit 0-2 Leipzig 17/09 Chelsea 0-1 Valencia 05/11 Chelsea 4-4 Ajax 17/09 Salzburg 6-2 Genk 05/11 Napoli 1-1 Salzburg 17/09 Dortmund 0-0 Barcelona 05/11 Dortmund 3-2 Inter 17/09 Benfica 1-2 Leipzig 05/11 Lyon 3-1 Benfica 17/09 Ajax 3-0 LOSC 05/11 Valencia 4-1 LOSC 02/10 Genk 0-0 Napoli 27/11 Liverpool 1-1 Napoli 02/10 Slavia Praha 0-2 Dortmund 27/11 Barcelona 3-1 Dortmund 02/10 Zenit 3-1 Benfica 27/11 Zenit 2-0 Lyon 02/10 Valencia 0-3 Ajax 27/11 Valencia 2-2 Chelsea 02/10 Liverpool 4-3 Salzburg 27/11 Genk 1-4 Salzburg 02/10 Barcelona 2-1 Inter 27/11 Slavia Praha 1-3 Inter 02/10 Leipzig 0-2 Lyon 27/11 Leipzig 2-2 Benfica 02/10 LOSC 1-2 Chelsea 27/11 LOSC 0-2 Ajax 23/10 Salzburg 2-3 Napoli 10/12 Napoli 4-0 Genk 23/10 Inter 2-0 Dortmund 10/12 Dortmund 2-1 Slavia Praha 23/10 Leipzig 2-1 Zenit 10/12 Benfica 3-0 Zenit 23/10 Ajax 0-1 Chelsea 10/12 Chelsea 2-1 LOSC 23/10 Genk 1-4 Liverpool 10/12 Salzburg 0-2 Liverpool 23/10 Slavia Praha 1-2 Barcelona 10/12 Inter 1-2 Barcelona 23/10 Benfica 2-1 Lyon 10/12 Lyon 2-2 Leipzig 23/10 LOSC 1-1 Valencia 10/12 Ajax 0-1 Valencia

ROUND OF 16 18 February –8 August QUARTER-FINALS 12–15 August SEMI-FINALS 18–19 August FINAL 23 August

Dortmund 2-3 Paris First leg 2-1 Second leg 0-2 Atalanta 1-2 Paris Atlético 4-2 Liverpool First leg 1-0 Second leg 3-2 (aet) Leipzig 0-3 Paris Atalanta 8-4 Valencia First leg 4-1 Second leg 4-3 Leipzig 2-1 Atlético Tottenham 0-4 Leipzig First leg 0-1 Second leg 0-3

Chelsea 1-7 Bayern Paris 0-1 Bayern First leg 0-3 Second leg 1-4 Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Napoli 2-4 Barcelona First leg 1-1 Second leg 1-3 Lyon 0-3 Bayern Real Madrid 2-4 Manchester City First leg 1-2 Second leg 1-2 Man City 1-3 Lyon Lyon 2-2 Juventus First leg 1-0 (Lyon win on away goals) Second leg 1-2

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SQUAD OF

MANUEL JAN ANTHONY THE SEASON NEUER OBLAK LOPES GK BAYERN GK ATLÉTICO GK LYON THE TECHNICAL OBSERVERS’ ALL-STAR 11 APPS | 6 CLEAN SHEETS* 9 APPS | 4 CLEAN SHEETS 10 APPS | 2 CLEAN SHEETS SELECTION WAS DOMINATED BY BAYERN, Supports play from back, Consistently reliable, Gave Lyon solid base with defends space behind earned man of the match award good communication with and excels in 1v1s – for his nine saves in last-16 back three; strong displays WHO PROVIDED NINE OF THE 23 PLAYERS notably in final. win at Anfield. v Juventus, City.

371 9 85.7% PASSES SAVES v LIVERPOOL SAVE PERCENTAGE IN For UEFA’s team of technical observers, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar, along with COMPLETED* QUARTER-FINAL v MAN CITY Bayern München’s unblemished campaign Marquinhos who did a pivotal job further back. *Ranked first among goalkeepers justified their broad representation in the Leipzig’s groundbreaking run to a semi- Champions League squad of the season. final against Paris Saint-Germain meant There were nine players from Bayern the presence of three of their players too selected for the 23-man squad, including in the forward-looking trio of centre-back an entire spine running from goalkeeper , wing-back Angeliño Manuel Neuer through to tournament top and midfielder Marcel Sabitzer. From the scorer Robert Lewandowski via centre- other semi-final team, Olympique Lyonnais, back David Alaba, midfield anchor Thiago meanwhile, the observers chose goalkeeper Alcántara and the club’s longest-serving Anthony Lopes and creative midfielder player, Thomas Müller. Houssem Aouar. At the other end of the experience Kevin De Bruyne, a scorer against Lyon scale, teenager Alphonso Davies earned in the quarter-finals, was one of two recognition for his eye-catching debut Manchester City players included along with season with Bayern and the same went for the club’s leading European marksman in Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gómez, a player more than 2019/20, Raheem Sterling. a decade the Canadian’s senior but, at 32, a Of the two beaten quarter-finalists from ALPHONSO JOSHUA VIRGIL DAYOT major influence for quarter-finalists Atalanta Spain, Atlético de Madrid and Barcelona, the DAVIES KIMMICH VAN DIJK UPAMECANO in their first year in the competition. player from each club who arguably did the In the selection process, the observers most to get their team to Lisbon – Jan Oblak DEF BAYERN DEF BAYERN DEF LIVERPOOL DEF LEIPZIG focused their attention on those players who and Lionel Messi respectively – gained the 8 APPS | 5 CLEAN SHEETS 11 APPS | 2 GOALS | 5 CLEAN SHEETS 8 APPS | 1 CLEAN SHEET 8 APPS | 2 CLEAN SHEETS had made a strong impact during the season observers’ vote. For Messi, this was 12th time just concluded, rather than past feats. Paris in 13 seasons that he had been included, Stunning breakthrough year Accomplished on the ball, Reds’ defensive leader Central figure in Leipzig Saint-Germain’s efforts in reaching their with 2013/14 providing the solitary gap in a for converted winger, making the midfielder-turned-full-back brings speed on ground, defence with ability to first final ensured the inclusion of forwards sequence stretching back to 2007/08. big impact in final third with provided floated cross for power in air and composure carry ball, passing skills and speed and power. final winner. on ball. positional awareness.

1 28 74.3% 85 SPRINT EVERY CHANCES CREATED DUELS WON PASSES INTO ATTACKING THIRD 1.73 MINUTES (ranked first) (ranked third for defenders)

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DAVID THIAGO KEVIN ALEJANDRO THOMAS SERGE ROBERT ANGELIÑO ALABA ALCÁNTARA DE BRUYNE GÓMEZ MÜLLER GNABRY LEWANDOWSKI

DEF LEIPZIG DEF BAYERN MID BAYERN MID MANCHESTER CITY MID ATALANTA MID BAYERN FWD BAYERN FWD BAYERN

5 APPS* | 2 CLEAN SHEETS 8 APPS | 4 CLEAN SHEETS 10 APPS | 0 GOALS 7 APPS | 2 GOALS 9 APPS | 1 GOAL 10 APPS | 4 GOALS 10 APPS | 9 GOALS 10 APPS | 15 GOALS

Gave energy, penetration, With typical versatility Midfield anchor with Drove City forward, delivering Atalanta’s and leader, One of Bayern’s leaders, Speed, penetration and Now 32, mobile Pole width in left wing-back and desire to improve, impressive passing range, outstanding passes and crosses; showed ability to create with the revitalised second striker finishing ability took winger showed penalty-box instincts role, plus regular supply rose to new challenge in highlighted when linking game even excelled as false nine dribble or key pass in roamed intelligently and pressed to nine goals – and new level were sharper than ever; of crosses. central defence. brilliantly in final. in Madrid. debut season. relentlessly. of performance. also recorded six assists.

75% 832 25 49 25 33% 59 14.57 2 TACKLE PASSES ATTEMPTED KEY PASSES CROSSES ATTEMPTED CHANCES CREATED SHOT CONVERSION MINUTES EXPECTED GOALS ASSISTS SUCCESS (ranked first) (ranked first) (ranked fourth) (ranked third) (9 GOALS FROM 27 SHOTS) PER GOAL (ranked first)

*One with Manchester City

HOUSSEM LEON MARCEL KYLIAN LIONEL RAHEEM AOUAR GORETZKA SABITZER MARQUINHOS MBAPPÉ NEYMAR MESSI STERLING

MID LYON MID BAYERN MID LEIPZIG MID PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN FWD PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN FWD PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN FWD BARCELONA FWD MANCHESTER CITY

8 APPS | 1 GOAL 8 APPS | 1 GOAL 9 APPS | 4 GOALS 11 APPS | 2 GOALS 10 APPS | 5 GOALS 7 APPS | 3 GOALS 8 APPS | 3 GOALS 9 APPS | 6 GOALS

Technically gifted midfielder Dynamic attacking midfielder Flexible attacking midfielder Provided balance in midfield Hit hat-trick v Club Brugge Scored in both legs v His close control and dribbling Always a threat with speed with strong game intelligence gained extra power in gym who scored goals and showed holding role, protecting defence and threatened with speed Dortmund and showed skills remain source of wonder, and movement; had big and dribbling skill. and increased on-field influence intelligence to shine in central and on ground and in air, and and link-up play with leadership in Lisbon, highlighted by solo effort impact with six goals post-lockdown. wide roles. scoring twice. fellow forwards. driving Paris on. v Napoli. and five assists.

6 98% 11.1km 12 32.8 3.96 16 87 60 ASSISTS PASS COMPLETION AVERAGE COVERED SHOTS BLOCKED TOP SPEED EXPECTED COMPLETED DRIBBLES TAKE ONS TOUCHES IN v BARCELONA PER GAME (ranked first) (KM/H) v BAYERN ASSISTS* v ATALANTA (ranked first) OPPOSITION BOX

*ranked 1st

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Ángel Di María scores the second goal as Paris beat Leipzig in the semi-final

GAME OF RISK MEANS MORE GOALS The record goal ratio of the 2019/20 Champions League was an obvious talking point for UEFA’s team of technical observers. A season with 3.24 goals per game and some stunning scorelines – including 7-2 and 8-2 wins for Bayern München – warranted reflection and there was a consensus on one significant reason why: namely the trend for dynamic attacking play in which teams press high up the pitch. The rewards are clear, but so too the risks. As UEFA observer Cosmin Contra put it, the consequence is that “now teams play in the other half and this leaves space at the back”. According to Phil Neville, football’s significance as a televisual spectacle has influenced this tendency as attacking football is “what the public demand now – they want to see entertainment”. “A trend of global football” is how Roberto Martínez termed it, noting that of the teams he had watched closely in the knockout rounds, only Atlético de Madrid and Olympique Lyonnais employed a counterattacking approach. For the others, the focus was on “building from the back, going through the thirds and pressing really high up” even if this “brings risks”. Gareth Southgate said he had seen teams attempt to press with mixed results during this campaign. “Teams are trying to press aggressively and the teams who are really well organised do it so well but against really high- level opponents, if you don’t get it absolutely spot on, then they’ll play through you and you’re in trouble. I saw some really good UEFA’S TECHNICAL OBSERVERS examples and some teams who were trying CONSIDERED TOPICS INCLUDING to have the same principles but weren’t as STRIKING THE coordinated in their pressing.” THE GLUT OF GOALS, THE RISKS Southgate, a former England centre-half, highlighted the importance of having good AND REWARDS OF A HIGH PRESS defenders, like at Liverpool, who AND A UNIQUE FINAL TOURNAMENT are able to cope with the pressure this high- RIGHT BALANCE risk approach brings, but wondered whether coaches in academies were now working less on players’ defensive abilities owing to the

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focus on the technical aspects of the game. BAYERN HIT “We still have to remember the principles of HIGH NOTES WITH defending and some of the individual qualities required are very important for teams, even HIGH PRESS more so if they’re going to play a style that No side in this season’s competition deployed puts more pressure on their defenders to play a pressing strategy as effectively as Bayern. one against one,” he said. Pushing high up the pitch brought them Packie Bonner, as a former Republic of chances – they recorded an unsurpassed 44 Ireland goalkeeper, cited the additional factor shots within 15 seconds of turnovers – and it of the new rule for goal kicks in 2019/20, also stopped their opponents finding their flow. which enabled defenders to enter the box and Flick’s team were second only to Ajax when receive a short pass from their goalkeeper to it came to the time given to their opponents begin the build-up that way. Rather than drop before each defensive intervention (8.01 off and allow the first pass, a tendency among passes on average), and Phil Neville cited, for opposition teams has been to press right up example, how they had frustrated Chelsea in to stop rivals establishing a rhythm. “I see their attempts to construct the play in their lots of risk-taking in that area,” said Bonner, round of 16 first leg. “At Stamford Bridge they offering the example of Raheem Sterling’s continually didn’t allow Chelsea to get any opening goal in Manchester City’s round of 16 rhythm,” he said. “You say the first pass from home leg against Real Madrid, which came the keeper and then to the centre-back isn’t a about when Gabriel Jesus nicked the ball off danger, but it enables teams to get confidence Raphaël Varane after the centre-back had and flow in a game.” received a pass across the penalty box from his The catalyst for this was Flick, who, as goalkeeper, . Thomas Müller related in the lead-up the final, Another high-profile goalkeeping error had given his squad a message on his first day followed in Leipzig’s semi-final with Paris Saint- as interim coach that contrasted markedly with Bayern coach Germain when Péter Gulácsi, under pressure Hansi Flick the more defensive approach of predecessor encouraged his from Angel Di María, misplaced a pass to Marcel team to take risks Niko Kovač: “I want us to take the risk. I want us Sabitzer, giving the ball instead to Leandro to press forward with courage. I want us not to Paredes in the lead-up to the French club’s have fear about having a stable defensive line.” second goal. In his defence, Gulácsi featured in Gareth Southgate saw the work of the discerned the effect of long hours spent on more positive examples too, with two of Leipzig’s champions’ front four reverberate positively the training pitch. “You can see the angles of goals in their 3-0 home victory over Tottenham right through the team. “So many times the approach, the coordination of the pressing,” Hotspur originating at his feet. back four were protected because of the front of he said, and Roberto Martínez made a similar team overloading areas and winning balls high point, citing tweaks spotted to their strategy up the pitch,” he said. “I’ve never seen a team for different opponents. “When I saw the as compact, particularly in the game against game against Lyon, you could see the starting Barcelona – front to back so compact and that positions and the movement was very different looked a high risk, but the defence were happy than against Barcelona. I think the coach gives to deal with that. That collective press and their them a real discipline in terms of their starting organisation were really impressive.” positions and then it’s almost a freedom within Bayern have players who have played that structure. Against Lyon it was a bit more together for a long time in a 1-4-2-3-1 specific to play against a back five.” formation, both for club and country, and Cosmin Contra underlined the notion that they also have individuals with the profile to nothing was left to chance by Bayern, with play a pressing game, starting with goalkeeper the following observation from their home Manuel Neuer Manuel Neuer with his ability to defend the leg against Chelsea. Although 3-0 up already pushes up to occupy the space behind space behind the high line. This was evident in from the first leg, Contra had the sense he was the Bayern defence the first half of the final when Neymar played watching a dress rehearsal for Lisbon in that “NOW TEAMS PLAY a ball behind Bayern’s defence for Kylian 4-1 triumph. “In the game against Chelsea IN THE OTHER HALF, Mbappé to chase but Neuer, with impressive at home they prepared for the quarter-final anticipation, reached it early, midway inside – against Chelsea I saw the same as against AND THIS LEAVES his half, before Mbappé could get close. Barcelona and the semi-final and the final, In addition to the Bayern players’ focus, team- this winning mentality and capacity to press SPACE AT THE BACK” first mindset and athletic powers, Southgate almost 90 minutes.”

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BACK THREE BACK FULL-BACK IN FASHION AS PLAYMAKER? Cosmin Contra, the UEFA observer at the Atalanta the middle so against two very strong strikers, It was some years ago now that UEFA’s v Paris quarter-final, was in no doubt about the he moves to a line of three.” technical observers began charting the catalyst for Mario Pašalić’s opening goal: the Nagelsmann’s team offered another development of the full-back into an attacking advance upfield of the Italian side’s Brazilian example of the forward-looking centre-back force and anyone who witnessed the prowess centre-back, Rafael Tolói. “He gets the ball and in their impressive young Frenchman, Dayot of Bayern pair Joshua Kimmich and Alphonso passes and carries on up to the PSG area and Upamecano, whose quarter-final display against Davies in Lisbon will vouch that this evolution what does this do? It unbalances the opposition Atlético featured the most carries (69), most goes on. Davies’s exceptional work in turning defence. He’s creating space for Pašalić.” touches (100) and second-most passes in the Nélson Semedo inside out before teeing Atalanta were one of four teams in the knockout opposition half (39) of any of Leipzig player. up Kimmich in the quarter-final rout of stages who favoured a back three and the mobility Of those clubs regularly setting up with a back Barcelona was fitting of a season that began of their centre-backs was a recurring feature three, Atalanta’s formation was a 1-3-4-2-1, on Matchday 1 with Juan Bernat supplying of their play, with also stepping while for Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund it Thomas Meunier to score Paris’s third goal regularly into midfield to create a superiority in was 1-3-4-3, albeit Leipzig’s flexibility meant against Real Madrid. this zone. As Roberto Martínez observed, when the they began with a back four (1-4-1-4-1) in Ginés Meléndez recounted first opposition had just one central striker there was no their semi-final against Paris. Lyon coach Rudi encountering Bernat as a winger in Spain’s need for all three to stay back, meaning one of the Garcia, for his part, introduced a three-man youth ranks prior to his conversion to full-back. trio was free to step up the pitch. defence ahead of their round of 16 tie with For their part, Kimmich and Davies each took Where ’s Atalanta were Juventus and adopted a solid 1-3-5-2 with a a step back – from deep midfield and wide- willing to play one v one across the pitch, another low defensive block, and attacking wing-backs. midfield roles respectively – in 2019/20 and view aired in the post-final discussion was that the Other teams adjusted to a back three to mirror this does not surprise Phil Neville, a one-time extra defender in a back three provides security their opponents in specific matches, such England full-back who also cited Jesús Navas’s for teams who risk losing the ball in transition. One as Tottenham for their visit to Leipzig and transition to that role for Europa League observer described football as “a game of numbers” Manchester City against Lyon, or Valencia in the winners Sevilla FC. “The ability to get forward Thomas Meunier in which numerical supremacy is the aim: hence if second half of their second leg against Atalanta. and play in the final third is crucial because scores for Paris the opposition are pressing with two, then three Meanwhile Chelsea started with a back three defending is probably only 20% of the thought against Real Madrid centre-backs provides an advantage. This was the (soon a back five) at home to Bayern. However, process now for a full-back,” said Neville. case with Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsmann, as Willi one coach queried whether players, in such A perfect example is Liverpool’s Trent Ruttensteiner noted: “He’s always thinking against cases, are able to take on board all the changes Alexander-Arnold, a player who has been top teams to not have a one-on-one situation in demanded of them so quickly. described as a “false full-back” by Graeme Souness, the Reds’ European Cup-winning captain in 1984. Alexander-Arnold is another

Atalanta’s Mario to have made the switch from midfield and Pašalić after 8 who, with his excellence in possession and his goal in the quarter-final brilliant whipped crosses (14 from open play 11 in Liverpool’s round of 16 second leg against 19 91 Atlético), is widely regarded as stronger on 10 the offensive side of his game. When a team averages 67.1% of possession per game, as 57 3 Liverpool did in the 2019/20 competition, the A heat map of Trent 15 Alexander-Arnold’s full-back’s contribution going forward is more touches in the second significant according to Roberto Martínez, who leg against Atlético 91 88 went so far as to venture that they now play a defining role. “The playmaker represented 33 the DNA of your team – a who could dictate the tempo of the game – but Atalanta’s average positions against Paris. now it’s the full-backs,” he said. “If you have “THE ABILITY TO GET The line thickness shows the attacking full-backs, you’ll be able to get the frequency of passes enough bodies in the attacking third. If you FORWARD AND PLAY IN have defensive full-backs, you’re going to attack THE FINAL THIRD IS maximum with four players. Those are the most changed roles in the last five years.” CRUCIAL FOR A FULL-BACK”

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Lyon’s squad was vital as they reached the semi-finals

squads in a new context and one suggestion aired was that Hansi Flick benefited from his prior experience of tournament football with Germany when deciding to select Kingsley Coman ahead of Ivan Perišić for the final. “International football is very different in terms of dynamics, it’s not a game of 11 players any more,” said Martínez, who guided Belgium to third place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. “I felt that decision reflected the experience Hansi Flick had with Germany in finding that player who probably was 90% and replacing him with fresh TO THE PAST legs. Gareth [Southgate] and I have been at the VICTORS, World Cup and you see from one game to another THE SPOILS there are players who don’t recover mentally.” This fitted with Lyon coach Rudi Garcia’s own Bayern’s victory over Paris followed a familiar observation ahead of their quarter-final against pattern for Champions League finals, namely Manchester City when he said: “The tactical side of that the club with prior final experience prevails. things is important, for sure, but the mindset and Not since Borussia Dortmund in 1997 has a the mood in the camp, ours in particular, will be first-time finalist won the trophy and Paris something we can use to our advantage.” suffered the same fate as six other clubs in the Garcia spoke too that day about the intervening 23 years: Valencia (2000), Bayer significance of the five substitutes permitted in Leverkusen (2002), Monaco (2004), Arsenal the post-lockdown matches and the opportunity (2006), Chelsea (2008) and Tottenham (2019). to “almost turn over half of the team with fresh Where Paris had three players who had legs”, which meant “you get a result with 16 won the trophy with former clubs – Keylor instead of 11”. The following night, he sent on Navas, Ángel Di María and Neymar – Bayern’s Moussa Dembélé to become the third match- starting XI included four survivors – Manuel winning substitute of the quarter-finals. “A big Neuer, Jérôme Boateng, David Alaba and A UNIQUE FORMAT influencer” is how Packie Bonner described the Thomas Müller – of their last success in 2013, five-substitute ruling while Willi Ruttensteiner when Robert Lewandowski was on the losing “Going into the unknown” was how one UEFA “excellent competitive spirit” engendered said: “I expected that the game would be too side with Dortmund. Neuer, Boateng and observer described the ‘Final 8’ tournament in among staff and players before the comeback much interrupted and would be negative for the Müller, meanwhile, had the experience of a Lisbon. After the lockdown brought by Covid-19, win over Borussia Dortmund in the round flow but in my opinion it was a clever decision.” World Cup final together with Germany too. the campaign’s denouement was another fresh of 16, and the subsequent post-lockdown Martínez addressed the broader matter of the Besides the playing squad, this was the fourth challenge for coaches and players alike, with boost of winning the French Cup and French format too, saying: “It was very unusual having Champions League final in 11 years for the one-off matches all staged in one city rather League Cup finals in late July. “It wasn’t easy teams play in the Champions League without club, meaning that support staff, directors than the traditional two-legged format. to restart after a four-month pause and then league games around it. Here it was independent, and board members all knew what to expect. The response from one team in particular, four weeks’ preparation to play two finals as a one-game opportunity to get through and that And given their executive board includes three Paris Saint-Germain, intrigued another observer, the big favourites. That was a big challenge opened the minds of the teams to having a go former European Cup winners in chairman who said: “When I’ve watched them before in mentally for the players but to win was the best because it was strange that in a tournament format Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Oliver Kahn and Hasan the latter stages, because the games in their preparation for this tournament.” like this, there were no penalty shoot-outs.” Indeed, Salihamidžić – not to forget the presence of league can be straightforward, sometimes It was not just Paris but Lyon too who had in all ten of the EURO and World Cup tournaments a coach, Hansi Flick, who picked up a losers’ they’ve lacked the intensity when they’ve come played no domestic league fixtures since March played this century, there has been at least one medal in the 1987 final – it is easy to subscribe into the big matches in Europe. I thought this – in their case just the French League Cup final shoot-out between the quarter-final stage and to the view of one UEFA observer that the probably helped PSG, and some of their players, against Paris on 31 July (ending in a penalty final, but not in Lisbon. culture of the club and institution must surely to have that focus for a short period of time.” shoot-out defeat). Roberto Martínez said of Southgate added the format meant “more give belief to the players. This view tallies with a reflection from Thilo OL: “I thought it was impossible for a team like possibility for unusual results” but recalled “how Willi Ruttensteiner said: “This structure Kehrer, the squad’s German full-back, who said that to match the rhythm of a tournament but brilliant the knockout games over two legs are”, comes from the strategy of the club and here after the semi-final win over Leipzig: “In recent I was so wrong. It showed going into a major while Ruttensteiner captured the consensus that I must mention Rummenigge at the top, a months, we’ve been able to come together and tournament like that, with the pressure, it’s this format, while enjoyable, should be a one-off. person on a board who understands how to gradually form a united group. It took a while, better you are fresh mentally than being match- “With these knockout matches there’s a decision lead such a club from his playing and managing but we spent more and more time together fit and full of workload.” on the day so it’s exciting but I think of the full career. You can see Bayern’s strategy and and now we’re united.” His coach Thomas As for the coaches tasking with gauging stadiums and home and away games and what it philosophy on the pitch in the performance.” Tuchel, meanwhile, spoke in Lisbon about the players’ moods, they had to manage their means to the clubs.”

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HUMAN TOUCH One of the off-field highlights of the 2019/20 Ferguson was the master at it, he knew everybody feels good, that there’s a good group stage was the video of Salzburg coach everything about your family – what jobs they atmosphere and appreciation for people. ’s impassioned half-time talk, in did, what inspired you, what your upbringing was He brings this to football, which means a mix of German and his native English, to his – so he could tap into the motivation that made appreciating and respecting every player, players during their 4-3 defeat at Anfield. It gave you as an individual because ultimately your thinking of substitutes and kit managers. a glimpse of a coach seeking to ignite some fires players drive the culture.” If you ask him, ‘Can you do this for me?’ he within his players – “They have to feel us, guys!” This need to relate to players felt particularly listens. In football today, players appreciate Thomas Tuchel took Paris to – and was a reminder that it takes more than a pertinent in an analysis of Bayern’s success, given it. You can see how they speak about Hansi their first final tactical plan to get the best out of players. the turnaround overseen by Hansi Flick. Roberto and this comes from the heart with him – it’s It may surprise some to read Leipzig coach Martínez recalled how “with similar players and not a show. When he speaks in front of the Julian Nagelsmann’s claim that “30% of mentality and experience they didn’t look like cameras, he’s very authentic. With his skills coaching is tactics, 70% social competence” Bayern” when eliminated by Liverpool in the in communication, his human qualities, this GERMANY CALLING but Phil Neville agrees wholeheartedly. round of 16 in 2019. brings the right atmosphere and culture and This year marked a half-century since Hennes “When you’ve got 24 players in a squad They soon looked like Bayern again after Flick understanding, and in the end the players Weisweiler relinquished the reins of the German every player is different and you need that replaced Niko Kovač, and Willi Ruttensteiner said give everything.” Sport University in Cologne. It is the only ability to connect with different people from this was the product, first and foremost, of the By the time Bayern reached the final, this place for candidates to acquire the Football different races and genders and religions 55-year-old’s man-management abilities. “Hansi human touch was a point widely addressed Coaching Licence – the equivalent of a UEFA Pro and make them into a team, and that’s Flick was in Germany’s national team for a long in the media, with relating in Licence – required to work in Germany’s three where the 70 to 80% management comes time and he knows players like Manuel Neuer and the New York Times how, as assistant coach professional divisions and it is today named the into it,” he said. “If you play for one of the Thomas Müller. He knows the standing of these of Germany, Flick had “told Jogi Löw always Hennes-Weisweiler Academy in honour of the Champions League clubs now, you’re a top players in the dressing room. From the beginning to praise the substitutes”. This capacity for former coach of VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach player, you understand football, you know he changed the atmosphere. When you know empathy was also raised by Joshua Kimmich and 1.FC Köln who oversaw for 14 years the tactics – that’s the 20 or 30% that the top him, you know his social skills – communication, when he spoke in the press conference before educational mission of a centre established in managers focus on – but the cultural bit, relationships, leadership. He’s strong in this way. the final. “For him, we aren’t just players that 1947. While Weisweiler won the UEFA Cup with the connection, is massively important.” “Hansi’s a great human being and this is he can use for his system – he sees the human Gladbach, he never made it to a European Cup A Champions League winner with Manchester beyond football,” Ruttensteiner added. “If side behind that, and of course this doesn’t go final – the semi-finals, with Köln in 1979, was United FC in 1999, Neville added: “Sir Alex you’re a great human being, it’s important that unnoticed by the players and the staff.” the closest he got – but he would surely have appreciated the sight of three German coaches in this year’s semi-finals in the form of Hansi Flick, Thomas Tuchel and Julian Nagelsmann. Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsmann With Jürgen Klopp’s 2019 triumph with Liverpool taken into account too, it is tempting to talk about a common emphasis on aggressive pressing within German football. The teams led by all four coaches mentioned, together with Dutchman ’s Bayer Leverkusen, ranked among the competition’s leading nine sides when measured by the PPDA metric for number of opposition passes permitted before a defensive action. However, UEFA observer Willi Ruttensteiner preferred to view these German coaching successes rather as affirmation of the high standards passed on at the country’s Cologne hub. He said: “The DFB is one of the “A COACH NEEDS best associations with coach education on a high level and coaches coming up have the possibility, THAT ABILITY TO in their own country, to go into a top league. You might see different styles but coaches educated CONNECT WITH in Germany are very hard workers – coaching ALL THE PLAYERS in detail with this winning mentality. Every day, every training session is about getting better IN THE SQUAD” and better. This is a mentality of German football and coaches in Germany.”

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TOP TEN GOALS

LIONEL MESSI DANI OLMO LUIS SUÁREZ BARCELONA 3-1 NAPOLI 3 DINAMO ZAGREB 1-4 7 BARCELONA 2-1 Though stumbling, Messi MANCHESTER CITY INTERNAZIONALE curls home after eluding Olmo lets the ball drop An acrobatic volley from three Napoli defenders. over his shoulder before the edge of the area 1 crashing in a volley. into the bottom corner. 10 LAUTARO MARTÍNEZ DOUGLAS COSTA 26 20 4 SLAVIA PRAHA 1-3 8 LOKOMOTIV MOSKVA 1-2 9 7 4 INTERNAZIONALE JUVENTUS 6 10 A fabulous near-post A combination of dazzling volley after solo run and cute one-two 44 wins the ball high upfield with Gonzalo Higuaín. and crosses.

Messi’s (No10) dribble and shot versus Napoli SERGE GNABRY VALENCIA 0-3 AJAX BALL MOVEMENT 9 TOTTENHAM 2-7 BAYERN Ziyech steps in from the right PLAYER MOVEMENT 5 The winger evades two touchline and fires high into defenders on a run into the area the far corner. before an emphatic finish. KYLIAN MBAPPÉ JOSHUA KIMMICH MARCEL SABITZER 10 CLUB BRUGGE 0-5 2 BARCELONA 2-8 BAYERN 6 LEIPZIG 2-1 ZENIT PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN Alphonso Davies turns Nélson The Austrian chests down A crisp finish after being sent

Messi curls a shot into Semedo inside out before teeing a cross then spins a half-volley clear by Ángel Di María’s the far corner after up a close-range strike. into the top corner. perfect outside-of-boot pass. dribbling through the Napoli defence

For UEFA’s team of technical observers, one of the tasks Packie Bonner noted, “Very few would lose their balance volleyed finish. Serge Gnabry’s first goal of four at Tottenham during their end-of-term meeting was to select the ten best and conjure up a finish like that.” Hotspur, meanwhile, showcased his pace and penetration as M E SSI goals of 2019/20 from a longlist of 50. There was a shared Second on the list, by Joshua Kimmich against Barcelona, he drove infield from the left, escaping two defenders on a wish to reflect the different range of goals scored and the was a goal underlining the attacking power of Bayern’s full- diagonal run before a fierce low strike past . winning choice, Lionel Messi’s effort in Barcelona’s round of backs. As Willi Ruttensteiner observed, “The left full-back Sixth in the ranking was Marcel Sabitzer’s first Champions 16 decider against Napoli, actually combined more than one dribbles to the line and gives a cutback and the other full- League goal, a fantastically controlled half-volley by the LEAVES of the requisite elements. Six times the competition’s top back is six metres from goal.” To be specific, in a 16-second Leipzig midfielder who chested down a cross then sent the scorer, Messi scored a goal in that 3-1 home success featuring sequence, Alphonso Davies carried the ball first past Messi ball on a spinning, diagonal trajectory high inside the far post. a terrific team build-up followed by some individual wizardry. and Arturo Vidal before losing Nélson Semedo with a shake Barcelona forward Suárez produced a different, if equally It began with a 21-pass sequence, started by goalkeeper of the hips and surge of acceleration on the outside. The precise, type of volley against Inter: hard and low on the turn HIS MARK Marc-André ter Stegen, before Messi brought down Luis teenager was actually inside the five-metre area when after signalling to team-mate Vidal exactly where he wanted Suárez’s lofted ball on his chest and, from a position some 30 he finally played the ball back for Kimmich to finish off a the Chilean’s ball to fall. metres out in the insight-right channel, headed goalward. stunning passage of play. ’s 90th-minute winner for Juventus at A TYPICALLY BREATHTAKING Attacking the right-hand corner of the area, Messi Completing the top three was a wonderful piece of Lokomotiv Moskva contained a spectacular burst of pace GOAL FROM LIONEL MESSI showcased his otherworldly appreciation of time and space: technique by for Dinamo Zagreb against that took out three opponents as he cut in from the though Lorenzo Insigne got a touch on the ball, making it Manchester City in the group stage, the Spanish midfielder touchline and then a one-two with Gonzalo Higuaín, whose WAS THE UEFA TECHNICAL ricochet off Mário Rui, the Argentinian somehow retained keeping sight of Damian Kądzior’s ball as it dropped over his back-heel return pass left the Brazilian to evade one more it under his spell despite stumbling to the ground as he shoulder and unleashing a fierce volley inside the near post. challenge before scoring with his only shot of the season. OBSERVERS’ CHOICE FOR challenged the defender. Stretching his left leg behind “It comes over his shoulder as he’s running towards goal and Finally, UEFA’s observers chose Hakim Ziyech’s swerving, BEST OF THE SEASON him, Messi hooked the ball forward as he stood up and it’s very difficult to score a goal like that,” said Ginés Meléndez. dipping angled strike against Valencia as an example of a this touch left a third player, Kalidou Koulibaly, in his wake. There was much to admire among the other goals. brilliant shot from distance, while Kylian Mbappé’s hat-trick Just one more touch, just one more sway and he was now Internazionale’s pressing high up the pitch at Slavia Praha goal at Club Brugge was the product of a gorgeous, curled computing the power and angles necessary for a strike that led to Romelu Lukaku regaining the ball before bending a through pass by Ángel Di María, around the last defender and sent the ball curling into the far corner of the net – this superb cross, with the outside of his left foot, into the path into the Frenchman’s path – the second year running that a despite slipping in the act of shooting. As UEFA observer of Lautaro Martínez, who produced an equally excellent Di María/Mbappé collaboration has made the top ten.

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There were 386 goals scored across the GOAL TIMES 119 matches played in the 2019/20 308 GOALSCORING UEFA Champions League. This was 48 FULL SEASON An unprecedented the second-highest total since the 1-15 GROUP STAGE min 38 308 goals were scored competition’s current format was 10 KNOCKOUT STAGE during the group THE GOALS FLOWED IN 2019/20 established in 2003/04 and although 51 short of the 401 registered in 2017/18, stage, including a 16-30 AT A RECORD-BREAKING RATE the fact there were 119 matches min 38 landmark 53 for rather than the usual 125 meant that 13 a single group from the goals-per-game ratio was actually 59 Bayern, Tottenham, 31-45 higher at 3.24. min 50 Olympiacos and The second halves of matches 9 Crvena zvezda produced more goals than the first 8 in Group B – 216 to 166 – with the latter stages 45+ 5 providing the most goals, as games min opened up with teams chasing a 3 result and tired limbs beginning to tell. 60 46-60 Counting all the goals struck from the min 48 42% 76-minute mark to the end of added 12 time, there were 95 in total, which Percentage of goals 61 (162 in all) scored in represented almost a quarter of the 61-75 min 51 overall number (24.61%). the last 15 minutes 10 Champions Bayern München were of each half this term’s top scorers with 43 goals. 78 76-90 Their tally was two short of Barcelona’s min 62 record of 45 in 1999/2000 but, because 16 of the truncated campaign, those 17 GROUP STAGE KNOCKOUT STAGE came from 11 games rather than 16, 90+ 16 20 min 308 goals 78 goals meaning an unprecedented ratio of 1 Number of matches won 3.91 per match. 3 by goals scored after the While runners-up Paris Saint-Germain 91-105 75th minute (16.8%) were the second-highest scorers with min 0 131 177 35 39 First Second First Second 25 goals, the most prolific side of 3 half half half half 2018/19, Manchester City, ranked 1 106-120 third with 21 – a lower sum than min 0 their expected goals total of 25.54. 4 1 Extra 8 Meanwhile, it was a team eliminated time in the group stage, Salzburg, who Paris scored eight of their produced the second-best goals-per- 25 goals from the 79th game ratio of 2.67 after finding the net GOALS PER SEASON minute onwards (32%) 16 times in their six fixtures. GOALS PER SEASON AVERAGE GOALS PER GAME 401 386 380 368 366 355 362 361 345 347 331 330 329 320 309 309 5 285 3.24 Bayern scored inside 3.21 15 minutes in five of 3.04 their 11 matches 2.94 2.89 2.84 2.90 2.92 2.65 2.64 2.63 2.76 2.78 2.47 2.56 5 2.47 Shakhtar won five

Bayern’s Robert 2.28 of their six points in Lewandowski top scored in 2019/20 GOALS Group C with goals 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18 18/19 19/20 scored in the final SEASON (current format established 2003/04) quarter of matches

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Chelsea came back from 4-1 down to draw with Ajax

WINNING BIG STALEMATES .6% A series of heavy victories continued the trend ON THE SLIDE 69 established in recent seasons Percentage of The 2019/20 competition games won by the With a 7-2, a 6-2, two 6-0s and three 5-0s, To offer some nuance, this was the featured just four goalless team scoring first this season’s group stage was certainly fourth year running that a team from a draws – the lowest number since not light on heavy scorelines. This was not country from outside the leading five 1998/99, when the campaign exclusive to 2019/20, for in six of the last in UEFA’s coefficient had succeeded in comprised 85 matches from seven campaigns, the number of victories inflicting a heavy defeat on one from group stage to final rather than by a margin of four goals or more has within, with Dinamo Zagreb’s 4-0 beating this season’s 119.

86.1% reached double figures. of Atalanta. In previous seasons there Percentage of As well as a further indication of the high- were victories for Club Brugge v Monaco games in which scoring tendency already discussed, it is (4-0, 2018/19); Spartak Moskva v Sevilla GOALLESS DRAWS team who scored tempting to ask whether this is a reflection (5-1, 2017/18); and Porto v Leicester City of the strongest clubs getting ever (5-0, 2016/17), albeit with the English first avoided defeat 2019/20 4 stronger: over the last decade, sides from side already qualified. five countries – Spain, England, Germany, The only other occasion this century 2018/19 7 Italy and France – have shared 91 of the when a team from a lower-ranked 107 big wins posted prior to Christmas. By nation earned such an emphatic win 2017/18 7 6 THE ADVANTAGE OF SCORING FIRST comparison, the previous ten seasons had was in 2013/14 when Shakhtar Donetsk yielded 63 big wins overall. thrashed 4-0. 2016/17 10 Of the 27 finals As the final itself showed, registering the opening goal was often key featuring at least 2015/16 10 one goal in the One recurring message in Champions League (3-2) and Olympiacos (4-2), while there Champions League technical reports concerns the importance of were also seven matches in which teams WINS BY FOUR GOALS OR MORE 2014/15 8 era, the team scoring the first goal. Those teams who broke battled back to draw – including Olympiacos 11 (9 wins by clubs from ‘big five’ countries, plus Dinamo Zagreb, Salzburg) 6 conceding first have the deadlock in 2019/20 had an 86.1% chance claiming a home point against Spurs in 2019/20 2013/14 of avoiding defeat – not quite as high as the their earlier encounter in Piraeus (2-2). 9 (8, plus Club Brugge) come back to win 2018/19 2012/13 5 season before (90%), owing to a slight rise in Chelsea alone succeeded in coming back only six times 12 (10, plus , Spartak Moskva) comeback wins, but significant nonetheless. from three goals down when they drew 4-4 2017/18 2011/12 9 Overall, there were 15 instances of teams with Ajax, albeit the Dutch side lost two players 2016/17 14 (11, plus Dynamo Kyiv, Copenhagen, Porto) turning around a deficit to prevail inside 90 to red cards with the scoreboard reading 2-4. 11 (10, plus Shakhtar) 2010/11 7 minutes, compared with 12 in 2018/19, while Of the seven matches played in the final 2015/16 Atlético de Madrid’s comeback at Liverpool in tournament in Lisbon, there was just one in 2014/15 15 (10, plus Shakhtar (2), Ajax, Basel, Porto) 2009/10 7 the round of 16 happened in extra time. which the team that conceded first recovered 2013/14 11 (10, plus Shakhtar) Atlético’s 3-2 triumph at Anfield was to win – namely, Paris Saint-Germain’s late, 2008/09 14 one of ten cases of a side cancelling out, late show against Atalanta. This led one UEFA 2012/13 5 or even surmounting, a two-goal deficit. In observer to wonder about the impact of the 2007/08 10 9 (8, plus Ajax) the group stage, Borussia Dortmund and empty stadium, saying: “When games were 2011/12 Tottenham Hotspur bounced back to earn going away from teams, the mentality was a bit 2010/11 10 2006/07 11 respective home victories against Inter different with no supporters in the stadium.” 2009/10 4 2005/06 20 2008/09 4 (3, plus Shakhtar) 2004/05 10 COMEBACKS FROM TWO OR MORE GOALS DOWN 2007/08 5 2003/04* 10 OLYMPIACOS 2-2 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2006/07 4 ATLÉTICO DE MADRID 2-2 JUVENTUS 2005/06 6 2002/03 9 REAL MADRID 2-2 CLUB BRUGGE DINAMO ZAGREB 3-3 SHAKHTAR DONETSK 2004/05 9 TO DRAW 2001/02 6 CHELSEA 4-4 AJAX 2003/04* 6 REAL MADRID 2-2 PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN 2000/01 7 9 (8, plus Olympiacos) LEIPZIG 2-2 BENFICA 2002/03 1999/00 8 LYON 2-2 LEIPZIG 2001/02 5 (3, plus Lokomotiv Moskva, Sparta Praha) BORUSSIA DORTMUND 3-2 INTER 2000/01 11 (9, plus Rosenborg, Dynamo Kyiv) 1998/99 4 TO WIN TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 4-2 OLYMPIACOS LIVERPOOL 2-3 ATLÉTICO DE MADRID *Current format established *Current format established.

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LEWANDOWSKI LEADS THE WAY SPEED OF SCORING The Bayern forward excelled as he topped the scoring charts for the first time Teams required more time on the ball and more 4.21 passes before scoring than in recent seasons Bayern averaged There was a new name at the top of the 16 with Dortmund. Moreover, of the 4.21 passes and scorers’ chart in 2019/20 with Robert 15 players to score five goals or more, The speed of today’s football means it would This was illustrative of their efforts 13.84 seconds on Lewandowski’s 15 goals for Bayern the Norwegian registered the highest be an exaggeration to say that anybody applied across a campaign where, among the clubs the ball before scoring München leaving him clear of the shot conversion rate of 47.6%, the metaphorical brakes in 2019/20 yet, at the who reached the knockout stage, Lyon – a notable rise from field. Just two goals short of Cristiano having achieved his total from just 21 same time, it is worth noting that the average advanced the ball towards goal at the highest 2.94 passes and Ronaldo’s record total of 17 from shots – and an expected goals (xG) number of passes in the build-up to a goal rate of metres per second (1.7) and had 9.81 seconds the 2013/14, Lewandowski became the first estimate of 7.20. reached a nine-year high of 4.24. Similarly, the lowest average number of passes per man other than Ronaldo or Lionel Messi By contrast, the average time in possession before scoring possession (4.7). season before to finish as the competition’s outright recorded the lowest shot conversion exceeded the 13-second mark for the first time By contrast, a Liverpool team known for leading marksman since Kaká in 2006/07. rate (16.1%) while Kylian Mbappé’s in this period at 13.1 seconds. the speed of their attacking have tweaked The 32-year-old Pole’s predatory tally of five goals was notably short One team bucking that trend were Lyon, who their approach in fitting with the overall trend. prowess was highlighted by the fact of his xG figure of 8.19. For Serge averaged just 1.9 passes – and 6.6 seconds – For the second season running, their figures Robert Lewandowski 18.07 goal locations he scored seven of his goals within the Gnabry, it was the opposite story: before scoring on their run to the semi-finals. rose – indeed 12.8 passes and 4.6 seconds in five-metre box, and just one from outside with two spectacular solo efforts The UEFA observer at their quarter-final against possession before scoring marked quite a leap Average number of the penalty area. Four of the 15 were against Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, Roberto Martínez, noted “how from 7.6 passes and 2.6 seconds registered on seconds Barcelona headers. Lewandowski turned 32 two Lyon, and some quick surges behind well they can counterattack, quickly and with a lot their path to the 2018 final. The fact they took spent on the ball days before the final, yet his enduring opposition defences, he maximised of threat with the two strikers and arrivals from more touches in a slower build-up was also before scoring powers gave him his best year yet in a his opportunities impressively, with deep of [Maxwel] Cornet and [Houssem] Aouar”. reflected by their recording the competition’s competition in which his previous highest nine goals from an xG estimate of That match offered a strong example in the highest average possession rate per match yield was a ten-goal haul in 2012/13. only 3.73. These feats were all the form of their key second goal: from the moment (67.1%). That said, Jürgen Klopp’s side can still If this was the fifth season running more impressive for the fact that, Maxence Caqueret intercepted Aymeric Laporte’s strike at high speed, underlined by the seven- a thirtysomething had outscored the like Haaland, the 25-year-old had wayward pass inside Lyon’s half, the Ligue 1 side touch, seven-second sequence that concluded 74 rest, there was an exciting impact made not scored in the competition before. required no more than nine seconds, six more with scoring at Genk once Naby Seconds that by a player still in his teens when his Real Madrid teenager Rodrygo stood touches and two passes before the ball swelled Keïta had recovered the ball following an Tottenham kept the Champions League involvement ended: out for his efficiency too by claiming City’s net through Moussa Dembélé’s shot. opposition throw-in. ball before a 27-pass Erling Braut Haaland. His ten goals his four goals from eight shots with Serge Gnabry included eight in the group stage with an xG figure of 1.45 and a minute to move concluded with shot locations Liverpool counter at ’s Salzburg and two more in the round of goal ratio of 82.8. speed away to Genk * Pink = Shots, Green = Goals; circles scaled by quality of chance goal at Crvena zvezda

Shots Shot Mins TOP SCORERS Goals xG Shots 0.15 on target conversion per goal The xG of Atlético’s Marcos Llorente, who scored Robert Lewandowski 15 14.57 52 33 28.8% 59.1 two goals (both at Liverpool) from three shots overall Erling Braut Haaland 10 7.20 21 13 47.6% 55.4 Serge Gnabry 9 3.73 27 16 33.3% 85.1

Raheem Sterling 6 6.66 24 13 25% 99.8 9 6 4.77 23 10 26.1% 75 Robert Lewandowski scored in nine consecutive matches up to the final Memphis Depay 6 4.62 21 12 28.6% 99 Dries Mertens 6 3.73 21 11 28.6% 97.7

Gabriel Jesus 6 6.06 25 10 24% 98.3

15 Heung-Min Son 5 4.63 18 11 27.8% 73 Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema became the first Josip Iličić 5 3.6 15 9 33.3% 103.2 players to score in 15 consecutive UEFA Champions League campaigns Mauro Icardi 5 4.38 12 7 41.7% 96 AVERAGE POSSESSION TIME AND PASSES NEEDED TO SCORE Lautaro Martínez 5 3.58 25 13 20% 104.2

Kylian Mbappé 5 8.19 30 18 16.7% 130.4 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18 18/19 19/20 55.4 SECS. IN POSSESSION 11.59 10.3 11.45 11.66 11.51 10.58 12.26 12.5 13.1 Luis Suárez 5 4.22 22 14 22.7% 113.2 The minutes-per-goal rate of Erling Braut Haaland PASSES IN BUILD-UP 3.76 3.4 3.91 3.94 3.74 3.68 4.03 3.89 4.24 in his breakthrough campaign Karim Benzema 5 6.52 31 14 16.1% 128.6

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FREE-KICK GOALS DOWN HOW THE GOALS WERE SCORED 29.3% Percentage of goals One of the most arresting shifts in scoring patterns from the previous season was the fall in the number of CATEGORY ACTION TOTAL coming from crosses goals from direct free-kicks. From 11 in 2018/19 there Combinations 51 and cutbacks were just five in 2019/20 – and only one scored by the actual striker of the dead ball, namely the effort that Crosses 81 Juventus forward Paulo Dybala whipped over Atlético de Madrid custodian Jan Oblak from a narrow angle by the Cutbacks 32 4 goal line. The other four came from the boot of players Through balls 33 following up the original attempt: Internazionale’s Nicolò OPEN PLAY Paris and Valencia Barella volleyed in after Stefano Sensi’s kick had bounced Long passes 16 struck four times back off the crossbar against Slavia Praha; Juventus’s Individual action 20 each from through Aaron Ramsey poked in after Lokomotiv Moskva keeper balls, which in the Guilherme had fumbled Cristiano Ronaldo’s strike; Shots from outside box 38 Spanish side’s case Leipzig’s Diego Demme drove low into the bottom corner Valencia’s Geoffrey after Marcel Sabitzer’s shot rebounded his way off the Defensive errors 26 represented 30.8% Kondogbia fires home from distance against Lille Zenit wall; and Salzburg’s beat Gaëtan of their overall total Corners 24 Coucke to the loose ball after Genk’s goalkeeper had fumbled a shot by , which was itself a Throw-ins 1 ROUTE TO GOAL follow-up to his initial kick into the defensive wall. SET PLAY Penalties 37 Cutbacks and crosses proved the most reliable route to goal while While there was one more indirect free-kick this 5 season (15 including own goals) than the last, there Direct free-kicks 5 dead-ball efforts dwindled was also a significant drop in the number of corners Bayern scored the leading to goals – from 42 down to 27 (including Crosses and cutbacks were crucial attacking respectively scoring four and five goals in this Indirect free-kicks 12 most goals from three own goals resulting from corners). Therefore, ploys once more in 2019/20 with the fashion – or 27% and 23.8% of their totals. opposition defensive setting penalty kicks aside, the combined total of OWN GOALS 10 combined number that produced goals rising In terms of the routes to goal that gained errors, perhaps no goals from all other dead-ball opportunities was to 113 – or 29.3% of all goals scored. Whereas in effectiveness in 2019/20, the number of Total 386 surprise given the down from 65 (17.8% of the total) to 48 (12.4%). pressure they applied in the previous season’s report these were goals from outside the box climbed from 23 to classed together in the same category (for a 40. For sheer power, the strike that Valencia’s

total of 94), the separate figures this season Geoffrey Kondogbia hammered into the Lille Inter’s Nicolò Barella were 81 crosses and 32 cutbacks. net from 30 metres in the group stage took celebrates scoring against Slavia As a reflection of the outstanding work of some beating, though Dortmund’s Erling 40 their full-backs, Bayern München scored 11 of Braut Haaland staked his own claim with the The number of goals their 43 goals from crosses, including Kingsley left-footed winner smashed high past Paris scored with shots Coman’s final winner, while Paris Saint- goalkeeper Keylor Navas during the round of from outside the area Germain, Real Madrid and Dinamo Zagreb 16 first leg in Germany. each struck six times. In the case of Madrid, Other goal sources on the rise in 2019/20 crosses (six) and cutbacks (four) combined were long passes (up from 11 to 16) and brought ten of their 16 goals – including individual actions, doubling from ten to 20. Rodrygo’s centre for Karim Benzema’s fine Atalanta accounted for four of these – starting 1 header at Manchester City. For Dinamo, with captain Alejandro Gómez’s lovely strike crosses alone contributed 60% of their ten against Dinamo when he deceived a defender Juventus’s Paulo goals scored. with a stepover before arrowing a shot into Dybala was the only Combinations led to 51 goals, meanwhile, the far corner – while Dortmund were next on player to score direct with Barcelona and Manchester City the list with three. from a free-kick

THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE There were 33 goals from through balls – seven fewer 4 than the previous season. One of the most eye- Italian clubs Atalanta catching examples was this pass by Shakhtar Donetsk and Napoli scored the midfielder in the 2-2 home draw with most spot kicks with Dinamo Zagreb. Eyeing Dodô’s run around the back four each of the Dinamo defensive line, he responded with a superb outside-of-the-foot pass which cut a straight line between five opposition players and put his Shakhtar’s Alan Patrick sends Dodô colleague in the clear to score. through on goal

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MÜLLER’S ECHOES OF 2014 SET PLAYS A Bayern free-kick goal that may have resonated with close watchers of Germany’s national team Once again, the number of goals scored was the Thomas Müller volley set up by Thiago Alcántara’s cute flick over the Crevna zvezda from dead-ball situations dropped defensive wall in the 3-0 group-stage success in Munich. At the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, tried and failed to chip a ball over the wall for Müller in an imaginative There were 48 goals from set plays in the 2019/20 campaign, GOAL TYPE routine in which the latter had deliberately fallen meaning a reduction for the third year running. Indeed, the to his knees in front of the ball before getting up percentage total of 12% was down from 19% in 2016/17. SET-PLAYS PENALTIES OPEN PLAY and running beyond the line of defenders. This This analysis covers all the goals that originated from set pieces Thiago Alcántara tees time the Bayern forward simply stood level with 2019/20 48 37 301 up Thomas Müller in the competition, including own goals that followed corners and (spotlight) against the visitors’ wall before a sharp dart into the Crvena zvezda free-kicks (of which there were three apiece) and even two shots space beyond to meet Thiago’s ball. from outside the box after an initial free-kick had bounced back off 2018/19 66 34 266 the defensive wall. For the second consecutive year, Bayern München finished with 2017/18 70 28 303 an unsurpassed tally of set-play goals – five, compared with six in ATLÉTICO MAINTAIN 2018/19 – and this included the header Robert Lewandowski scored 2016/17 73 33 274 MENACE from Joshua Kimmich’s free-kick in the semi-final against Lyon. For the second season running, Atlético de Madrid Bayern’s five goals represented 12% of their total, mirroring the 2015/16 65 25 257 scored four set-play goals. The eighth minute of overall trend, and on this fall in set-piece strikes, Roberto Martínez their victory at Liverpool offered a good example wondered whether training-ground work on playing out from the 2014/15 69 31 261 of their threat with an inventive routine which back had reduced the time given to practising dead-ball scenarios. very nearly brought another. When Koke, standing some 40 metres from goal out on the left, touched the ball back to Thomas Partey, João Félix took this as a cue to advance beyond the Liverpool SET-PLAY GOALS SCORED SET-PLAY GOALS defensive line. As Liverpool’s players stepped up to TOTAL GOALS play him offside, Kieran Trippier stole a march on them with a dash into the box from the opposite 43 side of the pitch. It was towards him that Partey directed a deep diagonal ball and Liverpool were left relieved that Trippier, at full stretch, could not Kieran Trippier (circled) was the target for a quite get enough purchase on his volleyed attempt well-worked Atlético to turn the ball back across to the two Atlético 25 free-kick at Anfield 21 men waiting unmarked in the middle. 18 16 16 17 15 14 15 13 12 12 16 14 13 13 10 10 10 10 8 7 8 5 5 5 4 3 3 3 3 5 4 4 4 4 MARQUINHOS JOY FROM 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 BLOCKING PLOY The second of Paris Saint-Germain’s two set- Ajax Lyon Paris Zenit Genk Napoli

Bayern play goals in the competition was Marquinhos’s Benfica Chelsea Valencia Salzburg Atalanta Man City Juventus Shakhtar Liverpool LOSC Lille LOSC Barcelona Dortmund RB Leipizig RB Lokomotiv breakthrough header in the semi-final against Tottenham Real Madrid Olympiacos Galatasaray Galatasaray Club Brugge Club Slavia Praha Slavia GNK Dinamo GNK Crvena zvezda

Internazionale Leipzig and it earned praise from match observer Bayer Leverkusen

Atlético de Madrid de Atlético Statistics do not include penalties Roberto Martínez for the contribution of his colleague . Martínez noted how, as Neymar and Ángel Di María stood over the ball by the left corner of the box, Kimpembe took up a position between the second and .8% third man in Leipzig’s zonal line. , 12% 5 0 30 the second man in question, found Kimpembe Percentage total of set- No team could match Neither Dortmund nor Napoli Percentage of Atlético de Madrid blocking him from behind as Di María’s The block by Presnel outswinging delivery came over, creating the play goals, down from Bayern München’s five scored a single set-play goal goals from set plays, the highest Kimpembe’s (spotlight) on Yussuf Poulsen allowed space for Marquinhos to step into as he attacked 18% the previous season goals from dead balls despite reaching the last 16 among the last 16 clubs Marquinhos the room to score against Leipzig the cross and scored. “A well-worked training- ground set play” was Martínez’s verdict.

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SET-PLAY GOALS AND EXPECTED GOALS SET-PLAY GOALS SET-PLAY xG 37% 5 Olympiacos’s five set-piece 4.7 goals against represented a 37% 4.4 4 portion of their overall tally of 14 goals conceded 3.3 3.1 3 3 3 2.9 2.8 3 2.5 2.4 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1 2 2 2 2 2.1 2.0 1.9 % 1.7 25 1.7 1.7 1.6 2 2 2 2 2 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.4 Rodrigo gets on the 1.1 end of Dani Parejo’s Crvena zvezda and Chelsea 1.0 1.1 1.1 free-kick at Chelsea 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 each conceded a quarter of their 0.5 0.5 0.4 BAYERN AND PARIS KEEP IT TIGHT goals from set pieces, five and four respectively Finalists Bayern München and Paris Saint- track Rodrigo’s clever, angled run to meet Ajax Lyon Paris Zenit Genk Napoli

Bayern Germain were among nine teams who did Dani Parejo’s lofted ball towards the left- Benfica Chelsea Valencia Salzburg Atalanta Man City Juventus Shakhtar Liverpool LOSC Lille LOSC Barcelona Dortmund RB Leipizig RB not concede a single goal from a set play in hand edge of the five-metre box, whence Lokomotiv Tottenham Real Madrid Olympiacos Galatasaray Slavia Praha Slavia CLub Brugge CLub GNK Dinamo GNK 2019/20. In the case of Paris, UEFA’s observers he volleyed the only goal. Chelsea had had Crvena zvezda Internazionale

Bayer Leverkusen highlighted the impact of several influential eight players lined up on the perimeter of 3 Atlético de Madrid de Atlético individuals in their defensive efforts, with their area in the expectation of a diagonal As a measure of their set-play Thiago Silva bringing authority and leadership ball towards the back post. Yet Rodrigo in the penalty area and Presnel Kimpembe cut across four of them before slipping problems, there were three such a consistently solid presence alongside him. between Abraham and Jorginho, the two goals scored when Crvena zvezda Marquinhos’s contribution was worthy of note players at the end of the row, on his way to and Olympiacos met too – including in the final, when he won some meeting Parejo’s vertical delivery. on Matchday 2 important defensive headers. When struck with a free Also among this cluster of clubs were header from the centre of the five-metre Atalanta, who conceded 18 goals in open play box in Chelsea’s second game at LOSC Lille, but none from a dead ball. At the other end of Lampard switched from a zonal set-up to the scale, Chelsea conceded the most set-play a combination of zonal and man-marking. 9 goals (four) of the 16 teams who reached the Yet the Londoners still ended their domestic knockout stage. In Frank Lampard’s impressive season having conceded the highest Nine clubs did not concede from José Mourinho first campaign as manager of the English club, proportion of corners to goals in the Premier Ondřej Kúdela thanks a quick- a corner in 2019/20: Atalanta, (highlighted) waits for thinking ball boy a vulnerability from set plays was one of the League. It seems no coincidence that a corner at Dortmund at Tottenham puzzles he faced. Lampard responded with the signing of Barcelona, Leverkusen, Bayern, Against Valencia in their opening group Thiago Silva, given the Brazilian’s role as a Galatasaray, Internazionale, APPLYING THE EVERYTHING COUNTS… fixture, no Chelsea player was alert enough to defensive organiser at Paris. Manchester City, Paris, Real Madrid FINISHING TOUCH EVEN THE BALL BOYS The contrast between clubs’ goals and expected goals from “I love intelligent ball boys like I was.” So said José Mourinho set plays will make for interesting, if particularly rueful, reading in praise of the youngster who threw a spare ball into the SET-PLAY GOALS CONCEDED SET-PLAY GOALS for anybody connected with Slavia Praha. The Czech club arms of Tottenham Hotspur full-back to enable SET-PLAY xG were one of eight sides to finish the group stage without a him to take the quick throw down the line to Lucas Moura set-piece goal, yet their xG figure of 3.3 was bettered by only that led to Harry Kane’s equaliser in the Londoners’ home 20 20 two, Bayern and Atlético – a sign that they at least got their win against Olympiacos. 18 18 Mourinho’s own involvement on the sidelines is worth delivery right at times. The problem, more than once, was 16 reviewing in a sequence that showed Spurs’ clever use of the 15 their finishing, with the unmarked Ondřej Kúdela heading wide 14 14 14 14 14 multi-ball system. As one ball flies into touch midway inside 13 13 13 of an open goal following a corner at Dortmund (xG 0.74) the opposition half, Mourinho is on his feet shouting, “Go, 12 12 12 12 11 11 and Tomáš Souček steering a volley wide from inside the go” – and even mimicking a throwing action – as the ball 10 11 9 9 9 9 9 five-metre box after a free-kick into the penalty area at home boy jumps from his seat and lobs another to Aurier. Within 8 8 against Internazionale (xG 0.56). five seconds of the full-back’s throw-in, the ball is in the 6 6 6 The opposite applied with Ajax, who scored three set-play Olympiacos net, prompting Mourinho to give the teenager a goals while registering an xG sum of 0.5 – primarily as a congratulatory embrace – and later invite him to lunch with 5 5 4 4 result of two free-kicks, by Quincy Promes and Hakim Ziyech, his squad before their next home game. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 which led to own goals by Chelsea’s and “An important assist” is how Mourinho described an at Stamford Bridge. Bayer Leverkusen, intervention that came six months after a quick-thinking Ajax Lyon Paris Zenit Anfield ball boy had facilitated Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Genk Napoli meanwhile, owed two of their three goals from dead balls Bayern Benfica Chelsea Valencia Salzburg Atalanta Man City Juventus swiftly taken corner for Liverpool’s semi-final winner against Shakhtar Liverpool LOSC Lille LOSC Barcelona Dortmund RB Leipizig RB to own goals following Kerem Demirbay corners in victories Lokomotiv Tottenham Real Madrid Real Olympiacos Galatasaray Club Brugge Club Barcelona. In a sport of the finest margins, even the juniors Praha Slavia GNK Dinamo GNK Crvena zvezda against Atlético de Madrid and Lokomotiv Moskva. on the sidelines can make a difference at times. Internazionale Bayer Leverkusen Atlético de Madrid de Atlético

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CORNERS-TO-GOALS RATIO 65 CORNERS 63 3 Atlético, Bayern and Chelsea were 51 A focus on the teams that 48 the most productive teams from corners with three goals apiece attacked and defended 43 34 34 35 35 best from corners 32 33 30 30 27 Atlético, Bayern and Chelsea were the most productive 24 teams from corners with three goals apiece. Under 21 6:1 Diego Simeone, Atlético have long excelled in set- 15 16 Dortmund posted the lowest piece situations and this time they scored from three corners-to-shots ratio of 46 corners (a ratio of 15:1), ranking them second 9 behind Crvena zvezda (9:1), as well as recording a shot from every 1.8 corners. The graphic below indicates that they found most joy from outswinging corners delivered to the penalty spot. Ajax Lyon Paris Zenit Genk

Crvena zvezda conceded a quarter of their goals from Bayern Benfica Chelsea

Salzburg 9:1 Man City Liverpool LOSC Lille LOSC set pieces, but a discussion of their set plays has a sunny Barcelona Tottenham Real Madrid Real side too – specifically, their success from corner kicks Olympiacos Crvena zvezda scored one goal Crvena zvezda in 2019/20. For the Serbian outfit, it was two corners Atlético’s Felipe for every nine corners, the Bayer Leverkusen

fires home against Madrid de Atlético from the left, swung in by the right boot of Marko Lokomotiv following competition’s best ratio Marin to the edge of the five-metre box, that brought a short corner Thirteen teams did not score from a corner. Decimals rounded to the nearest number the late goals from Nemanja Milunović and Richmond Boakye – after 87 and 90 minutes – which secured their only victory of the group stage against Olympiacos. Those two goals meant they ended the season with the VALENCIA’S CLOSE CALLS above-mentioned best corners-to-goals ratio of 9:1. Valencia did not score from a corner but they recorded Under their since departed coach Vladan Milojević – a strategist well known in for his attention to the one shot for every two taken, placing them fourth fine details – they improved on the previous season’s in that category. One example of their threat was a ratio of 17:1 and also registered the best ratio for well-worked routine against Chelsea featuring clever corners to shots, with ten shots from 18 deliveries. movement from who, from a position Similarly, Chelsea’s success in the opposition box beyond the penalty spot, ran back across the line of contrasted with their troubles in their own as they Valencia attackers to meet Dani Parejo’s driven low ended the campaign with three goals from corners Atlético corners ball towards the edge of the area. Unmarked, Gameiro and a ratio (16:1) that was bettered only by Crvena was able to get in a shot, although it flew over. zvezda and Atlético. Successful inswingers Unsuccessful inswingers Successful outswingers Unsuccessful outswingers

Valencia work a shooting chance for Kevin Gameiro CORNERS TO GOALS: 44:1 CORNERS TO SHOTS: 3:1

56% Straight REDS’ RATIO FALLS Inswinger Short 1% 11% Liverpool scored a goal from every 18.8 corners taken in 2018/19 but a year on they managed just one from 65 overall. It could easily have been more, though, Outswinger as this example shows: with Virgil van Dijk and Joe Short 39% Gomez holding up their arms as if to indicate their 25% wish for a delivery towards the penalty spot, Salzburg’s TOTAL TOTAL defenders were caught out by Sadio Mané’s run to the GOALS SHOTS near post, where the Senegalese missed by a whisker 27 1,177 the flat, low centre that Trent Alexander-Arnold fired across the face of goal (echoing his corner for Divock 35% Origi’s 2019 semi-final winner against Barcelona). Inswinger Sadio Mané attacks the Outswinger space at the near post against Salzburg 33%

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CORNERS-TO-GOALS-CONCEDED RATIO 1 Only two teams were better at avoiding conceding corners in the 2019/20 competition than Liverpool, yet the fact that Jürgen Klopp’s men conceded from two of the 21 flag kicks they did Number of goals face will have been less pleasing for the German. One of those goals was notably damaging – Saúl conceded by Atlético Ñíguez’s scrambled winner for Atlético in their round of 16 first leg in Spain – and it ensured that from a combined total of Liverpool ended the campaign with the lowest corners-per-goals conceded ratio (10.5:1). As for 94 corners faced in the Atlético themselves, they finished with the highest, having conceded just once from the 59 they faced – a Thomas Partey own goal at Bayer Leverkusen. past two seasons

59 5.4 52 53 47 Average number of 40 corners it took for Bayern 39 37 to concede a chance to Juventus used a mixed 34 zonal/man-marking the opposition 33 system with all 11 players 30 28 26 22 THE HIGH AND LOW 17 OF SARRI’S STRATEGY 14 15 15 13 Under , Juventus recorded the fifth-best 11 Fourteen clubs did not ratio for corners-per-goals conceded (40:1). Yet, at the concede from a corner same time, they ranked lowest for corners-per-shots in 2019/20: Atalanta, conceded with a ratio of 1.7:1. Sarri’s approach involved Barcelona, Leverkusen, bringing all 11 of his players back into the penalty box and deploying a mixed zonal/man-marking system. Bayern, Galatasaray, This gave opponents little space to exploit inside the Ajax Lyon Zenit

Napoli area itself but also meant there was room available on

Genk, Internazionale, Benfica Chelsea Valencia Juventus Liverpool Liverpool LOSC Lille LOSC Dortmund

Lokomotiv the edge of the box and outside it. It was evidently a Tottenham Olympiacos Leipzig, Manchester Club Brugge GNK Dinamo GNK

Crvena zvezda gamble Sarri considered worth taking, even if it meant Juventus shots City, Paris, Real Madrid, the Italian champions gave away a high number of ‘low- conceded from

Atlético de Madrid de Atlético corners Salzburg, Shakhtar quality’ shots – 23 attempts and the highest xG from Donetsk, Slavia Praha Decimals rounded to the nearest whole number corners defended (2.56). * Pink = Shots, Green = Goals; circles scaled by quality of chance

MIXED APPROACH BRINGS SUCCESS

Of those clubs who did not concede a single goal from a corner, two of the year’s surprise packages finished with the most impressive figures, with Leipzig and Atalanta staying unbreached after 51 and 50 corners faced respectively. Paris Saint-German ranked third with no goals from 45 corners and, as these images show, these three teams achieved such solidity by each setting up with a mixed zonal and man- marking strategy.

Leipzig defend a corner v Paris Atalanta defend a corner v Paris Paris defend a corner v Bayern

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CITY: HARD WORK PRESSING REAPS REWARDS Manchester City scored four goals from high Applying pressure high up the field often proved worth turnovers – one more than both Bayern and Paris – and a high-profile example came in their round the risk, as the following five examples illustrate of 16 home victory against Real Madrid. For this game, deployed Phil Foden as a false nine in the centre and it was the two wide forwards, Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus, who OUTCOME pressed high on every opposition goal kick. Their OF THE PRESS Manchester City press v Real Madrid reward came with the first goal when Sterling put the left centre-back, Éder Militão, under GAMES 119 pressure as he received a short goal kick from CITY OUTCOME OF THE PRESS Thibaut Courtois, forcing him to return the ball to the goalkeeper. With Sterling then closing in HIGH TURNOVERS 1,148 on Courtois, the keeper played short to Raphaël Varane on the other side of the box, only for Jesus to dispossess him and set up Sterling for a tap-in. ENDING IN A SHOT 217 (The map shows it was down the flank where Jesus pounced – City’s left – that they had particular joy ENDING IN A GOAL 30 in winning the ball back.) Phil Neville, the UEFA observer, said: “Real Madrid tried to play out from the back at all Bayern’s Joshua Kimmich times and struggled to do this against the high, The value of effective pressing can be seen from the (centre) and Thomas aggressive press, which meant the Madrid Müller press Paris fact that high turnovers were the source of 217 shots midfielder Marquinhos midfield three never impacted or influenced the and 30 goals during the 2019/20 campaign. game in possession.”

HIGH TURNOVERS 77 ENDING IN A SHOT 13 ENDING IN A GOAL 4 BAYERN: UNCEASING CONVICTION When the ball was rolled back to the feet of Marc- ATALANTA: André ter Stegen in the 85th minute of his side’s quarter-final against Bayern München, the Barcelona ACCEPTING THE RISK goalkeeper will have seen as many Bayern as Blaugrana The newcomers’ approach was in keeping with the shirts (five of each) in the immediate section of the high-risk tendency in vogue during a breakthrough field in front of him. It was even worse for Lionel Messi campaign in which they scored 17 goals and by the time the ball reached him six seconds later. conceded 18. This example from their quarter- Standing facing his own goal, some ten metres inside final against Paris highlights their commitment to the Barcelona half, the Argentinian had three Bayern pressing the opposition, with six players in their men at his back, and four more shutting the passing rivals’ half as Keylor Navas prepared to take a goal lanes towards his own defenders. It was one of that Bayern München kick – and three centre-backs left to potentially go press v Barcelona advanced Bayern quartet, Robert Lewandowski, who Atalanta press v Paris one v one with the Paris front three. swiftly stepped back to steal the ball from Messi and As UEFA observer Cosmin Contra noted, Navas spark the move that brought a Philippe Coutinho goal. BAYERN OUTCOME OF THE PRESS ATALANTA OUTCOME OF THE PRESS ended up kicking long, with Atalanta centre-back Not surprisingly, this intense pressing to regain the ball Mattia Caldara winning the ball back and the drew praise from the UEFA observer Cosmin Contra, Italian side not relinquishing it until 22 seconds who said of Bayern: “When the ball is lost, all the later when it hit the Paris net. “The goal comes players press very aggressively to win it back.” from very high and organised pressure from The fact that this example came with Bayern already Atalanta, which forces the Paris goalkeeper to 6-2 up in the match underlined the absolute, unceasing hit a ball up for the striker,” said Contra. Their conviction behind an approach that brought a total of aggressive high pressing left little space for the three goals from high turnovers. There is an element of opposition players yet also entailed that above- risk involved – if Messi had been able to turn and pick a mentioned element of risk. “It’s a system where in pass, he would have seen four team-mates surging into attack you get lots of numbers forward and it lets space in opposition territory – yet when one Bayern you press very high up after losing the ball, but it player asked Hansi Flick, “Isn’t that a bit too dangerous?” also leaves you very vulnerable in defence.” as the new coach laid out the strategy last November, Flick stressed that with complete unity of purpose it would work. “That unity is immensely important – that you defend together as a team, collectively, against the HIGH TURNOVERS 73 ENDING IN A SHOT 20 ENDING IN A GOAL 3 ball, not just individually,” he said. HIGH TURNOVERS 29 ENDING IN A SHOT 5 ENDING IN A GOAL 1

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LEIPZIG: ENERGY PARIS: MIDFIELD AND FLEXIBILITY COMMITMENT

A dynamic pressing game was a strong The question posed by one UEFA observer component of Leipzig’s success in reaching was whether Paris Saint-Germain’s forward the last four. The example from their 3-0 players had the right profile to enable a pressing home victory against Tottenham Hotspur game to rival Bayern’s. Yet the support of a in the round of 16 shows their forwards hard-running midfield trio certainly helped. – operating within a 1-3-4-3 framework – The example from their opening group fixture pushing up to apply pressure on the Spurs against Real Madrid shows how the threesome defenders. The UEFA observer at the game, of Marco Verratti, Marquinhos and Idrissa Gueye Roberto Martínez, remarked that Leipzig’s blocked the visitors’ route up the field: Verratti “youth and energy” were key to achieving the harried and Gueye then robbed the required intensity. He added: “They defended ball off James Rodríguez before Verratti teed up with numbers and intensity in the higher area Ángel Di María for a near-miss. of the pitch, executing a quick and high press Leipzig press v Spurs As with Gueye, Ander Herrera’s arrival in Paris press v Real Madrid with a really good understanding of how to summer 2019 certainly helped in this regard use the wing-backs.” and, for one example of the Spaniard’s impact, Leipzig’s tactical flexibility – noted consider how his pressure led to Leipzig’s Nordi elsewhere in this report – meant their players Mukiele slipping and losing the ball by the corner showed the intelligence to be able to press flag before the third goal in their semi-final. That in different formations. Against Paris Saint- same match showed the Paris forwards pressing Germain, for instance, they set up in a ­ to good effect too: witness Di María chasing 1-4-1-4-1 system yet, as the second example across the penalty box to put Leipzig goalkeeper shows, the left-sided central midfielder, Péter Gulácsi under pressure and prompt the Dani Olmo, would step out regularly from misplaced pass that led to him scoring the their second bank of four to join the centre- French club’s second. forward in pressing the Paris centre-backs.

Leipzig press v Paris Paris press v Leipzig

LEIPZIG OUTCOME OF THE PRESS PARIS OUTCOME OF THE PRESS PASSES PER DEFENSIVE ACTION 29 Ajax 7.5 Overall number of Leipzig shots within Bayern München 8 15 seconds of a turnover – a total bettered only by Bayern’s 44 Liverpool 8.8

Manchester City 9.7 6.9 Atalanta 10.2 Leipzig’s lowest passes allowed per On average, Ajax allowed the opposition the fewest passes (7.5) before making an defensive action, at home v Spurs HIGH TURNOVERS 43 ENDING IN A SHOT 9 ENDING IN A GOAL 0 intervention such as a tackle, or interception. HIGH TURNOVERS 51 ENDING IN A SHOT 12 ENDING IN A GOAL 3

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ONANA ON TOP CLEAN SHEETS SAVE PERCENTAGE GOALKEEPING For the second season running, Ajax’s André Manuel Neuer 6 Onana ranked first for goals prevented (5.27) Keylor Navas 5 82% André Onana Ajax’s André Onana again led the way in terms and he also recorded the highest save percentage (82%). Bayern’s Manuel Neuer kept the most Jan Oblak 4 clean sheets, meanwhile, with six shut-outs of goals prevented, while the rule change André Onana 3 in the champions’ 11 matches. 80% Alex Meret around goal kicks had a significant impact Péter Gulácsi 3 Manuel Neuer saves from in Bayern’s Alex Meret 3 3-0 win at Chelsea Thibaut Courtois 2 77% Paulo Gazzaniga Paulo Gazzaniga 2

Pierluigi Gollini 2 77% Keylor Navas Wojciech Szczęsny 2

Ederson 2

Anthony Lopes 2 77% Marc-André ter Stegen 2

Roman Bürki 2

Minimum of four games played 76% Manuel Neuer

GOALS CONCEDED PER GAME 1.5 1.5 1.5 75% Ederson 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.2 1 1 0.9 0.9 0.8 74% Wojciech Szczęsny 0.7 0.7 0.7

74% Péter Gulácsi ć Kepa Alisson Ederson Jan Oblak Jan Alex Meret Alex 73% Mikhail Kerzhakov Keylor Navas Roman Bürki Roman Péter Gulácsi André OnanaAndré Manuel Neuer Manuel Anthony Lopes Anthony Lukas Hradecky Lukas Paulo GazzanigaPaulo Samir Handanovi Samir Wojciech Szczesny Wojciech

71% Guilherme GOALS PREVENTED 5.27

4.22 4.03 71% Roman Bürki 3.67 3.59 3.58 3.13 2.39 2.24 2.06 2.06 1.96 1.93 1.86 1.74 1.61 71% Jan Oblak ć

Alisson 70% Guilherme Alex Meret Alex Ondřej Kolář Ondřej Keylor Navas Roman Bürki Roman Péter Gulácsi André OnanaAndré Manuel Neuer Manuel Pierluigi

Ajax’s André Onana GazzanigaPaulo Dominik Livakovi Fernando Muslera Fernando recorded the highest Szczęsny Wojciech goals prevented and 70% Samir Handanović save percentages ter StegenMarc-André

Goals prevented measures xG on target conceded compared with actual goals conceded, across games played

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NEW RULE HAS GOALKEEPER A BIG IMPACT DISTRIBUTION This was first season following the tweak to the These heatmaps highlight the distribution goal-kick rule that enabled the ball to be played patterns of various teams’ goalkeepers in short to a team-mate inside the penalty box. Every 2019/20 and it is interesting to note that Bayern goalkeeper made use of the rule with the exception München’s Manuel Neuer (heatmap 3) delivered a of Dinamo Zagreb’s Dominik Livaković. solitary goal kick into the opposition half over the In total there were six goals scored from moves entire season. Runners-up Paris Saint-Germain, by begun with a short goal kick to a player in the contrast, were happy to go long, with a variety of penalty box – and 44 shots from such sequences balls into opposition territory (heatmap 1). too. Yet there were reminders of the risk involved, such as Marc-André ter Stegen’s struggles in the face of Bayern’s high press in the quarter-final. Ederson long goal kick v Real Madrid Ginés Meléndez reflected: “With pressing so high, Paris goal kick locations a lot of the time there are more mistakes by goalkeepers because not every keeper is like Neuer who’s fabulous with his feet.” To back up that observation, the Bayern man ended the season with a 98% pass completion ratio on his goal kicks. The ability of goalkeepers to recognise when to play short or long was another aspect that was commented on by the technical observers, with Roberto Martínez highlighting Ederson’s distribution in Manchester City’s game at Real Madrid as an example. “An interesting feature was the opportunity to leave a two v two situation from a simple long pass from Ederson,” he said. “Due to the fact that City played with two false No9s, this allowed [Gabriel] Jesus and [Riyad] Mahrez to be Barcelona short goal kick v Bayern really high up the pitch.’” Napoli goal kick locations Bayern goal kick locations

PERCENTAGE OF GOAL KICKS RECEIVED IN THEIR OWN BOX

Paris 45%

Napoli 43%

Bayern 42%

42% Paris short goal kick v Club Brugge Liverpool Liverpool goal kick locations Barcelona goal kick locations

Barcelona 40%

Juventus 40%

Inter 39%

24% Portion of goal kicks taken Inter short goal kick v Barcelona short to a player in the box Juventus goal kick locations Inter goal kick locations

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Trent Alexander-Arnold’s DE BRUYNE’S DELIVERIES Liverpool had 67% possession overall, the POSSESSION season’s highest total CROSSING Dominating the ball was Liverpool led the way in not always a reliable delivering crosses from recipe for success wide positions Liverpool’s position as the highest-ranked Nobody who saw Liverpool’s last-16 tie against club for possession (a 67% season average) Atlético de Madrid will be surprised to see them highlighted their evolution into a team with ranked first for crosses per game (19.2). In the more midfield control. When Jürgen Klopp’s home leg, Trent Alexander-Arnold delivered side won the competition in 2018/19, they 25 and 13, underlining the averaged 50% possession per match – indeed, significance of the Reds’ full-backs to their

they won the final against Tottenham Hotspur attacking play. Indeed, Alexander-Arnold Kevin De Bruyne with only 38% of the ball. By contrast, they produced the most crosses over the season produced 61 crosses, a large number from suffered elimination this season against Atlético (77), three more than Bayern’s Joshua wide on the right de Madrid despite dominating possession in Kimmich from four fewer games. both legs, with a season high of 71.7% at the Among the other teams who managed a Metropolitano and 70.6% back at Anfield. consistently high output of crosses, Juventus Bayern were second to Liverpool with AVERAGE POSSESSION (%) were second with 18.6 per game; the fact CROSSES PER GAME a 64% average, marking a rise from 57% in they also ranked third in 2018/19 points 2018/19. They had over 60% of the ball in eight to their desire to get balls into the box to Liverpool Liverpool 67% 19.2 of their 11 matches, though curiously they Cristiano Ronaldo. Juventus posted their biggest victories in the two games Bayern München 64% Bayern München won the final with a 18.6 that yielded their lowest possession figures Kimmich cross, headed in by Kingsley Coman, 17.6 Manchester City 62% RB Leipizig – 58.6% and 49.3% against Spurs (7-2) and and Kimmich was fundamental in their Barcelona (8-2) respectively. Bayer Leverkusen 59% average supply of 17 per game, contributing Bayern München 17 Discounting the one knockout stage fixture 74 in total in 2019/20. The same went Juventus 59% Manchester City 15.2 that ended in a draw, the other 22 matches for Kevin De Bruyne, source of 61 crosses

featured 14 victories for the team with more Barcelona 57% for Manchester City, and the style of his Bayer Leverkusen 15 possession and eight for the team with less. deliveries was commented on by Roberto Genk 15 Lyon’s wins against Juventus and Manchester RB Leipzig 57% Martínez, his national coach with Belgium. City came with 36.4% and 28.8% possession Martínez described as “the King Kevin box” 14.3 Ajax 55% Real Madrid counts respectively – indicative of their the area from which De Bruyne delivers – 14.1 counterattacking approach. Real Madrid 55% specifically, “that area outside the penalty Chelsea box on the attacking team’s right-hand side”. Paris 53% Benfica 13.8 He added: “Players used to cross to a player, but Kevin crosses the ball to the space that Lyon 13.6 the player’s going to attack. With that quality, AVERAGE POSSESSION TIME (SECS) if the timing of the striker’s run is good enough, no defender in the world is going ASSIST LOCATIONS 49.3% Manchester City 31 to defend it because you cannot anticipate where he’s going to put it. He has that Bayern had the smaller share of Bayern München 29 trademark where he’s almost anticipating possession only once in 11 matches, Juventus 29 where the player will be. There used to be when beating Barcelona 8-2 with crosses into an area you can attack or crosses Barcelona 28 fractionally less than 50% put into a player; this goes into a space and Shakhtar Donetsk 26 the pace is so good it beats the defender.”

Real Madrid 26

Paris 25 .1% 80 Liverpool 24 25 No team had more possession in a Crosses by Trent Alexander- Bayer Leverkusen 24 game than Manchester City at home Arnold in Liverpool’s round 24 against Dinamo Zagreb Borussia Dortmund of 16 decider against Atlético The heat map shows where the decisive passes were played

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MAKING UP GROUND FITNESS Slavia players also led the way for distance covered, with Ševčík averaging 13.47km per match, followed Kylian Mbappé recorded the fastest sprint, while by his deeper-lying midfield colleague Tomáš Souček. It is no surprise to see a predominance of the demands on wide players were illustrated by their midfielders here and indeed five of the top six players high ranking in both sprint and speed categories in this category operate in the centre of the pitch, including Internazionale’s Marcelo Brozović – the previous season’s top performer. Nor is it a surprise to see two Atlético de Madrid FOOT RACE SPEED PLUS STAMINA midfielders in Saúl Ñíguez and Koke ranked so highly given the blue-collar work ethic demanded by their No player reached a higher speed than Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mobile Slavia Praha forward Peter Olayinka led the way for coach, Diego Simeone. One example of this came in Mbappé, who recorded the season’s quickest sprint time of 33.98 km/h in most sprints per match with an average of 60.33. That two added time at the end of the first half of their group a dash down the left as his team countered in the 73rd minute of the final. of his team-mates, wingers Petr Ševčík and Lukáš Masopust, stage visit to Lokomotiv Moskva when Saúl, Koke and Coincidence or not, the other four players in the top five all achieved their were next on the list showed the fruits of Slavia coach Jindřich even were among eight outfield players fastest times against Paris; one of them, , was a centre- Trpišovský’s fitness work, which included each player having who raced back from the edge of the Lokomotiv box back and the other three wing-backs. to meet a specific target of kilometres run at a certain speed Diego Costa leads to defend their own area as the Russian side sought Atlético’s race back on their return from both summer and winter breaks. Also into defence to strike from a swift counter. FASTEST SPRINTS (KM/H) worthy of comment is the breakdown by position of the nine players who averaged 50 or more sprints, which shows three wide attackers and three full-backs, reflecting once again the Kylian Mbappé Paris 33.98 v Bayern AVERAGE DISTANCE COVERED (KM) demands on elite players operating on the flanks. Lukas Klostermann Leipzig 33.82 v Paris Petr Ševčík (Slavia) 13.47 MOST SPRINTS Hans Hateboer Atalanta 33.71 v Paris Tomáš Souček (Slavia) 12.69 Peter Olayinka Slavia 60.33 12.48 Achraf Hakimi Dortmund 33.46 v Paris Marcelo Brozović (Inter) Petr Ševčík Slavia 59.40 Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético) 12.24 Alphonso Davies Bayern 33.37 v Paris Lukáš Masopust Slavia 56.67 Koke (Atlético) 12.04 Kyle Walker Manchester City 33.35 v Lyon Koke Atlético 56.44 Donny van de Beek (Ajax) 11.88 Real Madrid 33.32 v Man City Zeki Çelik LOSC Lille 56.33 Vladimír Coufal (Slavia) 11.76 Kingsley Coman Bayern 33.20 v Paris Achraf Hakimi Dortmund 56.00 Lucas Tousart (Lyon) 11.71 Erling Braut Haaland Dortmund 33.02 v Paris Alphonso Davies Bayern 51.38 Dušan Tadić (Ajax) 11.60 Atalanta 33.01 v Paris Hee-Chan Hwang Salzburg 51.17 Sander Berge (Genk) 11.54 Liverpool 32.99 v Atlético Dortmund 50.88 (Club Brugge) 11.47 Victor Osimhen LOSC Lille 32.98 v Ajax Zenit 49.67 (Shakhtar) 11.45 Raphaël Varane Real Madrid 32.93 v Man City Vladimír Coufal Slavia 49.67 (Leverkusen) 11.37 Timo Werner Leipzig 32.92 v Tottenham Serge Gnabry Bayern 48.90 Jorginho (Chelsea) 11.35 Layvin Kurzawa Paris 32.89 v Bayern Dele Alli Tottenham 48.14 (Lokomotiv) 11.24

Ismaily Shakhtar 32.87 v Atalanta Saúl Ñíguez Atlético 47.67 Fabián Ruiz (Napoli) 11.24

Ángel Di María Paris 32.83 v Bayern Atalanta 47.38 Zeki Çelik (LOSC Lille) 11.20

Martin Terrier Lyon 32.83 v Juventus Neymar Paris 46.71 İlkay Gündoğan (Man City) 11.18

Hee-Chan Hwang Salzburg 32.82 v Liverpool Andy Robertson Liverpool 46.25 Thomas Meunier (Paris) 11.12

Fikayo Tomori Chelsea 32.78 v Ajax Roberto Firmino Liverpool 46.25 Thomas (Atlético) 11.12

Sprints higher than 20km/h Average per match – played five matches or more Played five matches or more

72 73 COACH ERIK TEN HAG COACH GIAN PIERO GASPERINI BORN: 02/02/1970, Haaksbergen (NED) BORN: 26/01/1958, Grugliasco (ITA) NATIONALITY: Dutch NATIONALITY: Italian HEAD COACH: Since 28/12/2017 HEAD COACH: Since 14/06/2016 AFC AJAX NED UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 ATALANTA BC ITA UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP H ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP C ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% LIL VAL CHE CHE LIL VAL UEFA Champions League 18 9 5 4 50 DZ SHK MC MC DZ SHK VAL VAL PAR UEFA Champions League 10 4 1 5 40 W 3-0 W 0-3 L 0-1 D 4-4 W 0-2 L 0-1 matches (Group stage to final) L 4-0 L 1-2 L 5-1 D 1-1 W 2-0 W 0-3 W 4-1 W 3-4 L 1-2 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 36 18 12 6 50 UEFA club competition 32 14 9 9 44 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Chelsea (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Paris (n) 55% First third 28% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 49% First third 25% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 50% 24 André Onana 6 540 Middle third 53% 57 2 180 Max. 65% v Valencia (h) Max. 58% v Dinamo Zagreb (h) Min. 46% v Valencia (a) Final third 23% Min. 38% v Paris (n) Final third 22% 95 Pierluigi Gollini 7 630 UCL rank: 8= DEFENDERS UCL rank: 14= 2 Perr Schuurs 2 108 DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 3 Joël Veltman 5 428 DISTANCE COVERED 2 Rafael Tolói 7 630 Max. 118.1 km v LOSC (h) Max. 113.2km v Valencia (h) 112.4 km Min. 104.8 km v Chelsea (a) 110 km Min. 104.4km v Dinamo Zagreb (a) UCL rank: 11= 12 Noussair Mazraoui 3 225 UCL rank: 17= 3 Mattia Caldara 3 255 17 5 428 4 Simon Kjær 1 90 91 21 Lisandro Martínez 6 538 5 Andrea Masiello 4 219 % % 91 88 502 81 11 10 22 439 81 10 88 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 10 6 28 Sergiño Dest 5 405 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 10 33 6 José Luis Palomino 7 570 Max. 637 v LOSC (h) Max. 572 v Shakhtar Donetsk (h) 8 Max. 85% v LOSC (h) 22 Max. 88% v Shakhtar Donetsk (h) Min. 348 v Chelsea (a) 6 31 Nicolás Tagliafico 6 539 1 1 Min. 331 v Paris (n) 11 8 Robin Gosens 8 655 1 Min. 72% v Chelsea (a) 31 11 Min. 73% v Valencia (a), Paris (n) 15 UCL rank: 11 UCL rank: 16= 28 UCL rank: 20= UCL rank: 16= 8 11 15 21 4 33 19 Berat Djimsiti 6 510 4 21 MIDFIELDERS 19 2 28 3 PASS DISTANCE 31 4 Edson Álvarez 6 377 1 PASS DISTANCE 19 3 2 21 6 392 1 3 Long 48 (10% of total) UCL rank: 16= Long 45 (10% of total) UCL rank: 26= 1717 3 6 Donny van de Beek 5 448 2 1 33 Hans Hateboer 9 591 2 1 Medium 150 (30%) UCL rank: 22 Medium 145 (33%) UCL rank: 24 Short 304 (60%) UCL rank: 11 11 Quincy Promes 5 425 4 Short 249 (57%) UCL rank: 19 41 Roger Ibañez 1 19

Average UCL rank 19 Zakaria Labyad 1 44 Average UCL rank 57 MIDFIELDERS PASSES PER PASSES PER 57 DEFENSIVE ACTION 7.5 1 24 DEFENSIVE ACTION 10.2 5 24 22 Hakim Ziyech 6 499 2 4 5 Adrien Tameze 2 8 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 26 Jurgen Ekkelenkamp 1 2 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 11 8 669 1 1 ATTACKING THIRD 5 ATTACKING THIRD 30 6.2 27 3 129 3.2 15 9 764 1 *Decimal points account for the extra/missing 1% 18 9 256 1 1 FORWARDS 7 David Neres 4 180 1 20 Jacopo Da Riva 1 8 ATTEMPTS 9 Klaas Jan Huntelaar 4 33 ATTEMPTS 72 Josip Iličić 7 516 5 GOALS SCORED (2 own goals) GOALS SCORED 88 Mario Pašalić 9 692 3 2 12 2 per match; UCL rank: 6= 10 Dušan Tadić 6 540 3 17 1.89 per match; UCL rank: 8 15 Siem de Jong 4 9 FORWARDS EXPECTED GOALS (xG) EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 9 Luis Muriel 6 220 1 7.5 1.3 per match; UCL rank: 22 18.7 2.1 per match; UCL rank: 6 10 Alejandro Gómez 9 711 1 2 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 91 Duván Zapata 5 323 1 1 76 12.7 per match; UCL rank: 18 118 13.1 per match; UCL rank: 15 99 Musa Barrow 1 2 ON TARGET ON TARGET 26 4.3 per match; UCL rank: 18= 46 5.1 per match; UCL rank: 11= App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists AVERAGE CARDS GOALS 13% GOALS 14% AGE SAVES 18% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 24% 27.1 25 0 BLOCKED 26% AGE Sent off: BLOCKED 18% Blind v Chelsea (a), WOODWORK 5% 20 2 WOODWORK 3% 24.7 Veltman v Chelsea (a) WIDE 37% WIDE 41% KEY FEATURES

• 1-3-4-2-1 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Three-man defensive line, strengthened if needed by midfielder dropping back

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Build from deep with centre-backs 1 Quincy Promes 4 14 6 2.7 1 Lisandro Martínez 338 83 31 1 Josip Iličić 5 15 9 3.6 1 Marten de Roon 446 82 40 joining attacks (Caldarara, Tolói) 2 Hakim Ziyech 2 19 4 1.1 2 Daley Blind 331 81 46 2 Mario Pašalić 3 16 5 3.4 2 Remo Freuler 373 84 28 • Press high for regains; man-marking 3 Donny van de Beek 2 8 4 1.3 3 Hakim Ziyech 288 76 31 3 Hans Hateboer 2 7 4 1.5 3 Alejandro Gómez 344 86 20 and 1v1s across pitch G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Freuler and De Roon the ‘lungs’ of team; great physical capacity • Attacking wing-backs Gosens and CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I Hateboer; rich supply of crosses 1 Hakim Ziyech 4 11 2.0 1 Lisandro Martínez 40 7 10 1 Alejandro Gómez 2 16 2.3 1 Marten de Roon 49 14 16 • Leadership of Gómez with excellent 2 Dušan Tadić 3 7 1.5 2 Joël Veltman 38 4 11 2 Mario Pašalić 2 11 0.7 2 José Luis Palomino 46 15 17 dribbling, key passes from ‘free’ role 3 Donny van de Beek 1 7 0.9 3 Quincy Promes 36 3 2 3 Ruslan Malinovskyi 1 6 0.9 3 Robin Gosens 45 14 11 • Pasalić false nine; front trio’s movement A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Quincy Promes was Ajax’s top scorer with four goals makes space for quick runners

74 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 75 COACH DIEGO SIMEONE COACH* QUIQUE SETIÉN CLUB ATLÉTICO BORN: 28/04/1970, (ARG) BORN: 27/09/1958, Santander (ESP) NATIONALITY: Argentinian NATIONALITY: Spanish HEAD COACH: Since 23/12/2011 HEAD COACH: 13/01/2020 to 17/08/2020 DE MADRID ESP UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 4 FC BARCELONA ESP UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP D ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP F ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% JUV LMO BL BL JUV LMO LIV LIV LEI UEFA Champions League 69 38 17 14 55 BVB INT SLP SLP BVB INT NAP NAP BAY UEFA Champions League 3 1 1 1 33 D 2-2 W 0-2 W 1-0 L 2-1 L 1-0 W 2-0 W 1-0 W 2-3* L 2-1 matches (Group stage to final) D 0-0 W 2-1 W 1-2 D 0-0 W 3-1 W 1-2 D 1-1 W 3-1 L 2-8 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 94 58 18 18 62 UEFA club competition 11 4 5 2 36 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names *after extra time matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Liverpool (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Slavia Praha (a) 44% First third 23% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 57% First third 23% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 54% 13 Jan Oblak 9 840 Middle third 55% 1 Marc-André ter Stegen 8 720 Max. 67% v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) Max. 66% v Napoli (a) Min. 28% v Liverpool (h) Final third 22% Min. 46% v Dortmund (h) Final third 22% 13 Neto 1 90 UCL rank: 22= DEFENDERS UCL rank: 6= 2 José María Giménez 5 300 1 DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 4 Santiago Arias 2 180 DISTANCE COVERED 2 Nélson Semedo 7 630 1 Max.151.1km v Liverpool (a) Max. 111.7km v Internazionale (a) 117.6 km Min. 106.3km v Lokomotiv Moskva (a) 105.4 km Min. 98.3km v FC Bayern München (n) 3 Gerard Piqué 7 629 UCL rank: 3 12 Renan Lodi 9 762 1 UCL rank: 30 15 Stefan Savić 4 390 1 6 Jean-Clair Todibo 1 90 18 Felipe 8 661 1 15 Clément Lenglet 9 721 1 439 80% 639 87% 9 10 10 9 16 Moussa Wagué 2 91 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 22 Mario Hermoso 5 351 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 9 Max. 652 v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) Max. 89% v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) Max. 797 v Napoli (a) Max. 91% v Napoli (h) 17 18 5 355 1 Min. 272 v Liverpool (a) 6 23 Kieran Trippier 6 540 1 Min. 470 v Bayern (n) 10 Min. 59% v Liverpool (a) 11 10 Min. 81% v Slavia Praha (a) 21 UCL rank: 20= UCL rank: 20= 98 UCL rank: 3 UCL rank: 5= 17 23 3 270 5 24 Šime Vrsaljko 2 120 8 5 24 18 21 12 24 Junior Firpo 4 271 PASS DISTANCE 11 6 PASS DISTANCE 8 2 818 515 MIDFIELDERS 5 (12% of total) UCL rank: 12= (7% of total) UCL rank: 18= 15 Long 51 Long 47 2 MIDFIELDERS 5 Thomas 8 736 1 1 18 3 Medium 137 (31%) UCL rank: 26= 12 24 Medium 234 (37%) UCL rank: 4 3 18 15 15 4 Ivan Rakitić 7 345 1 Short 250 (57%) UCL rank: 18 6 Koke 9 799 1 Short 358 (56%) UCL rank: 3 5 7 509 Average UCL rank 8 Saúl Ñíguez 9 840 1 Average UCL rank PASSES PER 13 PASSES PER 8 Arthur 4 298 1 15.3 28 11.5 10= 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 13 10 Ángel Correa 8 445 DEFENSIVE ACTION 1 19 Carles Aleñá 1 90 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 11 7 227 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 20 Sergi Roberto 6 410 ATTACKING THIRD 8= ATTACKING THIRD 17 5.2 14 Marcos Llorente 4 208 2 1 4.6 21 9 747 *Decimal points account for the missing 1% 16 Héctor Herrera 6 264 1 22 Arturo Vidal 7 420 1 20 Vitolo 4 117 42 Monchu 1 6 ATTEMPTS 21 1 90 ATTEMPTS GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED (2 own goals) FORWARDS 13 1.44 per match; UCL rank: 19 FORWARDS 15 1.67 per match; UCL rank: 11= 9 Luis Suárez 7 566 5 2 7 João Félix 6 426 3 1 10 Lionel Messi 8 661 3 3 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 9 Álvaro Morata 8 485 3 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 15.4 1.7 per match; UCL rank: 14= 14.5 1.6 per match; UCL rank: 16= 11 Ousmane Dembélé 4 136 19 Diego Costa 7 459 1 17 Antoine Griezmann 9 657 2 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 27 Carles Pérez 1 85 1 122 13.6 per match; UCL rank: 13= 104 11.6 per match; UCL rank: 24 31 Ansu Fati 5 112 1 ON TARGET ON TARGET 46 5.1 per match; UCL rank: 11= 44 4.9 per match; UCL rank: 14= App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists *Ernesto Valverde was in charge for Matchdays 1 to 6

GOALS 11% AVERAGE CARDS GOALS 13% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 27% AGE SAVES 29% AGE Sent off: BLOCKED 21% 16 0 BLOCKED 29% 25 1 26.8 26.5 Vidal v Napoli (a) WOODWORK 1% WOODWORK 2%

WIDE 40% WIDE 28% KEY FEATURES KEY FEATURES • 1-4-3-3; also 1-4-4-2, 1-4-3-1-2 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • 1-4-4-2 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Build-up from back, goalkeeper and • Commanding, reliable goalkeeper centre-halves strong on ball

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% Oblak exuding authority GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Leadership, aerial presence of 1 João Félix 3 19 9 3.2 1 Koke 507 87 33 • Central defenders with discipline, aerial 1 Luis Suárez 5 22 14 4.2 1 Clément Lenglet 591 88 38 Piqué at heart of defence 2 Álvaro Morata 3 13 7 2.8 2 Thomas 493 85 35 power (Felipe, Savić v Liverpool) 2 Lionel Messi 3 31 15 4.6 2 Frenkie de Jong 551 91 23 • Good ball circulation; Busquets 3 Marcos Llorente 2 3 2 0.2 3 Saúl Ñíguez 458 80 32 • Deep block; compact shape; look 3 Antoine Griezmann 2 10 5 1.6 3 Gerard Piqué 538 92 27 experienced pivot setting tempo G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward to close down passing lanes G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Clever positional play, creating space • Hard-working midfield, mixing for attacking full-backs (Jordi Alba) long and short passes • Messi operating on right side, CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I • Set-play threat yielding four goals CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I diagonal runs inside towards box 1 Koke 1 13 1.23 1 Thomas 81 18 12 • Strong mentality and identity laid down 1 Lionel Messi 3 14 2.6 1 Frenkie de Jong 54 10 12 • Link-up between lines; De Jong passing, 2 Thomas 1 12 1.16 2 Saúl Ñíguez 60 8 13 by Simeone; game management 2 Luis Suárez 2 9 0.5 2 Clément Lenglet 41 4 10 Griezmann finding space (v Napoli) 3 Kieran Trippier 1 11 1.18 3 Renan Lodi 48 15 16 • Counterattacking approach, with attack- 3 Jordi Alba 1 6 0.9 3 Nélson Semedo 40 11 9 • Inspirational presence of Messi; A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions minded full-back Lodi (v Liverpool) A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions technical ability, close control, goals

76 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 77 COACH PETER BOSZ COACH* HANS-DIETER FLICK BAYER 04 BORN: 21/11/1963, Apeldoorn (NED) FC BAYERN BORN: 24/02/1965, Heidelberg (GER) NATIONALITY: Dutch NATIONALITY: German HEAD COACH: Since 23/12/2018 HEAD COACH: Since 03/11/2019 LEVERKUSEN GER UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 MÜNCHEN GER UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 1

GROUP D ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP B ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% LMO JUV ATL ATL LMO JUV UEFA Champions League 12 2 2 8 17 CRV TOT OLY OLY CRV TOT CHE CHE BAR OL PAR UEFA Champions League 8 8 0 0 100 L 1-2 L 3-0 L 1-0 W 2-1 W 0-2 L 0-2 matches (Group stage to final) W 3-0 W 2-7 W 2-3 W 2-0 W 0-6 W 3-1 W 0-3 W 4-1 W 2-8 W 0-3 W 0-1 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 42 15 10 17 36 UEFA club competition 8 8 0 0 100 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Juventus (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Paris (n) 59% First third 28% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 64% First third 25% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 54% 1 Lukas Hradecky 6 540 Middle third 54% 1 Manuel Neuer 11 990 Max. 77% v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) Max. 73% v Crvena Zvezda (h) Min. 52% v Atlético (h) Final third 18% Min. 49% v Barcelona (n) Final third 22% UCL rank: 4= DEFENDERS UCL rank: 2 DEFENDERS 3 Panagiotis Retsos 2 99 2 Álvaro Odriozola** 1 19 1 DISTANCE COVERED 4 5 450 DISTANCE COVERED 4 Niklas Süle 6 331 Max. 121.1 km v Atlético (a) Max. 115.9 km v Crvena zvezda (h) 117.8 km Min. 116.2 km v Lokomotiv Moskva (a) 111.7 km Min. 103.9 km v Paris Saint-Germain (n) UCL rank: 2 5 6 539 1 UCL rank: 14 5 8 638 2 6 Aleksandar Dragović 3 93 8 Javi Martínez 7 342 9 18 Wendell 4 351 29 25 22 17 Jérôme Boateng 9 582 626 85% 13 633 88% PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 13 38 22 Daley Sinkgraven 2 100 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 9 21 Lucas Hernández 3 155 1 19 29 29 Max. 831 v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) Max. 90% v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) 38 Max. 784 v Crvena Zvezda (h) Max. 90% v Olympiacos (h) 18 22 Min. 522 v v Atlético (h) 19 23 Mitchell Weiser 3 270 Min. 450 v Barcelona (n) 29 27 David Alaba 8 675 Min. 80% v Lokomotiv Moskva (a) Min. 84% v Paris (n) 19 625 UCL rank: 5 UCL rank: 10 UCL rank: 4 UCL rank: 2= 32 10 2020 10 22 MIDFIELDERS MIDFIELDERS 8 18 32 6 * 22 8 27 17 PASS DISTANCE 5 6 7 Paulinho 2 36 PASS DISTANCE 19 6 Thiago Alcántara 10 822 2 Long 56 (9% of total) UCL rank: 6= 5 6 Long 56 (9% of total) UCL rank: 6= 8 4 271 27 17 10 Philippe Coutinho 11 516 3 3 Medium 223 (36%) UCL rank: 6 Medium 264 (42%) UCL rank: 2 Short 347 (56%) UCL rank: 4 10 Kerem Demirbay 5 374 Short 313 (49%) UCL rank: 10 18 Leon Goretzka 8 522 1 1 11 Nadiem Amiri 4 238 19 Alphonso Davies 8 714 3 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 1 11 DEFENSIVE ACTION 11.2 8 15 6 345 DEFENSIVE ACTION 8.0 2 1 24 10 341 3 3 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 20 Charles Aránguiz 5 415 1 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 32 Joshua Kimmich 11 903 2 4 ATTACKING THIRD 14 ATTACKING THIRD 6 4.8 29 Kai Havertz 5 434 5.9 35 Joshua Zirkzee 1 4 *Decimal points account for the missing 1% 38 5 413 1 *Decimal points account for the extra 1% FORWARDS FORWARDS 9 Robert Lewandowski 10 887 15 5 ATTEMPTS 9 3 114 ATTEMPTS 14 Ivan Perišić 10 423 3 3 GOALS SCORED (3 own goals) GOALS SCORED 5 0.83 per match; UCL rank: 25= 13 Lucas Alario 5 214 43 3.91 per match; UCL rank: 1 22 Serge Gnabry 10 766 9 2 19 Moussa Diaby 2 180 25 Thomas Müller 10 709 4 2 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 31 6 458 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 29 Kingsley Coman 9 551 3 1 6.8 1.1 per match; UCL rank: 28= 37.5 3.4 per match; UCL rank: 1

GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 82 13.7 per match; UCL rank: 12 241 21.9 per match; UCL rank: 1

App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists ON TARGET ON TARGET *Niko Kovač was in charge for Matchdays 1 to 3 16 2.7 per match; UCL rank: 30 102 9.3 per match; UCL rank: 1 **Álvaro Odriozola also played for Real Madrid App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists

GOALS 2% GOALS 18% AVERAGE CARDS AGE SAVES 17% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 23% 13 0 BLOCKED 30% AGE BLOCKED 26% 26.7 Sent off: WOODWORK 1% 7 1 WOODWORK 2% 25.6 Amiri v Atlético (h) WIDE 49% WIDE 31% KEY FEATURES • 1-4-2-3-1 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Experienced spine with winning mentality, plus pace, athleticism, movement out wide

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Outstanding goalkeeper Neuer; vital 1 Kevin Volland 1 11 3 1.3 1 Sven Bender 462 93 27 1 Robert Lewandowski 15 52 33 14.6 1 Thiago Alcántara 832 91 26 saves; calm on ball; covers space behind 2 Sven Bender 1 3 2 0.2 2 Jonathan Tah 379 91 34 2 Serge Gnabry 9 27 16 3.7 2 Joshua Kimmich 745 88 25 • Build from back; Thiago controls rhythm, 3 Karim Bellarabi 0 11 2 0.4 3 Charles Aránguiz 366 89 30 3 Thomas Müller 4 20 9 3.2 3 David Alaba 586 91 34 linking play with range of passes G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Overlapping runs of full-back Davies down left; source of crosses • Press high and quickly to win CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I ball back, led by front four 1 Karim Bellarabi 1 9 1.3 1 Sven Bender 39 6 19 1 Robert Lewandowski 5 16 2.0 1 Thiago Alcántara 91 23 23 • Wide forwards move inside to free space 2 Charles Aránguiz 1 4 0.8 2 Wendell 36 10 4 2 Joshua Kimmich 4 24 3.0 2 Alphonso Davies 59 12 10 for full-back (e.g. Gnabry for Kimmich) 3 Kerem Demirbay 0 7 0.6 3 Kerem Demirbay 36 7 2 3 Philippe Coutinho 3 11 1.8 3 Joshua Kimmich 50 8 10 • Finishing ability in box of tournament A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Sven Bender attempted most passes and recovered most balls top scorer Lewandowski

78 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 79 COACH BRUNO LAGE COACH PHILIPPE CLEMENT BORN: 12/05/1976, Setúbal (POR) BORN: 22/03/1974, Antwerp (BEL) NATIONALITY: Portuguese NATIONALITY: Belgian HEAD COACH: 03/01/2019 to 29/06/2020 HEAD COACH: Since 30/06/2019 SL BENFICA POR UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 CLUB BRUGGE BEL UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP G ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP A ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% LEI ZEN OL OL LEI ZEN UEFA Champions League 5 2 1 2 40 GAL RM PAR PAR GAL RM UEFA Champions League 7 0 3 4 0 L 1-2 L 3-1 W 2-1 L 3-1 D 2-2 W 3-0 matches (Group stage to final) D 0-0 D 2-2 L 0-5 L 1-0 D 1-1 L 1-3 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 13 5 3 5 38 UEFA club competition 28 12 9 7 43 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v RB Leipzig (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Galatasaray (h) 49% First third 29% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 41% First third 32% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 50% 99 Odisseas Vlachodimos 6 540 Middle third 46% 88 6 540 Max. 61% v Zenit (h) Max. 54% v Galatasaray (a) Min. 34% v Leipzig (a) Final third 21% Min. 27% v Real Madrid (a) Final third 22% UCL rank: 14= DEFENDERS UCL rank: 26= DEFENDERS 3 Álex Grimaldo 6 540 2 3 260 DISTANCE COVERED 6 Rúben Dias 6 540 DISTANCE COVERED 5 2 180 Max. 117.4 km v Lyon (a) Max. 115.4 km v Real Madrid (h) 112.6 km Min. 109.3 km v Zenit (h) 108.7 km Min. 102.6 km v Paris (h) UCL rank: 10 33 Jardel 2 164 UCL rank: 21 15 Matej Mitrović 1 90 34 André Almeida 1 90 17 Simon Deli 6 540

84 Tomás Tavares 5 450 4214 18 3 270 480 82% 387 78% 14 42 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 9 97 5 376 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 44 5 450 73 20 Max. 623 v Zenit (h) Max. 88% v Zenit (h) 9 Max. 457 v Real Madrid (h) Max. 83% v Real Madrid (h) 11 Min. 326 v Leipzig (a) Min. 75% v Leipzig (a) 11 Min. 258 v Real Madrid (a) Min. 65% v Real Madrid (a) 20 26 25 77 4 359 1 73 21 MIDFIELDERS 25 UCL rank: 16 UCL rank: 15 UCL rank: 27 UCL rank: 25 18 18 26 11 84 5 2 150 MIDFIELDERS 49 21 77 3 * 17 PASS DISTANCE 11 49 5 8 Gabriel 5 441 PASS DISTANCE 15 77 3 Éder Balanta 5 284 Long 46 (10% of total) UCL rank: 20 5 Long 60 (15% of total) UCL rank: 3= 17 3 19 Chiquinho 3 270 16 Siebe Schrijvers 4 77 Medium 170 (35%) UCL rank: 16= 97 684 Medium 151 (39%) UCL rank: 21 15 97 6 Short 264 (55%) UCL rank: 16 21 6 402 3 2 Short 176 (45%) UCL rank: 29 19 Thibault Vlietinck 1 70

Average UCL rank 22 1 9 Average UCL rank 20 Hans Vanaken 6 540 1 PASSES PER PASSES PER 88 DEFENSIVE ACTION 14.8 23= 99 27 3 124 1 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 12.4 15 88 25 3 264 99 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 49 Adel Taarabt 4 360 1 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 26 5 397 ATTACKING THIRD 15= ATTACKING THIRD 4 4.7 61 Florentino 2 180 7 90 4 126 83 * 2 135 *Decimal points account for the missing 1% FORWARDS FORWARDS 10 Mbaye Diagne 2 40 ATTEMPTS 7 Caio 3 32 ATTEMPTS 11 Krépin Diatta 5 436 1 GOALS SCORED (1 own goal) GOALS SCORED 10 1.67 per match; UCL rank: 11= 9 Raúl de Tomás 4 119 1 4 0.67 per match; UCL rank: 27= 14 4 173 11 5 397 1 1 35 Percy Tau 3 238 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 14 Haris Seferović 5 208 2 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 42 Emmanuel Bonaventure 6 458 2 1 8.1 1.4 per match; UCL rank: 20= 7.4 1.2 per match; UCL rank: 26= 73 Jota 2 68 80 Loïs Openda 4 137 GOAL ATTEMPTS 92 David Tavares 1 23 GOAL ATTEMPTS 83 13.8 per match; UCL rank: 11 62 10.3 per match; UCL rank: 26 95 Carlos Vinícius 5 322 1 ON TARGET ON TARGET 5 per match; UCL rank: 13 2.7 per match; UCL rank: 30= 30 16 App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists *Gedson Fernandes also played for Tottenham GOALS 11% GOALS 6% AVERAGE CARDS Sent off: Vormer v Real Madrid (a), SAVES 24% SAVES 19% AGE AVERAGE CARDS 18 3 Diatta v Galatasaray (a), BLOCKED 16% AGE BLOCKED 23% 24.5 Mata v Galatasaray (a) 8 0 WOODWORK 2% 25.1 WOODWORK 2% WIDE 47% WIDE 50%

PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% 1 Pizzi 3 10 6 1.2 1 Gabriel 325 79 38 1 Emmanuel Bonaventure 2 16 6 2.6 1 Simon Deli 286 79 46 2 Haris Seferović 2 8 4 1.1 2 Álex Grimaldo 313 79 34 2 Hans Vanaken 1 5 3 0.3 2 Hans Vanaken 276 85 29 3 Raúl de Tomás 1 10 5 0.5 3 Rúben Dias 291 87 42 3 Krépin Diatta 1 5 1 0.2 3 Brandon Mechele 198 89 34 G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward

CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I 1 Pizzi 2 9 1.8 1 Gabriel 41 10 16 1= Emmanuel Bonaventure 1 2 0.4 1 Hans Vanaken 46 2 1 2 Adel Taarabt 1 3 0.6 2 Rúben Dias 39 3 5 1= Percy Tau 1 2 0.4 2 Simon Deli 43 3 12 3 Franco Cervi 1 3 0.1 3 Adel Taarabt 37 2 3 3 Clinton Mata 1 0 0.1 3 Éder Balanta 28 5 6 A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Midfielder Pizzi supplied three goals and two assists Simon Deli played every minute of Club Brugge’s campaign

80 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 81 COACH FRANK LAMPARD COACH VLADAN MILOJEVIĆ BORN: 20/06/1978, Romford (ENG) FK CRVENA BORN: 09/03/1970, Aranđelovac (SRB) NATIONALITY: English NATIONALITY: Serbian HEAD COACH: Since 04/07/2019 HEAD COACH: 05/06/2017 to 19/12/2019 CHELSEA FC ENG UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 ZVEZDA SRB UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP H ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP B ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% VAL LIL AJX AJX VAL LIL BAY BAY UEFA Champions League 8 3 2 3 38 BAY OLY TOT TOT BAY OLY UEFA Champions League 12 2 1 9 17 L 0-1 W 1-2 W 0-1 D 4-4 D 2-2 W 2-1 L 0-3 L 4-1 matches (Group stage to final) L 3-0 W 3-1 L 5-0 L 0-4 L 0-6 L 1-0 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 9 3 3 3 33 UEFA club competition 52 19 18 15 37 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Valencia (a) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Bayern (a) 51% First third 28% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 36% First third 33% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 52% 1 Kepa 6 540 Middle third 57% 82 Milan Borjan 6 540 Max. 64% v LOSC (h) Max. 58% v Olympiacos (h) Min. 37% v Bayern (h) Final third 20% 13 2 180 Min. 27% v Bayern (a) Final third 11% UCL rank: 12 UCL rank: 30 DEFENDERS DEFENDERS 5 Miloš Degenek 6 540 DISTANCE COVERED 2 Antonio Rüdiger 2 180 DISTANCE COVERED 6 1 21 Max. 114 km v FC Bayern München (h) Max. 113.8 km v Galatasaray (h) 108.3 km Min. 103.5 km v FC Bayern München (a) 110 km Min. 105.9 km v Olympiacos (h) UCL rank: 22 3 Marcos Alonso 5 398 UCL rank: 17= 18 Jander 3 143 4 4 360 19 Nemanja Milunović 6 540 1 15 7 613 1 23 Milan Rodić 5 442 % 9 % 489 84 22 333 77 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 10 24 Reece James 6 383 1 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 77 Marko Gobeljić 6 495 Max. 644 v LOSC (h) Max. 427 v Tottenham (a) Max. 90% v Valencia (h) 17 Max. 84% v Tottenham (a) Min. 369 v Bayern (a) Min. 80% v Bayern (h) 7 28 César Azpilicueta 7 613 2 Min. 231 v Olympiacos (a) Min. 62% v Olympiacos (a) 9 UCL rank: 14 UCL rank: 11= 9 24 UCL rank: 30 UCL rank: 26= MIDFIELDERS 29 4 360 1 28 5 10 9 7 Miloš Vulić 4 182 1 22 10 91 10 11 PASS DISTANCE 33 Emerson 3 198 1 PASS DISTANCE 8 Mirko Ivanić 2 104 17 11 Long 46 (9% of total) UCL rank: 20= 15 5 4 7 Long 44 (13% of total) UCL rank: 28= 18 8787 29 29 77 10 6 540 2 Medium 172 (35%) UCL rank: 13= 28 24 MIDFIELDERS Medium 122 (37%) UCL rank: 30 91 Short 272 (56%) UCL rank: 14= 15 4 Short 167 (50%) UCL rank: 30 5 Jorginho 7 612 2 18 11 Mateo García 6 490 5 19 77 5 19 7 N'Golo Kanté 4 360 20 Njegoš Petrović 5 301 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 12.3 14 DEFENSIVE ACTION 16.6 31 1 8 3 161 29 Dušan Jovančić 3 179 82 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 10 Willian 7 530 1 1 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 82 87 José Cañas 5 314 ATTACKING THIRD 11= ATTACKING THIRD 30= 4.9 17 Mateo Kovačić 8 612 1 2 91 Rajiv van la Parra 5 355 19 Mason Mount 8 451 *Decimal points account for the extra 1% FORWARDS 20 Callum Hudson-Odoi 5 260 1 9 3 188 ATTEMPTS 22 Christian Pulišić 4 266 1 1 ATTEMPTS 14 Richmond Boakye 5 186 1 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 12 1.50 per match; UCL rank: 18 FORWARDS 3 0.50 per match; UCL rank: 31 17 Tomané 3 210 9 Tammy Abraham 8 568 3 1 92 Aleksa Vukanović 4 170 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 11 Pedro Rodríguez 3 96 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 17.9 2.2 per match; UCL rank: 5 4.0 0.7 per match; UCL rank: 31= 18 3 87 GOAL ATTEMPTS 23 4 85 1 GOAL ATTEMPTS 127 15.9 per match; UCL rank: 5 56 9.3 per match; UCL rank: 29

ON TARGET ON TARGET 44 5.5 per match; UCL rank: 8= 17 2.8 per match; UCL rank: 29

App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists

GOALS 9% GOALS 5% SAVES 24% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 25% AVERAGE CARDS BLOCKED 24% AGE BLOCKED 23% AGE 14 1 Sent off: 14 0 WOODWORK 2% 26.5 Alonso v Bayern (h) WOODWORK 2% 27 WIDE 40% WIDE 45%

KEY FEATURES PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • 1-4-3-3; also 1-3-4-2-1, 1-5-2-3, 1-4-4-1-1 GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Young coach Lampard seeking different GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% 1 Tammy Abraham 3 21 9 4.9 1 Jorginho 451 91 29 solutions, e.g. back three v Bayern 1 Richmond Boakye 1 6 1 0.3 1 Nemanja Milunović 272 83 40 2 Jorginho 2 6 2 1.8 2 Mateo Kovačić 388 91 29 • Impact from homegrown players with 2 Miloš Vulić 1 5 2 0.2 2 Miloš Degenek 213 85 34 3 César Azpilicueta 2 4 2 1.5 3 César Azpilicueta 386 83 41 potential (James, Mount, Abraham) 3 Nemanja Milunović 1 3 1 0.4 3 Marko Marin 208 78 36 G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Technical midfielders like Kovačić: G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward bravery on ball, forward passing. • Ball-winning ability of Kanté in centre of pitch CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I • Threat from crosses and set-plays: CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I 1 Willian 1 18 1.1 1 Jorginho 55 10 13 most headed goal attempts 1 Marko Marin 2 12 0.5 1 Mateo García 32 13 7 2 Christian Pulišić 1 7 1.2 2 Mateo Kovačić 36 5 7 • Individuals with creative skills, 2 Marko Gobeljić 0 5 0.6 2 Nemanja Milunović 26 8 11 3 Tammy Abraham 1 7 0.4 3 Kurt Zouma 34 5 5 1 v 1 ability (Pulišić) 3 Mateo García 0 5 0.1 3 Marko Gobeljić 25 11 7 A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions • Outlet of tall striker in attack (Abraham, Giroud) Mateo García recovered most balls and made most tackles

82 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 83 COACH COACH GNK DINAMO BORN: 20/08/1971, Osijek (CRO) BORUSSIA BORN: 02/11/1957, Saint-Barthélemy (SUI) NATIONALITY: Croatian NATIONALITY: Swiss HEAD COACH: 15/05/2018 to 16/04/2020 HEAD COACH: Since 22/05/2018 ZAGREB CRO UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 DORTMUND GER UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP C ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP F ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% ATA MC SHK SHK ATA MC UEFA Champions League 11 2 4 5 18 BAR SLP INT INT BAR SLP PAR PAR UEFA Champions League 17 8 2 7 47 W 4-0 L 2-0 D 2-2 D 3-3 L 2-0 L 1-4 matches (Group stage to final) D 0-0 W 0-2 L 2-0 W 3-2 L 3-1 W 2-1 W 2-1 L 2-0 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 42 19 13 10 45 UEFA club competition 81 34 19 28 42 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Atalanta (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Paris (a) 34% First third 28% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 52% First third 27% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 54% 40 Dominik Livaković 6 540 Middle third 48% 1 Roman Bürki 8 720 Max. 47% v Atalanta (h) Max. 61% v Internazionale (h) Min. 20% v Man. City (a) Final third 18% Min. 41% v Barcelona (h) Final third 25% UCL rank: 31 DEFENDERS UCL rank: 11 DEFENDERS 19 Jacques François Moubandje 1 90 2 Dan-Axel Zagadou 5 285 5 Achraf Hakimi 8 709 4 DISTANCE COVERED 22 5 450 1 1 DISTANCE COVERED Max. 110.4 km v Man. City (h) Max. 120.2 km v Internazionale (h) 13 Raphaël Guerreiro 8 548 107.3 km Min. 104.9 km v Atalanta (a) 28 Kévin Théophile-Catherine 5 436 2 112.4 km Min. 107.4 km v Barcelona (h) UCL rank: 25 UCL rank: 11= 14 3 225 30 Petar Stojanović 6 507 1 15 8 720 55 Dino Perić 5 450 316 73% 21 580 86% 16 6 524 99 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 66 Emir Dilaver 6 540 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 17 18 Leonardo Balerdi 1 7 Max. 394 v Shakhtar Donetsk (h) Max. 79% v Shakhtar Donetsk (h) 22 7 Max. 713 v Barcelona (a) Max. 89% v Internazionale (a) 23 21 5 7 17 26 Łukasz Piszczek 6 361 Min. 192 v Man. City (a) Min. 52% v Man. City (a) 30 MIDFIELDERS Min. 456 v Barcelona (h) Min. 79% v Slavia Praha (a) UCL rank: 32 UCL rank: 31= 99 UCL rank: 9 UCL rank: 7= 29 Marcel Schmelzer 1 1 27 5 6 518 1 1 13 7 5 28 23 55 28 27 27 PASS DISTANCE 30 8 Izet Hajrović 1 9 PASS DISTANCE MIDFIELDERS 22 7 28 5 26 Long 46 (15% of total) UCL rank: 20= 27 Long 46 (8% of total) UCL rank: 20= 6 3 245 66 13 2 5 66 10 1 9 15 Medium 93 (29%) UCL rank: 32 55 28 Medium 217 (37%) UCL rank: 8 2 15 26 8 Mahmoud Dahoud 2 28 Short 177 (56%) UCL rank: 28 Short 317 (55%) UCL rank: 9 14 5 171 10 Mario Götze 4 73 1 17 Luka Ivanušec 4 100 1 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 11 4 360 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 14.3 22 27 Nikola Moro 5 417 DEFENSIVE ACTION 15.0 25 1 19 7 487 2 3 40 1 40 23 Thorgan Hazard 7 480 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 36 Marko Đira 3 59 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank ATTACKING THIRD 22 ATTACKING THIRD 7 27 2 179 3.5 92 Damian Kądzior 2 60 1 5.6 28 7 611 FORWARDS 32 Giovanni Reyna 2 42 1 7 Dani Olmo* 6 539 2 1 33 4 342 ATTEMPTS 11 Mario Gavranović 3 83 ATTEMPTS 34 Jacob Bruun Larsen 2 19 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 10 1.67 per match; UCL rank: 11= 16 Mario Šitum 1 1 10 1.25 per match; UCL rank: 23 FORWARDS 20 Iyayi Atiemwen 1 6 7 Jadon Sancho 8 647 2 2 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 21 Bruno Petković 6 464 1 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 9 Paco Alcácer 2 113 1 1.3 per match; UCL rank: 22= 1.9 per match; UCL rank: 10= 7.7 15.1 17 Erling Braut Haaland* 2 180 2 99 Mislav Oršić 6 475 4 1 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 50 8.3 per match; UCL rank: 31= 96 12 per match; UCL rank: 23

App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists ON TARGET ON TARGET *Erling Braut Haaland also played for Salzburg 19 3.2 per match; UCL rank: 28 34 4.3 per match; UCL rank: 18= App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists *Dani Olmo also played for Leipzig AVERAGE CARDS GOALS 20% GOALS 10% AGE Sent off: SAVES 18% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 24% 14 2 Weigl v Slavia Praha (h), 25.6 Can v Paris (a) BLOCKED 28% AGE BLOCKED 21% 18 1 Sent off: WOODWORK 6% 25.3 Moro v Shakhtar Donetsk (h) WOODWORK 1% WIDE 28% WIDE 44% KEY FEATURES

• 1-3-4-3, switch to 1-5-4-1 when defending PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Defensive leader (Hummels) with excellent reading of play and build-up

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Good shape and organisation when defending, 1 Mislav Oršić 4 17 6 3.0 1 Emir Dilaver 202 84 37 1 Achraf Hakimi 4 16 9 2.1 1 Axel Witsel 509 95 20 dropping to deny space 2 Dani Olmo 2 13 3 1.3 2 Arijan Ademi 170 86 21 2 Jadon Sancho 2 18 2 1.6 2 Achraf Hakimi 451 85 29 • Experienced midfielders with knowhow: e.g. 3 Marin Leovac 1 5 2 1.0 3 Nikola Moro 170 81 32 3 Julian Brandt 2 11 2 1.5 3 Mats Hummels 431 85 37 Witsel, picks right moments to press G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Press as group in middle then counter down inside-right/left (v Paris) • Full-backs push high in attacks, with wide CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I forwards inside 1 Kévin Théophile-Catherine 2 2 0.6 1 Nikola Moro 42 5 11 1 Julian Brandt 3 8 1.7 1 Mats Hummels 59 12 30 • Talented forward Sancho able to carry ball and 2 Dani Olmo 1 5 0.4 2 Emir Dilaver 34 2 12 2 Jadon Sancho 2 13 2.2 2 Axel Witsel 50 9 8 link play between midfield and attack 3 Arijan Ademi 1 4 0.7 3 Dani Olmo 31 5 6 3 Marco Reus 1 3 0.7 3 Achraf Hakimi 37 5 7 • Hard-working central striker Haaland a handful A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Mislav Oršić scored four goals from six shots on target for opposition defenders

84 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 85 COACH COACH HANNES WOLF BORN: 04/09/1953, Adana (TUR) BORN: 15/04/1981, Bochum (GER) NATIONALITY: Turkish NATIONALITY: German HEAD COACH: Since 22/12/2017 HEAD COACH: Since 19/11/2019 GALATASARAY AŞ TUR UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 1 KRC GENK BEL UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP A ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP E ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% BRU PAR RM RM BRU PAR UEFA Champions League 53 14 11 28 26 SBG NAP LIV LIV SBG NAP UEFA Champions League 2 0 0 2 0 D 0-0 L 0-1 L 0-1 L 6-0 D 1-1 L 5-0 matches (Group stage to final) L 6-2 D 0-0 L 1-4 L 2-1 L 1-4 L 4-0 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 82 32 18 32 39 UEFA club competition 2 0 0 2 0 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Club Brugge (a) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Liverpool (h) 46% First third 33% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 39% First third 34% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 51% 1 Fernando Muslera 6 540 Middle third 49% 26 Maarten Vandevoordt 1 90 Max. 57% v Club Brugge (a) Max. 53% v Salzburg (a) Min. 31% v Madrid (a) Final third 16% Min. 27% v Liverpool (h) Final third 18% 28 Gaëtan Coucke 5 450 UCL rank: 20 DEFENDERS UCL rank: 28= 2 Şener Özbayraklı 2 19 DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 19 Ömer Bayram 5 251 1 DISTANCE COVERED 2 Casper De Norre 3 257 Max. 107.7 km v Madrid (h) Max. 115.2 km v Liverpool (a) 105.1 km Min. 101.7 km v Paris (a) 108.2 km Min. 102.4 km v Napoli (a) UCL rank: 31 22 Mariano Ferreira 6 539 UCL rank: 23 5 Neto Borges 1 8 27 4 360 6 Sebastien Dewaest 4 360 45 Marcão 6 540 21 Jere Uronen 3 270 456 79% 366 76% PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 55 Yuto Nagatomo 6 525 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 31 Joakim Mæhle 6 540 9 18 Max. 606 v Madrid (h) Max. 84% v Madrid (h) 11 Max. 464 v Salzburg (a) Max. 87% v Napoli (a) 27 7 Min. 360 v Club Brugge (h), Madrid (a) Min. 70% v Club Brugge (h) 9 Min. 252 v Liverpool (h) Min. 67% v Liverpool (a) 10 33 Jhon Lucumí 6 540 1 UCL rank: 18 UCL rank: 23= 89 MIDFIELDERS UCL rank: 29 UCL rank: 28= 11 46 Carlos Cuesta 4 360 99 89 6 Jean Michaël Seri 6 476 18 6 25 10 55 99 21 8 PASS DISTANCE 92 22 8 Selçuk İnan 2 59 PASS DISTANCE 31 MIDFIELDERS 55 6 Long 55 (12% of total) UCL rank: 8= Long 60 (16% of total) UCL rank: 3= 27 7 10 Younès Belhanda 4 306 25 7 Junya Ito 6 441 Medium 160 (35%) UCL rank: 19 92 Medium 143 (39%) UCL rank: 25 8 45 27 22 33 46 Short 241 (53%) UCL rank: 20= 45 27 11 4 334 Short 164 (45%) UCL rank: 31 21 31 8 Bryan Heynen 4 266 1 33 46 15 6 361 11 Joseph Paintsil 3 156 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 20 32 DEFENSIVE ACTION 13.9 1 89 5 343 DEFENSIVE ACTION 17.4 28 17 Patrik Hrošovský 5 414 1 28 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 92 Steven Nzonzi 5 387 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 23 Ianis Hagi 5 139 ATTACKING THIRD 30= ATTACKING THIRD 8 2 99 4 330 5.2 25 Sander Berge 6 540 *Decimal points account for the extra 1% 27 Théo Bongonda 6 257 1 FORWARDS 7 Adem Büyük 2 92 1 77 Dieumerci Ndongala 3 118 2 ATTEMPTS ATTEMPTS 9 3 208 FORWARDS GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 1 0.17 per match; UCL rank: 32 23 Florin Andone 3 161 5 0.83 per match; UCL rank: 25= 10 Ally Mbwana Samatta 6 513 3 41 Erencan Yardımcı 1 1 15 Stephen Odey 1 9 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 97 Emre Mor 4 108 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 18 Paul Onuachu 5 212 4.2 0.7 per match; UCL rank: 31= 7.4 1.2 per match; UCL rank: 26=

GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 50 8.3 per match; UCL rank: 31= 67 11.2 per match; UCL rank: 25

ON TARGET ON TARGET 9 1.5 per match; UCL rank: 32 21 3.5 per match; UCL rank: 26

App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists GOALS 2% GOALS 7% SAVES 16% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 24% AVERAGE CARDS BLOCKED 34% AGE BLOCKED 24% AGE 21 0 10 0 WOODWORK 2% 29 WOODWORK 3% 23.1 WIDE 46% WIDE 42%

PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% 1 Adem Büyük 1 3 1 0.8 1 Mariano Ferreira 333 78 33 1 Ally Mbwana Samatta 3 11 5 1.8 1 Sander Berge 269 84 31 2 Florin Andone 0 8 2 0.9 2 Jean Michaël Seri 314 89 20 2 Jhon Lucumí 1 2 1 0.1 2 Jhon Lucumí 237 78 41 3 Mario Lemina 0 7 1 0.6 3 Steven Nzonzi 301 85 34 3 Stephen Odey 1 1 1 0.5 3 Gaëtan Coucke 205 64 68 G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward

CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I 1 Ömer Bayram 1 3 0.6 1 Mariano Ferreira 45 9 15 1 Dieumerci Ndongala 2 1 0.0 1 Sander Berge 48 7 7 2 Jean Michaël Seri 0 9 0.4 2 Marcão 29 8 10 2 Bryan Heynen 1 3 0.4 2 Jhon Lucumí 40 4 15 3 Mariano Ferreira 0 6 0.3 3 Christian Luyindama 29 6 4 3 Théo Bongonda 1 1 0.3 3 Joakim Mæhle 39 11 8 A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Mariano Ferreira attempted most passes and recovered most balls Ally Mbwana Samatta scored three of Genk’s five goals

86 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 87 COACH ANTONIO CONTE COACH MAURIZIO SARRI FC INTERNAZIONALE BORN: 31/07/1969, Lecce (ITA) BORN: 10/01/1959, Naples (ITA) NATIONALITY: Italian NATIONALITY: Italian HEAD COACH: Since 31/05/2019 HEAD COACH: 16/06/2019 to 08/08/2020 MILANO ITA UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 JUVENTUS ITA UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 1

GROUP F ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP D ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% SLP BAR BVB BVB SLP BAR UEFA Champions League 24 8 7 9 33 ATL BL LMO LMO ATL BL OL OL UEFA Champions League 22 11 3 8 50 D 1-1 L 2-1 W 2-0 L 3-2 W 1-3 L 1-2 matches (Group stage to final) D 2-2 W 3-0 W 2-1 W 1-2 W 1-0 W 0-2 L 1-0 W 2-1* matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 38 17 10 11 45 UEFA club competition 49 33 7 9 67 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names *Lyon win on away goals matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Barcelona (a) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Atlético (a) 41% First third 39% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 59% First third 22% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 50% 1 Samir Handanovič 6 540 Middle third 57% 1 Wojciech Szczęsny 7 630 Max. 55% v Slavia Praha (h) Max. 77% v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) Min. 35% v Barcelona (a) Final third 12% Min. 46% v Leverkusen (h and a) Final third 21% 77 1 90 UCL rank: 26= DEFENDERS UCL rank: 4= 2 Diego Godín 5 450 DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 6 6 540 1 DISTANCE COVERED 2 2 180 Max. 122.4 km v Dortmund (a) Max. 115.2 km v Leverkusen (h) 116.5 km Min. 109.4 km v Slavia Praha (h) 113.3 km Min. 107.7km v Lyon (h) UCL rank: 4 18 Kwadwo Asamoah 3 260 UCL rank: 8 4 6 540 33 Danilo D'Ambrosio 3 184 12 Alex Sandro 6 540 1 34 Cristiano Biraghi 4 221 13 Danilo 6 470 428 81% 10 7 610 88% 37 Milan Škriniar 6 540 7 19 7 630 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 12 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY Max. 487 v Slavia Praha (h) 87 Max. 745 v Lokomotiv Moskva (h) 8 10 Max. 87% v Dortmund (h) 23 Max. 90% v Lyon (h) Min. 386 v Barcelona (h) 10 Min. 520 v Lyon (h) 7 24 Daniele Rugani 2 180 Min. 72% v Slavia Praha (a) 18 7 Min. 83% v Leverkusen (a) 14 UCL rank: 22 UCL rank: 16= MIDFIELDERS UCL rank: 6 UCL rank: 2= 3010 8 28 Merih Demiral 1 90 77 5 Roberto Gagliardini 4 218 2 5 12 23 PASS DISTANCE* 77 PASS DISTANCE 13 37 8 Matías Vecino 3 238 1 14 MIDFIELDERS 287 5 30 Long 46 (11% of total) UCL rank: 20= Long 44 (7% of total) UCL rank: 28= 4 19 18 6 12 Stefano Sensi 3 191 5 Miralem Pjanić 8 659 Medium 178 (42%) UCL rank: 12 Medium 232 (38%) UCL rank: 5 37 6 2 2 13 4 19 Short 205 (48%) UCL rank: 24= 19 4 100 1 Short 333 (55%) UCL rank: 8 6 5 265 20 3 154 8 Aaron Ramsey 6 200 1 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 17= 7 DEFENSIVE ACTION 13.6 1 23 Nicolò Barella 4 289 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 10.9 1 14 5 340 1 1 1 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 77 Marcelo Brozović 6 521 1 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 16 Juan Cuadrado 6 499 1 1 ATTACKING THIRD 19 ATTACKING THIRD 18 4.2 87 Antonio Candreva 5 390 1 1 4.3 25 5 368 *Decimal points account for the extra 1% 30 7 419 FORWARDS 7 Alexis Sánchez 1 66 1 33 Federico Bernardeschi 6 263 1 1 ATTEMPTS 9 Romelu Lukaku 5 405 2 2 ATTEMPTS 38 Simone Muratore 1 1 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 10 1.67 per match; UCL rank: 11= 10 Lautaro Martínez 6 521 5 14 1.75 per match; UCL rank: 10 FORWARDS 16 Matteo Politano* 4 61 7 Cristiano Ronaldo 8 712 4 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 30 Sebastiano Esposito 3 51 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 10 Paulo Dybala 8 309 3 2 10.1 1.7 per match; UCL rank: 14= 12.4 1.5 per match; UCL rank: 18= 11 Douglas Costa 1 20 1 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 21 Gonzalo Higuaín 8 509 2 2 75 12.5 per match; UCL rank: 19 109 13.6 per match; UCL rank: 13= 35 Marco Olivieri 1 6 ON TARGET ON TARGET 29 4.8 per match; UCL rank: 16 39 4.9 per match; UCL rank: 14= App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists *Matteo Politano also played for Napoli App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists GOALS 13% GOALS 13% SAVES 25% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 21% AVERAGE CARDS BLOCKED 17% AGE BLOCKED 31% 19 0 AGE WOODWORK 5% 27.3 WOODWORK 1% 11 0 WIDE 39% WIDE 34% 28.5

KEY FEATURES PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • 1-4-3-3, switching to 1-4-4-2 GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Compact, organised defence in 1-4-4-2 block 1 Lautaro Martínez 5 25 13 3.6 1 Stefan de Vrij 344 90 28 1 Cristiano Ronaldo 4 40 15 4.4 1 Leonardo Bonucci 611 89 36 • Screening player (Pjanić) in front of back four 2 Romelu Lukaku 2 9 4 2.6 2 Marcelo Brozović 331 88 26 2 Paulo Dybala 3 13 5 1.5 2 Miralem Pjanić 581 90 31 • Fast transitions from defence to attack, 3 Matías Vecino 1 5 3 0.4 3 Milan Škriniar 326 86 34 3 Gonzalo Higuaín 2 16 8 1.6 3 Alex Sandro 445 88 35 e.g Bonucci long ball for Ronaldo G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Attack-minded left-back Alex Sandro (v Lyon); lots of crosses • Movement between lines from forwards CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I (Dybala, Ronaldo), runners attack space behind 1 Romelu Lukaku 2 6 0.7 1 Marcelo Brozović 43 8 10 1 Paulo Dybala 2 7 1.5 1 Miralem Pjanić 52 5 17 • Forwards play on offside line 2 Antonio Candreva 1 5 0.7 2 Stefan de Vrij 43 5 15 2 Gonzalo Higuaín 2 2 0.3 2 Leonardo Bonucci 36 3 9 and make pitch wide 3 Marcelo Brozović 1 4 0.3 3 Milan Škriniar 36 12 11 3 Alex Sandro 1 8 0.9 3 Adrien Rabiot 30 8 1 • Technical brilliance, goalscoring ability A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Stefan de Vrij attempted 344 passes, completing 90% of them and winning mentality of Ronaldo

88 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 89 COACH COACH JÜRGEN KLOPP BORN: 23/08/1966, Marseille (FRA) BORN: 16/06/1967, Stuttgart (GER) NATIONALITY: French NATIONALITY: German HEAD COACH: Since 29/12/2017 HEAD COACH: Since 08/10/2015 LOSC LILLE FRA UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 LIVERPOOL FC ENG UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 2

GROUP H ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP E ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% AJX CHE VAL VAL AJX CHE UEFA Champions League 6 0 1 5 0 NAP SBG GNK GNK NAP SBG ATL ATL UEFA Champions League 69 35 12 22 51 L 3-0 L 1-2 D 1-1 L 4-1 L 0-2 L 2-1 matches (Group stage to final) L 2-0 W 4-3 W 1-4 W 2-1 D 1-1 W 0-2 L 1-0 L 2-3* matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 41 12 15 14 29 UEFA club competition 101 51 23 27 50 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names *after extra time matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Chelsea (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Atlético (a) 42% First third 29% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 67% First third 19% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 53% 1 Leo César 1 18 Middle third 58% 1 Alisson Becker 5 450 Max. 55% v Valencia (h) Max. 73% v Genk (a) Min. 36% v Chelsea (a) Final third 18% 16 6 522 Min. 52% v Napoli (a) Final third 24% 13 Adrián 3 300 UCL rank: 25 UCL rank: 1 DEFENDERS DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 2 Tiago Djaló 3 267 DISTANCE COVERED 4 Virgil van Dijk 8 750 Max. 114.2 km v Valencia (h) Max. 147.5 km v Atlético (h) 111.4 km Min. 106.5 km v Valencia (a) 115 km Min. 103.1 km v Napoli (a) UCL rank: 15 4 Gabriel 6 540 UCL rank: 5 6 3 233 1 5 Adama Soumaoro 1 89 12 Joe Gomez 7 511

11 6 José Fonte 4 360 10 26 Andy Robertson 8 649 1 388 77% 7 695 86% 9 10 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 17 Zeki Çelik 6 540 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 32 Joël Matip 1 90 11 Max. 471 v Valencia (h) Max. 86% v Valencia (h) Max. 791 v Genk (h) Max. 89% v Genk (a) 66 14 11 5 9 14 Min. 356 v Chelsea (a) Min. 71% v Chelsea (a) 26 Jérémy Pied 1 90 Min. 571 v Napoli (a) Min. 81% v Salzburg (a) 10 66 Trent Alexander-Arnold 7 582 1 UCL rank: 26 UCL rank: 26= UCL rank: 1 UCL rank: 7= 26 7 3 28 2 180 14 24 10 MIDFIELDERS 28 21 5 12 66 14 17 29 Domagoj Bradarić 3 270 4 PASS DISTANCE 11 PASS DISTANCE 26 3 3 Fabinho 7 484 1 Long 46 (12% of total) UCL rank: 20= 24 21 Long 66 (10% of total) UCL rank: 1 6 5 Georginio Wijnaldum 8 550 2 Medium 137 (35%) UCL rank: 26= 4 MIDFIELDERS Medium 265 (38%) UCL rank: 1 4 12 28 17 Short 205 (53%) UCL rank: 24= 4 6 8 3 118 Short 364 (52%) UCL rank: 2 7 8 415 1 10 Jonathan Ikoné 4 240 1 8 Naby Keïta 4 252 1 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 11.6 12 11 Luiz Araújo 6 277 DEFENSIVE ACTION 8.8 3 1 14 6 514 1616 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 12 Yusuf Yazıcı 6 372 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 15 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 5 282 3 1 ATTACKING THIRD 20 ATTACKING THIRD 11= 4 18 5 121 4.9 23 1 3 20 Thiago Maia 1 66 *Decimal points account for the extra 1% FORWARDS 21 Benjamin André 5 406 2 9 Roberto Firmino 8 629 1 3 ATTEMPTS 24 Boubakary Soumaré 6 527 ATTEMPTS 10 Sadio Mané 8 630 2 1 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 4 0.67 per match; UCL rank: 27= FORWARDS 15 1.88 per match; UCL rank: 9 11 8 731 4 2 7 Victor Osimhen 5 450 2 18 * 1 7 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 9 Loïc Rémy 4 207 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 27 6 188 9.0 1.5 per match; UCL rank: 18= 16.5 2.1 per match; UCL rank: 6= 14 6 280 2 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 85 14.2 per match; UCL rank: 9 146 18.3 per match; UCL rank: 2

ON TARGET ON TARGET App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists 25 4.2 per match; UCL rank: 20 47 5.9 per match; UCL rank: 6 *Takumi Minamino also played for Salzburg

App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists GOALS 5% GOALS 10% AVERAGE CARDS AGE SAVES 25% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 21% 11 0 BLOCKED 24% AGE BLOCKED 27% 27.6 15 0 WOODWORK 2% 24.3 WOODWORK 1% WIDE 45% WIDE 40% KEY FEATURES • 1-4-3-3; switched to 1-4-2-3-1 v Atlético PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Full-backs advance high up pitch; excellent crossing ability (Alexander-Arnold)

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Quick combinations through central 1 Victor Osimhen 2 15 3 2.6 1 Boubakary Soumaré 281 86 25 1 Mohamed Salah 4 36 11 5.2 1 Virgil van Dijk 736 89 29 areas; big switches of play 2 Loïc Rémy 1 9 3 0.9 2 Gabriel 265 76 49 2 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 3 13 6 0.6 2 Andy Robertson 596 87 33 • Co-ordinated pressing game, with 3 Jonathan Ikoné 1 6 4 1.2 3 Zeki Çelik 240 76 41 3 Sadio Mané 2 18 8 3.1 3 Trent Alexander-Arnold 581 79 38 every player contributing G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Highest ratio of successful tackles in competition; hard for opponent to keep ball • Good set-plays, including defensive CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I and attacking throw-ins 1 Jonathan Bamba 2 8 0.8 1 Boubakary Soumaré 54 5 12 1 Roberto Firmino 3 11 1.5 1 Virgil van Dijk 63 5 9 • Find quick route to goal, Firmino 2 Benjamin André 2 7 0.6 2 Gabriel 35 7 13 2 Mohamed Salah 2 12 1.4 2 Andy Robertson 58 9 7 linking midfield and forwards 3 Zeki Çelik 0 11 0.8 3 Benjamin André 32 12 11 3 Trent Alexander-Arnold 1 16 1.6 3 Joe Gomez 54 4 15 • Strong mentality, with impressive A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Victor Osimhen had three shots on target and scored two goals leaders (Henderson, Van Dijk)

90 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 91 COACH YURI SEMIN COACH RUDI GARCIA FC LOKOMOTIV BORN: 11/05/1947, Orenburg (RUS) OLYMPIQUE BORN: 20/02/1964, Neymours (FRA) NATIONALITY: Russian NATIONALITY: French HEAD COACH: 26/08/2016 to 31/05/2020 HEAD COACH: Since 14/10/2019 MOSKVA RUS UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 LYONNAIS FRA UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP D ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP G ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% BL ATL JUV JUV BL ATL UEFA Champions League 45 11 7 27 24 ZEN LEI SLB SLB ZEN LEI JUV JUV MC BAY UEFA Champions League 31 7 8 16 23 W 1-2 L 0-2 L 2-1 L 1-2 L 0-2 L 2-0 matches (Group stage to final) D 1-1 W 0-2 L 2-1 W 3-1 L 2-0 D 2-2 W 1-0 L 2-1* W 1-3 L 0-3 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 135 51 29 55 38 UEFA club competition 86 30 21 35 35 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names *Lyon win on away goals matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Bayer Leverkusen (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Bayern (n) 32% First third 32% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 45% First third 29% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 53% 1 Guilherme 5 450 Middle third 53% 1 Anthony Lopes 10 900 Max. 45% v Leverkusen (h) Max. 59% v Zenit (h) Min. 23% v Leverkusen (a) Final third 15% 77 Anton Kochenkov 1 90 Min. 29% v Man. City (n) Final third 18% UCL rank: 32 UCL rank: 21 DEFENDERS DEFENDERS 3 Joachim Andersen 6 391 1 DISTANCE COVERED 3 Bryan Idowu 4 238 DISTANCE COVERED 4 Rafael 1 73 Max. 111.8 km v Leverkusen (a) Max. 118.1 km v Juventus (h) 106.8 km Min. 103.7 km v Atlético (h) 113 km Min. 108.7 km v Zenit (h) UCL rank: 28 5 Benedikt Höwedes 6 540 UCL rank: 9 5 9 781 14 Vedran Ćorluka 6 519 6 Marcelo 10 724

27 Murilo 5 369 11 21 14 Léo Dubois 9 758 2 317 73% 19 19 423 81% 8 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 11 59 31 Maciej Rybus 5 450 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 11 20 Fernando Marçal 7 508 25 Max. 455 v Leverkusen (h) 59 Max. 567 v Zenit (h) Max. 77% v Atlético (h) 17 33 Solomon Kverkvelia 1 90 Max. 89% v Zenit (h) 27 21 23 5 142 Min. 219 v Juventus (a) Min. 66% v Juventus (a) 17 Min. 257 v Man. City (n) Min. 69% v Man. City (n) 39 14 UCL rank: 31 UCL rank: 31= 11 7 UCL rank: 23 UCL rank: 16= 7 8 25 66 37 Stanislav Magkeev 1 21 28 Youssouf Koné 5 392 31 39 20 20 20 27 6 PASS DISTANCE 31 PASS DISTANCE* 5 14 14 5 MIDFIELDERS MIDFIELDERS Long 51 (16% of total) UCL rank: 12= Long 55 (13% of total) UCL rank: 8= 20 5 14 5 6 Dmitri Barinov 5 450 1 6 7 Martin Terrier 5 241 1 Medium 105 (33%) UCL rank: 31 Medium 153 (36%) UCL rank: 20 Short 160 (51%) UCL rank: 32 7 Grzegorz Krychowiak 6 533 1 Short 216 (51%) UCL rank: 22 8 Houssem Aouar 8 713 1 4 11 1 90 1 12 8 460 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank DEFENSIVE ACTION 15.1 26= 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 14.8 23= 1 18 Aleksandr Kolomeytsev 3 19 1 17 Jeff Reine-Adélaïde 8 325 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 20 Vladislav Ignatyev 5 440 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 22 Jean Lucas 1 3 ATTACKING THIRD 27= ATTACKING THIRD 23= 2.7 23 João Mário 4 354 1 3.4 25 Maxence Caqueret 3 270 59 4 360 2 *Decimal points account for the missing 1% 27 Maxwel Cornet 8 550 1 1 69 Daniil Kulikov 1 25 29 Lucas Tousart 7 604 1 1 ATTEMPTS ATTEMPTS 39 Bruno Guimarães 4 295 FORWARDS GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 4 0.67 per match; UCL rank: 27= 9 Fedor Smolov 4 201 14 1.40 per match; UCL rank: 20 FORWARDS 17 5 359 9 Moussa Dembélé 10 621 2 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 19 Éder 5 342 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 10 Bertrand Traoré 5 229 1 6.7 1.1 per match; UCL rank: 28= 12.8 1.3 per match; UCL rank: 22 11 Memphis Depay 8 594 6 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 19 1 7 55 9.2 per match; UCL rank: 30 121 12.1 per match; UCL rank: 22 21 Karl Toko Ekambi 4 287 ON TARGET ON TARGET 36 2 32 3.7 per match; UCL rank: 23= 4.1 per match; UCL rank: 21 22 41 App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists

App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists GOALS 7% GOALS 12% AVERAGE CARDS AGE SAVES 31% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 22% 23 0 BLOCKED 20% AGE BLOCKED 29% 24.5 12 0 WOODWORK 4% 27.5 WOODWORK 2% WIDE 38% WIDE 35% KEY FEATURES • 1-3-5-2; also 1-3-4-3 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Defend in compact block; all players involved in zonal defending

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Tactically disciplined, hard-running 1 Aleksei Miranchuk 2 8 5 2.0 1 Vedran Ćorluka 182 78 48 1 Memphis Depay 6 21 12 4.6 1 Jason Denayer 388 89 32 midfielders working box to box (Caqueret) 2 Grzegorz Krychowiak 1 13 9 2.1 2 Grzegorz Krychowiak 170 78 30 2 Moussa Dembélé 2 13 3 1.3 2 Léo Dubois 379 76 41 • Bruno Guimarães the midfield bulwark, 3 Dmitri Barinov 1 6 1 0.3 3 Maciej Rybus 160 76 46 3 Lucas Tousart 1 10 2 1.0 3 Marcelo 376 82 39 senses danger, strong in duels G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Press after losing ball; fast transitions from attack to defence • 1 v 1 threat; excellent technique and CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I dribbling skills of midfielder Aouar 1 João Mário 1 7 0.7 1 Grzegorz Krychowiak 31 5 8 1 Houssem Aouar 4 7 1.5 1 Lucas Tousart 52 11 8 • Varied approach: passes to wing-backs, also 2 Aleksei Miranchuk 0 7 0.2 2 Maciej Rybus 23 3 13 2 Léo Dubois 2 6 1.2 2 Houssem Aouar 50 6 5 long to striker and seeking second ball 3 Rifat Zhemaletdinov 0 5 0.8 3 João Mário 23 0 7 3 Maxwel Cornet 1 3 0.4 3 Jason Denayer 44 7 7 • Quick forwards attacking space A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Grzegorz Krychowiak recovered most balls in Lokomotiv’s squad behind opposition defensive line

92 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 93 COACH JOSEP GUARDIOLA COACH* GENNARO GATTUSO MANCHESTER BORN: 18/01/1971, Santpedor (ESP) BORN: 09/01/1978, Corigliano Calabro (ITA) NATIONALITY: Spanish NATIONALITY: Italian HEAD COACH: Since 01/07/2016 HEAD COACH: Since 11/12/2019 CITY FC ENG UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 5 SSC NAPOLI ITA UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP C ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP E ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% SHK DZ ATA ATA SHK DZ RM RM OL UEFA Champions League 122 75 25 22 61 LIV GNK SBG SBG LIV GNK BAR BAR UEFA Champions League 2 0 1 1 0 W 0-3 W 2-0 W 5-1 D 1-1 D 1-1 W 1-4 W 1-2 W 2-1 L 1-3 matches (Group stage to final) W 2-0 D 0-0 W 2-3 D 1-1 D 1-1 W 4-0 D 1-1 L 3-1 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 129 80 26 23 62 UEFA club competition 13 5 2 6 38 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Atalanta (a) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Barcelona (h) 62% First third 19% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 47% First third 31% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 56% 1 Claudio Bravo 2 126 Middle third 52% 1 Alex Meret 6 540 Max. 80% v Dinamo Zagreb (h) Max. 62% v Genk (a) Min. 51% v Real Madrid (a) Final third 25% 31 Ederson 8 675 Min. 29% v Liverpool (a) Final third 16% 25 David Ospina 2 180 UCL rank: 3 UCL rank: 19 DEFENDERS DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 2 Kyle Walker 6 443 DISTANCE COVERED 2 Kevin Malcuit 2 147 Max. 115.8 km v Dinamo Zagreb (a) Max. 111.8 km v Barcelona (h) 111.8 km Min. 105.7 km v Lyon (n) 107.7 km Min. 103.6 km v Liverpool (h) 6 Mário Rui 7 528 UCL rank: 13 5 John Stones 1 49 UCL rank: 24 13 Sebastiano Luperto 2 135 12 Angeliño* 1 90 9 19 Nikola Maksimović 3 270 7 26 14 Aymeric Laporte 3 213 659 89% 485 84% 22 Giovanni Di Lorenzo 8 720 2 9 22 Benjamin Mendy 6 438 1 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 720 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 99 26 Kalidou Koulibaly 7 630 Max. 911 v Dinamo Zagreb (a) Max. 93% v Dinamo Zagreb (a) Max. 573 v Genk (h) Max. 91% v Barcelona (a) 24 17 26 20 7 Min. 494 v Atalanta (h) Min. 87% v Lyon (n) 22 20 27 João Cancelo 8 568 Min. 293 v Liverpool (a) Min. 71% v Liverpool (a) 44 Kostas Manolas 6 540 UCL rank: 2 UCL rank: 1 27 UCL rank: 15 UCL rank: 11= 8 8 17 30 Nicolás Otamendi 8 556 22 4 MIDFIELDERS 8 99 PASS DISTANCE 50 Eric García 2 180 PASS DISTANCE* 6 22 25 30 27 24 7 4 Diego Demme** 2 126 UCL rank: 28= UCL rank: 16= Long 44 (7% of total) 25 30 Long 48 (10% of total) 19 20 44 78 Taylor Harwood-Bellis 1 8 8 5 Allan 6 445 Medium 236 (36%) UCL rank: 3 Medium 165 (34%) UCL rank: 18 4 Short 378 (57%) UCL rank: 1 Short 272 (56%) UCL rank: 14 6 22 8 Fabián Ruiz 8 709 MIDFIELDERS 19 44 8 İlkay Gündoğan 9 810 2 1 12 Eljif Elmas 5 103 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 31 20 Piotr Zieliński 7 521 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 9.7 4 31 11 Oleksandr Zinchenko 2 114 DEFENSIVE ACTION 15.1 26= 25 25 68 Stanislav Lobotka 1 45 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 16 Rodri 8 626 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank ATTACKING THIRD 3 ATTACKING THIRD 23= 7.3 17 Kevin De Bruyne 7 574 2 2 3.4 FORWARDS 7 José Callejón 7 573 1 20 Bernardo Silva 7 435 1 *Decimal points account for the missing 1% 9 Fernando Llorente 6 86 1 21 4 124 11 Hirving Lozano 7 414 1 ATTEMPTS 25 Fernandinho 8 653 ATTEMPTS 14 Dries Mertens 8 586 6 1 GOALS SCORED 26 Riyad Mahrez 7 572 1 4 GOALS SCORED 21 2.33 per match; UCL rank: 3 13 1.63 per match; UCL rank: 15= 21 Matteo Politano*** 2 36 47 Phil Foden 5 254 2 2 24 Lorenzo Insigne 5 350 2 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 34 Amin Younes 1 5 25.5 2.8 per match; UCL rank: 2 FORWARDS 15.6 1.9 per match; UCL rank: 10 7 Raheem Sterling 9 599 6 3 70 Gianluca Gaetano 1 18 99 Arkadiusz Milik 5 214 3 GOAL ATTEMPTS 9 Gabriel Jesus 8 590 6 3 GOAL ATTEMPTS 146 16.2 per match; UCL rank: 4 112 14 per match; UCL rank: 10 10 Sergio Agüero 3 196 2 App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists *Carlo Ancelotti was in charge for Matchdays 1 to 6 ON TARGET App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists ON TARGET **Diego Demme also played for Leipzig ***Matteo Politano also played for Internazionale 61 6.8 per match; UCL rank: 2= *Angeliño also played for Leipzig 29 3.6 per match; UCL rank: 25 AVERAGE CARDS AVERAGE CARDS GOALS 14% GOALS 12% AGE AGE Sent off: 14 0 SAVES 27% 16 2 Foden v Atalanta (h), SAVES 13% 27.1 Bravo v Atalanta (a) 27.3 BLOCKED 21% BLOCKED 32%

WOODWORK 2% WOODWORK 5% WIDE 36% WIDE 38% KEY FEATURES KEY FEATURES • 1-4-5-1, switching to 1-4-3-3 • 1-4-3-3; also 1-4-4-1-1, 1-4-4-2, 1-3-5-2 in attack; also 1-4-2-3-1 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Goalkeeper Ederson’s key distribution PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Discipline, commitment, hard work skills; long passes for forwards in tie v Barcelona under Gattuso

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • De Bruyne driving team forward on transitions; GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Look to build from back, 1 Gabriel Jesus 6 25 10 6.1 1 İlkay Gündoğan 705 94 20 world-class passing and crossing 1 Dries Mertens 6 21 11 3.7 1 Fabián Ruiz 505 86 24 starting with goalkeeper 2 Raheem Sterling 6 24 13 6.7 2 Rodri 678 93 21 • High pressing, looking to win 2 Arkadiusz Milik 3 12 3 4.6 2 Kalidou Koulibaly 418 84 47 • Powerful, experienced centre- 3 Kevin De Bruyne 2 16 6 1.6 3 João Cancelo 452 88 32 possession in final third 3 Lorenzo Insigne 2 18 5 2.4 3 Giovanni Di Lorenzo 413 84 43 backs in Koulibaly, Manolas G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Ability to dominate possession (highest G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Compact defence in first leg v Barcelona; average possession time of 30.5 secs) Demme organising in pivot role • Tactical variation, e.g. two false nines • High press, led by Mertens, CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I in Madrid, back three v Lyon CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I supported by midfielders 1 Giovanni Di Lorenzo 2 3 0.6 1 Fabián Ruiz 57 7 19 1 Riyad Mahrez 4 10 3.0 1 İlkay Gündoğan 68 5 11 • Attacking variety brings many chances: • Influence of Fabián Ruiz, covering 2 Raheem Sterling 3 13 2.8 2 Rodri 60 11 9 combination play, through balls, counters 2 José Callejón 1 18 1.8 2 Giovanni Di Lorenzo 55 11 2 ground in midfield 3 Gabriel Jesus 3 13 2.1 3 Fernandinho 45 10 15 • Clever, creative midfielders; quick, 3 Dries Mertens 1 11 0.6 3 Kalidou Koulibaly 48 10 12 • Intelligent Mertens always on A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions mobile forwards in Sterling, Jesus A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions move; penetration and goals

94 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 95 COACH PEDRO MARTINS COACH THOMAS TUCHEL BORN: 17/07/1970, Feira (POR) PARIS BORN: 29/08/1973, Krumbach (GER) NATIONALITY: Portuguese NATIONALITY: German HEAD COACH: Since 09/04/2018 HEAD COACH: Since 14/05/2018 OLYMPIACOS FC GRE UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 SAINT-GERMAIN FRA UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP B ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP A ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% TOT CRV BAY BAY TOT CRV UEFA Champions League 6 1 1 4 17 RM GAL BRU BRU RM GAL BVB BVB ATA LEI BAY UEFA Champions League 29 17 5 7 59 D 2-2 L 3-1 L 2-3 L 2-0 L 4-2 W 1-0 matches (Group stage to final) W 3-0 W 0-1 W 0-5 W 1-0 D 2-2 W 5-0 L 2-1 W 2-0 W 1-2 W 0-3 L 0-1 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 28 13 6 9 46 UEFA club competition 47 28 9 10 60 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Tottenham (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Bayern (n) 44% First third 33% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 53% First third 28% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 54% 1 José Sá 6 540 Middle third 57% 1 Keylor Navas 9 799 Max. 70% v Crvena zvezda (h) Max. 64% v Club Brugge (h) Min. 31% v Bayern (a) Final third 13% Min. 39% v Bayern (n) Final third 15% 16 Sergio Rico 3 191 UCL rank: 22= DEFENDERS UCL rank: 10 3 Rúben Semedo 6 540 2 DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 14 6 461 DISTANCE COVERED 2 Thiago Silva 9 810 Max. 111.9 km v Bayern (h) Max. 108.3 km v Dortmund (h) 106.2 km Min. 98.9 km v Crvena zvevda (a) 104.2 km Min. 99.1 km v Leipzig (n) UCL rank: 29 20 Yassine Meriah 6 540 UCL rank: 32 3 Presnel Kimpembe 10 900 21 6 540 1 4 Thilo Kehrer 5 375 35 1 90 5 Marquinhos 11 970 2 % % 393 79 564 87 11 7 10 12 Thomas Meunier 5 450 1 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 9 MIDFIELDERS PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 10 Max. 539 v Crvena Zvezda (h) Max. 674 v Club Brugge (h) Max. 86% v Tottenham (h) 19 9 Max. 90% v Club Brugge (h) Min. 297 v Bayern (a) Min. 71% v Crvena Zvezda (a) 28 10 Min. 322 v Bayern (n) Min. 75% v Bayern (n) 21 14 Juan Bernat 10 875 2 2 28 4 Mohamed Camara 5 418 UCL rank: 25 UCL rank: 23= UCL rank: 10 UCL rank: 5= 19 10 8 11 20 Layvin Kurzawa 4 201 5 5 Andreas Bouchalakis 6 484 7 5 4 5 8 14 21 8 PASS DISTANCE 6 3 79 PASS DISTANCE 5 21 22 Abdou Diallo 3 109 14 14 3 2 Long 54 (14% of total) UCL rank: 10 21 Long 38 (7% of total) UCL rank: 32 20 3 8 Guilherme 5 450 1 1 8 31 Colin Dagba 1 90 Medium 147 (37%) UCL rank: 23 Medium 183 (32%) UCL rank: 10 14 4 20 3 2 Short 192 (49%) UCL rank: 26 3 10 6 458 1 Short 344 (61%) UCL rank: 6 35 2 76 19 6 425 1 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank MIDFIELDERS DEFENSIVE ACTION 16.4 30 22 Maximiliano Lovera 3 101 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 11.3 9 1 6 Marco Verratti 9 586 1 1 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 28 3 104 1 1 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 8 Leandro Paredes 6 370 ATTACKING THIRD 32 ATTACKING THIRD 15= 1.8 97 Lazar Randjelović 4 86 4.7 11 Ángel Di María 9 750 3 6 19 Pablo Sarabia 9 407 2 2 FORWARDS 9 Miguel Ángel Guerrero 6 315 21 Ander Herrera 6 326 ATTEMPTS 11 Youssef El Arabi 6 276 3 ATTEMPTS 23 5 65 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 27 Idrissa Gueye 7 567 1 8 1.33 per match; UCL rank: 21= 25 2.27 per match; UCL rank: 4 FORWARDS EXPECTED GOALS (xG) EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 7 Kylian Mbappé 10 652 5 5 7.9 1.3 per match; UCL rank: 22= 26.6 2.4 per match; UCL rank: 3 9 3 130 1 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 10 Neymar 7 585 3 4 77 12.8 per match; UCL rank: 17 134 12.2 per match; UCL rank: 21 17 Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting 6 126 1 ON TARGET ON TARGET 18 Mauro Icardi 7 480 5 3.7 per match; UCL rank: 23= 5.5 per match; UCL rank: 8= 22 60 App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists GOALS 10% GOALS 19% AVERAGE CARDS AGE SAVES 18% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 26% 30 0 BLOCKED 18% AGE BLOCKED 18% 27.2 Sent off: WOODWORK 3% 15 1 WOODWORK 3% 26.5 Benzia v Crvena zvezda (a) WIDE 51% WIDE 34% KEY FEATURES • 1-4-3-3; also 1-4-4-2, 1-3-4-2-1 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Experienced Thiago Silva in solid defensive partnership with Kimpembe

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Centre-backs protected by clever 1 Youssef El Arabi 3 5 3 1.4 1 Yassine Meriah 283 86 33 1 Kylian Mbappé 5 30 18 8.2 1 Marquinhos 716 86 29 midfield pivots plugging gaps 2 Rúben Semedo 2 5 2 1.1 2 Rúben Semedo 249 84 33 2 Mauro Icardi 5 12 7 4.4 2 Presnel Kimpembe 662 91 38 (Herrera, Marquinhos, Verratti) 3 Daniel Podence 1 11 7 1.2 3 Guilherme 242 88 26 3 Neymar 3 24 7 4.3 3 Thiago Silva 616 91 42 • Short-passing possession game in central third G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Outstanding individual talents in attack; exploit space with speed, movement • Full-backs provide width as forwards CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I move inside (e.g. Bernat v Dortmund) 1 Kostas Tsimikas 1 9 1.0 1 Yassine Meriah 33 2 8 1 Ángel Di María 6 14 3.4 1 Marquinhos 65 9 17 • Driving presence of Neymar in ‘Final 2 Giorgos Masouras 1 6 1.0 2 Kostas Tsimikas 32 10 12 2 Kylian Mbappé 5 8 4.0 2 Presnel Kimpembe 56 14 15 8’; dribbling, ball-carrying ability 3 Guilherme 1 4 0.1 3 Guilherme 28 3 3 3 Neymar 4 12 1.7 3 Marco Verratti 54 12 4 • Additional threat from A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Youssef El Arabi found the net with all three of his shots on target Di María’s dead-ball delivery

96 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 97 COACH JULIAN NAGELSMANN COACH ZINÉDINE ZIDANE BORN: 23/07/1987, Landsberg am Lech (GER) BORN: 23/06/1972, Marseille (FRA) NATIONALITY: German NATIONALITY: French HEAD COACH: Since 01/07/2019 HEAD COACH: Since 11/03/2019 RB LEIPZIG GER UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 REAL MADRID CF ESP UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 5

GROUP G ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP A ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% SLB OL ZEN ZEN SLB OL TOT TOT ATL PAR UEFA Champions League 16 6 5 5 38 PAR BRU GAL GAL PAR BRU MC MC UEFA Champions League 41 25 9 7 61 W 1-2 L 0-2 W 2-1 W 0-2 D 2-2 D 2-2 W 0-1 W 3-0 W 2-1 L 0-3 matches (Group stage to final) L 3-0 D 2-2 W 0-1 W 6-0 D 2-2 W 1-3 L 1-2 L 2-1 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 24 7 7 10 29 UEFA club competition 43 27 9 7 63 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Atlético (n) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Paris (a) 57 % First third 23% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 55% First third 26% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 55% 1 Péter Gulácsi 10 874 Middle third 49% 1 2 135 Max. 69% v Zenit (a) Max. 73% v Club Brugge (h) Min. 43% v Paris (n) Final third 22% 28 1 26 Min. 44% v Galatasaray (a) Final third 25% 13 Thibaut Courtois 7 585 UCL rank: 6= UCL rank: 8= DEFENDERS DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 3 Angeliño* 4 360 2 DISTANCE COVERED 2 Dani Carvajal 7 623 1 Max. 117.6 km v Lyon (a) 3 2 160 Max. 113.9 km v Club Brugge (a) 113.9 km Min. 105.5 km v Paris (n) 107 km Min. 100.9 km v Paris (a) 3 Éder Militão 3 270 UCL rank:7 UCL rank: 27 4 Willi Orban 4 278 4 Sergio Ramos 5 446 2 5 Dayot Upamecano 8 661 9 9 5 Raphaël Varane 8 720 18 11 591 84% 25 6 Ibrahima Konaté 2 113 609 88% 7 6 Nacho 1 45 3 7 16 Lukas Klostermann 10 809 1 16 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 27 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 12 Marcelo 4 267 3 Max. 713 v Zenit (a) 9 Max. 796 v Galatasaray (h) Max. 87% v Benfica (h) 25 22 10 698 Max. 92% v Galatasaray (h) 9 Min. 458 v Paris (n) 44 Min. 491 v Galatasaray (a) 23 Min. 80% v Lyon (a) 18 Min. 81% v Galatasaray (a) 14 2 19 Álvaro Odriozola* 1 90 UCL rank: 8 UCL rank: 11= 23 7 516 UCL rank: 7 UCL rank: 2= 8 23 27 23 Ferland Mendy 5 408 16 16 544 7 26 Ethan Ampadu 3 181 7 11 3 5 PASS DISTANCE 3 PASS DISTANCE 8 14 MIDFIELDERS Long 45 (8% of total) UCL rank: 26= 16 Long 53 (9% of total) UCL rank: 11 23 5 MIDFIELDERS 23 2 7 6 458 1 Medium 201 (34%) UCL rank: 9 7 Marcel Sabitzer 9 806 4 3 Medium 220 (36%) UCL rank: 7 3 5 Short 345 (58%) UCL rank: 5 Short 336 (55%) UCL rank: 7 8 Toni Kroos 6 540 1 1 8 7 267 1 10 Luka Modrić 6 391 1 UCL rank 10 Emil Forsberg 9 521 4 1 UCL rank PASSES PER Average PASSES PER Average 13 DEFENSIVE ACTION 10.4 6 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 13.8 19 14 Casemiro 8 690 1 1 14 Tyler Adams 3 78 1 13 15 6 348 17 1 69 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 16 James Rodríguez 2 81 ATTACKING THIRD 3.3 25 18 9 513 ATTACKING THIRD 4.9 11= 25 Dani Olmo* 2 128 1 17 Lucas Vázquez 4 100 27 Konrad Laimer 10 717 1 20 1 29 31 Diego Demme* 5 364 1 21 Brahim Díaz 1 17 ATTEMPTS 44 4 289 ATTEMPTS 22 Isco 4 272 1 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 16 1.60 per match; UCL rank: 17 FORWARDS 16 2 per match; UCL rank: 6= FORWARDS 9 Yussuf Poulsen 8 574 1 9 Karim Benzema 8 643 5 2 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 11 Timo Werner 8 579 4 2 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 11 Gareth Bale 3 116 1.9 per match; UCL rank: 10= 2.1 per match; UCL rank: 6= 19.1 20 Matheus Cunha 2 80 16.9 18 Luka Jović 5 118 21 Patrik Schick 5 239 25 Vinícius Júnior 5 193 1 1 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 158 15.8 per match; UCL rank: 6= App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists 139 17.4 per match; UCL rank: 3 27 Rodrygo 5 331 4 3 *Angeliño also played for Man. City *Dani Olmo also played for Dinamo Zagreb *Diego Demme also played for Napoli ON TARGET ON TARGET 52 5.2 per match; UCL rank: 10 54 6.8 per match; UCL rank: 2 App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists AVERAGE CARDS *Álvaro Odriozola also played for Bayern AGE GOALS 10% 22 0 GOALS 12% SAVES 22% 23.9 SAVES 28% AVERAGE CARDS AGE BLOCKED 32% BLOCKED 22% 13 1 Sent off: WOODWORK 0% WOODWORK 1% 27.1 Ramos v Man. City (a)

WIDE 37% KEY FEATURES WIDE 38% • 1-3-4-3 or variations, including 1-3-3-3-1 v Atlético, 1-4-1-4-1 v Paris KEY FEATURES PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Young team playing with dynamism, PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • 1-4-3-3 energy and bravery • Experienced spine and winning mentality

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Back three with forward-looking GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Solid goalkeeper Courtois; looking 1 Timo Werner 4 29 11 4.8 1 Lukas Klostermann 590 89 30 Upamecano driving through lines 1 Karim Benzema 5 31 14 6.5 1 Raphaël Varane 523 89 31 to play out from back 2 Marcel Sabitzer 4 22 9 1.5 2 Dayot Upamecano 531 87 36 • Defend quickly and high on losing 2 Rodrygo 4 8 5 1.5 2 Casemiro 514 84 28 • Ramos’s defensive leadership 3 Emil Forsberg 4 20 11 2.9 3 Marcel Sabitzer 528 83 27 ball; third most ball recoveries 3 Sergio Ramos 2 7 3 1.6 3 Toni Kroos 500 94 25 and presence in both boxes G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Good positional play and understanding G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Use of midfield pivot (Casemiro, across pitch; intelligent movement Valverde) to support centre-backs • Highly influential and versatile • Ability to control ball in midfield with CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I midfield pair (Sabitzer, Laimer) CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I quality technicians (Modrić, Kroos) 1 Marcel Sabitzer 3 8 1.2 1 Lukas Klostermann 72 7 16 • Quick counters from deep; get ball forward 1 Marcelo 3 5 1.3 1 Casemiro 63 12 8 • 1v1 threat of Vinícius Júnior; option 2 Timo Werner 2 9 1.1 2 Dayot Upamecano 64 14 12 quickly; lots of crosses (Angeliño) 2 Rodrygo 3 4 0.8 2 Dani Carvajal 53 10 6 of direct ball to touchline 3 Angeliño 2 2 0.6 3 Konrad Laimer 59 21 4 • Mobile front line with two No10s finding 3 Karim Benzema 2 15 2.1 3 Toni Kroos 35 12 9 • Benzema leads attack with fantastic A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions pockets of space behind main striker A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions movement, ability to turn in tight spaces

98 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 99 COACH JESSE MARSCH COACH LUÍS CASTRO BORN: 08/11/1973, Racine (USA) FC SHAKHTAR BORN: 03/09/1961, Mondrões (POR) NATIONALITY: American NATIONALITY: Portuguese HEAD COACH: Since 06/06/2019 HEAD COACH: Since 12/06/2019 FC SALZBURG AUT UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 DONETSK UKR UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP E ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP C ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GNK LIV NAP NAP GNK LIV UEFA Champions League 6 2 1 3 33 MC ATA DZ DZ MC ATA UEFA Champions League 6 1 3 2 17 W 6-2 L 4-3 L 2-3 D 1-1 W 1-4 L 0-2 matches (Group stage to final) L 0-3 W 1-2 D 2-2 D 3-3 D 1-1 L 0-3 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 8 2 2 4 25 UEFA club competition 12 5 4 3 42 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Liverpool (h) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Atalanta (a) 44% First third 26% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 49% First third 29% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 54% 1 Cican Stankovic 4 303 Middle third 54% 30 Andriy Pyatov 6 540 Max. 52% v Napoli (h) Max. 65% v Dinamo Zagreb (h) Min. 31% v Liverpool (a) Final third 20% 31 Carlos Miguel Coronel 3 237 Min. 37% v Man. City (a) Final third 18% UCL rank: 22= UCL rank: 14= DEFENDERS DEFENDERS 4 6 540 DISTANCE COVERED 5 Albert Vallci 1 1 DISTANCE COVERED 22 6 536 Max. 119 km v Liverpool (a) Max. 115.4 km v Man. City (a) 114.4 km Min. 110.8 km v Genk (a) 110.8 km Min. 105.9 km v Dinamo Zagreb (h) UCL rank: 6 6 Jérôme Onguéné 4 360 UCL rank: 16 31 6 540 15 André Ramalho 2 180 98 Dodô 5 282 1 1 17 6 540 1 % % MIDFIELDERS 421 76 30 499 86 10 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 9 25 1 7 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 6 Taras Stepanenko 6 539 Max. 494 v Napoli (h) 30 18 9 Max. 579 v Dinamo Zagreb (a) Max. 79% v Napoli (h) 34 Marin Pongračić 1 45 Max. 90% v Man. City (h) Min. 333 v Liverpool (a) Min. 70% v Liverpool (a) Min. 385 v Man. City (a) Min. 78% v Man. City (a) 7 21 7 Taison 5 450 UCL rank: 24 UCL rank: 28= 18 14 UCL rank: 13 UCL rank: 7= 45 31 10 20 11 14 39 Maximilian Wöber 6 540 50 8 Marcos Antônio 3 26 17 16 45 43 20 PASS DISTANCE* 16 43 6 533 PASS DISTANCE 7 21 11 6 9 2 17 UCL rank: 18= UCL rank: 15 Long 47 (11% of total) 17 Long 50 (10% of total) 22 6 4 3939 6 43 11 5 370 1 Medium 133 (32%) UCL rank: 28 6 MIDFIELDERS Medium 170 (34%) UCL rank: 16= 50 31 22 4 Short 241 (57%) UCL rank: 20= 4 Majeed Ashimeru 4 64 Short 279 (56%) UCL rank: 12= 14 Tetê 3 155 1 14 Dominik Szoboszlai 5 392 1 15 4 180 1 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 1 30 DEFENSIVE ACTION 11.5 10= 1 16 Zlatko Junuzović 6 506 3 DEFENSIVE ACTION 16.3 29 19 Manor Solomon 5 134 2 30 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 18 Takumi Minamino* 6 510 2 3 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 20 Viktor Kovalenko 5 338 1 ATTACKING THIRD 2 ATTACKING THIRD 27= 7.7 28 Antoine Bernede 1 90 2.7 21 Alan Patrick 6 497 1 2 *Decimal points account for the missing 1% 37 Masaya Okugawa 4 72 *Decimal points account for the extra 1% 50 Serhiy Bolbat 3 245 45 5 404 3 ATTEMPTS ATTEMPTS FORWARDS FORWARDS 10 Júnior Moraes 6 526 2 1 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 16 2.67 per match; UCL rank: 2 7 Sekou Koita 1 1 8 1.33 per match; UCL rank: 21= 45 Danylo Sikan 1 1 9 Hee-Chan Hwang 6 540 3 3 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 20 Patson Daka 6 241 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 13.8 2.3 per match; UCL rank: 4 8.3 1.4 per match; UCL rank: 20= 30 Erling Braut Haaland 6 374 8 1 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 95 15.8 per match; UCL rank: 6= 61 10.2 per match; UCL rank: 27

ON TARGET ON TARGET 6.2 per match; UCL rank: 4 4 per match; UCL rank: 22 37 App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists 24 *Erling Braut Haaland also played for Dortmund *Takumi Minamino also played for Liverpool App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists

GOALS 17% GOALS 13% SAVES 22% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 25% AVERAGE CARDS BLOCKED 22% AGE BLOCKED 26% AGE Sent off: 10 0 Marlos v Dinamo Zagreb (a), WOODWORK 0% WOODWORK 3% 11 2 23.5 26.3 Dodô v Atalanta (h) WIDE 39% WIDE 33%

PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% 1 Erling Braut Haaland 8 17 11 6.2 1 Zlatko Junuzović 297 75 45 1 Júnior Moraes 2 14 6 2.4 1 Ismaily 364 86 38 2 Hee-Chan Hwang 3 14 9 1.9 2 Maximilian Wöber 288 81 50 2 Manor Solomon 2 3 2 1.1 2 Mykola Matviyenko 328 89 36 3 Takumi Minamino 2 17 5 1.3 3 Andreas Ulmer 246 63 51 3 Alan Patrick 1 7 3 0.8 3 Serhiy Kryvtsov 321 84 36 G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward

CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I 1 Hee-Chan Hwang 3 11 2.4 1 Andreas Ulmer 48 12 6 1 Alan Patrick 2 6 0.8 1 Ismaily 44 12 13 2 Takumi Minamino 3 9 1.8 2 Enock Mwepu 48 11 4 2 Júnior Moraes 1 6 0.7 2 Mykola Matviyenko 25 3 15 3 Zlatko Junuzović 3 8 1.2 3 Zlatko Junuzović 44 6 10 3 Marlos 1 4 0.5 3 Alan Patrick 25 3 6 A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Hee-Chan Hwang scored three times and set up three more goals Júnior Moraes was involved in three of Shakhtar’s goals (2 goals, 1 assist)

100 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 101 COACH JINDŘICH TRPIŠOVSKÝ COACH* JOSÉ MOURINHO BORN: 27/02/1976, Prague (CZE) TOTTENHAM BORN: 26/01/1963, Setúbal (POR) NATIONALITY: Czech NATIONALITY: Portuguese HEAD COACH: Since 22/12/2017 HEAD COACH: Since 20/11/2019 SK SLAVIA PRAHA CZE UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 HOTSPUR FC ENG UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 4

GROUP F ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP B ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% INT BVB BAR BAR INT BVB UEFA Champions League 6 0 2 4 0 OLY BAY CRV CRV OLY BAY LEI LEI UEFA Champions League 145 77 35 33 53 D 1-1 L 0-2 L 1-2 D 0-0 L 1-3 L 2-1 matches (Group stage to final) D 2-2 L 2-7 W 5-0 W 0-4 W 4-2 L 3-1 L 0-1 L 3-0 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 41 17 8 16 41 UEFA club competition 176 95 41 40 54 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Inter (a) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Bayern (a) GOALKEEPERS % First third 31% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS % First third 24% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession 49 50 1 Hugo Lloris 4 360 Middle third 46% 1 Ondřej Kolář 6 540 Middle third 58% Max. 60% v Internazionale (h) Max. 67% v Crvena zvezda (a) 22 Paulo Gazzaniga 4 360 Min. 38% v Barcelona (a) Final third 23% Min. 30% v Bayern (a) Final third 18% UCL rank: 14= DEFENDERS UCL rank: 13 DEFENDERS 2 David Hovorka 3 270 3 Rose 4 360 1 DISTANCE COVERED 5 Vladimír Coufal 6 540 DISTANCE COVERED 4 6 540 Max. 127.8 km v Dortmund (h) Max. 115.1 km v Bayern (a) 124.4 km Min. 118.5 km v Internazionale (a) 109.4 km Min. 105.1 km v Leipzig (a) 5 3 253 UCL rank: 1 12 Jaroslav Zelený 4 109 UCL rank: 20 6 Davinson Sánchez 5 450 15 Ondřej Kúdela 6 540 16 Kyle Walker-Peters 1 90 18 Jan Bořil 6 540 1 475 80% 501 84% 21 Juan Foyth 3 197 24 Ladislav Takács 2 90 24 Serge Aurier 5 449 1 2 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 99 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY Max. 606 v Internazionale (h) Max. 83% v Internazionale (h) 28 Max. 710 v Crvena zvezda (a) Max. 88% v Crvena zvezda (h) 27 33 Ben Davies 3 270 1 Min. 377 v Barcelona (a) Min. 77% v Internazionale (a) 7 28 25 Michal Frydrych 2 173 Min. 297 v Bayern (a) Min. 70% v Bayern (a) UCL rank: 17 UCL rank: 20= 10 UCL rank: 12 UCL rank: 11= 19 7 39 Japhet Tanganga 1 90 7 23 18 27 5 18 10 MIDFIELDERS 64 Malachi Fagan-Walcott 1 1 27 18 22 5 PASS DISTANCE 7 Nicolae Stanciu 6 461 PASS DISTANCE 23 17 MIDFIELDERS Long 51 (11% of total) UCL rank: 12= 2 15 Long 42 (8% of total) UCL rank: 31 19 22 15 17 UCL rank: 13= 10 Josef Hušbauer 5 207 UCL rank: 11 16 8 Harry Winks 5 441 Medium 172 (36%) Medium 180 (36%) 15 29 2 15 3 Short 252 (53%) UCL rank: 17 17 Lukáš Provod 2 13 Short 279 (56%) UCL rank: 12= 21 11 Erik Lamela 5 229 1 2 3 4 16 4 21 12 1 9 Average UCL rank 22 Tomáš Souček 6 540 2 Average UCL rank PASSES PER PASSES PER 15 Eric Dier 5 312 DEFENSIVE ACTION 11.8 13 DEFENSIVE ACTION 13.6 17= 1 23 Petr Ševčík 5 450 1 22 17 6 417 1 22 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 27 Ibrahim Traoré 4 167 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 18 Giovani Lo Celso 5 332 1 ATTACKING THIRD 1 ATTACKING THIRD 10 8.3 28 Lukáš Masopust 6 475 1 5 19 3 195 1 1 20 Dele Alli 7 522 1 1 FORWARDS 23 Christian Eriksen 5 295 1 1 9 Peter Olayinka 6 535 1 27 Lucas Moura 6 401 1 1 ATTEMPTS 11 Stanislav Tecl 3 137 ATTEMPTS 28 Tanguy Ndombélé 6 339 2 GOALS SCORED GOALS SCORED 29 Oliver Skipp 2 29 0.67 per match; UCL rank: 27= 14 Mick van Buren 2 45 2.25 per match; UCL rank: 5 4 18 30 Gedson Fernandes** 2 74 21 Milan Škoda 2 72 1 FORWARDS EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 29 Abdulla Yusuf Helal 2 36 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 9.5 1.6 per match; UCL rank: 16= 16.0 2.0 per match; UCL rank: 9 7 Heung-Min Son 6 365 5 1 10 Harry Kane 5 450 6 GOAL ATTEMPTS GOAL ATTEMPTS 23 1 90 91 15.2 per match; UCL rank: 8 98 12.3 per match; UCL rank: 20

ON TARGET ON TARGET App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists 34 5.7 per match; UCL rank: 7 49 6.1 per match; UCL rank: 5 *Mauricio Pochettino was in charge for Matchdays 1 to 4 **Gedson Fernandes also played for Benfica App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists GOALS 4% GOALS 18% AVERAGE CARDS SAVES 33% SAVES 30% AGE AVERAGE CARDS 14 0 BLOCKED 21% AGE BLOCKED 14% 16 0 25.7 WOODWORK 0% 27 WOODWORK 2% WIDE 42% WIDE 36% KEY FEATURES • 1-4-2-3-1; also 1-4-4-2, 1-3-4-2-1 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Varied approach with mid to low block (h) v Leipzig, high press (a)

GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Experienced goalkeeper Lloris; mix 1 Tomáš Souček 2 14 6 2.4 1 Tomáš Souček 328 83 33 1 Harry Kane 6 23 10 4.8 1 Davinson Sánchez 371 88 33 of playing out and long kicks 2 Peter Olayinka 1 7 5 1.1 2 Ondřej Kúdela 302 87 34 2 Heung-Min Son 5 18 11 4.6 2 Toby Alderweireld 342 86 32 • Composed, steady presence of 3 Jan Bořil 1 5 1 0.3 3 Jan Bořil 284 79 43 3 Erik Lamela 1 9 4 1.5 3 Harry Winks 319 86 33 Alderweireld in central defence G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Left-back stays low as right-back (Aurier) pushes higher • Impact of Lo Celso in midfield: driving CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I runs, dribbling skills, dead-ball ability 1 Lukáš Masopust 1 5 0.4 1 Tomáš Souček 43 8 15 1 Serge Aurier 2 7 0.9 1 Harry Winks 37 8 8 • Technically strong midfielders, and fast 2 Milan Škoda 1 0 0.0 2 Nicolae Stanciu 41 2 2 2 Tanguy Ndombélé 2 6 1.0 2 Moussa Sissoko 36 5 5 forwards (Bergwijn, Moura, Son) 3 Nicolae Stanciu 0 10 1.3 3 Vladimír Coufal 37 4 6 3 Erik Lamela 2 1 0.4 3 Toby Alderweireld 31 3 3 • Kane the reference point in A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions Lukáš Masopust was one of eight Slavia players to feature in all six games A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions attack but absent v Leipzig

102 Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down Rankings on this page may be based on figures before they are rounded up or down 103 COACH ALBERT CELADES COACH SERGEI SEMAK BORN: 23/07/1987, Landsberg am Lech (GER) BORN: 27/02/1976, Sychanske (UKR) NATIONALITY: Spanish NATIONALITY: Russian HEAD COACH: 11/09/2019 to 29/06/2020 HEAD COACH: Since 29/05/2018 VALENCIA CF ESP UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0 FC ZENIT RUS UEFA CLUB TROPHIES WON: 0

GROUP H ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% GROUP G ROUND OF 16 QUARTER-FINALS SEMI-FINALS FINAL Total W D L Win% CHE AJX LIL LIL CHE AJX ATA ATA UEFA Champions League 8 3 2 3 38 OL SLB LEI LEI OL SLB UEFA Champions League 7 3 1 3 43 W 0-1 L 0-3 D 1-1 W 4-1 D 2-2 W 0-1 L 4-1 L 3-4 matches (Group stage to final) D 1-1 W 3-1 L 2-1 L 0-2 W 2-0 L 3-0 matches (Group stage to final) UEFA club competition 8 3 2 3 38 UEFA club competition 21 9 3 9 43 Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying) Matches: Green = home, white = away, blue = final tournament; see page 5 for full club names matches (including qualifying)

AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD AVERAGES SHAPE SQUAD App Min G A App Min G A POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION Example: v Ajax (a) POSSESSION POSSESSION POSITION* Example: v Benfica (h) 49% First third 33% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS 39% First third 33% 3 In possession 3 Out of possession GOALKEEPERS Middle third 51% 1 Jaume Doménech 2 180 Middle third 49% 41 Mikhail Kerzhakov 4 360 Max. 59% v Atalanta (h) Max. 46% v Lyon (h) Min. 36% v Ajax (a) Final third 16% 13 6 540 Min. 31% v Leipzig (h) Final third 17% 99 Andrei Lunev 2 180 UCL rank: 14= UCL rank: 28= DEFENDERS DEFENDERS DISTANCE COVERED 2 1 20 DISTANCE COVERED 3 Douglas Santos 6 506 1 Max. 112.5 km v Chelsea (h) Max. 112.7 km v Leipzig (a) 107.2 km Min. 103.5 km v Ajax (h) 109.6 km Min. 105 km v Benfica (a) UCL rank: 26 3 Jaume Costa 3 247 UCL rank: 19 4 5 322 4 2 91 6 Branislav Ivanović 6 520 7 5 Gabriel 6 539 15 Vyacheslav Karavaev 6 415 443 80% 383 76% 22 7 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 19 9 12 5 310 PASSES ATTEMPTED PASS ACCURACY 1122 17 19 3 138 Max. 531 v Ajax (h) Max. 88% v Ajax (h) Max. 428 v Benfica (h) Max. 81% v Lyon (a) Min. 312 v Ajax (a) Min. 67% v Ajax (a) 9 20 14 José Gayà 6 540 Min. 318 v Leipzig (h) Min. 68% v Leipzig (a) 17 19 44 Yaroslav Rakits'kyy 5 450 1 UCL rank: 19 UCL rank: 20= 8 19 UCL rank: 28 UCL rank: 28= 11 27 3 5 27 10 20 24 5 363 5 17 MIDFIELDERS 14 18 19 PASS DISTANCE 8 25 Alessandro Florenzi 1 11 PASS DISTANCE 3 44 5 Wílmar Barrios 6 540 10 6 Long 59 (13% of total) UCL rank: 5 12 Long 64 (17% of total) UCL rank: 2 44 6 17 5 14 Daler Kuzyaev 4 135 Medium 171 (39%) UCL rank: 15 MIDFIELDERS Medium 131 (34%) UCL rank: 29 14 18 Short 213 (48%) UCL rank: 23 12 5 6 Geoffrey Kondogbia 5 405 1 Short 187 (49%) UCL rank: 27 17 Oleg Shatov 4 234 7 Gonçalo Guedes 3 199 18 2 73 1 PASSES PER Average UCL rank PASSES PER Average UCL rank 9999 DEFENSIVE ACTION 12.5 16 1 8 Carlos Soler 5 393 1 DEFENSIVE ACTION 14.1 21 20 Róbert Mak 2 9 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 1 10 Daniel Parejo 8 720 1 3 RECOVERIES IN Average UCL rank 21 Aleksandr Erokhin 4 166 ATTACKING THIRD 21 ATTACKING THIRD 29 3.8 11 Denis Cheryshev 6 262 2 2.5 27 Magomed Ozdoev 6 463 1 2 15 2 72 *Decimal points account for the missing 1% 91 Aleksei Sutormin 2 26 16 Kang-in Lee 5 125 FORWARDS ATTEMPTS 17 Francis Coquelin 6 430 ATTEMPTS 7 Sardar Azmoun 6 466 2 GOALS SCORED (1 own goal) 18 8 720 1 GOALS SCORED (1 own goal) 13 1.63 per match; UCL rank: 15= 7 1.17 per match; UCL rank: 24 11 Sebastian Driussi 5 363 20 Ferrán Torres 6 479 2 2 22 6 540 2 1 EXPECTED GOALS (xG) EXPECTED GOALS (xG) 15.0 1.9 per match; UCL rank: 10 FORWARDS 6.2 1.0 per match; UCL rank: 30 9 Kevin Gameiro 7 320 2 1 GOAL ATTEMPTS 19 Rodrigo 6 527 2 2 GOAL ATTEMPTS 104 13 per match; UCL rank: 16= 59 9.8 per match; UCL rank: 28 22 Maxi Gómez 6 420 1 ON TARGET ON TARGET 37 4.6 per match; UCL rank: 17 App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists 20 3.3 per match; UCL rank: 27= App = Appearances; Min = Minutes played; G = Goals; A = Assists AVERAGE CARDS GOALS 12% AGE Sent off: GOALS 10% Diakhaby v LOSC (a), SAVES 24% 19 2 SAVES 24% AVERAGE CARDS 27 Gabriel v Ajax (a) BLOCKED 19% BLOCKED 17% AGE Sent off: WOODWORK 2% WOODWORK 2% 17 1 28.2 Douglas Santos v Benfica (a) WIDE 43% KEY FEATURES WIDE 47%

• 1-4-4-2; some switches to 1-4-3-3 PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value • Defensive resilience in group stage PLAYER STATISTICS Where totals are equal, rank is decided by next value wins at Chelsea and Ajax GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% • Experienced centre-backs Gabriel, Garay in GOALS G S OT xG PASSES Att S% PF% 1 Rodrigo 2 22 6 3.9 1 Daniel Parejo 556 88 36 group stage; defending with low block 1 Sardar Azmoun 2 14 7 3.1 1 Wílmar Barrios 240 86 34 2 Ferrán Torres 2 10 6 1.4 2 Daniel Wass 391 78 41 • Parejo the organiser, constructing 2 Artem Dzyuba 2 7 3 0.9 2 Magomed Ozdoev 239 77 35 3 Kevin Gameiro 2 9 4 1.6 3 Gabriel 305 88 35 play in midfield 3 Magomed Ozdoev 1 4 3 0.4 3 Artem Dzyuba 221 71 31 G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward • Seek to control possession but get G = Goals; S = Shots; OT = On target; xG = Expected goals Att = Attempted; S = Successful; PF = Pass Forward ball forward fast too (e.g. v Ajax) • Attacking threat from winger Ferrán CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I Torres with skills, crossing ability CHANCE CREATION A KP xA DEFENDING BR TW I 1 Daniel Parejo 3 15 2.4 1 Daniel Parejo 58 8 8 • Predominance of attacks down right 1 Magomed Ozdoev 2 4 0.1 1 Wílmar Barrios 53 12 23 2 Ferrán Torres 2 8 2.4 2 Daniel Wass 40 7 14 with Wass/Torres combination 2 Artem Dzyuba 1 12 1.6 2 Magomed Ozdoev 39 10 15 3 Rodrigo 2 7 1.2 3 Francis Coquelin 39 7 11 • Mobile forwards in Rodrigo – winners 3 Douglas Santos 1 3 0.5 3 Sebastian Driussi 36 8 3 A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions A = Assists; KP = Key passes; xA= Expected Assists BR = Balls recovered; TW = Tackles won; I = Interceptions v Chelsea, Ajax – and Gameiro Sardar Azmoun was Zenit’s joint top scorer with two goals

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2020 FC Bayern München 1987 FC Porto Editorial and analysis Tom Cooper, Simon Hart, Jozef Záhorský 2019 Liverpool FC 1986 FC Steaua Bucureşti UEFA technical observers 2018 Real Madrid CF 1985 Juventus Packie Bonner, Cosmin Contra, 2017 Real Madrid CF 1984 Liverpool FC Aitor Karanka, Roberto Martinez, Ginés Meléndez, Phil Neville, 2016 Real Madrid CF 1983 Hamburger SV Willi Ruttensteiner, Gareth Southgate

2015 FC Barcelona 1982 Aston Villa FC UEFA Head of Football Education Services Frank K Ludolph 2014 Real Madrid CF 1981 Liverpool FC UEFA Publications Manager 2013 FC Bayern München 1980 Nottingham Forest FC Emmanuel Deconche 2012 Chelsea FC 1979 Nottingham Forest FC Managing editor 2011 FC Barcelona 1978 Liverpool FC Michael Harrold

2010 FC Internazionale Milano 1977 Liverpool FC Art Director Oliver Meikle 2009 FC Barcelona 1976 FC Bayern München Design 2008 Manchester United FC 1975 FC Bayern München Darlene Cossentino, Tom Radford, 2007 AC Milan 1974 FC Bayern München Daniel Nutter, Fernando Pires 2006 FC Barcelona 1973 AFC Ajax Sub-editors Chris Burke, John Atkin, Andrew Haslam, 2005 Liverpool FC 1972 AFC Ajax Anthony Naughton

2004 FC Porto 1971 AFC Ajax Statistics Stats Perform, Rob Esteva, The Stats Zone, 2003 AC Milan 1970 UEFA Data Services, Insight Analysis 2002 Real Madrid CF 1969 AC Milan Production 2001 FC Bayern München 1968 Manchester United FC Andrew Sam, Kat Rickards

2000 Real Madrid CF 1967 Celtic FC Translators French: Emmanuelle Hingant, 1999 Manchester United FC 1966 Real Madrid CF Cécile Pierreclos, Estefania Pio, 1998 Real Madrid CF 1965 FC Internazionale Milano Sébastien Plader, Anna Simon German: Helene Kubasky, Robert Paulig, 1997 Borussia Dortmund 1964 FC Internazionale Milano Florian Simmen, Sandra Wisniewski, Frédéric Wyler, Michael Zürcher 1996 Juventus 1963 AC Milan Photography 1995 AFC Ajax 1962 SL Benfica Getty Images, UEFA

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