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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2013/14 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Petrovski - St Petersburg Tuesday 1 October 2013 18.00CET (20.00 local time) FC Zenit Group G - Matchday 2 FK Austria Wien Last updated 01/10/2013 09:45CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Match facts 4 Squad list 5 Head coach 9 Match officials 10 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Group Standings 16 Competition facts 18 Team facts 19 Legend 21 1 FC Zenit - FK Austria Wien Tuesday 1 October 2013 - 18.00CET, (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovski, St Petersburg Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FC Zenit - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Spivak 11(P); 25/08/2005 2QR FC Zenit - SK Austria Kärnten St Petersburg agg: 3-3 ag Gilewicz 88 Chaile 33, Wisio 87; 11/08/2005 2QR SK Austria Kärnten - FC Zenit 2-2 Pasching Kerzhakov 15, Arshavin 73 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 Vještica 10, 26/08/2004 2QR FC Zenit - SK Austria Kärnten St Petersburg agg: 3-3 ag Kerzhakov 18 Glieder 16(P), 85(P), 10/08/2004 2QR SK Austria Kärnten - FC Zenit 3-1 Pasching Mayrleb 35; Kafkas 10(og) FK Austria Wien - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Pirkner 49(P), FK Austria Wien - FC Dinamo 12/04/1978 SF agg: 3-3 (aet, 5- Vienna Morales 56; Yakubik Moskva 4pens) 90 Tsereteli 84, FC Dinamo Moskva - FK Austria 29/03/1978 SF 2-1 Tbilisi Gershkovich 85; Wien Baumeister 25 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 1 6 6 FK Austria Wien 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 3 2 FC Zenit - FK Austria Wien Tuesday 1 October 2013 - 18.00CET, (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovski, St Petersburg Match background FC Zenit will look to uphold their strong home record in Europe when they welcome an FK Austria Wien side making their first visit to Russia. • The visitors' status as group stage newcomers means that Nenad Bjelica's men will go into this UEFA Champions League fixture as underdogs although home coach Luciano Spalletti's past experience of losing to Austrian opposition with Udinese Calcio will ensure he takes nothing for granted. • Both teams are still seeking their first Group G points after Zenit lost 3-1 at Club Atlético de Madrid in their opening fixture, while Austria slipped to a 1-0 home reverse against FC Porto. Match background • Including victories against FC Nordsjælland (5-0) and FC Paços de Ferreira (4-2) this season, Zenit have won five of their last six home outings in Europe, and have lost just one of their last 23. • Zenit are facing Austrian opponents for only the third time, and their two previous encounters came against the same club, ASKÖ Pasching – later renamed SK Austria Kärnten – in successive seasons in 2004/05 and 2005/06. In that first season, a Zenit side coached by Vlastimil Petržela prevailed on away goals in the UEFA Cup second qualifying round, after recovering from a 3-1 away defeat with a 2-0 home success – the decisive second goal scored by Aleksandr Kerzhakov. • Vyacheslav Malafeev, Vladimir Bystrov and Andrey Arshavin also featured in that tie, and Kerzhakov and Arshavin were the scorers when Zenit earned a 2-2 draw in Pasching when the teams met again at the same stage of the 2005/06 UEFA Cup. After a 1-1 draw in the return leg, Zenit advanced once more on goal difference. • Austria earned an impressive 2-0 victory at GNK Dinamo Zagreb in their previous away fixture in this season's competition – a result that allowed them to survive a 3-2 home defeat in the second leg of their play-off tie. Including last season's UEFA Europa League campaign, they have lost just two of their last eight games on the road in Europe. • The Austrian champions travelled to the former USSR to play FC Dinamo Moskva in the 1977/78 European Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals but the away leg was actually played in Tbilisi, the capital of modern-day Georgia, owing to the freezing conditions in Moscow. Hermann Stessl's team led through Ernst Baumeister but slipped to a 2-1 defeat after conceding two late goals. They levelled the aggregate scores with a 2-1 second-leg victory back in Vienna – Hans Pirkner (pen) and Julio César Morales scoring – and then prevailed 5-4 on spot kicks. Team ties • As coach of Udinese, Spalletti's first experience of a major UEFA club competition a decade ago ended after defeat by Austrian opponents. Drawn against FC Salzburg in the first round of the 2003/04 UEFA Cup, Spalletti's Udinese looked in control of the tie after winning the first leg 1-0 in Salzburg. They then took the lead at home in the second leg on 15 October 2003, but subsequently conceded two second-half goals to lose 2-1 on the night and suffer elimination on away goals. • Axel Witsel struck both goals in Belgium's 2-0 away win against Austria in a UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier on 25 March 2011, having also featured in the teams' 4-4 draw in Brussels five months earlier when Nicolas Lombaerts was among the scorers. • Tymoshchuk was 22 when he faced Austria Wien with FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup first round, losing the first leg 5-1 in Vienna before a 1-0 home win. Tymoshchuk faced Heinz Lindner and Markus Suttner in Ukraine's 3-2 loss to Austria in a pre-UEFA EURO 2012 friendly in Innsbruck in June last year. • Roman Kienast played for SK Sturm Graz in a 3-1 reverse at FC Lokomotiv Moskva in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage. • Kaja Rogulj was in the NK Slaven Koprivnica side beaten home and away by PFC CSKA Moscow as they fell to a 3- 1 aggregate defeat in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup first round. 3 FC Zenit - FK Austria Wien Tuesday 1 October 2013 - 18.00CET, (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovski, St Petersburg Match facts Zenit UEFA milestones and competition statistics • Last season Zenit kicked off their group stage with back-to-back defeats at Málaga CF (3-0) and at home to AC Milan (3-2). • Zenit suffered 20 fouls in their first game, the joint highest total along with Austria Wien. Summer transfers • In: Yuri Lodygin (Skoda Xanthi FC), Andrey Arshavin (Arsenal FC), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (FC Bayern München), Cristian Ansaldi (FC Rubin Kazan), Igor Smolnikov (FC Krasnodar), Oleg Shatov (FC Anji Makhachkala), Ivan Solovyev (FC Dinamo Moskva). • Out: Bruno Alves (Fenerbahçe SK), Igor Denisov (FC Anji Makhachkala), Luka Djordjević (FC Twente, loan), Milan Rodić (FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod, loan), Sergei Semak (retired). General information • The top two met in Russia on Saturday, Zenit scoring twice in the last nine minutes as they beat FC Spartak Moskva 4-2. • Luciano Spalletti's side are seven games unbeaten at home this season, winning the last six. • Zenit have won 11 of their last 14 matches in all competitions, and have scored in each of their last 16 outings. • Oleg Shatov scored his first and second goals for Zenit as the visitors came from behind to beat PFC Krylya Sovetov Samara 4-1 last Wednesday, a game that saw Domenico Criscito return to action for the first time since suffering a knee ligament injury in February. • Danny has scored ten goals in all competitions this season; he managed four in 2012/13. • Hulk has scored on each of his last six appearances for Zenit, seven goals in all. Austria Wien UEFA milestones and competition statistics • This campaign is the club's first in the group stage and they still await their first goal; Marko Stanković came close against FC Porto, but his header hit the post. • Five separate scorers struck Austria's five goals in qualifying: Roman Kienast, Marin Leovac, Daniel Royer, Florian Mader and Stanković. • Tomáš Jun is the only Austria player with UEFA Champions League experience before this season having appeared 12 times for AC Sparta Praha in 2003/04 and 2004/05. • Austria became the 128th club from 31 countries to participate in the group stage on matchday one. Summer transfers • In: Rubin Okotie (SK Sturm Graz), Daniel Royer (Hannover 96), Christian Ramsebner (SC Wiener Neustadt). • Out: Nacer Barazite (AS Monaco FC), Sebastian Wimmer (SC/ESV Parndorf 1919, loan), Martin Harrer (SC Rheindorf Altach, loan). General information • Austria were five matches unbeaten away from home before a 1-0 defeat at FC Admira Wacker Mödling. • Alexander Grünwald ruptured the cruciate ligament in his right knee in training on 15 September while Stanković is out with a calf problem picked up six days later in the 2-1 win at Sturm Graz, runners-up last term. • Nenad Bjelica's side were knocked out of the Austrian Cup last Tuesday, going down 2-1 in the second round away to third-tier SC Kalsdorf. • Austria have not won in their past four home games, losing three.