UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE SEASON 2009/10 MATCH PRESS KIT RSC Anderlecht (first leg: 1-1) Athletic Club Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Thursday 25 February 2010 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Matchday 8 - Round of 32, second leg Contents Match background.........................................................................................2 Team facts.....................................................................................................5 Squad list.......................................................................................................7 Head coach....................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results......................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups...............................................................................13 Match officials...............................................................................................16 Competition information...............................................................................17 Legend.........................................................................................................18 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html RSC Anderlecht - Athletic Club Thursday 25 February 2010 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Match background Previous meetings Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/02/10 R32 Athletic Club - RSC Anderlecht 1-1 Bilbao San José 58; Biglia 35 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA RSC Anderlecht 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Athletic Club 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 RSC Anderlecht - record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/12/07 GS Getafe CF - RSC Anderlecht 2-1 Getafe Pablo Hernández 6, Celestini 50; Théréau 90+1 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/12/05 GS Real Betis Balompié - RSC Anderlecht 0-1 Seville Kompany 44 28/09/05 GS RSC Anderlecht - Real Betis Balompié 0-1 Brussels Oliveira 69 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/11/04 GS RSC Anderlecht - Valencia CF 1-2 Brussels Wilhelmsson 24; Corradi 19, Di Vaio 48 14/09/04 GS Valencia CF - RSC Anderlecht 2-0 Valencia Vicente Rodríguez 16, Baraja 45 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/10/01 GS RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 0-2 Brussels Roberto Carlos 19, McManaman 35 26/09/01 GS Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 4-1 Madrid Celades 49, Raúl González 51, 68, Solari 79; Dindane 33 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 14/03/01 2ndGS RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 2-0 Brussels Dindane 85, Goor 90 05/12/00 2ndGS Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 4-1 Madrid Morientes 12, Figo 23(p), Iván Helguera 44, Roberto Carlos 73; Stoica 89 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/89 R2 FC Barcelona - RSC Anderlecht 2-1 Barcelona Salinas 49, Beguiristáin 56; van der agg: 2-3 aet Linden 16 Ex 18/10/89 R2 RSC Anderlecht - FC Barcelona 2-0 Brussels Jankovic 11, Degryse 46 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 12/12/84 R3 Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 6-1 Madrid Sanchís 2, Butragueño 16, 47, 49, agg: 6-4 Valdano 28, 38; Arnesen 33 28/11/84 R3 RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 3-0 Brussels Vandenbergh 71, Czerniatynski 72, Vercauteren 86 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/03/83 QF RSC Anderlecht - Valencia CF 3-1 Brussels Larsen 33, 61, de Groote 38; Ribes 49 agg: 5-2 02/03/83 QF Valencia CF - RSC Anderlecht 1-2 Valencia Solsona 42; Vercauteren 4, Coeck 55 Last updated 23/02/10 13:08:37CET Match background 2 RSC Anderlecht - Athletic Club Thursday 25 February 2010 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/78 R2 FC Barcelona - RSC Anderlecht 3-0 Barcelona Krankl 8, Heredia 44, Zuviria 86 agg: 3-3 (4-1aetps) 18/10/78 R2 RSC Anderlecht - FC Barcelona 3-0 Brussels van der Elst 19, 67, Coeck 48 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 09/03/66 QF Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 4-2 Madrid Amancio Amaro 14, 35, Gento 59(p), agg: 4-3 83; Jurion 87, Puis 89 23/02/66 QF RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 1-0 Brussels van Himst 2 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/09/62 PR RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 1-0 Brussels Jurion 85 agg: 4-3 05/09/62 PR Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 3-3 Madrid Zoco 14, Gento 30, Di Stéfano 48; van Himst 37, Janssens 42, Stockman 80 Athletic Club - record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/12/04 GS R. Standard de Liège - Athletic Club 1-7 Liege Onyewu 15; Ezquerro 6, 9, 54, Yeste 35, Iraola 58(p), Del Horno 63, Etxeberria 71 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 05/11/86 R2 Athletic Club - KSK Beveren 2-1 Bilbao Argote 64(p), Fernandez 87; Fairclough agg: 3-4 57 22/10/86 R2 KSK Beveren - Athletic Club 3-1 Beveren Peeraer 14, Theunis 27, Fairclough 57; Sarriugarte 15 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/85 R2 Athletic Club - RC Liégeois 3-1 Bilbao Urtubi 33, Noriega 52, 70; Ernes 80 agg: 4-1 23/10/85 R2 RC Liégeois - Athletic Club 0-1 Rocourt De Andres 90 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/04/77 SF Athletic Club - 0-0 Bilbao FC Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek agg: 1-1 ag 06/04/77 SF FC Molenbeek Brussels Strombeek - 1-1 Brussels Teugles 87; Churruca 29 Athletic Club Record versus clubs from opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA RSC Anderlecht 10 7 0 3 12 2 2 8 0 0 0 0 22 9 2 11 30 38 Athletic Club 4 2 2 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 4 3 1 16 8 RSC Anderlecht have everything to play for as Athletic Club return to Belgium for their UEFA Europa League round of 32 decider, having won 7-1 in their last competitive game on Belgian soil. • The first leg ended in a 1-1 draw; Lucas Biglia put the visitors ahead on 35 minutes, but Mikel San José levelled (58) to leave the tie balanced on a knife-edge. Previous meetings • The first leg was the clubs' first competitive fixture, although they faced each other in a pre-season friendly in Portugal last summer. Last updated 23/02/10 13:08:37CET Match background 3 RSC Anderlecht - Athletic Club Thursday 25 February 2010 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels • Athletic fought back to earn a 2-2 draw in that match in Faro on 18 July last year, Óscar de Marcos (29) and Carlos Gurpegi (59) scoring to cancel out early goals by Anderlecht's Matías Suárez (12) and Tom De Sutter (26). Suárez converted the winning spot-kick in Anderlecht's ensuing 4-3 penalty shoot-out success. • Athletic have played eight games against Belgian opposition, their record reading: W4 D3 L1 (W2 D1 L1 in Belgium). They have won two of their three two-legged ties against Belgian sides and their 7-1 triumph against R. Standard de Liège in the 2004/05 UEFA Cup group stage remains their biggest European away victory. • Anderlecht have played 22 games against Spanish sides, with the record W9 D2 L11 (W7 D0 L3 at home, with those defeats coming in the three most recent games). Match background • Athletic are playing their first spring European fixtures since they lost to FK Austria Wien in the 2004/05 UEFA Cup round of 32. They have not won a European game after Christmas since their 1976/77 UEFA Cup campaign, when they reached the final before losing to Juventus on away goals. • Anderlecht last reached the UEFA Cup round of 32 in 2007/08, when they overcame FC Girondins de Bordeaux 3-2 on aggregate en route to a round of 16 defeat by FC Bayern München. • Anderlecht have won just one of their last four European home matches. • Athletic have lost only once in five UEFA Europa League away fixtures this season, including qualifying, and have scored at least once in all those games. Team facts • Ariël Jacobs was in charge of Anderlecht for their most recent meeting with a Spanish side prior to the first leg of this tie – a 2-1 loss at Getafe CF in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage. • Belgium and Spain have met 22 times in senior national competition, kicking off with a 3-1 win for Belgium in the final of the 1920 Olympic tournament in Brussels. Spain have won 11 of those games to Belgium's six, and the Red Devils have not beaten Spain in seven fixtures since winning a 1986 FIFA World Cup quarter-final 5-4 on penalties following a 1-1 draw in Puebla, Mexico. • Fernando Llorente was the highest scorer in the UEFA Europa League group stage with six goals; LOSC Lille Métropole's Gervinho, Werder Bremen's Claudio Pizarro, CD Nacional's Rúben Micael and FC Basel 1893's Alexander Frei all scored five times. • Iker Muniain was fouled 22 times in the UEFA Europa League group stage, more than any other player. • The winners of this tie face the victors of the contest between Hamburger SV and PSV Eindhoven in the round of 16 on 11 and 18 March, playing the second leg at home.