FC Dynamo Kyiv - Manchester United FC MATCH PRESS KIT NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium, Kiev Tuesday 23 October 2007 - 20.45 CET Group F - Matchday 3 Contents 1 - Match background 7 - UEFA information 2 - Match facts 8 - Match-by-match lineups 3 - Squad list 9 - Competition facts 4 - Head coach 10 - Team facts 5 - Match officials 11 - Competition information 6 - Domestic information 12 - Legend Match background • The Ukrainian champions have not advanced beyond the first group stage since the 1999/2000 season and, after two straight defeats, they will need to take something from United's visit if they are to maintain realistic hopes of progressing. They will not expect to have it easy, though, against Sir Alex Ferguson's team who top the section with a maximum six points. • Dynamo suffered a disappointing 2-1 home defeat by Sporting Clube de Portugal on 2 October, first-half strikes from Tonel and Anderson Polga sandwiching Vladyslav Vaschuk's effort for the home side. That match was the first UEFA Champions League game back at the Dynamo helm for coach József Szabó, who replaced Anatoliy Demyanenko following the 2-0 loss at AS Roma on Matchday 1. • United have made a perfect start, by contrast, recording successive victories at Sporting and at home against Roma. Cristiano Ronaldo's 62nd-minute header settled the Matchday 1 fixture in Lisbon, while Wayne Rooney netted the winner against Roma with 20 minutes remaining. • With another victory in Kiev, United would take a big step towards reaching the last 16 given they already hold a three-point lead over Roma and Sporting. • Dynamo picked up just one point at home in the group stage last season and have to go back to Szabó's last spell in charge and the 2-0 defeat of Roma in November 2004 for their last UEFA Champions League victory in front of their own fans. • Although United prevailed over Sporting, the English champions' away form in the UEFA Champions League has been mixed with two victories and four defeats recorded on their travels last season. • Dynamo have a reasonable record at home to English clubs in European competition, their seven previous matches yielding three wins, three draws and only one defeat, 2-1 against Liverpool FC on 16 October 2001. • The only previous meetings between Dynamo and United date back to the first group stage of the 2000/01 season. After a 0-0 draw in Ukraine, United won the return 1-0 through an 18th-minute goal from Teddy Sheringham to secure second place in the section, with Dynamo finishing fourth. Last updated 22.10.2007 22:59:32CET Match background 1 FC Dynamo Kyiv - Manchester United Tuesday 23 October 2007 - 20.45 CET FC MATCH PRESS KIT NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium, Kiev • Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs and Mikaël Silvestre are the only current United players who featured in the sides' first encounter in Kiev on 19 September 2000. Of the Dynamo team, Valentin Belkevich, Vladyslav Vaschuk, Maksim Shatskikh and Olexandr Shovkovskiy all remain at the club. • The full lineups that day were: Dynamo: Olexandr Shovkovskiy, Aleksandr Khatskevich, Olexandr Golovko, Vladyslav Vaschuk, Yuriy Dmytrulin, Kakha Kaladze, Valentin Belkevich, Maksim Shatskikh, Georgi Demetradze, Andriy Husin, Andriy Nesmachniy. United: Raimond van der Gouw, Mikaël Silvestre, Gary Neville, Ronny Johnsen, Denis Irwin, David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Dwight Yorke, Andrew Cole. • Dynamo's Serhiy Rebrov had a spell in English football with Tottenham Hotspur FC. He appeared twice in Premier League matches against United, both in the 2001/02 season, and tasted defeat on both occasions: 5-3 at home and 4-0 at Old Trafford. Match facts Dynamo • Five Dynamo players have appeared in all four UEFA Champions League games so far this season, including qualifying: Olexandr Shovkovskiy, Carlos Corrêa, Goran Gavrančić, Oleh Gusev and Maksim Shatskikh. • Vitaliy Fedoriv celebrated his 20th birthday two days before the United match, on 21 October, while Taras Mikhalik is 24 on 28 October and Ruslan Rotan turns 26 the following day. • Dynamo have no players suspended or within a yellow card of a ban. • On Saturday Dynamo defeated FC Zakarpattya Uzhgorod 1-0 at home to close the gap to Ukrainian Premier League leaders FC Shakhtar Donetsk to seven points. Diogo Rincón scored the only goal on the hour following Rotan's corner. • The game marked returns for Ismaël Bangoura, Pape Diakhate and Andriy Nesmachniy following injuries. • "I am feeling better all the time and am happy to be back on the field," said Diakhate who had been out for over seven weeks with a fractured collarbone. Bangoura, who was suffering from a rib problem, said: "I am not a 100 per cent match fit after the injury but I am eager to play against [Manchester United]." • Dynamo were without Mikhalik because of a knee injury, while coach József Szabó opted to omit Serhiy Rebrov and Michael. • Szabó said: "Today we lacked a number of regulars because they are getting ready for the game against Manchester United. That is why Bangoura and Oleh Gusev did not start and why Tiberiu Ghioane did not feature. We still won and this is the most important thing, but we need to make sure we take our chances in future." • Dynamo had returned to domestic action with a 2-1 win at FC Zorya Luhansk on 7 October. Corrêa's pass allowed Shatskikh to race clear and open the scoring for the visitors just after half-time. Zorya levelled soon after as Gusev's mis-hit clearance took a deflection off Artem Milevskiy, but Dynamo got the winner three minutes into added time as Ghioane headed in Corrêa's cross. • Szabó said: "I did not expect this match to be so difficult. We struggled to get the result but it would have been much easier had we converted two chances in the first half. We eventually did it soon after the break but then we conceded a goal out of the blue. Zorya had chances to catch us on the break. We have good players but we do not have a team and I can see some positive changes over a short period of time here." Last updated 22.10.2007 22:59:32CET Match facts 2 FC Dynamo Kyiv - Manchester United Tuesday 23 October 2007 - 20.45 CET FC MATCH PRESS KIT NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium, Kiev • Nesmachniy, who missed several weeks due to a thigh injury, returned to fitness and scored as Dynamo reserves defeated their Zorya counterparts 5-1. • Vincenzo Pincolini is Dynamo's new fitness coach. The 53-year-old has worked with the Italian senior and Under-21 squads as well as Parma FC, AC Milan, Club Atlético de Madrid, AS Roma and FC Internazionale Milano. • Dynamo defeated FC Saturn Moskovskaya Oblast 1-0 in a friendly on 14 October as Michael scored the only goal. Dynamo fielded an experimental squad with many regulars on international duty as coach Szabó opted for a 4-5-1 formation, with Kleber as the lone striker, instead of his favoured 3-5-2. • Shatskikh became the first player to score five goals in a game for Uzbekistan in their 9-0 defeat of Chinese Taipei in the home leg of their 2010 FIFA World Cup Asian Zone first preliminary round tie. The second leg is on 28 October, with the winner progressing straight to the third preliminary round where they will attempt to earn a place in the main qualifying groups. • Bangoura was a half-time substitute as Guinea-Bissau defeated AS Saint-Etienne in a friendly on 12 October. The summer signing from Le Mans UC 72 was making a comeback from a rib injury suffered on Matchday 1 at Roma. • Gusev struck twice on 17 October as Ukraine claimed a 5-0 victory against the Faroe Islands in UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifying Group B. His previous four goals had taken 42 caps to amass. Andriy Nesmachniy also started while Milevskiy featured as a substitute but Shovkovskiy and Ruslan Rotan remained on the bench. • Four days earlier Shovkovskiy had made his 82nd international appearance as Ukraine lost 3-1 to Scotland. Gusev and Nesmachniy also started in a match while Rotan entered the fray in the second half. • Badr El Kaddouri turned out for Morocco in a 2-0 friendly win against Namibia on 17 October while Balázs Farkas was called up by Hungary, but did not feature against Malta and Poland. • On the eve of Dynamo's fixture with United, the NSC Olympiyskiy Stadium will stage a match between the two clubs' youth teams. Manchester United • John O'Shea made his 50th appearance in UEFA club competition on Matchday 2. • Nemanja Vidić celebrated his 26th birthday two days before the Dynamo match, on 21 October, while Wayne Rooney is 22 on 24 October and Edwin van der Sar turns 37 five days later. • United have no players suspended or within a yellow card of a ban. • United stayed within two points of Premier League leaders Arsenal FC with a 4-1 win at nine-man Aston Villa FC on Saturday night despite falling behind to Gabriel Agbonlahor's 12th-minute header. Rooney tapped in Nani's low cross to level ten minutes before half-time and then gave United the lead eight minutes later, finishing off some good work from Carlos Tévez. There was still time for Rio Ferdinand to make it 3-1 before the interval following a corner and the home side's hopes were effectively ended by the 59th-minute dismissal of Nigel Reo-Coker for a second yellow card. Villa goalkeeper Scott Carson was shown a red card for bringing down Tévez six minutes later and, although substitute Stuart Taylor saved Rooney's resulting penalty, Ryan Giggs added a deflected fourth in the 74th minute.