Udinese Calcio - KKS Lech Poznań MATCH PRESS KIT Friuli, Udine Thursday 26 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Matchday 7 - Round of 32, second leg Contents 1 - Match background 6 - Competition facts 2 - Squad list 7 - Team facts 3 - Match officials 8 - Competition information 4 - Domestic information 9 - Legend 5 - Match-by-match lineups This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Cup 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 Match background KKS Lech Poznań coach Franciszek Smuda will be hoping to clinch his first aggregate victory over an Italian club in five attempts when his team visit Udinese Calcio in the second leg of their UEFA Cup Round of 32 tie. • The first leg of this tie was the two sides' first meeting in European club competition. Udinese led 2-0 with ten minutes to go following a Fabio Quagliarella strike and a Manuel Arboleda own goal, but Hernán Rengifo pulled one back for the Polish outfit before Arboleda registered at the right end this time to make it 2-2. • Smuda has now faced Italian opposition nine times during his coaching career and recorded W2 D2 L5. However, all four matches on Italian soil ended in defeat. • Smuda came up against Udinese in the first round of the 1997/98 UEFA Cup, during his tenure as coach of RTS Widzew Łódź. His charges won 1-0 in Poland only to go down 3-0 in the return leg at the Friuli Stadium, with Udinese's goals coming from Oliver Bierhoff, Paolo Poggi and Tomas Locatelli. • The current KKS Lech Poznań were founded in May 2006 via the merger of KS Amica Wronki and the original Lech Poznań. Before the first leg, Lech had never faced Italian opposition in any of their guises. • Udinese have now played seven games against Polish clubs in European competition and their record reads W4 D2 L1. They are unbeaten in their last six fixtures against Ekstraklasa sides. • The original Lech were founded in 1922 as Lutnia Poznań. They were the Polish state railway team for many years, which earned them the nickname of the 'Kolejorz' (Railwaymen). • The Lech in their name is a reference to Poland's mythical founder. According to legend, Lech, Čech and Rus were three brothers who founded the three Slavic nations of Poland, Bohemia and Ruthenia respectively. • Udinese's roots can be traced to the founding of a football division by the Udine Gymnastics and Fencing Society in 1896. The club's black-and-white striped shirts have won them the nickname of the 'Zebrette' (Little Zebras). • Udinese have won their last two UEFA Cup home games. • A 1-0 success at Feyenoord in their final UEFA Cup Group H encounter ended Lech's run of three European away games without a win. • Former Polish international midfielder Marek Koźmiński spent five years at Udinese between 1992 and 1997. • Udinese were involved in their debut UEFA competition penalty shoot-out in the first round of this season's UEFA Cup. They beat BV Borussia Dortmund 4-3 on penalties at home after a 2-2 aggregate draw. Last updated 24.02.2009 13:29:07CET www.uefa.com Match background 1 Udinese Calcio - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 26 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Friuli, Udine • Lech have not been involved in a UEFA competition shoot-out in their current incarnation. That said, Amica did win 5-4 on penalties at Budapest Honvéd FC in the second qualifying round of the 2004/05 UEFA Cup after a 1-1 aggregate draw. The original Lech Poznań, for their part, were beaten 5-4 on spot-kicks by eventual winners FC Barcelona after a 2-2 aggregate scoreline in the second round of the 1988/89 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. • Peruvian striker Rengifo is Lech's top scorer in the competition with four goals since the first round. Bosnian Semir Stilić and Sławomir Peszko have also chipped in with two strikes apiece. • Udinese's four-goal leading UEFA Cup scorer Fabio Quagliarella is the only player to have found the target more than once for the club in this season's competition. • Udinese's Alexis Sánchez is suspended for this match, while team-mate Maurizio Domizzi is also within a booking of a ban, as are Lech's Arboleda, Stilić and Zlatko Tanevski. Peszko is available again after serving a suspension. • The winners of this tie will face FC Zenit St. Petersburg or VfB Stuttgart in the Round of 16 on 12 and 18/19 March, and will play the first leg at home. Last updated 24.02.2009 13:29:07CET www.uefa.com Match background 2 Udinese Calcio - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 26 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Friuli, Udine Squad list Udinese Current season All-time UIC UCL UCUP UCUP UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age BL Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 12 Jan Koprivec SVN 15.07.1988 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 22 Samir Handanovič SVN 14.07.1984 24 - - - - - 6 - 6 - 6 - 80 Emanuele Belardi ITA 09.10.1977 31 - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - Defenders 2 Cristián Zapata COL 30.09.1986 22 - - - - - 1 - 5 - 5 - 6 Maurizio Domizzi ITA 28.06.1980 28 * - - - - 7 - 7 - 7 - 13 Andrea Coda ITA 25.04.1985 23 - - - - - 6 - 6 - 6 - 19 Felipe BRA 31.07.1984 24 - - - - - 2 - 5 - 12 1 24 Aleksandar Luković SRB 23.10.1982 26 - - - - - 5 - 13 - 19 - 26 Giovanni Pasquale ITA 05.01.1982 27 - - - - - 5 - 13 - 28 - 32 Damiano Ferronetti ITA 01.11.1984 24 - - - - - 3 - 11 - 11 - 99 Luigi Sala ITA 21.02.1974 35 - - - - - 1 - 6 - 15 - Midfielders 5 Christian Obodo NGA 11.05.1984 24 - - - - - 4 1 13 1 26 1 8 Fernando Tissone ITA 24.07.1986 22 - - - - - - - 4 1 5 1 15 Mauricio Isla CHI 12.06.1988 20 - - - - - 6 - 6 - 6 - 18 Niki Zimling DEN 19.04.1985 23 - - - - - - - 3 - 5 - 20 Kwadwo Asamoah GHA 09.12.1988 20 - - - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - 21 Gaetano D'agostino ITA 03.06.1982 26 - - - - - 7 - 15 - 17 - 61 Luca Ursella ITA 23.10.1990 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 88 Gökhan Inler SUI 27.06.1984 24 - - - - - 7 1 7 1 9 1 Forwards 7 Simone Pepe ITA 30.08.1983 25 - - - - - 6 1 9 1 9 1 10 Antonio Di Natale ITA 13.10.1977 31 - - - - - 4 1 8 2 16 5 11 Alexis Sánchez CHI 19.12.1988 20 S - - - - 7 - 7 - 7 - 27 Fabio Quagliarella ITA 31.01.1983 26 - - - - - 6 4 6 4 6 4 83 Antonio Floro Flores ITA 18.06.1983 25 - - - - - 5 1 5 1 5 1 Coach - Pasquale Marino ITA 13.07.1962 46 - - - - - 7 - 7 - 7 - Last updated 24.02.2009 13:29:08CET www.uefa.com Squad list 1 Udinese Calcio - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 26 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Friuli, Udine Lech Current season All-time UIC UCL UCUP UCUP UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age BL Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 27 Krzysztof Kotorowski POL 12.09.1976 32 - - - - - 2 - 2 - 5 - 31 Ivan Turina CRO 03.10.1980 28 - - - - - 5 - 10 - 15 - Defenders 3 Ivan Djurdjević SRB 05.02.1977 32 - - - - - 6 1 6 1 6 1 4 Dawid Kucharski POL 19.11.1984 24 - - - - - 1 - 9 - 13 - 5 Manuel Arboleda COL 02.08.1979 29 * - - - - 7 1 7 1 10 1 18 Zlatko Tanevski MKD 03.08.1983 25 * - - - - 5 - 7 - 16 - 19 Bartosz Bosacki POL 20.12.1975 33 - - - - - 3 - 9 1 15 1 22 Grzegorz Wojtkowiak POL 26.01.1984 25 - - - - - 7 - 7 - 10 - 25 Luis Henriquez PAN 23.11.1981 27 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 6 Tomasz Bandrowski POL 18.09.1984 24 - - - - - 6 - 6 - 6 - 7 Jakub Wilk POL 11.07.1985 23 - - - - - 7 - 7 - 8 - 14 Semir Stilić BIH 08.10.1987 21 * - - - - 7 2 7 2 7 3 16 Rafał Murawski POL 09.10.1981 27 - - - - - 6 1 6 1 8 2 17 Sławomir Peszko POL 19.02.1985 24 - - - - - 6 2 6 2 8 3 20 Anderson Cueto PER 24.05.1989 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 21 Dimitrije Injac SRB 12.08.1980 28 - - - - - 5 - 5 - 5 2 23 Marcin Kikut POL 25.06.1983 25 - - - - - 1 - 5 - 8 - 29 Gordan Golik CRO 04.03.1985 23 - - - - - - - - - 3 - Forwards 8 Robert Lewandowski POL 21.08.1988 20 - - - - - 7 1 7 1 7 4 9 Piotr Reiss POL 20.06.1972 36 - - - - - 2 - 3 1 9 2 11 Hernán Rengifo PER 18.04.1983 25 - - - - - 7 4 7 4 7 5 15 Haris Handžić BIH 20.06.1990 18 - - - - - - - 1 - 2 - Coach - Franciszek Smuda POL 22.06.1948 60 - - - - - 7 - 19 - 51 - Last updated 24.02.2009 13:29:08CET www.uefa.com Squad list 2 Udinese Calcio - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 26 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Friuli, Udine Match officials Referee Bernie Raymond (Kevin) Blom (NED) Assistant referees Patrick Gerritsen (NED), Nicky Siebert (NED) Fourth official Richard Liesveld (NED) UEFA Delegate Wolfgang Thierrichter (AUT) UEFA Referee observer Sergey Zuev (RUS) Referee UEFA Cup matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match No matches found Other matches - Matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Date Comp. Stage Match Res. Venue 02.09.2005 U21 QR Scotland - Italy 0-3 Motherwell 07.09.2007 U21 QR Russia - Poland 1-0 Moscow Last updated 24.02.2009 13:29:10CET www.uefa.com Match officials 1 Udinese Calcio - KKS Lech Poznań Thursday 26 February 2009 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Friuli, Udine Domestic information Udinese Calcio (Serie A) Comp.