UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Shakhtar Donetsk FC Zenit St Petersburg Group G - Matchday 3 Donbass Arena, Donetsk Wednesday 19 October 2011 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Match facts........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Head coach.......................................................................................................................8 Match officials....................................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................14 Competition facts.............................................................................................................15 Team facts.......................................................................................................................16 Legend............................................................................................................................18 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Zenit St Petersburg Wednesday 19 October 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Donbass Arena, Donetsk Previous meetings Head to Head None FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/03/09 R16 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - PFC CSKA Moskva 2-0 Donetsk Fernandinho 54(p), Luiz Adriano 70 agg: 2-1 12/03/09 R16 PFC CSKA Moskva - FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 Moscow Vágner Love 50(p) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/08/03 QR3 FC Lokomotiv Moskva - 3-1 Moscow Ashvetia 28, 45, Ignashevich 85(p); FC Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 3-2 Lewandowski 71 13/08/03 QR3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - 1-0 Donetsk Vukić 56(p) FC Lokomotiv Moskva UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/07/96 GS SC Rotor Volgograd - 4-1 Volgograd Zernov 8, Abramov 49, Veretennikov FC Shakhtar Donetsk 59, 89; Kovalov 43 FC Zenit St Petersburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None 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 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 3 5 8 FC Zenit St Petersburg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Last updated 17/10/11 14:44:55CET 2 Previous meetings FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Zenit St Petersburg Wednesday 19 October 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match background UEFA Champions League quarter-finalists last season, FC Shakhtar Donetsk will look to get their 2011/12 campaign back on track when they welcome FC Zenit St Petersburg to the Donbass Arena. • Mircea Lucescu's men enter the double-header with their Russian visitors bottom of Group G with only one point after a home draw with APOEL FC last time out – a far cry from 12 months ago when they had six points at this stage. Zenit have also suffered at APOEL's hands, losing in Cyprus on matchday one, but bounced back with victory against FC Porto and in Luciano Spalletti have a coach who knows how to beat Shakhtar. Previous meetings • These clubs were old rivals in the Soviet era but have not met since the 1989 season when each posted a 1-0 home victory. Zenit's last Soviet Supreme League win at Shakhtar was a 3-2 success in 1981. • Shakhtar squeezed past Zenit three times in Soviet Cup semi-finals in the 1980s, winning on penalties each time. They went on to lift the trophy in 1983 but lost subsequent finals in 1985 and 1986. The Donetsk club suffered a shoot-out loss to Zenit in the 1977 quarter-finals. Match background • After dropping two points against APOEL, the Ukrainian title holders will see Zenit's visit as the perfect opportunity to recover the dominant home form that brought four straight victories in last season's UEFA Champions League prior to a 1-0 quarter-final reverse against FC Barcelona. That defeat ended a 15-match unbeaten European sequence in Donetsk. • Last month's defeat at APOEL was Zenit's third in a row on their European travels. • While this is the Russian champions' first meeting with a Ukrainian team in UEFA competition, Shakhtar have happy memories of their most recent encounter with Russian opponents. They overcame PFC CSKA Moskva in the round of 16 of their triumphant 2008/09 UEFA Cup campaign, overturning a 1-0 reverse in Moscow through Fernandinho's penalty and Luiz Adriano. • Shakhtar have faced a Russian outfit in only one previous UEFA Champions League tie, succumbing 3-2 on aggregate to FC Lokomotiv Moskva in the 2003/04 third qualifying round despite a 1-0 first-leg victory in Donetsk. Team ties • Zenit coach Spalletti suffered a 1-0 defeat with AS Roma at Shakhtar's old RSC Olympiyskiy Stadium in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League group stage. Yet the Italian's Roma side had already defeated Shakhtar 4-0 at home and eventually claimed second place in the group at the Ukrainian team's expense. • In the following season's group stage, Spalletti led Roma to two wins against FC Dynamo Kyiv, including a 4-1 success in the Ukrainian capital. • Aleksandr Kerzakhov played for Sevilla FC in a 2-2 home draw with Shakhtar in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup round of 16, but missed the second leg in Ukraine through injury. • Henrik Mkhitaryan faced Russia twice this year with Armenia in UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying, earning a 0-0 home draw in March but suffering a 3-1 loss in June at Zenit's Petrovski Stadion in a match that pitted him against Aleksandr Anyukov, Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyryanov. • Eduardo scored past Yuri Zhevnov in Croatia's 3-1 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory in Belarus in September 2009. The Belarus goalkeeper faced Ukraine in the same campaign, meaning he took on Shakhtar's Andriy Pyatov, Dmytro Chygrynskiy, Olexandr Kucher, Olexiy Gai and Vasyl Kobin. Zhevnov suffered a 1-0 defeat in Lviv but kept a clean sheet in a goalless draw in Minsk. • Zhevnov also helped Belarus to home (0-0) and away (2-2) draws with Răzvan Raţ's Romania in UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying, the latter game being played on 7 October. • Domenico Criscito helped Italy beat Ukraine 2-0 in a March friendly in Kyiv. Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Yevhen Seleznyov and Taras Stepanenko were in the home lineup. • Sergei Semak played in FC Rubin Kazan's 3-1 defeat at Dynamo Kyiv in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League group stage. He suffered a 3-2 defeat in Ukraine with Russia in a UEFA EURO 2000 qualifier in September 1998. Last updated 17/10/11 14:44:55CET 3 Match background FC Shakhtar Donetsk - FC Zenit St Petersburg Wednesday 19 October 2011 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Donbass Arena, Donetsk Match facts Shakhtar UEFA milestones • APOEL FC's goal on matchday two was the 100th Shakhtar have conceded in the European Cup. UEFA Champions League statistics • Dmytro Chygrynskiy is available again while Yaroslav Rakitskiy completes a two-game ban following red cards on matchday one. Latest domestic information • Saturday 15 October: SC Tavriya Simferopol 1-3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk (Nazarenko 36; Luiz Adriano 28 90+5, Shevchuk 90+2) Rybka; Srna, Rakitskiy, Chygrynskiy, Shevchuk; Hübschman (Fernandinho 67), Mkhitaryan, Douglas Costa (Seleznyov 62), Jadson (Alex Teixeira 56), Willian; Luiz Adriano • Mircea Lucescu's side extended their unbeaten start to their Super League defence to 13 matches with their third win in six away games. They have won seven out of seven at home. • Vyacheslav Shevchuk scored his second league goal this term, equalling the previous highest haul in his 17-year career set with Russian side FC Shinnik Yaroslavl in 2002. • Shakhtar will face rivals FC Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian Cup round of 16 on 26 October. • Lucescu oversaw his 360th match at the Shakhtar helm on 18 September as the Pitmen beat FC Vorskla Poltava 1-0. That eclipsed the club record set between 1960 and 1969 by Oleg Oshenkov, who orchestrated 134 victories in 359 games in charge. Lucescu has now won 251 in 365. Injury news • Fernandinho returned after a fortnight out with a muscular problem as Shakhtar beat FC Zorya Luhansk 4-1 on 2 October. • Rakitskiy sat out international duty with a stomach injury but returned on Saturday. International duty • Chygrynskiy and Yevhen Seleznyov played as Ukraine halted a run of four defeats with a 3-0 victory against Bulgaria in Kyiv on 7 October. The pair featured again four days later in a 2-0 win in Estonia, when Olexandr Rybka marked his international debut by saving a penalty. • Eduardo broke the deadlock in Croatia's 2-0 UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying win against Latvia on 11 October in which Darijo Srna also played. His side were restricted to a play-off place, however, as with Srna suspended they had been defeated 2-0 in Greece four days earlier. • Tomáš Hübschman was sent off as the Czech Republic lost 2-0 to Spain on 7 October and was suspended as his side booked a UEFA EURO 2012 play-off spot with a 4-1 triumph over Lithuania four days later. • Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored against the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (4-1 win, 7 October) and the Republic of Ireland (1-2 loss, 11 October) as Armenia missed out on the play-offs. • Marcelo Moreno scored a penalty on 7 October as Bolivia began 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying with a 4-2 loss in Uruguay. He started again four days later in a 2-1 defeat by Colombia. • Fernandinho, who made his international debut on 10 August as Brazil lost 3-2 to Germany, was in the side that beat Mexico 2-1 in a friendly on 11 October. Miscellaneous • Shakhtar signed Alan Patrick from Santos FC this summer but the winger, a member of Brazil's FIFA U-20 World Cup-winning side, is not in their UEFA Champions League squad.