UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Fußball Arena München - Munich Wednesday 7 November 2018 21.00CET (21.00 local time) FC Bayern München Group E - Matchday 4 AEK Athens FC Last updated 14/03/2019 16:54CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Head coach 8 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 13 Competition facts 15 Team facts 16 Legend 18 1 FC Bayern München - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 7 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Fußball Arena München, Munich Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AEK Athens FC - FC Bayern Javi Martínez 61, 23/10/2018 GS 0-2 Athens München Lewandowski 63 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Bayern München 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 AEK Athens FC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 FC Bayern München - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Douglas Costa 8, FC Bayern München - 24/11/2015 GS 4-0 Munich Lewandowski 16, Olympiacos FC Müller 20, Coman 69 Olympiacos FC - FC Bayern Müller 52, 90+2 (P), 16/09/2015 GS 0-3 Piraeus München Götze 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Bayern München - Aris Toni 25, 38, 64, 66, 19/12/2007 GS 6-0 Munich Thessaloniki FC Lell 78, Lahm 81 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 02/11/1983 R2 FC Bayern München - PAOK FC agg: 0-0 (aet, 9- Munich 8 pens) 19/10/1983 R2 PAOK FC - FC Bayern München 0-0 Salonika European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers D. Hoeness 2, K-H. FC Bayern München - 3-0 01/10/1980 R1 Munich Rummenigge 7, Olympiacos FC agg: 7-2 Janzon 65 (P) Galakos 26, Ahlström Olympiacos FC - FC Bayern 83; Dremmler 23, 63, 17/09/1980 R1 2-4 Piraeus München K-H. Rummenigge 57, Kraus 67 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kalaitzidis 68; G. Panathinaikos FC - FC Bayern 1-2 18/10/1967 R1 Athens Müller 8, Koulmann München agg: 1-7 89 2 FC Bayern München - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 7 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Fußball Arena München, Munich UEFA Cup Winners' Cup G. Müller 13 (P), 46, FC Bayern München - Kupferschmidt 25, 20/09/1967 R1 5-0 Munich Panathinaikos FC Beckenbauer 32, Jung 57 AEK Athens FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AEK Athens FC - TSV Alemannia 15/12/2004 GS 0-2 Athens Meijer 57, Gomez 84 Aachen UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AEK Athens FC - Bayer 04 2-0 07/12/2000 R3 Athens Navas 16, Tsiartas 49 Leverkusen agg: 6-4 Kirsten 25, 42, Bayer 04 Leverkusen - AEK R.Kovač 48, Ramelow 23/11/2000 R3 4-4 Leverkusen Athens FC 90; Lakis 5, Navas 46, 79, Tsiartas 55 (P) UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AEK Athens FC - VfL Borussia 0-1 02/11/1995 R2 Athens Effenberg 70 Mönchengladbach agg: 1-5 Dahlin 50, 90, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Pflipsen 55, 19/10/1995 R2 4-1 Monchengladbach - AEK Athens FC Wynhoff 66; Maladenis 78 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manolas 27, Okonski 34, Savvides 37, 60, AEK Athens FC - 1. FC Dynamo 5-3 Savevski 81; 27/09/1989 R1 Athens Dresden agg: 5-4 Gütschow 9, Lieberam 63, Minge 84 1. FC Dynamo Dresden - AEK 13/09/1989 R1 1-0 Dresden Lieberam 75 Athens FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 5-0 Fischer 7, 24, Sljivo 06/10/1982 R1 1. FC Köln - AEK Athens FC Cologne agg: 6-0 12, 60, Engels 18 29/09/1982 R1 AEK Athens FC - 1. FC Köln 0-1 Athens K. Allofs 59 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Bayern München 5 4 1 0 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 8 2 0 29 3 AEK Athens FC 6 2 0 4 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 10 2 1 7 12 23 3 FC Bayern München - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 7 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Fußball Arena München, Munich Match background Victory in Greece has put Bayern München in a strong position in Group E as they welcome AEK Athens on matchday four looking for their first home victory of this season's UEFA Champions League. • Bayern stretched their unbeaten run against Greek clubs to ten games with a 2-0 success at AEK on 23 October thanks to two goals in three second-half minutes from Javi Martínez and Robert Lewandowski. • That left the German champions on seven points, joint top of the section with Ajax – while AEK have lost all three matches. Bayern will therefore be through with a win if Benfica lose at Ajax in the section's other matchday four contest; AEK will be unable to finish in the top two if they lose, or if they draw and Ajax avoid defeat. Form guide Bayern • Having opened Group E with a 2-0 win at Benfica, Bayern were held to a 1-1 draw by Ajax in their first home game. • The Ajax draw made it three European home games without a win for Bayern. They won their first four in 2017/18, before drawing with Sevilla in the quarter-final second leg and losing to Real Madrid in the semi-final first leg. • Champions of Germany for a record 28th time last season – with a landmark sixth successive Bundesliga title – Bayern are in the group stage for the 22nd time. • The Munich club have reached the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals or better in each of the last seven seasons. They last failed to progress from the initial group section in 2002/03, although they missed out altogether on the UEFA Champions League in 2007/08. • For the second year in a row Bayern's campaign was ended by Real Madrid in 2017/18, via a 4-3 aggregate semi- final defeat. • Bayern have never lost to a Greek club, home or away (W8 D2), and have won four of out five at home – most recently a 4-0 success against Olympiacos in the 2015/16 group stage in which Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller and Kingsley Coman all scored. Bayern have scored 18 goals without reply in those five matches. • The German side have kept clean sheets in their last seven matches with Greek opponents, scoring 15 goals across the four most recent contests. AEK Athens • Beaten 3-0 at Ajax in their first fixture, AEK went down 3-2 at home to Benfica on matchday two. The home defeat by Bayern made it three successive European losses – the Greek side have not lost four in a row in Europe since autumn 2011. • AEK were 14 European games unbeaten (W4 D10), home and away, before the loss at Ajax. That result also ended a seven-match undefeated run away from home (W2 D5). • AEK are in the group stage for the fifth time – and the first since 2006/07. • All four of the Athens club's previous UEFA Champions League group campaigns have ended at that stage. • Greek champions for the 12th time in 2017/18 – their first championship success since 1994 – AEK entered this season's UEFA Champions League in the third qualifying round, where they defeated Celtic 3-2 on aggregate (1-1 away, 2-1 home) to reach the play-offs. There they overcame Hungarian club Vidi 3-2 over two games (2-1 away, 1-1 home). • The home win against Celtic ended AEK's run of eight successive draws in European competition. • Last season AEK lost to CSKA Moskva in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round and moved into the UEFA Europa League, where they were eliminated by Dynamo Kyiv in the round of 32 despite avoiding defeat in all ten of their matches in the competition (W2 D8). • AEK have won only two of their ten European fixtures against German clubs (D1 L7), both at home. They lost their first three games in Germany although the most recent, at Bayer Leverkusen in the 2000/01 UEFA Cup third round, ended in a remarkable 4-4 draw. Links and trivia • Has played in Germany: Yannis Gianniotas (Fortuna Düsseldorf 2013/14) • Have played together: Thiago Alcántara & Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Barcelona 2009/10) Latest news 4 FC Bayern München - AEK Athens FC Wednesday 7 November 2018 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Fußball Arena München, Munich Bayern • Robert Lewandowski's next appearance in UEFA club competition will be his 100th. • James Rodríguez is one game away from 50 in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final. • Bayern had won four games in a row, all away from home, before being held 1-1 in Munich by Freiburg on Saturday to slip four points behind Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund. • Before that sequence of victories Bayern had been four competitive matches without a win – their worst run since April 2017.