UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Manchester City FC AFC Ajax Group D - Matchday 4 City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Tuesday 6 November 2012 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Match facts........................................................................................................................5 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Head coach.......................................................................................................................8 Match officials....................................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................14 Group Standings.............................................................................................................15 Competition facts.............................................................................................................17 Team facts.......................................................................................................................18 Legend............................................................................................................................20 Manchester City FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 6 November 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/10/12 GS AFC Ajax - Manchester City FC 3-1 Amsterdam S. De Jong 45, Moisander 57, Eriksen 68; Nasri 22 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Manchester City FC 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 AFC Ajax 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 Manchester City FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/08 GS Manchester City FC - FC Twente 3-2 Manchester Wright-Phillips 2, Robinho 57, Benjani 62; Elia 17, Wielaert 65 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/09/78 R1 Manchester City FC - FC Twente 3-2 Manchester Wildschut 8(og), Kidd 70, Bell 84; agg: 4-3 Overweg 49, Gritter 85 13/09/78 R1 FC Twente - Manchester City FC 1-1 Enschede Thoresen 50; Watson 24 AFC Ajax - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/02/12 R32 Manchester United FC - AFC Ajax 1-2 Manchester Hernández 6; Özbiliz 37, Alderweireld agg: 3-2 87 16/02/12 R32 AFC Ajax - Manchester United FC 0-2 Amsterdam Young 59, Hernández 85 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/10/08 GS Aston Villa FC - AFC Ajax 2-1 Birmingham Laursen 8, Barry 45; Vermaelen 22 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/05 GS Arsenal FC - AFC Ajax 0-0 London 27/09/05 GS AFC Ajax - Arsenal FC 1-2 Amsterdam Rosenberg 71; Ljungberg 2, Pirès 69(p) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/02/03 2ndGS AFC Ajax - Arsenal FC 0-0 Amsterdam 18/02/03 2ndGS Arsenal FC - AFC Ajax 1-1 London Wiltord 5; N. de Jong 17 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/09/81 R1 Tottenham Hotspur FC - AFC Ajax 3-0 London Galvin 69, Falco 76, Ardiles 82 agg: 6-1 16/09/81 R1 AFC Ajax - Tottenham Hotspur FC 1-3 Amsterdam Lerby 57; Hoddle 19, Falco 35, Villa 57 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/04/80 SF AFC Ajax - Nottingham Forest FC 1-0 Amsterdam Lerby 65 agg: 1-2 09/04/80 SF Nottingham Forest FC - AFC Ajax 2-0 Nottingham Francis 33, Robertson 60(p) Last updated 06/11/12 00:37:59CET 2 Previous meetings Manchester City FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 6 November 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/09/76 R1 Manchester United FC - AFC Ajax 2-0 Manchester Macari 42, McIlroy 65 agg: 2-1 15/09/76 R1 AFC Ajax - Manchester United FC 1-0 Amsterdam Krol 42 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/10/74 R1 AFC Ajax - Stoke City FC 0-0 Amsterdam agg: 1-1 ag 18/09/74 R1 Stoke City FC - AFC Ajax 1-1 Stoke-on-Trent Smith 78; Krol 27 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 22/03/72 QF Arsenal FC - AFC Ajax 0-1 London Graham 16(og) agg: 1-3 08/03/72 QF AFC Ajax - Arsenal FC 2-1 Amsterdam Mühren 27, 74(p); Kennedy 15 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 14/12/66 R2 Liverpool FC - AFC Ajax 2-2 Liverpool Hunt 60, 85; Cruyff 50, 70 agg: 3-7 07/12/66 R2 AFC Ajax - Liverpool FC 5-1 Amsterdam De Wolf 3, Cruyff 16, Nuninga 38, 42, Groot 76; Lawler 89 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 Manchester City FC 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 8 8 AFC Ajax 10 5 2 3 10 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 20 7 6 7 22 24 Last updated 06/11/12 00:37:59CET 3 Previous meetings Manchester City FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 6 November 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Match background Manchester City FC may have scraped a draw with Borussia Dortmund in their last home outing but their record suggests AFC Ajax will have their work cut out to take anything from the teams' matchday four fixture. • City have won 14 and drawn four home matches in UEFA competition since September 2008, although Ajax can take heart from both their 3-1 matchday three defeat of City and having won at Manchester United FC just over eight months ago. Match background • City are hosting Dutch opposition for the third time having twice got the better of FC Twente. They won 3-2 to secure a 4-3 aggregate success in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup first round, with Brian Kidd, now first-team coach, scoring the second goal. The score was the same when the clubs met again in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage – the only survivors from that game in City's squad are Joe Hart, Micah Richards and Pablo Zabaleta. • Mario Balotelli's late penalty equaliser against Dortmund on matchday two means City have still not lost a European home tie since a 1-0 reverse against FC Midtjylland in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round. They remain unbeaten at home in the European Cup, albeit having played only five matches to date, their brief 1968/69 campaign included. • Ajax ended a 40-year wait for an away victory over English opponents when beating City's neighbours United 2-1 in last season's UEFA Europa League round of 32. Aras Özbiliz (37) and Toby Alderweireld (87) secured a 2-1 victory although it failed to overturn a 2-0 first-leg deficit. • Ajax's overall record away to English sides is W2 D4 L4. Their only other success was a 1-0 victory at Arsenal FC in the 1971/72 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals, though they did win their first European Cup final at Wembley against Panathinaikos FC in 1971. Team ties • Ajax coach Frank de Boer made his international debut in September 1990 in the Netherlands' 1-0 defeat in Palermo against an Italy side for whom Roberto Mancini appeared as a 55th-minute substitute. Ajax assistant coach Dennis Bergkamp featured as a Dutch substitute. • Mancini's FC Internazionale Milano got the better of Ajax in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League round of 16. Inter came from two down to draw 2-2 in Amsterdam, before prevailing 1-0 at San Siro against an Ajax side including substitute Ryan Babel. • Bergkamp's record against City as an Arsenal FC player was played nine, won nine. • As a Liverpool FC player from 2007 to 2011, Babel faced City six times, winning once and losing once. He scored in the Netherlands' 4-1 defeat of Aleksandr Kolarov's Serbia in the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship final. • Alderweireld, alongside Vincent Kompany, helped Belgium to a 3-0 win at a Serbia side including Kolarov and Matija Nastasić in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 12 October. • Christian Poulsen spent 2010/11 at Liverpool, making 12 league appearances. • Daniel Hoesen joined Ajax from Fulham FC this summer, having not made a single Premier League appearance. • John Guidetti spent 2011/12 on loan at Feyenoord, scoring 20 goals in 23 league appearances, and hit a hat-trick against Ajax in a 4-2 home victory on 29 January. • Gareth Barry struck Aston Villa FC's winner past Kenneth Vermeer in a 2-1 home success against Ajax in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage. James Milner was also in the Villa side. • Zabaleta was a 72nd-minute substitute in RCD Espanyol's 2-0 victory at Ajax in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage. • Gaël Clichy was an 88th-minute substitute in Arsenal's 2-1 triumph at Ajax in the 2005/06 group stage. • Christian Eriksen and Poulsen faced Hart, Barry and Milner in Denmark's 2-1 home loss to England in February 2011. Last updated 06/11/12 00:37:59CET 4 Match background Manchester City FC - AFC Ajax Tuesday 6 November 2012 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Match facts Manchester City UEFA Champions League statistics • City are 18 games unbeaten at home in UEFA competition, qualifying included, winning 14 and drawing four since a 1-0 UEFA Cup loss to FC Midtjylland in August 2008. • City failed to reach the knockout stages last season despite collecting ten points in the group stage, matching the record for the highest points haul without advancing.