UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Athletic Club (first leg: 1-2) FC Lokomotiv Moskva Matchday 8 - Round of 32, second leg San Mamés, Bilbao Thursday 23 February 2012 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Team facts.........................................................................................................................6 Squad list...........................................................................................................................8 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................14 Match officials..................................................................................................................18 Legend............................................................................................................................19 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League 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 Athletic Club - FC Lokomotiv Moskva Thursday 23 February 2012 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT San Mamés, Bilbao Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/02/12 R32 FC Lokomotiv Moskva - Athletic Club 2-1 Moscow Glushakov 61(p), Caicedo 71; Muniain 36 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Athletic Club 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 FC Lokomotiv Moskva 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 Athletic Club - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/10/73 R1 Athletic Club - FC Torpedo Moskva 2-0 Bilbao Lasa 49, Astrain 79 agg: 2-0 19/09/73 R1 FC Torpedo Moskva - Athletic Club 0-0 Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moskva - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/10/07 GS FC Lokomotiv Moskva - 3-3 Moscow Bilyaletdinov 27, Odemwingie 61, 64; Club Atlético de Madrid Agüero 16, 85, Forlán 47 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/02/06 R32 Sevilla FC - FC Lokomotiv Moskva 2-0 Seville Maresca 34, Puerta 90 agg: 3-0 15/02/06 R32 FC Lokomotiv Moskva - Sevilla FC 0-1 Moscow Jordi 75 19/10/05 GS FC Lokomotiv Moskva - RCD Espanyol 0-1 Moscow Tamudo 53 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/03/03 2ndGS FC Lokomotiv Moskva - Real Madrid CF 0-1 Moscow Ronaldo 35 11/12/02 2ndGS Real Madrid CF - FC Lokomotiv Moskva 2-2 Madrid Raúl González 21, 76; Obiorah 47, Mnguni 74 23/10/02 GS FC Barcelona - FC Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Barcelona F. de Boer 76 01/10/02 GS FC Lokomotiv Moskva - FC Barcelona 1-3 Moscow Obiorah 56; Kluivert 29, Saviola 32, 49 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/10/01 GS FC Lokomotiv Moskva - Real Madrid CF 2-0 Moscow Buznikin 30, Cherevchenko 50 19/09/01 GS Real Madrid CF - FC Lokomotiv Moskva 4-0 Madrid Munitis 39, Figo 64(p), Roberto Carlos 81, Sávio 87 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/00 R3 Rayo Vallecano de Madrid - 2-0 Madrid Bolić 65, Alcazar 67 FC Lokomotiv Moskva agg: 2-0 23/11/00 R3 FC Lokomotiv Moskva - 0-0 Moscow Rayo Vallecano de Madrid Record versus clubs from opponents' country Last updated 21/02/12 13:13:27CET 2 Previous meetings Athletic Club - FC Lokomotiv Moskva Thursday 23 February 2012 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT San Mamés, Bilbao Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Athletic Club 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 3 2 FC Lokomotiv Moskva 8 2 2 4 5 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 13 2 3 8 10 21 Last updated 21/02/12 13:13:27CET 3 Previous meetings Athletic Club - FC Lokomotiv Moskva Thursday 23 February 2012 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT San Mamés, Bilbao Match background Athletic Club welcome FC Lokomotiv Moskva to Bilbao looking to overturn a 2-1 deficit and set up a date with AFC Ajax or Manchester United FC in the UEFA Europa League round of 16. • Iker Muniain (36) gave the visitors a deserved lead in Moscow, but the Railwaymen hit back strongly in the second half. Denis Glushakov equalised from the penalty spot (61) after a foul on Felipe Caicedo, who then grabbed the winner with a well-taken finish (71). Previous meetings • The sides have been paired for the first time in UEFA competition. • Athletic's only experience of Russian opposition prior to this season came in the 1973/74 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, when they drew 0-0 at FC Torpedo Moskva before winning the home leg 2-0. • Lokomotiv's record in 13 games against Spanish teams reads W2 D3 L8 (W0 D1 L4 in Spain). Match background • A 4-2 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain FC in their final group stage fixture ended Athletic's six-game unbeaten run in this season's UEFA Europa League. • Athletic are unbeaten in five European home fixtures − two wins and three draws − since a 3-0 loss to SV Werder Bremen in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League group stage. • The Bilbao side have reached the round of 32 for the third time since the advent of the UEFA Cup group stage; they lost to FK Austria Wien in 2004/05 and RSC Anderlecht in 2009/10. • Lokomotiv have scored three times in each of their most recent away games − a 3-1 win at AEK Athens FC and a 5-3 defeat by Anderlecht, the highest-scoring game in the group stage. • The Railwaymen have not survived the winter break in a UEFA competition since 2005/06, when Sevilla FC knocked them out of the UEFA Cup round of 32. Team facts • Lokomotiv are at their most dangerous after the break; 13 of their 16 goals since the start of the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage have come after the interval, seven of them between the 61st and 75th minutes. • Anderlecht's Matías Suárez remains the top scorer in the UEFA Europa League with seven goals, with Lokomotiv Moskva's Dmitri Sychev one strike behind him on six. • Lokomotiv's Taras Burlak celebrates his 22nd birthday on the eve of the game. • Athletic goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz faced Lokomotiv in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage; his RCD Espanyol side won 1-0 in Moscow. • Lokomotiv boast Spanish talent in the form of midfielder Alberto Zapater, who played in eight league games against Athletic for his home-town club Real Zaragoza, with the record W3 D2 L3. • Loko striker Felipe Caicedo has played in Spain with Málaga CF, drawing 1-1 in his only game against Athletic, and Levante UD last season, while on loan from Manchester City FC; he scored in a 2-1 home defeat by Athletic, and featured as his side lost the return fixture 3-2 at San Mamés. • Victor Obinna also played in Spain, on loan at Málaga, before moving to Moscow; his only game against Athletic ended in a 1-1 draw in Bilbao. • Lokomotiv's Slovenian left-back Branko Ilič played for Real Betis Balompié from 2007 to 2009; his only game against Athletic ended in a 2-1 win for his side at San Mamés in 2007. • Lokomotiv coach José Couceiro was in caretaker charge at Sporting Clube de Portugal for the latter part of 2010/11 before replacing Yuri Krasnozhan as Lokomotiv boss in July. Since coaching Portugal's Under-21s from 2006 to 2007, he has been in charge of FBK Kaunas, Lithuania and Gaziantepspor. • Athletic's coach is former Argentina defender Marcelo Bielsa, who briefly led Espanyol in Spain in 1998 before taking charge of Argentina (1998–2004) and Chile (2007–11). This is his first season as a player or coach in UEFA club competition. Round of 16 Last updated 21/02/12 13:13:27CET 4 Match background Athletic Club - FC Lokomotiv Moskva Thursday 23 February 2012 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT San Mamés, Bilbao • The winners of this tie will take on Ajax or United in the round of 16 on 8 and 15 March, playing the second leg at home. • Lokomotiv have met neither of their potential opponents in UEFA competition. • Athletic have lost their only UEFA ties against both Ajax and United; they beat Ajax 2-0 at home in the 1978/79 UEFA Cup first round, but lost the away leg 3-0, and overcame United 5-3 at San Mamés in the 1956/57 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals but went down 3-0 in Manchester. Competition statistics • An updated version of the UEFA Europa League Statistics Handbook is available here: http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=1750416.html Last updated 21/02/12 13:13:27CET 5 Match background Athletic Club - FC Lokomotiv Moskva Thursday 23 February 2012 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT San Mamés, Bilbao Team facts Athletic Club Formed: 1898 Nickname: Los Leones (The Lions) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: (1977) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 8 (1984) Spanish Cup: 23 (1984) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2009/10: round of 32 2008/09: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2006/07: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2005/06: UEFA Intertoto Cup second round 2004/05: round of 32 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2002/03: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2001/02: did not take part in UEFA club competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Athletic v Újpest FC 29/09/76, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 1-7: R.