UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Barcelona FC BATE Borisov Group H - Matchday 6 Camp Nou, Barcelona Tuesday 6 December 2011 20.45CET (20.45 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.............................................................................................................16 Team facts.......................................................................................................................17 Legend............................................................................................................................19 FC Barcelona - FC BATE Borisov Tuesday 6 December 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Camp Nou, Barcelona Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 28/09/11 GS FC BATE Borisov - FC Barcelona 0-5 Minsk A. Volodko 19(og), Pedro Rodríguez 22, Messi 38, 56, Villa 90 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Barcelona 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 FC BATE Borisov 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 FC Barcelona - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None FC BATE Borisov - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/11/08 GS FC BATE Borisov - Real Madrid CF 0-1 Minsk Raúl González 7 17/09/08 GS Real Madrid CF - FC BATE Borisov 2-0 Madrid Sergio Ramos 11, Van Nistelrooy 57 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/10/07 R1 FC BATE Borisov - Villarreal CF 0-2 Minsk Cani 24, Ángel López 78 agg: 1-6 20/09/07 R1 Villarreal CF - FC BATE Borisov 4-1 Villarreal Nihat Kahveci 6, 50, Senna 18, Tomasson 54; Zhavnerchik 70 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 Barcelona 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 FC BATE Borisov 3 0 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 1 14 Last updated 06/12/11 00:19:18CET 2 Previous meetings FC Barcelona - FC BATE Borisov Tuesday 6 December 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Camp Nou, Barcelona Match background With FC Barcelona already assured top spot and AC Milan second, the only remaining question in Group H is which club will take third place and FC BATE Borisov visit the Camp Nou with it all to do if they are to avoid the wooden spoon. • Viktor Goncharenko's men sit two points below third-placed FC Viktoria Plzeň after their costly matchday five defeat by the Czech champions. That 1-0 reverse leaves them needing both a victory in Spain, and a defeat for Plzeň at home against AC Milan, if they are to snatch a UEFA Europa League spot. BATE have never before won a UEFA Champions League away game. • Barcelona have no such worries, their 3-2 victory in Milan last time out having established an unbridgeable gap at the top. Match background • BATE suffered a 5-0 home defeat when the teams met for the first time in Minsk in September – their fifth defeat in as many encounters with Spanish opposition. • This is the Belarusian title holders' third visit to Spain, where they went down 4-1 to Villarreal CF in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup first round and 2-0 to Real Madrid CF in the following season's UEFA Champions League group stage. • Dmitri Likhtarovich, Aleksandr Volodko, Aleksandr Yurevich and unused substitutes Aleksandr Gutor and Maksim Skavysh were all involved in that September 2008 defeat in Madrid. • Barcelona are unbeaten in 12 European home matches dating back to a defeat by FC Rubin Kazan on 20 October 2009. Their sequence of results at the Camp Nou since comprises ten wins and two draws. • BATE's overall record on their UEFA Champions League travels this term, qualifying included, is W1 D3 L1. In the group stage matches this season and in 2008/09, they have recorded three draws and two defeats. Team ties • Éric Abidal scored an own goal for France when he played against Belarus in a 1-1 draw on 3 June at the Dinamo Stadion in UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying. Maksim Bordachev was in the home lineup. • On 22 June Thiago Alcántara and Martín Montoya featured for Spain in their 3-1 UEFA European Under-21 Championship semi-final victory against a Belarus side containing Gutor, Yegor Filipenko, Skavysh and substitute Dmitri Baga. • Mateja Kežman played for Chelsea FC in a 4-2 home victory against Barcelona in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League round of 16, a result that secured a 5-4 aggregate triumph. • The Serbian's only goal to date against a Spanish side in UEFA club competition was in Fenerbahçe SK's 3-2 home win against Sevilla FC in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League last-16 tie in 2007/08. Adriano, Daniel Alves and Seydou Keita were all in that Sevilla team and the latter two scored in a 3-2 second-leg win for Sevilla that took the game to penalties. However, after Kežman had struck to make it 3-2 in the shoot-out, Alves's saved spot kick sent the Turkish side through. • Kežman hit eight goals in 30 league outing for Club Atlético de Madrid in 2005/06, including the Rojiblancos' second in a 2-1 home success over Barcelona in September 2005. • Kežman and Ibrahim Afellay were team-mates at PSV Eindhoven in 2003/04, although the latter made only two substitute appearances. • Kežman was sent off in Serbia and Montenegro's 6-0 Group C defeat by Argentina at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Gelsenkirchen, a match in which Lionel Messi scored his first competitive international goal. • BATE fitness coach José Pastor Verchili was born in Castellon de la Plana on Spain's Mediterranean coast and after graduating from the Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, he earned his master's degree in a programme funded by Barça. He later continued his studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona before working as a fitness coach with the junior teams of Villarreal. Last updated 06/12/11 00:19:18CET 3 Match background FC Barcelona - FC BATE Borisov Tuesday 6 December 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Camp Nou, Barcelona Match facts Barcelona UEFA milestones • Barcelona have conceded 397 goals in UEFA competition. UEFA Champions League statistics • With 16, Barcelona are the joint highest scorers along with Real Madrid CF. • Lionel Messi has found the net six times, the joint highest total in the group stage along with Mario Gomez. • Messi has had more shots on goal (17) than any other player; his tally of 19 shots wide is the joint highest with Hulk. • Daniel Alves is available after serving a one-game ban on matchday five; Carles Puyol's next booking will incur a suspension. Latest domestic information • Saturday 3 December: FC Barcelona 5-0 UD Levante (Fàbregas 4 33, Cuenca 37, Messi 55, Alexis 61) Valdés; Mascherano, Puyol (Alves 36), Abidal; Xavi, Busquets (Keita 46), Fàbregas (Pedro 72), Iniesta; Cuenca, Messi, Alexis • Barcelona stretched their unbeaten run at home to 40 games, winning 34 since a 2-0 loss to Hércules CF on 11 September 2010. • Barcelona have gone 810 minutes without conceding a goal at home, keeping nine clean sheets since Thiago Silva's late equaliser for AC Milan on matchday one. They have since scored 36 without reply at the Camp Nou. • Saturday's clean sheet was the Azulgrana's 12th in succession at home in the league, a club record. • Messi has scored 12 goals in his last ten games for club and country. • Barcelona's 27-game unbeaten run in all competitions, since a 2-1 loss at Real Sociedad de Fútbol on 30 April, ended with a 1-0 defeat at Getafe CF on 26 November. • The defeat also halted Barcelona's Spanish top-flight record of scoring in 26 consecutive Liga away games. • Víctor Valdés, who broke Andoni Zubizarreta's club goalkeeping record of 301 Liga appearances on 2 October, had gone 897 minutes without conceding before Ander Herrera opened the scoring for Athletic Club in a 2-2 draw on 6 November. • Xavi Hernández passed Migueli's club record for Liga appearances at Granada CF on 25 October, marking his 392nd top-flight match with the only goal of the game. • Barcelona have already collected two trophies this season, beating FC Porto 2-0 in the UEFA Super Cup on 26 August having already wrapped up a 5-4 aggregate victory against Real Madrid CF in the Spanish Super Cup. Injury news • In for the suspended Gerard Piqué, Puyol was substituted in the first half against Levante after complaining of dizziness. • Andrés Iniesta started the 4-0 win against Rayo Vallecano de Madrid on 29 November after two games out with a thigh problem. • Adriano − returning from the torn left hamstring he sustained while on international duty in early November − suffered a left thigh strain against Rayo Vallecano. • Ibrahim Afellay is likely to be out until next year after suffering a knee ligament injury in training in September. Miscellaneous • Eleven Barcelona players have been nominated for the FIFA FIFPro World XI, which will be announced in Zurich on 9 January: Valdes, Éric Abidal, Daniel Alves, Piqué, Puyol, Sergio Busquets, Cesc Fàbregas, Iniesta, Xavi, Messi and David Villa.