UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Maksimir - Zagreb Wednesday 6 November 2019 21.00CET (21.00 local time) GNK Dinamo Zagreb Group C - Matchday 4 FC Shakhtar Donetsk Last updated 08/02/2020 17:53CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Head coach 8 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Competition facts 16 Team facts 18 Legend 20 1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 6 November 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Konoplyanka 16, FC Shakhtar Donetsk - GNK 22/10/2019 GS 2-2 Kharkiv Dodô 75; Dani Olmo Dinamo Zagreb 25, Oršić 60 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Balaban 57; Luiz GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC 1-3 27/08/2008 QR3 Zagreb Adriano 42, Brandão Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 1-5 59, Willian 70 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - GNK 13/08/2008 QR3 2-0 Donetsk Srna 3, Jádson 31 Dinamo Zagreb Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA GNK Dinamo Zagreb 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 3 7 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 7 3 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Chornomorets Odesa - GNK Antonov 78, Didenko 28/11/2013 GS 2-1 Odessa Dinamo Zagreb 90+1; Bećiraj 20 Fernandes 43; GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC 19/09/2013 GS 1-2 Zagreb Antonov 62, Dja Chornomorets Odesa Djédjé 65 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Krstanović 90+5 (P); 04/12/2012 GS 1-1 Zagreb Dynamo Kyiv Yarmolenko 45+1 FC Dynamo Kyiv - GNK Dinamo Gusev 3, Pivarić 33 03/10/2012 GS 2-0 Kyiv Zagreb (og) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Venhlinskiy 64; 27/11/2003 R2 FC Dnipro - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Dnipropetrovsk agg: 3-1 Sedloski 62 Venhlinskiy 8, 06/11/2003 R2 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Dnipro 0-2 Zagreb Maksymyuk 84 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC 0-2 Shatskikh 47, Diogo 27/08/2003 QR3 Zagreb Dynamo Kyiv agg: 1-5 Rincón 70 2 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 6 November 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb UEFA Champions League FC Dynamo Kyiv - GNK Dinamo Fedorov 32, Leko 39, 12/08/2003 QR3 3-1 Kyiv Zagreb Gusev 82; Kranjčar 42 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country FC Shakhtar Donetsk have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA GNK Dinamo Zagreb 5 0 1 4 6 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 11 0 3 8 8 22 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 7 3 3 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 6 November 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Match background A Matchday 3 draw in Ukraine kept Dinamo Zagreb and Shakhtar Donetsk level on points in Group C and they now resume their rivalry in Zagreb for a potentially pivotal encounter. • Both sides might have taken three points at the OSK Metalist Stadion in Kharkiv on 22 October, Yevhen Konoplyanka giving the home side an early lead before goals from Dani Olmo and Mislav Oršić, a penalty, turned the match in Dinamo's favour; Dodô's 75th-minute equaliser earned Shakhtar a draw and ensured the teams go into this game in Croatia level on four points, five behind section leaders Manchester City and four above Atalanta. Previous meetings • The sides' only past fixtures before Matchday 3 came in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, Shakhtar winning both matches. The Ukrainian side triumphed 2-0 in the Donetsk first leg, before a 3-1 success in Zagreb. • Darijo Srna, now Shakhtar's assistant coach, scored the club's opening goal of that tie, with goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov playing all 180 minutes. Form guide Dinamo • An Oršić hat-trick helped Dinamo to a 4-0 defeat of Atalanta in Zagreb in their first Group C game, making the 26- year-old the first player to hit three goals for a Croatian club in a UEFA Champions League group encounter. They then lost 2-0 at Manchester City. • Dinamo have won only five of their 39 matches in the UEFA Champions League group stage (D6 L28); they suffered six defeats in their most recent participation, in 2016/17. They had lost 11 successive matches, and won only one of 27 (D2 L24) – a 2-1 defeat of Arsenal in Zagreb in September 2015 that ended a 16-year wait for a victory in the competition proper – before beating Atalanta. • The 2-0 loss at City on Matchday 2 was Dinamo's 13th successive away defeat in the UEFA Champions League group stage, since a 2-2 draw at Marseille on 2 November 1999 – a run of defeats that was ended at Shakhtar. • Dinamo are unbeaten in nine home European fixtures (W7 D2). A second-leg loss to Young Boys in last season's UEFA Champions League play-offs (1-2) is their only defeat in the last 14 such matches (W10 D3). • Dinamo claimed their 13th Croatian league title in 14 seasons in 2018/19 – and 20th in all – but their UEFA Champions League campaign came to an early end with a play-off defeat against Young Boys. Moving into the UEFA Europa League, the Zagreb club finished first in their section before getting the better of Viktoria Plzeň in the round of 32, then bowing out after extra time against Benfica in the last 16 (1-0 h, 0-3 a). • Nenad Bjelica's side started this season's UEFA Champions League in the second qualifying round, easing past Georgia's Saburtalo 5-0 on aggregate (2-0 a, 3-0 h) before a 5-1 victory over two games against Ferencváros of Hungary (1-1 h, 4-0 a). They then overcame Rosenborg in the play-offs, winning 2-0 at home before a 1-1 draw in Norway. • The Zagreb club have never beaten Ukrainian opposition in UEFA competition, home or away (D3 L8); they have been defeated in four of the five home games, the exception a 1-1 draw against Dynamo Kyiv in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage secured by an Ivan Krstanović penalty five minutes into added time that ended Dinamo's 11-match losing streak in the competition proper. • This is Dinamo's seventh UEFA Champions League group campaign overall, and fifth in nine seasons. They have failed to qualify from the group stage in all six previous attempts. In fact, 2018/19 marked the first time in 14 UEFA club competition group stage campaigns – including eight in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League – that the Croatian club had made it through to the next phase. Shakhtar • Beaten 3-0 by Manchester City in Kharkiv on Matchday 1, Shakhtar came from behind to win 2-1 at Atalanta in their first away fixture, substitute Manor Solomon scoring the winning goal five minutes into added time. • Shakhtar have won only two of their last ten UEFA Champions League matches (D4 L4). • The Donetsk club picked up four points away from home in last season's group stage; the win at Atalanta was only their third in their last 13 away UEFA Champions League matches, group stage to final (D2 L8). • Quarter-finalists in 2010/11, Shakhtar won only one of their six matches in last season's group stage, collecting six points to finish behind Manchester City and Lyon in Group F. They then went down 6-3 on aggregate to Eintracht Frankfurt in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 (2-2 h, 1-4 a). • Shakhtar have got out of their UEFA Champions League group in three of their last six participations. 4 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FC Shakhtar Donetsk Wednesday 6 November 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb • The Pitmen's 2008 games against Dinamo were their only contests against a Croatian club before this season. • Shakhtar qualified as winners of the Ukrainian league, claiming the title for the 12th time in 2018/19, when they completed a domestic double for the third season in succession. Links and trivia • Shakhtar assistant coach Srna won a record 134 caps for Croatia, scoring 22 goals. As a player with Hajduk Split, he won the Croatian league title in 2001 and the domestic cup in 2000 and 2003. • Current Shakhtar coach Luís Castro worked with Dinamo's Ivo Pinto in Porto's youth teams between 2008 and 2011. Latest news Dinamo • Petar Stojanović's next appearance in UEFA club competition will be his 50th. • On Saturday, 17-year-old Joško Gvardiol scored the only goal as Dinamo beat Inter Zaprešić 1-0, his first senior goal on his third appearance. • On 30 October Dinamo defeated Opatija 3-0 in the last 16 of the Croatian Cup.