UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2010/11 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Schalke 04 Manchester United FC Matchday 11 - Semi-finals, first leg Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Tuesday 26 April 2011 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Match facts........................................................................................................................6 Squad list...........................................................................................................................9 Head coach.....................................................................................................................11 Match officials..................................................................................................................12 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................13 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................17 Competition facts.............................................................................................................21 Team facts.......................................................................................................................22 Legend............................................................................................................................25 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Champions 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 FC Schalke 04 - Manchester United FC Tuesday 26 April 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Previous meetings Head to Head None FC Schalke 04 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/11/08 GS FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FC 0-2 Gelsenkirchen Benjani 32, Ireland 66 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/07 GS FC Schalke 04 - Chelsea FC 0-0 Gelsenkirchen 24/10/07 GS Chelsea FC - FC Schalke 04 2-0 London Malouda 4, Drogba 47 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/10/01 GS FC Schalke 04 - Arsenal FC 3-1 Gelsenkirchen Mulder 2, Vermant 60, Möller 64; Wiltord 71 19/09/01 GS Arsenal FC - FC Schalke 04 3-2 London Ljungberg 33, Henry 36, 47(p); van Hoogdalem 43, Emile Mpenza 59 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 15/04/70 SF Manchester City FC - FC Schalke 04 5-1 Manchester Doyle 8, Young 22, 28, Lee 50, Bell 81; agg: 5-2 Libuda 89 01/04/70 SF FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City FC 1-0 Gelsenkirchen Libuda 76 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/11/58 R1 FC Schalke 04 - 2-1 Gelsenkirchen Kördel 12, Siebert 35; Jackson 48 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC agg: 4-3 12/11/58 R1 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - 2-2 Wolverhampton Broadbent 52, 65; Siebert 25, Koslowski FC Schalke 04 88 Manchester United FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/04/10 QF Manchester United FC - 3-2 Manchester Gibson 3, Nani 7, 41; Olić 43, Robben FC Bayern München agg: 4-4 ag 74 30/03/10 QF FC Bayern München - 2-1 Munich Ribéry 77, Olić 90+2; Rooney 1 Manchester United FC 08/12/09 GS VfL Wolfsburg - Manchester United FC 1-3 Wolfsburg Džeko 56; Owen 44, 83, 90+1 30/09/09 GS Manchester United FC - VfL Wolfsburg 2-1 Manchester Giggs 59, Carrick 78; Džeko 56 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 09/12/03 GS Manchester United FC - VfB Stuttgart 2-0 Manchester Van Nistelrooy 45+2, Giggs 58 01/10/03 GS VfB Stuttgart - Manchester United FC 2-1 Stuttgart Szabics 50, Kuranyi 52; Van Nistelrooy 67(p) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 13/11/02 GS Manchester United FC - 2-0 Manchester Verón 42, Van Nistelrooy 69 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 24/09/02 GS Bayer 04 Leverkusen - 1-2 Leverkusen Berbatov 52; Van Nistelrooy 31, 44 Manchester United FC Last updated 25/04/11 22:55:14CET 2 Previous meetings FC Schalke 04 - Manchester United FC Tuesday 26 April 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/04/02 SF Bayer 04 Leverkusen - 1-1 Leverkusen Neuville 45+2; Keane 28 Manchester United FC agg: 3-3 ag 24/04/02 SF Manchester United FC - 2-2 Manchester Živković 29(og), Van Nistelrooy 67(p); Bayer 04 Leverkusen Ballack 62, Neuville 75 13/03/02 2ndGS Manchester United FC - 0-0 Manchester FC Bayern München 20/11/01 2ndGS FC Bayern München - 1-1 Munich Paulo Sérgio 87; Van Nistelrooy 74 Manchester United FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 18/04/01 QF FC Bayern München - 2-1 Munich Elber 5, Scholl 39; Giggs 49 Manchester United FC agg: 3-1 03/04/01 QF Manchester United FC - 0-1 Manchester Paulo Sérgio 86 FC Bayern München UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/05/99 F Manchester United FC - 2-1 Barcelona Sheringham 90+1, Solskjær 90+3; FC Bayern München Basler 6 09/12/98 GS Manchester United FC - 1-1 Manchester Keane 43; Salihamidžić 55 FC Bayern München 30/09/98 GS FC Bayern München - 2-2 Munich Elber 11, 89; Yorke 30, Scholes 49 Manchester United FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/04/97 SF Manchester United FC - 0-1 Manchester Ricken 8 Borussia Dortmund agg: 0-2 09/04/97 SF Borussia Dortmund - 1-0 Dortmund Tretschok 76 Manchester United FC European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/12/65 R1 Manchester United FC - FFC Victoria 91 3-1 Manchester Herd 10, 40, 89; Piepenburg 82 agg: 5-1 17/11/65 R1 FFC Victoria 91 - Manchester United FC 0-2 Berlin Law 72, Connelly 80 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/11/56 R1 Borussia Dortmund - 0-0 Dortmund Manchester United FC agg: 2-3 17/10/56 R1 Manchester United FC - 3-2 Manchester Viollet 10, 25, Pegg 35; Kapitulski 68, Borussia Dortmund Preissler 75 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 Schalke 04 5 3 1 1 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 9 3 2 4 11 16 Manchester United FC 11 6 3 2 11 3 4 4 1 1 0 0 23 10 7 6 34 25 Last updated 25/04/11 22:55:14CET 3 Previous meetings FC Schalke 04 - Manchester United FC Tuesday 26 April 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Match background First-time UEFA Champions League semi-finalists FC Schalke 04 welcome Manchester United FC to Gelsenkirchen for the first leg of a contest that has the look of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. • For the irresistible force, read a Schalke side with a 100% winning record at home en route to the last four. The immovable object is a United team yet to concede a goal in recording four wins and one draw on their travels in the competition. • If three-time winners United have vast UEFA Champions League semi-final experience Schalke have in their ranks Raúl González, who lifted the trophy three times at Real Madrid CF, where he was twice United's nemesis. Match background • This is the clubs' first ever encounter yet United must rewrite their recent UEFA Champions League history against German teams if they are to progress to a fifth final and deny Ralf Rangnick's side a first appearance in the showpiece game. • Although they have lost just one of ten group stage meetings with Bundesliga opposition, winning five, in two-legged knockout ties United's record reads no wins and four defeats – most recently against FC Bayern München in last year's quarter-finals. • United visited Bayern for the first leg and took a first-minute lead through Wayne Rooney, only for Bayern to turn the tables with two goals in the last 15 minutes. Sir Alex Ferguson's men surrendered an advantage in the return too, allowing Bayern to claw their way back from 3-0 behind to 3-2 and thereby win the tie on away goals. • Those four defeats in full are: 1996/97 semi-finals: Borussia Dortmund (0-2 aggregate) 2000/01 quarter-finals: FC Bayern München (1-3 aggregate) 2001/02 semi-finals: Bayer 04 Leverkusen (3-3 aggregate, away goals) 2009/10 quarter-finals: FC Bayern München (4-4 aggregate, away goals) • Schalke suffered a 5-2 aggregate loss to United's neighbours Manchester City FC in the 1969/70 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals, their 1-0 first-leg lead undone by a heavy defeat in Manchester. More recently Schalke surrendered their unbeaten home record against English opposition when losing 2-0 to City in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage. • Schalke's overall home record against English teams reads W3 D1 L1. That City defeat followed a goalless draw against Chelsea FC in their previous home game with Premier League opponents, in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage. • The Gelsenkirchen club have recorded five straight home wins in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League, scoring 13 goals and conceding only three. United have an impressive away record, however, having won ten of their last 12 matches on the road in the competition – including four out of five this term without a single goal against. • United's record on German soil is W3 D4 L4. Their most recent success was a 3-1 win at VfL Wolfsburg in last term's group stage in which Michael Owen scored a hat-trick. • In two-legged ties with German teams United have recorded two wins and four defeats. That 1969/70 City tie aside, Schalke's only other two-legged meeting with English opposition came against Wolverhampton Wanderers FC in the 1958/59 European Champion Clubs' Cup (2-2 away, 2-1 home). • While this is Schalke's first time in the last four of the UEFA Champions League, they have contested three semi-finals in UEFA's other club competitions.