UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Zenit St Petersburg AC Milan Group C - Matchday 2 Stadion Petrovski, St Petersburg Wednesday 3 October 2012 18.00CET (20.00 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..................................................................................................12 Group Standings.............................................................................................................13 Competition facts.............................................................................................................15 Team facts.......................................................................................................................16 Legend............................................................................................................................18 FC Zenit St Petersburg - AC Milan Wednesday 3 October 2012 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Petrovski, St Petersburg Previous meetings Head to Head None FC Zenit St Petersburg - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/03/09 R16 FC Zenit St Petersburg - Udinese Calcio 1-0 St Petersburg Tymoshchuk 34 agg: 1-2 12/03/09 R16 Udinese Calcio - FC Zenit St Petersburg 2-0 Udine Quagliarella 85, Di Natale 88(p) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/11/08 GS FC Zenit St Petersburg - Juventus 0-0 St Petersburg 17/09/08 GS Juventus - FC Zenit St Petersburg 1-0 Turin Del Piero 76 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/09/99 R1 Bologna FC - FC Zenit St Petersburg 2-2 Bologna Fontolan 38, Cipriani 76; Panov 34, agg: 5-2 Kondrashov 89 16/09/99 R1 FC Zenit St Petersburg - Bologna FC 0-3 St Petersburg Ventola 39, Signori 68, 90 AC Milan - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/02/03 2ndGS FC Lokomotiv Moskva - AC Milan 0-1 Moscow Rivaldo 34(p) 19/02/03 2ndGS AC Milan - FC Lokomotiv Moskva 1-0 Milan Tomasson 62 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 10/12/75 R3 FC Spartak Moskva - AC Milan 2-0 Sochi Papayev 60, Lovchev 84 agg: 2-4 26/11/75 R3 AC Milan - FC Spartak Moskva 4-0 Milan Calloni 19, 71, Bigon 48, Maldera 51 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/03/73 QF AC Milan - FC Spartak Moskva 1-1 Milan Bigon 2; Piskarev 7 agg: 2-1 07/03/73 QF FC Spartak Moskva - AC Milan 0-1 Sochi Benetti 62 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 Zenit St Petersburg 3 1 1 1 3 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 6 1 2 3 3 8 AC Milan 3 2 1 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 4 1 1 8 3 Last updated 01/10/12 23:20:39CET 2 Previous meetings FC Zenit St Petersburg - AC Milan Wednesday 3 October 2012 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Petrovski, St Petersburg Match background AC Milan face a familiar foe in Luciano Spalletti when they visit FC Zenit St Petersburg for their second fixture in UEFA Champions League Group C. • Spalletti had an excellent record against Milan as coach of AS Roma, and Zenit's impressive recent European history at the Stadion Petrovski suggests a challenging evening is in store for the seven-time winners, who opened their campaign with a goalless draw against RSC Anderlecht as Zenit were succumbing 3-0 at Málaga CF. Match background • Zenit are bidding to extend a 16-match unbeaten home sequence in UEFA competition stretching back to a 2-1 loss to Real Madrid CF in their first UEFA Champions League home fixture on 30 September 2008. • The Russian title holders' run includes three wins and a draw in last season's UEFA Champions League. They have won ten and drawn one of 11 European home fixtures under Spalletti. • Milan did not win on their travels in the 2011/12 competition, recording three draws and two defeats. Their last away victory in the UEFA Champions League was a 2-0 success at AJ Auxerre in November 2010. • Milan's sole previous UEFA Champions League engagement in Russia was a 1-0 victory at FC Lokomotiv Moskva in the 2002/03 second group stage through a Rivaldo penalty. They won the trophy that year, just as they did after their only other victory in Russia – a Romeo Benetti-inspired 1-0 success at FC Spartak Moskva in the 1972/73 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals. • Zenit's last encounter with Italian opponents came in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup round of 16 against Udinese Calcio. Dick Advocaat's team lost 2-0 in Italy, winning the return 1-0 through Anatoliy Tymoshchuk's goal. Vyacheslav Malafeev, Aleksandr Anyukov, Danny, Igor Denisov, Viktor Fayzulin, Roman Shirokov and Konstantin Zyryanov all featured. • Zenit's two other home ties with Serie A opposition were a goalless draw with Juventus in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League group stage and a 3-0 defeat by Bologna FC in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup first round. Team ties • Spalletti and his Milan counterpart Massimiliano Allegri both played, at different times, for amateur side UC Cuoiopelli. Both from Tuscany, they were born 80km apart, in Certaldo and Livorno respectively. • As coaches in Serie A, the pair crossed swords only in 2008/09. Spalletti's Roma beat Allegri's Cagliari Calcio 3-2 with a last-minute goal at the Stadio Olimpico and then came from two down to earn a 2-2 away draw. • With Roma between 2005 and 2009, Spalletti posted two wins and two draws in home Serie A meetings with Milan. His overall record was W5 D2 L1. Philippe Mexès was with him throughout his four years in Rome. • With Udinese – where he was coach in 2001 and again from 2002 to 2005 – Spalletti was also unbeaten at home against Milan, recording one win and two draws. His overall Serie A record against the Rossoneri with Udinese was: W2 D2 L3. • Spalletti also coached Empoli FC, UC Sampdoria, AC Venezia and AC Ancona in Italy. • Domenico Criscito played for Genoa CFC and Juventus and was a team-mate of Marco Amelia and Stephan El Shaarawy at Genoa in 2009/10. • Criscito has played for Italy alongside Ignazio Abate, Riccardo Montolivo, Antonio Nocerino and Giampaolo Pazzini. • Shirokov (2) and Kerzhakov scored as Russia overcame Montolivo and Nocerino's Italy 3-0 in a pre-UEFA EURO 2012 friendly in Zurich on 1 June. Denisov, Malafeev and Zyryanov also played for Russia. • Kerzhakov was a substitute in the Sevilla FC side beaten 3-1 by Milan in the 2007 UEFA Super Cup. • Aleksandar Luković spent four seasons with Udinese, including a loan spell at Ascoli Calcio. He played alongside Cristián Zapata in Udinese's 1-0 second-leg loss to Zenit in the UEFA Cup round of 16 on 19 March 2009; the Italian side nevertheless won 2-1 on aggregate. • Sergei Semak and Mario Yepes were team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain FC from 2005 to 2006. • Semak played in Russia's 1-0 reverse at Italy in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-off. With PFC CSKA Moskva he lost 3-2 at Parma FC in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup first round despite scoring twice and was in the FC Rubin Kazan team beaten 2-0 by Inter in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League group stage. Last updated 01/10/12 23:20:39CET 3 Match background FC Zenit St Petersburg - AC Milan Wednesday 3 October 2012 - 18.00CET (20.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stadion Petrovski, St Petersburg Match facts Zenit UEFA Champions League statistics • Zenit were one of four sides not caught offside on matchday one and among ten, including Milan, not to score. Summer transfers • In Axel Witsel (SL Benfica) Hulk (FC Porto) Luka Djordjević (FK Mogren) Renat Yanbaev (FC Lokomotiv Moskva, loan) • Out Alessandro Rosina (AC Siena) Szabolcs Huszti (Hannover 96) Eugene Starikov (FC Rostov, loan) Dmitri Borodin (released) Miscellaneous • Danny has not featured since rupturing cruciate knee ligaments on 5 February. His last appearance was back on 6 December 2011, in the 0-0 draw at FC Porto. • Hulk registered his first goal for Zenit as the Premier-Liga champions recovered from two down to draw 2-2 with PFC Krylya Sovetov Samara on 22 September. • Three days later strikes from Hulk and Bruno Alves helped Luciano Spalletti's side to a 2-1 victory at FC Baltika Kaliningrad in the Russian Cup round of 32. Alves' goal was his first at club level since scoring in a 4-2 UEFA Europa League victory against AEK Athens FC on 30 September 2010. • Aleksei Evseev, 18, made his first start for Zenit in Kaliningrad. Milan UEFA Champions League statistics • The Italian side were among ten teams, including Zenit, who did not score in their opening game. Summer transfers • In Riccardo Montolivo (ACF Fiorentina) Gabriel (Cruzeiro EC) Francesco Acerbi (Genoa CFC) Kévin Constant (Genoa CFC) Cristián Zapata