UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Málaga CF RSC Anderlecht Group C - Matchday 6 La Rosaleda, Malaga Tuesday 4 December 2012 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Match facts........................................................................................................................5 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Head coach.......................................................................................................................8 Match officials....................................................................................................................9 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................14 Group Standings.............................................................................................................16 Competition facts.............................................................................................................18 Team facts.......................................................................................................................19 Legend............................................................................................................................21 Málaga CF - RSC Anderlecht Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT La Rosaleda, Malaga Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 03/10/12 GS RSC Anderlecht - Málaga CF 0-3 Brussels Eliseu 45+1, 64, Joaquín 57(p) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Málaga CF 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 RSC Anderlecht 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 Málaga CF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/07/02 R3 KAA Gent - Málaga CF 1-1 Gent Kaklamanos 41; Dely Valdes 90+2 agg: 1-4 20/07/02 R3 Málaga CF - KAA Gent 3-0 Malaga Dely Valdes 18, 81, Canabal 32 RSC Anderlecht - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/02/10 R32 RSC Anderlecht - Athletic Club 4-0 Brussels Lukaku 4, San José 27(og), Juhász 49, agg: 5-1 Legear 68 18/02/10 R32 Athletic Club - RSC Anderlecht 1-1 Bilbao San José 58; Biglia 35 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 19/12/07 GS Getafe CF - RSC Anderlecht 2-1 Getafe Pablo Hernández 6, Celestini 50; Théréau 90+1 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/12/05 GS Real Betis Balompié - RSC Anderlecht 0-1 Seville Kompany 44 28/09/05 GS RSC Anderlecht - Real Betis Balompié 0-1 Brussels Oliveira 69 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/11/04 GS RSC Anderlecht - Valencia CF 1-2 Brussels Wilhelmsson 24; Corradi 19, Di Vaio 48 14/09/04 GS Valencia CF - RSC Anderlecht 2-0 Valencia Vicente 16, Baraja 45 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/10/01 GS RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 0-2 Brussels Roberto Carlos 19, McManaman 35 26/09/01 GS Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 4-1 Madrid Celades 49, Raúl González 51, 68, Solari 79; Dindane 33 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 14/03/01 2ndGS RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 2-0 Brussels Dindane 85, Goor 90 05/12/00 2ndGS Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 4-1 Madrid Morientes 12, Luís Figo 23(p), Iván Helguera 44, Roberto Carlos 73; Stoica 89 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/89 R2 FC Barcelona - RSC Anderlecht 2-1 Barcelona Salinas 49, Beguiristáin 56; van der agg: 2-3 (aet) Linden 106 ET 18/10/89 R2 RSC Anderlecht - FC Barcelona 2-0 Brussels Jankovic 11, Degryse 46 Last updated 04/12/12 1:21:37CET 2 Previous meetings Málaga CF - RSC Anderlecht Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT La Rosaleda, Malaga UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 12/12/84 R3 Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 6-1 Madrid Sanchís 2, Butragueño 16, 47, 49, agg: 6-4 Valdano 28, 38; Arnesen 33 28/11/84 R3 RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 3-0 Brussels Vandenbergh 71, Czerniatynski 72, Vercauteren 86 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/03/83 QF RSC Anderlecht - Valencia CF 3-1 Brussels Brylle Larsen 33, 61, de Groote 38; agg: 5-2 Ribes 49 02/03/83 QF Valencia CF - RSC Anderlecht 1-2 Valencia Solsona 42; Vercauteren 4, Coeck 55 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 01/11/78 R2 FC Barcelona - RSC Anderlecht 3-0 Barcelona Krankl 8, Heredia 44, Zuviria 86 agg: 3-3 (4-1 aetps) 18/10/78 R2 RSC Anderlecht - FC Barcelona 3-0 Brussels Van Der Elst 19, 67, Coeck 48 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 09/03/66 QF Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 4-2 Madrid Amancio Amaro 14, 35, Gento 59(p), agg: 4-3 83; Jurion 87, Puis 89 23/02/66 QF RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 1-0 Brussels Van Himst 2 European Champion Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/09/62 PR RSC Anderlecht - Real Madrid CF 1-0 Brussels Jurion 85 agg: 4-3 05/09/62 PR Real Madrid CF - RSC Anderlecht 3-3 Madrid Zoco 14, Gento 30, Di Stéfano 48; Van Himst 37, Janssens 42, Stockman 80 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 Málaga CF 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 7 1 RSC Anderlecht 12 8 0 4 12 2 2 8 0 0 0 0 24 10 2 12 34 41 Last updated 04/12/12 1:21:37CET 3 Previous meetings Málaga CF - RSC Anderlecht Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT La Rosaleda, Malaga Match background RSC Anderlecht visit Málaga CF seeking a combination of results that will stop the curtain falling on their participation in Europe this season. • The Belgian title holders are already out of the UEFA Champions League and enter the final matchday trailing third-placed FC Zenit St Petersburg in the chase for a UEFA Europa League place. With the teams level on points, Anderlecht must either achieve a better result than Zenit manage at AC Milan, or match the Russian side's result and score enough goals to turn around the deficit in goal difference. • Sitting top of Group C, Málaga are guaranteed first place thanks to their superior head-to-head record against Milan, and have already beaten Anderlecht 3-0 in Belgium. Match background • Goalless in their two away games so far, Anderlecht are seeking their first victory on their travels in the UEFA Champions League since a 1-0 success at another Spanish side, Real Betis Balompié, in their last match of the 2005/06 group stage. Vincent Kompany scored for an Anderlecht team including Olivier Deschacht, Roland Juhász and unused substitute Silvio Proto against a Betis side featuring Joaquín. The result avenged the Brussels club's home loss to Betis but Anderlecht still finished bottom of their group. • Málaga are looking for their third straight home win in Group C, having already surpassed the ten points that Manuel Pellegrini's Villarreal CF side earned in their first UEFA Champions League campaign in 2005/06. If they avoid defeat against Anderlecht, they will match Villarreal's feat of staying unbeaten on their group stage debut. • Málaga's first opponents in their debut European campaign in 2002/03 were KAA Gent in the UEFA Intertoto Cup third round. They won 3-0 at home before earning a 1-1 draw in Belgium thanks to Julio Dely Valdés's added-time equaliser. • On their most recent visit to Spain, Anderlecht earned a 1-1 draw with Athletic Club in the 2009/10 UEFA Cup round of 32. Lucas Biglia scored that night while Juhász struck in a 4-0 home win in the return. Team ties • John van den Brom's only previous experience of Spanish opposition came as a player in the Vitesse side beaten 1-0 home and away by Real Madrid CF in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup third round. • Joaquín helped Spain beat Proto and Deschacht's Belgium 2-0 in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Brussels. • Roque Santa Cruz scored 11 minutes after coming off the bench in FC Bayern München's 1-1 draw at Anderlecht on matchday two of the 2003/04 group stage. The game was Martín Demichelis's debut in UEFA competition with Bayern. Deschacht also played and both he and Santa Cruz featured in Bayern's 1-0 return victory. • Oguchi Onyewu played in Belgium from 2003 to 2009, spending one season on loan with RAA Louviéroise before moving on to R. Standard de Liège. With Standard he played alongside Milan Jovanović and Dieudonné Mbokani, winning the Belgian title together in 2008 and 2009. • Onyewu won six and lost just two of 12 meetings with Anderlecht, including Standard's Belgian First League championship play-off victory in 2009. • Onyewu is a United States national team colleague of Sacha Kljestan. • Jérémy Toulalan helped Lyon eliminate Anderlecht in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League play-offs, featuring in both legs of an 8-2 aggregate triumph. • Behrang Safari was in the FC Basel 1893 team beaten 5-0 at home by FC Barcelona in the 2008/09 group stage but which subsequently earned a 1-1 draw at the Camp Nou. • Javier Saviola scored on his only previous appearance against a Belgian side before this season, finding the net in Barcelona's 3-2 victory against Club Brugge KV in the 2002/03 first group stage. • Massimo Bruno struck a late goal in Belgium's 2-1 loss to Juanmi's Spain in the UEFA European Under-19 Championship elite round qualifier in Italy in May.