FC Bayern München v Real Madrid CF MATCH PRESS KIT Fußball Arena München, Munich Wednesday, 7 March 2007 - 20:45CET First knockout round, second leg - Matchday 8 Contents 1 - Match background 7 - UEFA information 2 - Match facts 8 - Match-by-match lineups 3 - Squad list 9 - Competition facts 4 - Head coach profiles 10 - Team facts 5 - Match officials 11 - Competition information 6 - Domestic information 12 - Legend Match background It is advantage Real Madrid CF as two of Europe's premier clubs resume their quest for a place in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals but the late goal scored by Mark van Bommel at the Santiago Bernabéu leaves the tie tantalisingly poised. • Two first-half goals from Raúl González put the Spanish side firmly in the ascendancy and when Ruud van Nistelrooy made it 3-1 the prospects were not good for the German champions. However, Van Bommel's strike with just two minutes remaining, adding to Lucio's goal which had cancelled out Raúl's early opener, put the tie back into the melting pot. • Madrid suffered their heaviest away defeat in the UEFA Champions League at the hands of Bayern, losing 4-1 in the 1999/00 second group stage - ironically their heaviest home defeat in the competition (4-2) was sustained against the same opponents in the return. Iván Helguera scored for Madrid in Germany, Raúl at home, while Mehmet Scholl was on target in both games for Bayern. • Madrid went on to exact swift revenge, removing Bayern in the semi-finals on their way to a second UEFA Champions League crown - even though they again lost the away leg - and they will be hoping they are the team left celebrating again at the conclusion of their first appearance at the Fußball Arena München. • That was one of seven knockout ties between the sides before they were paired again this season. Madrid prevailed on four occasions with Bayern, who are seeking a fifth continental crown this term, coming out on top on that lone occasion they were paired in the same group. In the 2001/02 quarter-final, Helguera and Guti scored to give Madrid an aggregate victory after a 2-0 home win. That came after Claudio Pizarro had scored to give the Bavarian side the edge in the first game that ended 2-1. In the 2003/04 first knockout round it was Zinédine Zidane's goal in the second leg that sent the Merengues through after Roy Makaay and Roberto Carlos had found the net in Munich to leave the first game all square. • That last appearance was the only time in eight visits in Europe's premier club competition that the nine-time European champions have avoided defeat at Bayern. Between 1999 and 2001 the German side racked up three 2-1 wins but in only one of those knockout ties did Bayern make progress. The Bundesliga outfit had been just as successful at home against these opponents in the European Champion Clubs' Cup, winning semi-finals in 1976 and 1987 (another 4-1 home win). Bayern also defeated Madrid 3-2 at home in the quarter-finals in 1987/88, only to exit the stage following a 2-0 loss in the Spanish capital. Last updated 05.03.2007 18:07:27CET www.uefa.com Page 1 FC Bayern München v Real Madrid CF MATCH PRESS KIT • Bayern have twice played European finals against Spanish sides and boast a 100 per cent record. They lifted the 1973/74 European Cup after a 5-1 aggregate win over Club Atlético de Madrid and won on penalties against Valencia CF in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League. • Madrid have contested three European finals against German sides and have come out on top each time. They were the 1959/60 European Cup which brought them a 7-3 success against Eintracht Frankfurt, the 1985/86 UEFA Cup which they won 5-3 on aggregate against 1. FC Köln and the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League, a 2-1 defeat of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. • Madrid won the 1959 European Cup in Stuttgart, running out 2-0 winners against Stade de Reims Champagne • Bayern won Group B with 12 points but that was largely built on their away form. At home they managed only one win, 4-0 against FC Spartak Moskva, with their other two games ending in draws. Madrid finished second in Group E with eleven points and recorded all three results away from home. They lost their first encounter 2-0 at Olympique Lyonnais, before winning 4-1 at FC Steaua Bucuresti and drawing 2-2 at FC Dynamo Kyiv. • For one of these sides there will be the opportunity to erase the memory of last season's first knockout round tie. Madrid went out after losing 1-0 to Arsenal FC at home, a deficit they were unable to retrieve in north London. Bayern drew their home game with AC Milan 1-1 but were beaten 4-1 in Italy. • The winning team will advance to the 9 March draw in Athens for the quarter-finals and semi-finals. The Greek capital will also stage the final on Wednesday 23 May. Match facts Bayern • Five FC Bayern München players have featured in all seven UEFA Champions League matches to date: Oliver Kahn, Willy Sagnol, Daniel Van Buyten, Hasan Salihamidžić and Claudio Pizarro. Of those, Kahn, Sagnol and Van Buyten have played all 630 minutes so far. • Kahn made his 100th UEFA Champions League 'group stage to final' appearance against FC Internazionale Milano on Matchday 6. The Bayern goalkeeper became the fourth player to achieve that feat after Raúl González, Roberto Carlos and David Beckham while Paolo Maldini brought up his century on Matchday 7. • Roque Santa Cruz, meanwhile, has made 49 UEFA Champions League appearances although he brought up his half-century in UEFA club competition against Inter. The Paraguayan striker's only appearance in a UEFA competition outside the UEFA Champions League came against Liverpool FC in the 2001 UEFA Super Cup in Monaco. • At the other end of the scale, summer signing Lukas Podolski made his UEFA Champions League debut on Matchday 1. It was also the striker's first appearance in UEFA club competition and he subsequently scored his first goal against Inter on Matchday 2. • Julio dos Santos made his first appearance in UEFA club competition as a second-half substitute against Sporting Clube de Portugal in Lisbon on Matchday 4 while Christian Lell started for the first time in the reverse fixture in Munich and kept his place on Matchday 5. • Only three Bayern players have reached double figures in goals in the UEFA Champions League; Roy Makaay leads the way with 28 ahead of Pizarro (14) and Mehmet Scholl (12). Salihamidžić is next with nine. Last updated 05.03.2007 18:07:27 CET www.uefa.com Page 2 FC Bayern München v Real Madrid CF MATCH PRESS KIT • Pizarro has scored four goals in the first seven games, one fewer than top scorers Didier Drogba, Kaká, Fernando Morientes, Raúl and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Bastian Schweinsteiger, meanwhile, is one of 36 players who have scored twice in this season's competition. • Salihamidžić and Sagnol have each provided two assists to date, with Juninho Pernambucano having set up the most goals so far having created five. • Makaay has had nine shots on goal, four fewer than Kaká who has had the most, but three more than Schweinsteiger. • Makaay and Schweinsteiger have also missed the target ten times, four fewer than Thierry Henry in terms of most attempts wide. • Mark van Bommel has committed 20 fouls to date, four fewer than Brandão who has been penalised the most frequently but is no longer involved in the competition. Sagnol has been pulled up 15 times, while Salihamidžić has been penalised 13 times. • Sagnol has been fouled 15 times, nine fewer occasions than Artem Milevskiy, Ronaldinho and Francesco Totti. • Van Bommel and Andreas Ottl collected two yellow cards in the group stage. If they pick up another they face a one-match suspension as will Martin Demichelis, who was cautioned in the first leg against Madrid. Owen Hargreaves and Schweinsteiger were also booked against Madrid. • The German champions conceded for the first time in this season's group stage away to FC Spartak Moskva on Matchday 5. • With three goals against in the group stage, Bayern had the joint best defensive record of the teams remaining in the competition alongside Arsenal FC and Olympique Lyonnais. However, they conceded the same number (three) on Matchday 7 to leave seven last-16 rivals with a superior record. • Despite scoring 12 times so far, of the teams in the last 16 only FC Internazionale Milano, with 18, and Celtic FC (24) have had fewer corners than Bayern's total of 28. • Only four of Bayern's 12 goals have come in the first half of matches, and they have yet to score in the first 15 minutes of a match. • Bayern have been caught offside only eight times in the UEFA Champions League to date, a record only bettered by LOSC Lille Métropole (six). • Makaay will celebrate his 32nd birthday on Friday. Sagnol will be 30 on 18 March, while Ottl turned 22 last Thursday. • Bayern picked up a crucial 3-2 away win at Hertha BSC Berlin on Saturday in the Bundesliga. Salihamidžić and Podolski scored two goals in a minute on the half-hour to put the German champions in front. Hertha were back in the game when Christian Giménez found the net (58) but ten minutes later Makaay restored the two-goal cushion before Dick van Burik scored a late second for the home side, who ended the match with ten men after Josip Šimunić's added-time dismissal.