UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Olympique Lyonnais GNK Dinamo Zagreb Group D - Matchday 2 Stade de Gerland, Lyon Tuesday 27 September 2011 20.45CET (20.45 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 Competition facts.............................................................................................................14 Team facts.......................................................................................................................15 Legend............................................................................................................................18 Olympique Lyonnais - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 27 September 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stade de Gerland, Lyon Previous meetings Head to Head None Olympique Lyonnais - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/12/07 GS Stade Rennais FC - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 1-1 Rennes Mbia 88; Vukojević 57 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 28/09/06 R1 AJ Auxerre - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-1 Auxerre Jeleń 35, 41, Mathis 70; Eduardo 61(p) agg: 5-2 14/09/06 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - AJ Auxerre 1-2 Zagreb Eduardo 69; Jeleń 43, D.Niculae 72 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/11/99 GS Olympique de Marseille - 2-2 Marseille Bakayoko 53, Diawara 89; Mujčin 42, GNK Dinamo Zagreb Mikić 78 22/09/99 GS GNK Dinamo Zagreb - 1-2 Zagreb Šokota 64; Bakayoko 5, Pérez 77 Olympique de Marseille UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 29/09/94 R1 AJ Auxerre - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 Auxerre Diomède 40, Mahe 74, Lamouchi 89 agg: 4-3 15/09/94 R1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - AJ Auxerre 3-1 Zagreb Jelicic 1, Soldo 39, Pamić 64; Diomède 20 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/08/89 PR GNK Dinamo Zagreb - AJ Auxerre 1-3 Zagreb Panadic 55; Kovács 32, Negble-Otokore agg: 2-3 36, 57 09/08/89 PR AJ Auxerre - GNK Dinamo Zagreb 0-1 Auxerre Šuker 79 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 26/11/69 R2 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - 2-0 Zagreb Novak 52, 89 Olympique de Marseille agg: 3-1 12/11/69 R2 Olympique de Marseille - 1-1 Marseille Loubet 28; Čerček 80 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 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 Olympique Lyonnais 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 5 2 0 3 6 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 11 3 3 5 14 18 Last updated 26/09/11 14:41:49CET 2 Previous meetings Olympique Lyonnais - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 27 September 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stade de Gerland, Lyon Match background For their first home game in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League Olympique Lyonnais have a first taste of Croatian opposition when GNK Dinamo Zagreb come to France. • Lyon opened their Group D campaign with a goalless draw at AFC Ajax, while Dinamo were beaten 1-0 at home by Real Madrid CF. Match background • Dinamo, competing in the group stage for the first time in 12 years, have a decent record in France. They were last there for a 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage contest with Stade Rennais FC, drawing 1-1. • It was one of three draws in their six visits. They have lost twice at AJ Auxerre, also the opponents against whom Dinamo gained their single victory. That 1-0 success came in the 1989/90 UEFA Cup preliminary round courtesy of Davor Šuker's goal. • In each of the last five seasons Dinamo bowed out in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. This time the Croatian champions had to progress through three qualifying rounds to reach the group stage. They first disposed of Neftçi PFK in the second qualifying round thanks to a 3-0 home win in which Milan Badelj opened the scoring and Ivan Krstanović notched a second-half double. The away leg ended scoreless. • In the third qualifying round an own goal and Sammir's strike overturned HJK Helsinki's early lead in Finland. Dinamo then secured a 1-0 home win courtesy of Luis Ibáñez's goal in added time. • In the play-off round Dinamo gained a healthy advantage in the home first leg, beating Malmö FF 4-1. Sammir scored twice with Ante Rukavina and Fatos Beqiraj also on target. It proved just enough of an advantage after Malmö's 2-0 win in Sweden, a game in which Šime Vrsaljko was sent off on 50 minutes. • In the play-off round, Lyon recovered from an early FC Rubin Kazan goal to take a 3-1 lead from the first leg through strikes from Bafétimbi Gomis and Jimmy Briand either side of an own goal. That was sufficient to go through to the group stage for the 12th straight year with the away leg ending all square, Bakary Koné heading in late on to make it 1-1 on the night. • In last season's competition Lyon reached the knockout rounds for the eighth successive edition but found Real Madrid too strong in the round of 16, the Spanish team drawing 1-1 in France before winning 3-0 at home. In the group stage the Gones beat FC Schalke 04 1-0 and SL Benfica 2-0 at Stade de Gerland and fought out a 2-2 draw with Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC. • They have twice lost to FC Bayern München in their last 19 home fixtures in the competition, including the play-off round, but are otherwise unbeaten, winning ten and drawing seven of the other 17 games. • In their six away games in the 1998/99 and 1999/2000 group stages, Dinamo gained one victory – 1-0 at AFC Ajax on 25 November 1998 – and two draws. Team ties • Dejan Lovren came through Dinamo's youth system before joining Lyon in January 2010. • Dinamo coach Krunoslav Jurčić was an unused substitute as Croatia beat Germany 3-0 at Stade de Gerland in the 1998 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals. He made three starting appearances in the tournament in which Croatia finished third. • Jerko Leko scored at the stadium on 12 April 2009 as AS Monaco FC drew 2-2 with Lyon in Ligue 1. • Leandro Cufré was at Monaco between summer 2006 and January 2009, losing three of four games against Lyon; at Stade de Gerland his team recorded a draw and a defeat. • Nikola Pokrivač spent 18 months at Monaco between January 2008 and summer 2009, losing both home games against Lyon but his sole visit to Stade de Gerland was that 2-2 draw in April 2009, when he was a late substitute. • Lovren played for Croatia alongside Josip Šimunić and Domagoj Vida against France on 29 March 2011 in a friendly international in Paris that ended goalless. On the opposite side were Hugo Lloris, Anthony Réveillère and Yoann Gourcuff. Last updated 26/09/11 14:41:49CET 3 Match background Olympique Lyonnais - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 27 September 2011 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stade de Gerland, Lyon Match facts Lyon UEFA milestones • This is Lyon's 100th match in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final. UEFA Champions League statistics • Lyon had one shot on goal in their first game, the joint lowest total in the competition along with Trabzonspor AŞ. Latest domestic information • Saturday 24 September: Olympique Lyonnais 3-1 FC Girondins de Bordeaux (Gomis 7 33, Bastos 64; Modeste 86pen) Vercoutre; Réveillère, Koné, Lovren, Cissokho; Gonalons (Fofana 80), Källström; Lacazette, Grenier, Bastos (Briand 69); Gomis (Belfodil 76) • With Rémy Vercoutre deputising for the suspended Hugo Lloris and Alexandre Lacazette making his first start of the season in place of the rested Jimmy Briand, Lyon extended their unbeaten home run to 19 league games. AS Saint-Étienne were the last side to prevail at the Stade de Gerland in Ligue 1, winning 1-0 on 25 September 2010. • Lyon's Ligue 1 haul of 17 points from eight matches is a marked improvement on their tally of eight at the same stage last term. • Lyon's nine-match unbeaten start to the season ended with a 1-0 defeat at SM Caen on 21 September. Benjamin Nivet scored the only goal from the penalty spot (45+2) after Lloris brought down Romain Hamouma. Lloris was dismissed, with Nivet also seeing red on 62 minutes. • Lyon have kept two clean sheets in 11 games this term, but have conceded just twice in their last four. • Lyon rose to the French summit for the first time in almost two years with a 2-0 victory against champions Olympique de Marseille on 18 September. • Lyon will face rivals St-Étienne in the French League Cup round of 16 on 25 October. Injury news • Lisandro (ankle, out since 27 August), Cris (hamstring, 15 August) and Yoann Gourcuff, yet to play this season because of an ankle injury, have all resumed team training. • Kim Källström missed the Caen match after