UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011/12 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT FC Twente Fulham FC Group K - Matchday 5 FC Twente Stadion, Enschede Thursday 1 December 2011 19.00CET (19.00 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................3 Team facts.........................................................................................................................4 Squad list...........................................................................................................................6 Fixtures and results...........................................................................................................8 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................12 Match officials..................................................................................................................15 Legend............................................................................................................................16 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa 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 Twente - Fulham FC Thursday 1 December 2011 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT FC Twente Stadion, Enschede Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 15/09/11 GS Fulham FC - FC Twente 1-1 London Johnson 19; Schwarzer 40(og) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Twente 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Fulham FC 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 FC Twente - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/10 GS FC Twente - Tottenham Hotspur FC 3-3 Enschede Landzaat 22(p), Rosales 56, Chadli 64; Wisgerhof 12(og), Defoe 47, 59 29/09/10 GS Tottenham Hotspur FC - FC Twente 4-1 London Van der Vaart 47, Pavlyuchenko 50(p), 64(p), Bale 85; Chadli 56 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/08 GS Manchester City FC - FC Twente 3-2 Manchester Wright-Phillips 2, Robinho 57, Benjani 62; Elia 17, Wielaert 65 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/08/08 QR3 Arsenal FC - FC Twente 4-0 London Nasri 27, Gallas 52, Walcott 66, agg: 6-0 Bendtner 89 13/08/08 QR3 FC Twente - Arsenal FC 0-2 Arnhem Gallas 63, Adebayor 82 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/09/78 R1 Manchester City FC - FC Twente 3-2 Manchester Wildschut 8(og), Kidd 70, Bell 84; agg: 4-3 Overweg 49, Gritter 85 13/09/78 R1 FC Twente - Manchester City FC 1-1 Enschede Thoresen 50; Watson 24 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/10/74 R1 FC Twente - Ipswich Town FC 1-1 Enschede Bos 7; Hamilton 14 agg: 3-3 ag 18/09/74 R1 Ipswich Town FC - FC Twente 2-2 Ipswich Hamilton 34, Talbot 38; Zuidema 23, Pahlplatz 83 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 12/12/73 R3 FC Twente - Ipswich Town FC 1-2 Enschede Streuer 82; Morris 57, Hamilton 70 agg: 1-3 28/11/73 R3 Ipswich Town FC - FC Twente 1-0 Ipswich Whymark 81 Fulham FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country None 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 Twente 5 0 3 2 7 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 12 0 5 7 14 27 Fulham FC 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 Last updated 29/11/11 10:34:30CET 2 Previous meetings FC Twente - Fulham FC Thursday 1 December 2011 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT FC Twente Stadion, Enschede Match background Martin Jol's Fulham FC travel to already qualified FC Twente with the visitors secure in the knowledge that three points will guarantee their place in the UEFA Europa League round of 32. Previous meetings • The sides drew 1-1 in London on matchday one. The 2010 finalists seemed on course for success in their first game against Dutch opponents when Andrew Johnson gave them a 19th-minute lead, but a ricochet off goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer following Luuk de Jong's header on 41 minutes earned Twente a useful point. • Twente are yet to win in 12 games against English opposition, boasting the unenviable record W0 D5 L7 (W0 D3 L2 at home). They have drawn their last three games against English clubs in Enschede, either side of a 2-0 loss to Arsenal FC in UEFA Champions League qualifying which was staged in Arnhem. Match background • Twente have lost only one of their last 11 European home matches (3-1 against Villarreal CF in last season's UEFA Europa League quarter-finals), recording five wins and five draws in the process. • Fulham have already played 12 European games this season, since entering the first qualifying round through the UEFA Respect Fair Play system. They have won seven of those, drawing three and losing two. They have won only one of their last four away games. • The Cottagers are the only team to have made it all the way from the first qualifying round to the group stage this season. Team facts • Twente are the top scorers in the group stage to date with 12 goals; they have also had more shots on target than any other side, 38 in total. • The Dutch outfit are at their deadliest in the latter period of the first half, scoring six of their goals between the 31st minute and the half-time whistle. • Fulham's Andrew Johnson started the week as the second highest scorer in this season's group stage with five goals. Only RSC Anderlecht's Matías Suárez, with six, had scored more. • Twente's Ola John has set up four goals in the group stage so far; twice as many as any other player in the competition. • Bryan Ruiz joined Fulham from Twente on transfer deadline day, but he is not eligible to play for his new club in the UEFA Europa League as he has already represented the Enschede side in Europe this season. • Fulham's Dutch manager Martin Jol needs no introduction to Twente; he played for the club from 1979 to 1982. • Jol and his Twente counterpart Co Adriaanse have been on opposite sides on numerous occasions - as players when Jol's ADO Den Haag team took on Adriaanse's FC Utrecht in the 1970s - and as coaches when Jol's Roda JC and RKC Waalwijk teams took on Willem II, AFC Ajax and AZ Alkmaar teams coached by Adriaanse. • Adriaanse (2000-01) and Jol (2009-10) were both Ajax coaches at one stage in their careers. • Twente's Nacer Chadli and Fulham's Moussa Dembélé are Belgian international team-mates. Dembélé also made his name in Dutch football with spells at Willem (2005-06) and AZ (2006-10). • Twente's Denny Landzaat previously played in England for Wigan Athletic FC from 2006 to 2008. • Fulham's Czech defender Zdeněk Grygera played in the Netherlands for Ajax from 2003 to 2007. Last updated 29/11/11 10:34:30CET 3 Match background FC Twente - Fulham FC Thursday 1 December 2011 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT FC Twente Stadion, Enschede Team facts FC Twente Formed: 1965 Nickname: Tukkers (slang for people from the Enschede region) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: (1975) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 1 (2010) Dutch Cup: 3 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2010/11: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2009/10: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2008/09: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2007/08: first round 2006/07: second qualifying round (having transferred from UEFA Intertoto Cup) 2005/06: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2004/05: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2003/04: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2002/03: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2001/02: second round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7-0: Twente v Panahaiki FC 07/11/73, UEFA Cup second round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: BK Frem v Twente 25/10/72, UEFA Cup second round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Twente v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 21/05/75, UEFA Cup final second leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Villarreal CF v Twente 07/04/11, UEFA Europa League quarter-final first leg 4-0 on three occasions, most recently Paris Saint-Germain FC v Twente 18/12/08, UEFA Cup group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 7-0: Twente v Panahaiki FC (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: BK Frem v Twente (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Twente v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Villarreal CF v Twente (see above) 4-0: Paris Saint-Germain FC v Twente (see above) Last updated 29/11/11 10:34:30CET 4 Team facts FC Twente - Fulham FC Thursday 1 December 2011 - 19.00CET (19.00 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT FC Twente Stadion, Enschede Fulham FC Formed: 1879 Nickname: The Cottagers UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Europa League: (2010) • UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2002 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) none Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 1999/00: did not compete in UEFA club competitions 2009/10: final 2008/09: did not compete in UEFA club competitions 2007/08: did not compete in