UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2021/22 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-0) OSC Metalist Stadion - Kharkiv Wednesday 25 August 2021 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 21.00CET (22.00 local time) AS Monaco FC Play-off, Second leg Last updated 16/09/2021 17:48CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Team facts 15 Legend 17 1 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 25 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSC Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar 17/08/2021 PO 0-1 Monaco Pedrinho 19 Donetsk UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - FC Shakhtar 2-0 03/10/1979 R1 Monaco Onnis 49, Dalger 53 Donetsk agg: 3-2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Sokolovski 48, 70; 19/09/1979 R1 2-1 Donetsk Monaco FC Petit 80 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Shakhtar Donetsk 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 3 3 AS Monaco FC 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 3 3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Olympique Júnior Moraes 22; 12/12/2018 GS 1-1 Kyiv Lyonnais Fekir 65 Dembélé 70, Dubois Olympique Lyonnais - FC 02/10/2018 GS 2-2 Decines 72; Júnior Moraes 44, Shakhtar Donetsk 55 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Paris Saint-Germain - FC Moura 57, Ibrahimović 08/12/2015 GS 2-0 Paris Shakhtar Donetsk 86 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Paris Aurier 7, David Luiz 30/09/2015 GS 0-3 Lviv Saint-Germain 23, Srna 90 (og) UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Toulouse FC - FC Shakhtar Luiz Adriano 49, Gai 05/11/2009 GS 0-2 Toulouse Donetsk 63 Fernandinho 7 (P), FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Toulouse 22/10/2009 GS 4-0 Donetsk Luiz Adriano 24, 56, FC Hübschman 38 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ben Arfa 43; Olympique de Marseille - FC 1-2 16/04/2009 QF Marseille Fernandinho 30, Luiz Shakhtar Donetsk agg: 1-4 Adriano 90+3 2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 25 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSC Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv UEFA Cup FC Shakhtar Donetsk - Hübschman 39, 09/04/2009 QF 2-0 Donetsk Olympique de Marseille Jádson 65 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Nancy-Lorraine - FC Shakhtar 0-1 22/02/2007 R3 Nancy Fernandinho 71 Donetsk agg: 1-2 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Nancy- 14/02/2007 R3 1-1 Donetsk Srna 84; Fortuné 81 Lorraine UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Shakhtar Donetsk - LOSC 0-0 23/02/2006 R3 Donetsk Lille agg: 2-3 Fauvergue 19, Dernis LOSC Lille - FC Shakhtar Villeneuve 57, Odemwingie 77; 15/02/2006 R3 3-2 Donetsk d'Ascq Brandão 89, Marica 90+1 Stade Rennais FC - FC Shakhtar 01/12/2005 GS 0-1 Rennes Elano 38 (P) Donetsk AS Monaco FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers AS Monaco FC - FC 1-0 07/11/1990 R2 Monaco Weah 14 Chornomorets Odesa agg: 1-0 FC Chornomorets Odesa - AS 24/10/1990 R2 0-0 Odessa Monaco FC Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Shakhtar Donetsk 7 3 3 1 9 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 16 8 4 4 21 16 AS Monaco FC 3 2 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 1 2 4 3 3 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 25 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSC Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv Match background Shakhtar Donetsk are looking to reach the UEFA Champions League group stage for the fifth season in a row and hold the edge as Monaco come to Kharkiv for the conclusion of their play-off tie. • A first European goal for Shakhtar midfielder Pedrinho 19 minutes into the first leg at the Stade Louis II ultimately separated two sides who have made 24 UEFA Champions League group appearances between them. Monaco are bidding to feature for the first time in three seasons while their Ukrainian opponents have not missed out since 2016/17. Previous meetings • The first leg was the clubs' first meeting since their only previous tie, in the 1979/80 UEFA Cup first round. Shakhtar were 2-1 winners in the home first leg in Donetsk, Mykhaylo Sokolovsky scoring both goals, but Monaco turned the tie round with a 2-0 second-leg victory thanks to two goals in five second-half minutes from Delio Onnis (49) and Christian Dalger (53). Form guide Shakhtar • Shakhtar's run of four successive Ukrainian Premier League titles was ended in 2020/21 as they finished second to great rivals Dynamo Kyiv, ending the season 11 points adrift in second place. Defeat in the Ukrainian Cup quarter- finals ensured the Pitmen finished without a trophy for the first time since 2014/15. • That meant Shakhtar started the 2021/22 European campaign in the third qualifying round, where they beat Genk 2- 1 in both Belgium and Ukraine. • This is only Shakhtar's second UEFA Champions League play-off. They defeated Rapid Wien 3-2 on aggregate in 2015/16 (1-0 a, 2-2 h), Marlos scoring in both legs. • Shakhtar's 2020/21 European campaign started in the UEFA Champions League group stage where, despite wins away (3-2) and home (2-0) against Real Madrid, they finished third in Group B behind the Spanish side and Borussia Mönchengladbach having picked up only two more points, although they did edge out eventual Italian champions Internazionale. A team coached by Luís Castro then overcame Maccabi Tel-Aviv in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 (2-0 a, 1-0 h) before losing to Roma in the last 16 (0-3 a, 1-2 h). • Castro was replaced after two years as Shakhtar coach by Roberto De Zerbi, who joined from Sassuolo in the summer. • UEFA Champions League quarter-finalists in 2010/11, Shakhtar are aiming to reach the group stage for the 16th time and have been eliminated in the group stage on 11 of the previous 15 occasions, including the last three. • Their victory at Monaco was Shakhtar's first in five games against French clubs (D2 L2), with the most recent fixtures before this season the draws away (2-2) and home (1-1) with Lyon in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League group stage. They have won three of their seven games at home to Ligue 1 visitors (D3), the sole defeat a 3-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in Lviv in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Shakhtar have won three of their last four home European games, losing the other to Roma last season. • Shakhtar have won 11 of the 12 UEFA competition ties in which they were victorious away from home in the first leg, the only aberration an extra-time defeat by Celta Vigo in the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League round of 32 (1-0 a, 0-2 h aet). That was one of only two previous ties in which the Pitmen won 1-0 in the away first leg, the other coming against Rapid Wien in that 2015/16 UEFA Champions League play-off. • Shakhtar's record in two UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W0 L2: 1-4 v Club Brugge, 2002/03 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round 2-4 v Young Boys, 2016/17 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round Monaco • Third in Ligue 1 in 2020/21, five points behind champions LOSC Lille, Monaco are aiming to reach the group stage for the tenth time and the first since 2018/19. • Monaco's last UEFA Champions League campaign, three years ago, was also their most recent foray into European football before this season. In 2018/19 they finished fourth in Group A behind Borussia Dortmund, Atlético de Madrid and Club Brugge, picking up only one point from their six matches (D1 L5). • That extended Monaco's winless European run to 14 games (D3 L11), since a 3-1 home victory against Dortmund in the quarter-final second leg in April 2017. • Niko Kovač's side ended that long sequence without a victory in this season's third qualifying round, winning 2-0 at Sparta Praha before a 3-1 home success. 4 FC Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Monaco FC Wednesday 25 August 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit OSC Metalist Stadion, Kharkiv • This is Monaco's third UEFA Champions League play-off. They lost to Valencia in 2015/16 (1-3 a, 2-1 h) before beating Villarreal the following season (2-1 a, 1-0 h) – making it three wins in a row before the first leg against Shakhtar. • Runners-up in 2004, Monaco have also reached the UEFA Champions League semi-finals on three further occasions, in 1993/94, 1997/98 and 2016/17.