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Stade Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux
Wednesday 17 March 2010 – 20.45CET (20.45 local time)
First knockout round, second leg

FC Girondins de Bordeaux won all three home games in the group stage, conceding just a single goal, formidable statistics for Olympiacos FC to try and overcome as they seek to turn round a first-leg deficit in their UEFA Champions League first knockout round tie.

• The French champions earned a sixth successive victory in the competition with a 1-0 triumph in Piraeus on 23 February thanks to Michaël Ciani’s header in first-half added time. It was the fourth successive UEFA Champions League match in which Bordeaux had kept a clean sheet.

Match background
• Bordeaux were the most successful side in the group stage with five wins and a draw. The only points dropped came in a 1-1 draw at Juventus on Matchday 1 while two goals conceded was also the best record of the 32 competing teams.
• The other goal to count against Laurent Blanc’s team came in the home game with FC Bayern München which finished 2-1 in their favour. The French champions won their other two home games, against Maccabi Haifa FC (1-0) and Juventus (2-0) respectively.
• This is the first time the Ligue 1 club have played host to Greek opponents in UEFA club competition. Prior to the first leg, Bordeaux’s only previous meeting with a Greek side was a 3-2 victory at Panionios GSS in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage.
• Olympiacos have lost their last two away meetings with French opponents, going down 2-1 against both AS Saint-Etienne in last season’s UEFA Cup round of 32 and Olympique Lyonnais in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League group stage. Overall they have lost seven of their ten competitive fixtures in France and six of the last seven.
• Two years ago Olympiacos went out in the last 16 with a 3-0 defeat at Chelsea FC following a goalless home leg.
• The Greek champions reached the knockout phase for the second time in three seasons by finishing second in Group H, three points behind Arsenal FC and five ahead of R. Standard de Liège. They failed to score in their three away games, losing 2-0 at both Arsenal and Standard before a goalless draw at AZ Alkmaar.
• Olympiacos have not won away from home in the UEFA Champions League proper since a 2-1 group-stage triumph at S.S. Lazio on 28 November 2007. That was their second away success in three games, having had to wait 31 matches for their first, but of their four matches since that Lazio victory, three ended in defeat with one draw.
• After their UEFA Cup campaign ended on French soil at St-Etienne last season – when they also lost the first leg at home – history is against Olympiacos progressing. Of ten ties in UEFA competition where the Greek champions have lost the first leg at home, only once have they recovered the deficit: against FC Chornomorets Odesa in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup first round, a 1-0 reverse in Athens being followed by a 3-0 triumph in Ukraine.
• Furthermore, Olympiacos have lost the first leg home or away on 29 occasions and progressed on aggregate just three times. Only once in UEFA Champions League history has a team beaten at home in the first leg come through, AFC Ajax losing 1-0 against Panathinaikos FC in the 1995/96 semi-finals first leg but winning 3-0 in Athens.
• Bordeaux, meanwhile, have never lost in UEFA competition after winning the first leg away from home, coming through all 12 ties in which they have taken a lead back to France, most recently against Tampere United in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup first round (3-2 away, 1-1 home). Indeed, of 32 ties in which Les Marine et Blanc have won the first leg home or away, they have progressed on all but six occasions.

Team ties
• Central defender Michalis Kapsis, a UEFA EURO 2004 winner with Greece, played for both clubs. He left AEK Athens FC to join Bordeaux immediately after his country’s triumph in Portugal, playing 29 matches in Ligue 1 before moving to Olympiacos 12 months later.
• At Manchester United FC, Bordeaux coach Laurent Blanc scored the opener in a 3-2 win at Olympiacos on 23 October 2002, his last goal in European competition. He also played in United’s earlier 4-0 home victory as well as in the two games the previous season after the teams were again drawn in the same group, United winning 2-0 away and 3-0 at home.
• Blanc came up against Olof Mellberg three times while at United, the Frenchman recording two wins and a draw against the Swede’s Aston Villa FC.
• Antonis Nikopolidis was in goal for Greece on 15 November 2006 when they went down 1-0 to France in a friendly in Paris. Alou Diarra came on in the second half for the hosts.
• Yoann Gourcuff and Dudu were together at Stade Rennais FC in 2004/05.
• Mellberg played for Sweden in a 3-2 home friendly defeat by France on 20 August 2008. Gourcuff and Diarra were on the opposing side.
• Michal ?ew?akow was in the Poland team who lost 1-0 to a France side including Blanc in a Paris friendly on 23
February 2000. Blanc was substituted at the break.
• While with Manchester United, David Bellion faced Panathinaikos in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage, winning 5-0 at home and 1-0 away. Nikopolidis was on the other side. Bellion’s first league goal came in Sunderland AFC’s 1-0 win against a Villa team featuring Mellberg on 28 September 2002.
• Didier Domi spent eight seasons with Paris Saint-Germain FC from 1995 to 2003 and faced Bordeaux on eight occasions, winning once. However, he was in the team that beat Bordeaux on penalties in the 1997/98 French League Cup final.
• Jaouad Zairi faced Bordeaux on five occasions while at FC Sochaux-Montbéliard (2001 to 2006) and FC Nantes (2006/07), winning three times and losing twice.

Camp Nou, Barcelona
Wednesday 17 March 2010 – 20.45CET (20.45 local time)
First knockout round, second leg

The Camp Nou has proved an inhospitable place for visiting German sides and FC Barcelona will hope it remains so when VfB Stuttgart come to town for the second leg of their last-16 tie.
• Stuttgart are unbeaten on their travels in this season’s UEFA Champions League but now face a Barcelona side seeking a ninth straight home win against Bundeliga opposition.
• Stuttgart should at least not be short on information about the European champions – their squad includes on-loan Barcelona midfielder Aleksandr Hleb, while coach Christian Gross earned a 1-1 draw at the Camp Nou with FC Basel 1893 last season.
• That was also the scoreline in the first leg on 23 February, Cacau shooting Stuttgart into a 25th-minute lead at the VfB Arena only for Zlatan Ibrahimovi? to level seven minutes after half-time.

Previous meetings
• Barcelona recorded home and away wins against Stuttgart when the clubs met in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 2007/08.
• The Spanish side prevailed 2-0 in Germany on 2 October 2007, Carles Puyol (53) and Lionel Messi (67) the scorers.
• Antonio Da Silva gave Stuttgart a third-minute lead in the return on 12 December, but Barcelona hit back to win 3-1 through goals from Giovani Dos Santos (36), Samuel Eto’o (57) and Ronaldinho (67). Barcelona finished top of the group and Stuttgart bottom.
• The lineups for that match were:
Barcelona: Jorquera, Puyol, Thuram, Milito, Sylvinho, Gudjohnsen (Bojan 52), Xavi (Crosas 70), Márquez, Dos Santos, Eto’o (Iniesta 62), Ronaldinho.
Stuttgart: Schäfer, Osorio, Tasci, Delpierre, Boka, Farnerud (Hilbert 58), Fernando Meira, Bastürk (Meissner 72), Da Silva, Ewerthon, Marica (Fischer 71).

Match background
• Barcelona are seeking a third successive UEFA Champions League quarter-final appearance. Stuttgart have never been beyond the last 16 and last appeared in the quarter-finals of any UEFA club competition in 1998.
• Barcelona have won their eight most recent home matches against German opposition, including a 4-0 triumph against FC Bayern München in last season’s quarter-finals.
• Bayern were the last Bundesliga visitors to emerge victorious from the Camp Nou, winning 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League group stage in November 1998.
• Barcelona beat German opposition in Fortuna Düsseldorf to win the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1979.
• The holders won two of their three home games in the group stage, beating FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Internazionale Milano either side of a surprise loss to FC Rubin Kazan.
• Stuttgart have never won in Spain but have posted three draws and one victory on the road in this season’s UEFA Champions League, including a 1-1 draw at Sevilla FC in November.
• Overall the Bundesliga club have won just one of 12 previous meetings with Spanish sides – a 1-0 home success against Real Sociedad de Fútbol in the first leg of the 1988/89 UEFA Cup quarter-final. It was their first encounter with Liga opposition and they eventually advanced on penalties after losing the return by the same scoreline.
• Worryingly for Stuttgart, they have won only one of four ties in UEFA club competition when they have drawn the first leg at home, beating R. Standard de Liège in the 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-finals (1-1 home, 1-0 away). The most recent of their three aggregate defeats came in 2000/01 when they were eliminated in the UEFA Cup fourth round by another Spanish side – RC Celta de Vigo (0-0 home, 1-2 away).
• Barcelona are in an identical position to a year ago, when they drew 1-1 at Olympique Lyonnais in the first knockout round first leg – they went on to win 5-2 in the Camp Nou return.
• That was one of 21 occasions when the Blaugrana have drawn the first leg away, and they emerged victorious on aggregate 15 times, the most recent defeat coming in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals against Juventus (1-1 away, 1-2 home aet).

Team ties
• Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola’s first four appearances in Europe’s elite club competition as a player came against German opposition in FC Hansa Rostock and 1. FC Kaiserslautern in autumn 1991 – Barcelona, that season’s eventual winners, won both home legs but lost both away.
• Gross was in charge of the Basel side whose 1-1 draw at Barcelona in last season’s group stage helped salvage some pride after a 5-0 home reverse.
• The Stuttgart coach’s overall record in the competition against Spanish sides, with Basel, previously Grasshopper-Club and now Stuttgart, is: W1 D3 L5. That solitary victory came against RC Deportivo La Coruña in the 2002/03 second group stage – 1-0 in Switzerland.
• Hleb rejoined Stuttgart for a second spell after agreeing to a season-long loan from Barcelona last summer. He made 19 league appearances for the Catalan side in 2008/09 following his transfer from Arsenal FC.
• Hleb and Jens Lehmann were in the Arsenal team that lost the 2006 UEFA Champions League final to Barcelona, together with Thierry Henry. It was a particularly unhappy occasion for Lehmann who became the first player sent off in a European Champion Clubs’ Cup final after bringing down Eto’o in the 18th minute.
• Thomas Hitzlsperger and Lehmann were in the Germany side who lost the final of UEFA EURO 2008 to Spain. Xavi Hernández, Andrés Iniesta and Puyol featured for the opposition.
• Ciprian Marica scored the only goal of Romania’s 1-0 friendly victory against Spain in Cadiz in November 2006.
• Marica was on the losing side when FC Shakhtar Donetsk suffered a 5-4 aggregate reverse against Daniel Alves’s Sevilla in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup round of 16.
• Pavel Pogrebnyak scored in each leg as FC Zenit St. Petersburg overcame Villarreal CF on away goals in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 32, the Russian side winning 1-0 at home and losing 2-1 away.
• Khalid Boulahrouz made six Liga appearances for Sevilla during a season-long loan in 2007/08. Boulahrouz was in the Chelsea team that earned a 1-0 home win and 2-2 away draw with Barcelona in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League group stage.

Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan, Seville
Tuesday 16 March 2010 – 20.45CET (20.45 local time)
First knockout round, second leg

Sevilla FC’s record of 100% success in home games against visitors from Russia is a daunting prospect for PFC CSKA Moskva as they prepare for the second leg of their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie. Then again, the Moscow club have their own ‘perfect’ record to bolster confidence.
• CSKA have to score at least once at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan to stay in the competition after Alvaro Negredo put Sevilla in front in Moscow on 24 February, Mark Gonzalez levelling with a spectacular strike midway through the second period.

Match background
• Sevilla are looking for their third successive knockout triumph against Russian teams. In 2005/06, which ended with the first of Sevilla’s back-to-back UEFA Cup triumphs, they lost 2-1 at FC Zenit St. Petersburg in the group stage, but then beat FC Lokomotiv Moskva home (2-0) and away (1-0) in the round of 32. In the quarter-finals they exacted revenge on Zenit with a 5-2 aggregate win, the home leg ending 4-1 in their favour.
• The Andalusian club, who have won all three home games against Russian visitors, succeeded CSKA as UEFA Cup winners after the Moscow team had become the first Russian side to claim European silverware.
• Sevilla won Group G by four points, losing only at FC Unirea Urziceni on Matchday 5 with qualification already assured. At home they drew 1-1 with VfB Stuttgart, beating Unirea (2-0) and Rangers FC (1-0).
• Sevilla had won all six of their home games in the UEFA Champions League before the draw with Stuttgart. During their successive UEFA Cup triumphs in 2006 and 2007 they lost just one of their 14 fixtures at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan, winning 11.
• In their only previous UEFA Champions League campaign, Manuel Jimenez’s team exited the competition at this stage. After losing the first leg 3-2 at Fenerbahçe SK, they won the return by the same score but went out on penalties.
• Sevilla have drawn the first leg away from home in UEFA competition only once before, against FC Schalke 04 in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup semi-finals, when a goalless draw in Germany was followed by a 1-0 extra-time Sevilla success. Home and away, the Spanish side have earned a first-leg draw on seven occasions, winning the tie four times.
• CSKA qualified for the last eight of the inaugural UEFA Champions League season in 1992/93 but in their four subsequent campaigns this is the first time they have come through the group stage.
• Leonid Slutsky’s side achieved their place with a 2-1 victory at Besiktas JK on Matchday 6 to edge out VfL Wolfsburg in Group B. It was CSKA’s third victory in the pool; their other away games ended in a 3-1 defeat in Germany and a 3-3 draw at group winners Manchester United FC.
• The Army Men have only visited Spanish opponents on one occasion, in 1992/93. It provided the club with one of their most memorable results as, six months after FC Barcelona had lifted the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, they defeated the Catalan club 3-2 to win the second-round tie 4-3 on aggregate.
• That Barcelona triumph is the only time CSKA have drawn at home in the first leg of a UEFA competition tie and gone through to the next stage. Maccabi Haifa FC (2006/07 UEFA Cup round of 32, 0-0 home, 0-1 away), Parma FC (2002/03 UEFA Cup first round, 1-1 home, 2-3 away) and Viborg FF (2000/01 UEFA Cup first round, 0-0 home, 0-1 away) have all eliminated CSKA after earning a draw in Moscow.

Team ties
• Juande Ramos, who won back-to-back UEFA Cups with Sevilla in 2006 and 2007, spent six weeks as CSKA head coach last autumn.
• Ivica Dragutinovic and Milos Krasic are team-mates in the Serbian national team.
• Igor Akinfeev, Sergei Ignashevich plus Aleksei and Vasili Berezutski all featured for Russia against Spain at UEFA EURO 2008, Spain winning 4-1 in Group D and 3-0 in the semi-finals. Akinfeev and Ignashevich played in both games while both Berezutski brothers remained on the bench along with Andrés Palop and Fernando Navarro for their opponents.
• González has had spells at Albacete Balompié, Real Sociedad de Fútbol and Real Betis Balompié.
• Marius Stankevicius played for Lithuania in a 4-3 defeat by Russia in a Moscow friendly in August 2004.
• Dragutinovic and Krasic played for Serbia in a 3-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory against a Lithuania side containing Deividas Šemberas and Stankevicius on 11 October 2008. Dragutinovic, Krasic and Stankevicius also appeared in the reverse fixture, won 2-1 by Lithuania on 14 October 2009.
• Luis Fabiano scored twice for Brazil in a 3-0 victory against a Chile side including González in a World Cup qualifier on 7 September 2008.
• Negredo scored twice for Spain in a 5-2 victory against Bosnia-Herzegovina in a World Cup qualifying tie in Zenica
on 14 October 2009. Elvir Rahimic was on the opposing side as he had been when Bosnia-Herzegovina lost 1-0 in Murcia a year earlier, when Diego Capel lined up for the hosts.
• Russia forward Aleksandr Kerzhakov was at Sevilla from January 2007 to February 2008, winning the UEFA Cup, Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup.

Stamford Bridge, London
Tuesday 16 March 2010 – 20.45CET (19.45 local time)
First knockout round, second leg

Having been thwarted in his attempt to lead Chelsea FC to UEFA Champions League glory during his three seasons in west London, José Mourinho now attempts to plot their downfall as his FC Internazionale Milano team bid for a place in the quarter-finals.

• The tie also holds great resonance for his opposite number, Carlo Ancelotti facing the team who were his greatest rivals during the eight years he held the reins at AC Milan.

Previous meetings
• It was Mourinho who came out on top in the first meeting at San Siro on 24 February, goals from Diego Milito (three minutes) and Esteban Cambiasso (55) earning Inter a narrow lead to take to London, with Salomon Kalou (51) replying for Chelsea.
• Although that was the first time the clubs had met in UEFA competition, they locked horns last summer in a pre-season friendly in the United States. Chelsea won 2-0 thanks to goals from Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard (pen).

Match background
• Chelsea have won both their previous knockout ties against Italian sides. In five of the past six campaigns they have reached the semi-finals but only once have they made it to the final, losing to Manchester United FC on penalties in 2007/08. Two of their semi-final defeats came during Mourinho’s tenure, Liverpool FC their conquerors in both 2005 and 2007.
• They overcame Italian opponents at this stage 12 months ago when a 1-0 home win against Juventus preceded a 2-2 draw in Turin.
• This time round Chelsea topped Group D with 14 points, and were unbeaten in six fixtures. At Stamford Bridge they defeated FC Porto (1-0) and Club Atlético de Madrid (4-0), drawing 2-2 with APOEL FC when first place was already assured.
• The London club are unbeaten in 21 UEFA Champions League home matches, since Barcelona’s 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge on 22 February 2006. Chelsea have won 15 of their subsequent home games.
• Chelsea have won three of the six UEFA competition ties in which they have had a first-leg deficit to retrieve at Stamford Bridge, the most recent defeat coming in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League semi-finals against AS Monaco FC (1-3 away, 2-2 home). However, two teams have travelled to London on the back of 2-1 home wins in the competition in recent seasons, FC Barcelona (2004/05 first knockout round) and Fenerbahçe SK (2007/08 quarter-finals), and Chelsea won 4-2 and 2-0 respectively to go through on each occasion.
• Inter have been eliminated at this stage of the UEFA Champions League for the last three seasons, bowing out against English opposition in each of the last two campaigns. Twelve months ago Manchester United beat them 2-0 on aggregate after the first leg in Milan ended goalless, with Liverpool winning 2-0 on Merseyside and 1-0 at San Siro in 2007/08.
• Mourinho’s team won only two games in finishing second in Group F, two points behind FC Barcelona. Away from home they drew 1-1 at FC Rubin Kazan and won 2-1 at FC Dynamo Kyiv before losing 2-0 in Spain.
• Inter’s most recent victory in England was a 3-0 triumph at Arsenal FC in the 2003/04 group stage courtesy of goals from Julio Cruz, Andy van der Meyde and Obafemi Martins.
• The Milan club have won five and lost four of their previous nine two-legged ties against teams from England while in addition to last season’s Juventus victory, Chelsea overcame Vicenza Calcio 3-2 on aggregate in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup semi-finals.
• Traditionally Inter have fared well when winning the first leg of a UEFA competition at home; of the 41 occasions the Italian side have initially won in Milan, they have recorded 37 overall victories. That includes three ties where Inter won 2-1 at home in the first match although the last time they triumphed by that scoreline, in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals against Villarreal CF, they lost 1-0 in Spain and were eliminated on away goals.

Team ties
• While in charge of Milan, Ancelotti won ten of 18 competitive games against Inter, losing five. Two of the three draws were in the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League semi-final, Milan progressing on away goals after drawing 1-1 in Inter’s home leg and going on to lift the trophy to give Ancelotti his first title in the competition as a coach.
• Ancelotti got the better of Mourinho in the 2003 UEFA Super Cup when Milan beat FC Porto 1-0. Honours were even when the pair went head to head in Serie A last season, Milan and Inter each winning their home game.
• Ancelotti scored against Inter in AS Roma’s 4-3 home win on 12 May 1985.
• Samuel Eto’o and Juliano Belletti scored the Barcelona goals as they came from behind to triumph 2-1 against Arsenal FC, a side which included Ashley Cole, in the 2006 UEFA Champions League final.
• Eto’o was in the Barça team that overcame Chelsea in last season’s semi-finals, going through on away goals after a 1-1 aggregate draw.
• Ricardo Quaresma spent the second half of 2009/10 on loan at Chelsea in 2009 but made only one starting appearance.
• Ricardo Carvalho and Deco won the UEFA Cup in 2003 and the UEFA Champions League in 2004 for Porto under Mourinho. José Bosingwa was also a member of the 2004 squad.
• Thiago Motta and Eto’o were team-mates at Barcelona with Deco and Belletti.
• Marco Materazzi scored in the 2006 FIFA World Cup final for Italy as they went on to defeat France on penalties.
Chelsea’s Florent Malouda was fouled by Materazzi for the penalty which gave France an early lead.
• Drogba scored for Marseille in a 1-0 home win against Inter in the 2004 UEFA Cup quarter-finals. Francesco Toldo, Iván Cordoba and Javier Zanetti all featured over the two legs for the Nerazzurri.
• Sulley Muntari spent 2007/08 with Portsmouth FC, helping them lift the FA Cup. He played in the 1-0 league defeat at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea and is a team-mate of Michael Essien with Ghana.
• Branislav Ivanovi? and Dejan Stankovi? play together for Serbia.
• John Terry, Lampard and Joe Cole all played for England in a 3-2 friendly victory against Argentina in November 2005. Zanetti, Walter Samuel and Cambiasso all appeared for their opponents.