Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Press Kit for MSK Zilina v Chelsea FC

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
2010/11 SEASON
MATCH PRESS KIT
Group F - Matchday 5
Stamford Bridge, London
Tuesday 23 November 2010
20.45CET (19.45 local time)

Head to Head
UEFA Champions League
Date: 15/09/10 
Stage: UEFA Champions League
Match:
Result: Chelsea FC 1-4 Zilina
Venue: GS MŠK Žilina
Goalscorers:

Match facts
Chelsea
UEFA milestones

• This is Chelsea's 100th European Champion Clubs' Cup match.

• Chelsea have scored 149 goals in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final, while Branislav Ivanović's
second goal on Matchday 4 was their 250th in UEFA competition.

UEFA Champions League statistics
• John Obi Mikel will incur a suspension with his next booking.

• Chelsea had gone 956 minutes in the Premier League and UEFA Champions League without conceding at home prior to Nikita Bazhenov's goal for Spartak on Matchday 4.

Latest domestic information
•
Saturday 20 November: Birmingham City FC 1-0 Chelsea FC (Bowyer 17)

Čech; Ferreira (Bosingwa 65), Alex, Ivanović, Cole; Ramires (Sturridge 72), Mikel, Malouda; Anelka, Drogba, Kalou.

• Chelsea lost for the second successive Premier League game at Birmingham, the first time the Blues have lost twoleague matches in a row since May 2006.

• The English champions have failed to score in four of their last five away league matches. Chelsea have also drawn a blank in five of their last nine league games; in the previous nine, they managed 39 goals.

• Fifteen of Chelsea's 28 league goals this season have come in the final 15 minutes of each half.

• Chelsea's seven-match unbeaten run in all competitions, which included six wins, ended with a 2-0 defeat at Liverpool FC on 7 November. Although they beat Fulham FC at home three days later, on 14 November Sunderland AFC were 3-0 winners at Stamford Bridge.

• The Sunderland defeat was the first time Carlo Ancelotti's side had lost at home in the league since 27 February; before Nedum Onouha's 45th-minute opener for Sunderland, they had not conceded in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge since John Carew's 29th-minute goal for Aston Villa FC on 27 March, a run of 916 minutes.

• The Blues had last failed to score at home in the league in a goalless draw against Everton FC on 22 April 2009; of the ensuing 27 games, they won 25, drew one and lost one.

• Chelsea went 671 minutes without conceding in the league between Gareth Bale's effort in the 2-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur FC on 17 April and Scott Parker's late consolation for West Ham United FC on 11 September. They scored 35 times in-between – a Premier League record.

• Prior to losing at Liverpool, Ancelotti's team had scored 60 goals in their previous 18 league games, conceding
seven.

Injury news
• John Terry has not played since the win against Fulham due to a back problem.

• Alex started against Birmingham despite Chelsea announcing on 16 November that he required knee surgery and would be out for eight weeks.

• Ashley Cole sat out England's friendly against France due to an ankle injury but returned against Birmingham. Yuri Zhirkov was missing after picking up a calf muscle strain in Russia's friendly defeat by Belgium.

• Didier Drogba played against Fulham and Sunderland despite being diagnosed with malaria.

• Frank Lampard has been out since a hernia operation at the end of August. He was close to a return before suffering an adductor injury in training on 11 November.

• Before coming on as a late substitute at Aston Villa on 16 October, José Bosingwa had not featured since suffering a knee injury against the same opponents on 17 October 2009.

• Yossi Benayoun is expected to be out of action until April with a torn Achilles tendon.

Žilina

UEFA milestones

• Žilina's 7-0 loss against Marseille on Matchday 4 was the heaviest home defeat in UEFA Champions League history.

UEFA Champions League statistics

• Mário Pečalka and Ľubomír Guldan will incur bans with their next yellow cards.

• Žilina have conceded 15 goals, more than any other side. The most any team has conceded in a UEFA Champions League group stage is 19, shared by three clubs: Ferencvárosi TC (1995/96), FC Dynamo Kyiv (2007/08) and Debreceni VSC (2009/10).

• The Slovakian titleholders have managed only nine shots on target, fewer than any other team.

Latest domestic information

•
Friday 19 November: FK Senica 2-1 MŠK Žilina (Divis 66, Smetana 80; Oravec 55)
Dúbravka; Angelovič, Piaček, Pečalka, Gergel; Guldan (Zošák 82); Vladavič, Bello, Jež; Oravec, Majtán (Ceesay 72)

• Defeat at Senica ended Žilina's unbeaten start to the Superliga season. The Slovakian titleholders had not lost a
league match since a 2-0 defeat at ŠK Slovan Bratislava on 24 March, a run of 25 games.

• Pavel Hapal's side are still guaranteed top spot going into the winter break at the end of the month. The First League reconvenes on 26 February.

• Tomáš Oravec has scored six goals in Žilina's last four league outings.

• Žilina have registered 37 league goals this season, 12 more than at this stage last term.

• Hapal's charges won five in a row away from home in the league prior to the trip to Senica.

• The Slovakian champions have drawn 0-0 three times in the league this term. They contested no goalless stalemates last season.

Injury news

• Patrik Mráz has not played since Matchday 2 because of a thigh injury.


Chelsea FC

Formed:
 
Nickname:
 
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• European Champion Clubs' Cup: (2008)
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1971, 1998
• UEFA Super Cup (1): 1998

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 4 (2010)
FA Cup: 6 (2010)
League Cup: 4 (2007)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2009/10:
round of 16
2008/09:
semi-finals
2007/08:
runners-up
2006/07:
semi-finals
2005/06:
round of 16
2004/05:
semi-finals
2003/04:
semi-finals
2002/03:
UEFA Cup first round
2001/02:
UEFA Cup second round2000/01:


MŠK Žilina

Formed:
 
Nickname:
 
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
None

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 5 (2010)
Slovakian Cup: 0

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2009/10:
UEFA Europa League play-off round
2008/09:
UEFA Cup group stage
2007/08:
second qualifying round
2006/07:
Did not take part in UEFA club competition
2005/06:
UEFA Cup second qualifying round
2004/05:
second qualifying round
2003/04:
UEFA Cup first round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2002/03:
second qualifying round
2001/02:
Did not take part in UEFA club competition2000/01:



Did not take part in UEFA club competition
Šošoni (Shoshone - Native American tribe)
1908
UEFA Cup first round
The Blues
1905
 
Oravec 55; Essien 13, Anelka 24, 28, Sturridge 48

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