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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