UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
2010/11 SEASON
MATCH PRESS KIT
Olympique de Marseille Chelsea FC
Group F - Matchday 6
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille
Wednesday 8 December 2010
20.45CET (20.45 local time)
Match background
Olympique de Marseille secured second place in UEFA Champions League Group F on Matchday 5, which is just as
well given their poor recent record against English visitors.
• The French champions have lost their last two home games against Premier League clubs and now welcome section
winners Chelsea FC, who booked their place in the knockout rounds with two games to spare.
• The English titleholders have won their first five games; only AC Milan (1992/93), Paris Saint-Germain FC (1994/95),
FC Spartak Moskva (1995/96) and FC Barcelona (2002/03) have recorded six victories in a UEFA Champions League
group stage.
Past meetings
• First-half goals from captain John Terry and Nicolas Anelka helped Chelsea claim the points when the sides faced
each other at Stamford Bridge on 28 September.
• Previously they had only met in the second group stage in 1999/2000, Chelsea's debut UEFA Champions League
campaign. Marseille won 1-0 at home through a Robert Pirès goal while the English side turned round that scoreline
in the return, Dennis Wise getting the winner. That was OM's only victory in the section while the English club reached
the quarter-finals, eventually losing to Barcelona.
• The Matchday 2 defeat meant Marseille have come off worst in their last four games against English opponents. At
home they went down to Liverpool FC in successive UEFA Champions League campaigns, losing 4-0 in 2007/08 and
2-1 in 2008/09. The French side had won their first five home ties with Premier League teams.
• In the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League semi-final against AS Monaco FC, Chelsea lost 3-1 away in the first leg
and eventually bowed out 5-3 on aggregate. Their two subsequent visits to France in the competition's group stage
brought a 3-0 win at PSG in 2004/05 and a 1-1 draw at FC Girondins de Bordeaux four years later.
Match background
• Marseille's Matchday 2 defeat at Stamford Bridge was preceded by a 1-0 home defeat by Spartak Moskva before
they collected their first points – and goal – when Souleymane Diawara's second-half winner saw off MŠK Žilina's
challenge.
• Before Matchday 4, OM had lost seven of their previous nine away games in the competition proper but improved
that record in spectacular fashion with a 7-0 victory in Slovakia to establish a new mark for the biggest away win in
the UEFA Champions League. André-Pierre Gignac scored three times and Lucho González twice.
• Didier Deschamps' side went on to win 3-0 at Spartak last time out to make sure of second place.
• Chelsea launched their campaign with a 4-1 win at Žilina before the Marseille victory. That was followed by away
(2-0) and home (4-1) wins against Spartak and a 2-1 defeat of Žilina, the latter result extending Chelsea's run of
unbeaten home games in the group stage to 23.
• The Žilina win also made sure Chelsea would finish as group winners for the sixth time in eight seasons.
Team ties
• Deschamps spent 1999/2000 with Chelsea, winning the FA Cup. He also played in both the aforementioned UEFA
Champions League games against Marseille and was a team-mate of Terry.
• Deschamps coached Monaco to the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League final, beating Chelsea in the semi-finals.
Édouard Cissé was part of the Monaco team.
• Didier Drogba had one season with Marseille in 2003/04, and was voted Ligue 1 Player of the Year by the French
Professional Footballers' Union. In that season's UEFA Champions League he scored five goals, adding six more as
the French side switched to the UEFA Cup and reached the final, losing to Valencia CF.
• Michael Essien had spells in France with SC Bastia (2000 to 2003) and Olympique Lyonnais (2003 to 2005) before
signing for Chelsea.
• Diawara was part of the Bordeaux side that lost 4-0 at Stamford Bridge in the 2008/09 group stage and drew 1-1 in
France. Anelka scored in each game.
• Cissé and Anelka were team-mates with PSG between 2000 and 2002, Gabriel Heinze joining them there in 2001/02.
Match facts
Marseille
UEFA milestones
• Marseille's 7-0 win at MŠK Žilina on Matchday 4 was the biggest away victory in UEFA Champions League history.
• Brandão's goal on Matchday 5 was the French champions' 250th in UEFA competition.
UEFA Champions League statistics
• Stéphane Mbia serves a one-game ban on Matchday 6.
Latest domestic information
•
Sunday 5 December: OGC Nice 1-0 Olympique de Marseille (Faé 90+2)Mandanda; Kaboré, Diawara, Mbia, Taiwo; Lucho González, N'Diaye, Cheyrou (Jordan Ayew 79); Valbuena, Brandão,
André Ayew (Rémy 70)
• OM's six-game unbeaten run ended in Nice. They have nevertheless won nine of their last 13 matches.
• Leyti N'Diaye made only his fourth start of the season as Édouard Cissé was rested on the bench.
• Marseille's record of being the only team to have scored in every Ligue 1 fixture this term came to an end when they
drew 0-0 at home with Stade Rennais FC on 1 December.
• Didier Deschamps' side failed to score again at Nice, their first back-to-back blanks since last December.
• The Rennes draw was enough to give them the outright lead in Ligue 1 four days after going top for the first time
this season, on goal difference, by defeating Montpellier Hérault SC 4-0.
• Lucho González opened the scoring against Montpellier with his fifth league goal of the season, equalling his tally
for the whole of 2009/10.
• OM began the season with defeats by SM Caen (2-1) and Valenciennes FC (3-2), their worst start to a campaign
since 1985/86.
• Holders Marseille visit AJ Auxerre in the League Cup semi-finals on 18 January.
Injury news
• André-Pierre Gignac has missed OM's last four games with a thigh injury picked up on the eve of Matchday 5.
• César Azpilicueta could miss the rest of the season after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee
against Montpellier.
Miscellaneous
• André Ayew has been nominated for the African Footballer of the Year award. His father Abedi Pelé won the prize
in 1991, 1992 and 1993 while playing for Marseille.
Chelsea
UEFA milestones
• Matchday 5 was Chelsea's 100th European Champion Clubs' Cup game.
• Chelsea's next win in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final, will be their 50th. Daniel Sturridge's goal
on Matchday 5 was their 150th in the competition.
UEFA Champions League statistics
• John Obi Mikel will incur a suspension with his next booking.
Latest domestic information
•
Saturday 4 December: Chelsea FC 1-1 Everton FC (Drogba 42pen; Beckford 86)Čech; Bosingwa (Ferreira 65), Ivanović, Terry, Cole; Essien, Mikel (Sturridge 88), Malouda; Kalou, Drogba, Anelka
(Ramires 78)
• Didier Drogba's goal was his first in the league since 3 October.
• Petr Čech has kept eight clean sheets in the league this season, the joint highest total along with Joe Hart.
• Chelsea are four league matches without a win and have taken only five points from the last 18 available.
• Chelsea have failed to score in five of their last 11 league games; in the previous 11, they managed 42 goals.
• Prior to losing at Liverpool FC on 7 November, Carlo Ancelotti's team had scored 60 goals in 18 league games,
2000/01:
2000/01: UEFA Cup first roundDid not take part in UEFA club competition
Injury news
• John Terry had not played since 10 November due to a sciatic nerve problem before returning against Everton.
• 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.
• Alex has been ruled out until the new year after undergoing knee surgery last week.
• Yuri Zhirkov suffered a calf strain in Russia's friendly defeat by Belgium on 17 November.
• Yossi Benayoun is expected to be out of action until April with a torn Achilles tendon.
Miscellaneous
• Drogba and Salomon Kalou have been nominated for the African Footballer of the Year award.
• Frank Arnesen will leave his post as Chelsea's sporting director at the end of the season.
Olympique de Marseille
Formed:
1899Nicknames:
Les Olympiens (The Olympians), Les Phocéens (The Phocians)UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• European Champion Clubs' Cup (1): (1991), 1993
• UEFA Cup: (1999), (2004)
Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 9 (2010)
French Cup: 10 (1989)
League Cup: 1 (2010)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2009/10:
UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)2008/09:
UEFA Cup quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)2007/08:
UEFA Cup round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)2006/07:
UEFA Cup first round (having qualified as UEFA Intertoto Cup winners)2005/06:
UEFA Cup round of 16 (having qualified as UEFA Intertoto Cup winners)2004/05:
Did not take part in UEFA club competition2003/04:
UEFA Cup runners-up (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)2002/03:
Did not take part in UEFA club competition2001/02:
Did not take part in UEFA club competition2000/01:
Chelsea FC
Formed:
1905Nickname:
The BluesUEFA 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 162008/09:
semi-finals2007/08:
runners-up2006/07:
semi-finals2005/06:
round of 162004/05:
semi-finals2003/04:
semi-finals2002/03:
UEFA Cup first round2001/02:
UEFA Cup second round2000/01: UEFA Cup first roundDid not take part in UEFA club competition
conceding seven. Including the Anfield defeat they have managed only three goals in six Premier League outings
since, conceding eight.
• Chelsea lost 3-0 at home to Sunderland AFC on 14 November and 1-0 at Birmingham City FC six days later, the
first time the Blues had lost two league matches in succession since May 2006.
• The Sunderland defeat was the first time Ancelotti's side had lost at home in the league since 27 February; before
Nedum Onouha's 45th-minute opener, they had not conceded in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge in 916
minutes.
• The Blues had last failed to score at home in the league in a goalless draw against Everton on 22 April 2009; of the
ensuing 27 games, they won 25, drew one and lost one.
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