BBC SPORT
FC Thun v Arsenal
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Group B
Date: Tue 22 November
Venue: Lachenstadion
Kick-off: 1945 GMT
Coverage on BBC Radio Five Live and this website
With Arsenal's progress already secured, manager Arsene Wenger looks set to
rest some of his star players.
Teenage midfielder Alexandre Song and utility man Emmanuel Eboue are set to
start, with Nicklas Bendtner, Arturo Lupoli and Johan Djourou in the squad.
Jens Lehmann, Kolo Toure and Gilberto have all been rested, while Dennis
Bergkamp does not travel.
Pascal Cygan is set to continue at left-back in place of injured duo Ashley
Cole and Gael Clichy.
Arsenal (from): Poom, Lauren, Campbell, Cygan, Ljungberg, Fabregas, Pires,
Henry, Van Persie, Almunia, Song, Eboue, Flamini, Senderos, Reyes, Lupoli,
Owusu-Abeyie, Bendtner, Djourou.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger:
"We want to finish top of the group, we want to finish unbeaten and we want
to respect the teams who fight for the Uefa Cup places like Thun and Sparta
Prague.
"If we finish second and we get a very hard team in the knock-out stages,
you get what you deserve.
¿I feel this will be a good test for us. My information is that Thun had an
outstanding game against Ajax and did not deserve to lose the game."
STATS
# Arsenal have already qualified for the last 16 of this season's Champions
League.
Definitions of terms used:-
Champions League (CL) - only group phase matches and beyond of this
competition which began in 1992/1993.
Champions Cup/Champions League - all matches played since it began in
1955/1956 including qualification matches.
European matches - all matches played in the major European tournaments
(Fairs Cup, Uefa Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, Champions Cup, Champions League).
Uefa Super Cups, Intertoto Cups and the old Intercontinental Cup competition
are excluded.
Head-to-Head
# FC Thun and Arsenal have played each other once before in European Cup
history.
# Arsenal beat FC Thun in that meeting on 14 September 2005 2-1. Gilberto
Silva gave Arsenal a 51st minute lead only to see Nelson Ferreira equalize
two minutes later. Dennis Bergkamp gave Arsenal the victory with a 90th
minute goal.
# FC Thun have never played against any other club from England.
# Arsenal have now played Swiss clubs in European Cup football three times
and have won all three.
# Their only visit to Switzerland was on 20 October 1971 when the Gunners
beat Grasshoppers 2-0 in a Champions Cup second round match.
European history
# FC Thun have no European history as they are in their first ever European
season.
# Arsenal's best result in the Champions League is reaching the
quarter-finals (2000/2001 and 2003/2004).
# The Lonerers' European trophies are the 1969/1970 Fairs Cup and the
1993/1994 Cup Winners' Cup.
# The Gunners are making their eighth appearance in the CL main competition.
Current European form
# FC Thun have lost their last two European matches.
# Arsenal currently lead Group B with a 100% record having won all four
matches.
# Arsenal have won their last five Champions League matches.
# The Gunners have won five straight European matches on two previous
occasions, most recently in 2003/2004.
# Arsenal have scored at least one goal in their last 20 Champions League
matches.
# This run is only two matches shy of the competition record of 22 by Bayern
Munich (1998-2000).
# Arsenal have won their last two Champions League away matches.
# FC Thun are third in Group B with three points from four matches.
# FC Thun recorded their first ever Champions League victory when they beat
Sparta Prague 1-0 in their second group match.
Player and disciplinary info
# No players are suspended.
# Kolo Habib Toure (Arsenal), Jose Gonçalves, Nelson Ferreira and Selver
Hodzic (all FC Thun) will be suspended upon receiving another yellow card.
# Arsenal's most experienced players in the Champions League are Thierry
Henry (70) and Robert Pires (66).
# Fredrik Ljungberg (53) and Lauren (51) are the only other players in the
Arsenal squad with 50+ CL appearances.
# Sweden's Ljungberg, Cameroon's Lauren and Ivory Coast's Kolo Habib Toure
(29) also lead their countrymen in CL appearances.
# With 61 appearances and 32 goals for Arsenal in the Champions League,
Henry is Arsenal's record holder for both categories.
# Henry's 39 CL career goals rank him third on the all-time list, only
trailing Raul (51) and Van Nistelrooy (43).
# FC Thun have only two players in their squad (Gregory Duruz and Nenad
Savic) who had ever played in the Champions League before this season. They
both played their CL matches for FC Basel.
Other miscellaneous facts
# FC Thun have lost four of their last five competitive matches.
# Since 28 August, FC Thun have played 14 competitive matches and won only
four.
# Arsenal have won five of their last six competitive matches.
# Since 14 September, the Gunners have played 13 competitive matches and
have won 10, drawn twice and lost only once.
# FC Thun lost 3-2 at home to Xamax Neuchatel on Friday, despite Mauro
Lustrinelli giving them a 2-0 lead.
# FC Thun are currently in fifth place in the Swiss League, 16 points behind
leaders FC Basel.
# Arsenal won 3-2 at second placed Wigan Athletic on Saturday, ending
Wigan's streak of six successive Premiership wins.
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/football/europe/4448324.stm
Published: 2005/11/21 12:30:16 GMT
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