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04-12-2006, 21:22
With a place in the last 16 secured, PSV Eindhoven will aim to sign off their UEFA Champions League group-stage campaign in style against a FC Girondins de Bordeaux side now planning for UEFA Cup football in the new year.
• Both teams' finishing positions in Group C were confirmed on Matchday 5 when second-placed PSV went down to leaders Liverpool FC and Bordeaux overcame Galatasaray SK to secure third place.
• Second-half goals from Steven Gerrard (65 minutes) and Peter Crouch (89) inflicted a 2-0 defeat on PSV at Anfield – and meant that even if the Dutch champions take advantage of a Liverpool loss at Galatasaray to bridge the three-point gap between the sides, they cannot overtake them due to their inferior head-to-record.
• Bordeaux's 3-1 victory against Galatasaray on the same night settled the duel for third place. Alejandro César Alonso ended the French side's long wait for their first goal in the group stage after 22 minutes and Lilian Laslandes (47) and Julien Faubert (50) added two more before Junichi Inamoto's late consolation effort for the visitors.
• With a three-point lead over Galatasaray and a superior head-to-head record, Bordeaux will take their place in the UEFA Cup's Round of 32 in February.
Väyrynen winner
• PSV were 1-0 winners at the Stade Chaban-Delmas when these sides met in France on 27 September. Finnish international Mika Väyrynen struck the only goal after 65 minutes.
• Having started their Group C campaign with a goalless home draw with Liverpool, PSV built on their subsequent success at Bordeaux by defeating Galatasaray twice – 2-1 away and 2-0 at home – before succumbing to Liverpool.
• For Bordeaux, the story has been the exact opposite. After holding Galatasaray 0-0 on Matchday 1, their defeat by PSV sparked a three-match losing streak which included reverses both at home (0-1) and away (0-3) to Liverpool.
Quarter-final memories
• PSV and Bordeaux's only previous meeting prior to this season came in the 1987/88 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals when the Dutch side emerged as winners on away goals en route to winning the tournament. They drew the first leg in France 1-1 after Wim Kieft cancelled out José Touré's opener and the return in Eindhoven finished scoreless.
• In the PSV lineup for that second leg with Bordeaux on 16 March 1988 were Ronald Koeman, their present-day coach, and Erik Gerets, the man in charge of Group C's bottom club, Galatasaray.
• Overall PSV have won five, drawn six and lost two of their 13 previous home matches against French opposition. Bordeaux's 1-0 home loss to PSV was their first reverse in nine matches against Dutch opponents.
http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/UCL/FixturesResults/Round=2357/match=1116399/index.html
• Both teams' finishing positions in Group C were confirmed on Matchday 5 when second-placed PSV went down to leaders Liverpool FC and Bordeaux overcame Galatasaray SK to secure third place.
• Second-half goals from Steven Gerrard (65 minutes) and Peter Crouch (89) inflicted a 2-0 defeat on PSV at Anfield – and meant that even if the Dutch champions take advantage of a Liverpool loss at Galatasaray to bridge the three-point gap between the sides, they cannot overtake them due to their inferior head-to-record.
• Bordeaux's 3-1 victory against Galatasaray on the same night settled the duel for third place. Alejandro César Alonso ended the French side's long wait for their first goal in the group stage after 22 minutes and Lilian Laslandes (47) and Julien Faubert (50) added two more before Junichi Inamoto's late consolation effort for the visitors.
• With a three-point lead over Galatasaray and a superior head-to-head record, Bordeaux will take their place in the UEFA Cup's Round of 32 in February.
Väyrynen winner
• PSV were 1-0 winners at the Stade Chaban-Delmas when these sides met in France on 27 September. Finnish international Mika Väyrynen struck the only goal after 65 minutes.
• Having started their Group C campaign with a goalless home draw with Liverpool, PSV built on their subsequent success at Bordeaux by defeating Galatasaray twice – 2-1 away and 2-0 at home – before succumbing to Liverpool.
• For Bordeaux, the story has been the exact opposite. After holding Galatasaray 0-0 on Matchday 1, their defeat by PSV sparked a three-match losing streak which included reverses both at home (0-1) and away (0-3) to Liverpool.
Quarter-final memories
• PSV and Bordeaux's only previous meeting prior to this season came in the 1987/88 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-finals when the Dutch side emerged as winners on away goals en route to winning the tournament. They drew the first leg in France 1-1 after Wim Kieft cancelled out José Touré's opener and the return in Eindhoven finished scoreless.
• In the PSV lineup for that second leg with Bordeaux on 16 March 1988 were Ronald Koeman, their present-day coach, and Erik Gerets, the man in charge of Group C's bottom club, Galatasaray.
• Overall PSV have won five, drawn six and lost two of their 13 previous home matches against French opposition. Bordeaux's 1-0 home loss to PSV was their first reverse in nine matches against Dutch opponents.
http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/UCL/FixturesResults/Round=2357/match=1116399/index.html