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FC Barcelona vs. Shakhtar Donetsk: A few facts and figures…

Champions League has turned back to Camp Nou on Wednesday… Here a few cool statistics…

-    This is the 13th time FC Barcelona has made it to the quarter finals. Till now they qualified 10 times and gone out just twice.

-    This is the first time the club from Ukraine has made it this far in the CL.

-    Just one of the 8 teams that made it to the quarter finals won both games in the round before. That was Shakhtar Donetsk.



-    The last time the teams had met in the Camp Nou was in December 2008, the Ukraine won with 3-2. Even though Barcelona already had qualified as group champions.

-    They also met in Monaco in August 2009. A goal in extra time of Pedro made Barça win the European Super Cup.

-    The teams met 7 times in total, the results were 4 wins for Barcelona, 2 for Shakhtar Donetsk and only one draw.

-    Barça has won all of the 4 home matches this season (5-1 agains Panathinaikos, 2-0 against Kopenhagen, 2-0 against Rubin Kazan and 3-1 against Arsenal).

-    The worst match ever was one against an Ukraine club. They lost with 4-0 against Dynamo Kiev in the 1997/98 season.

-    The game of tonight is being marked by Dmytro Chygrinski, it is his return to the Camp Nou. He played 12 games and 2 cup matches for Barça.

-    Iniesta is the only player of Barcelona that will be suspended if he gets a yellow card this match.

-    But at Shakhtar, the players Chygrinski, Gay, Luiz Adriano, Mkhitaryan, Rat and Srna will have a game of suspension when getting a card.

-    David Villa scored 2 goals against the Ukraine when he played for Valencia in the season ‘06/’07.

-    The referee of tonight will be the Scottish Craig Thomson, a referee that never before refereed FC Barcelona or Shakhtar Donetsk.

 

 

 

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