Valencia

UEFA milestones
• None

UEFA Champions League statistics
• David Albelda and Éver Banega will incur a suspension with their next bookings.

Latest domestic information
• Saturday 29 October: Valencia CF 3-1 Getafe CF (Feghouli 12 25, Aduriz 76; Castro 23)
Guaita; Miguel, Rami, Víctor Ruíz, Mathieu; Pablo Hernández, Albelda, Banega, Feghouli (Alba 56); Jonas (Piatti 77), Soldado (Aduriz 62)

• Sofiane Feghouli scored his first league goals for Valencia, who moved onto 21 points from ten league games; four more than at the same stage last season.

• It is only the third time in 13 outings this season that Valencia have scored more than one goal.

• Valencia drew 1-1 with Athletic Club on 23 October, Roberto Soldado scoring an 89th-minute equaliser. Three days later Jordi Alba's 82nd-minute strike earned Unai Emery's men a 1-0 triumph at Real Zaragoza.

• Soldado has registered 19 times in his last 22 outings, a run that started on 2 April when he scored all Valencia's goals in a 4-2 victory at former club Getafe, although he has only three goals in his last 11 games.

• Emery's charges picked up 34 points from their last 19 Liga games in 2010/11, their best second half to a season since accruing the same tally in their championship-winning campaign of 2004.

• Valencia will play third-tier side Cádiz CF in the Copa del Rey round of 32 on 13 and 21 December.

Injury news
• Sergio Canales is expected to be sidelined for up to six months after partially tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee against Athletic.

• Hedwiges Maduro is likely to be out of action until February after tearing ankle ligaments while training with the Netherlands at the start of October.

Miscellaneous
• Alba made his Spain debut in their 3-1 UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying victory against Scotland on 11 October.

Leverkusen

UEFA milestones
• Jonas's goal on matchday three was the 100th Leverkusen have conceded in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final.

UEFA Champions League statistics
• Stefan Kiessling has committed 14 fouls, the joint highest total in the competition along with Didier Zokora.

Latest domestic information
• Friday 28 October: SC Freiburg 0-1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Ballack 2)
Leno; Schwaab, Toprak, Friedrich, Kadlec; Bender, Castro, Ballack (Rolfes 65), Sam, Schürrle (Reinartz 83); Derdiyok (Kiessling 74)

• Gonzalo Castro started on his return from a one-match ban as Robin Dutt oversaw victory at the club he coached for four seasons before taking the reins at Leverkusen this summer.

• Michael Ballack scored his first Bundesliga goal since the last day of 2005/06, on 13 May 2006, when he struck for FC Bayern München in a 3-3 draw with Borussia Dortmund.

• The Freiburg win marked only Leverkusen's second clean sheet in ten matches.

• Leverkusen followed up victory on matchday three with a 1-0 home defeat by FC Schalke 04.

Injury news
• Ballack went off on 65 minutes against Freiburg after breaking his nose in a challenge with Jan Rosenthal.

• Renato Augusto was ruled out for "several weeks" after undergoing knee surgery in late October. Summer signing Michael Ortega had an operation after injuring his left knee on 5 September.

• Bastian Oczipka, out since breaking an ankle on loan at FC St Pauli on 19 February, has been an unused substitute for Leverkusen's past three games.

• First-choice goalkeeper René Adler has been sidelined since undergoing knee surgery in mid-July. Understudy Fabian Giefer suffered concussion against 1. FSV Mainz 05 on 7 August, but has since played three times for the reserves.

• Tranquillo Barnetta could be out of the group stage after undergoing another operation on his right knee to correct complications which arose during the summer.

Miscellaneous
• Kadlec, who has scored five goals in his last four internationals, is likely to be on duty on 11 and 15 November when the Czech Republic face Montenegro in the UEFA EURO 2012 play-offs.

• Kadlec extended his contract by two years, until 2015, on 21 October.

• Lars Bender made his Germany debut as a substitute in a 2-2 friendly draw in Poland on 6 September.