Former winners to meet head on

Feyenoord will hope for a similar outcome to their previous tie against PFC CSKA Moskva as the 1973/74 and 2001/02 UEFA Cup winners host their 2004/05 counterparts in their second Group H encounter.

• Feyenoord and CSKA have met before, with the Rotterdam side coming out on top in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup first round tie, winning 1-0 in Moscow and drawing the return leg 1-1 in the Netherlands.

• Kees van Wonderen scored the only goal in the first leg seven minutes from time. Valeri Minko levelled the tie on aggregate at De Kuip Stadium, but Aleksandr Tarkhanov's side were denied as Van Wonderen struck again to hand the tie to Arie Haan's side.

• The teams for the first leg on 10 September 1996 were:
CSKA: Dmytro Tyapushkin, Denis Mashkarin, Andrei Ivanov, Evgeni Bushmanov, Sergei Semak, Valeri Minko, Edgaras Jankauskas, Aleksei Gerasimov, Aleksandr Shoutov, Leonidas (Denis Pervushin, 60), Leandro Samaroni.
Feyenoord: Ed de Goey, Patricio Graff, Ronald Koeman, Jean Paul van Gastel, Kees van Wonderen, Gaston Taument, Pablo Sánchez (Henk Vos, 76), Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Geoffrey Claeys (George Boateng, 54), Henrik Larsson, Henk Fräser.

• The teams for the second leg a fortnight later were:
Feyenoord: Ed de Goey, Patricio Graff, Ronald Koeman, Jean Paul van Gastel (Bernard Schuiteman, 88), Kees van Wonderen, Gaston Taument, Pablo Sánchez (Henk Vos, 57), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Geoffrey Claeys, 81), George Boateng, Henrik Larsson, Henk Fräser.
CSKA: Dmytro Tyapushkin, Denis Mashkarin, Dmitri Khoklov, Andrei Ivanov, Evgeni Bushmanov, Sergei Semak, Valeri Minko, Edgaras Jankauskas, Aleksei Gerasimov, Andrei Gashkin (Leonidas, 46), Leandro Samaroni (Aleksandr Shoutov, 73).

• Including those two games against CSKA, Feyenoord have played six UEFA club competition games against Russian sides, winning two, drawing two and losing two. At home, they have won one, drawn one and lost one.

• CSKA have played five games against Dutch sides, and have yet to win one, drawing two and losing three. Their form in the Netherlands is better than in Russia, however, with their three games on Dutch soil producing two draws and a defeat.

• Feyenoord coach Gertjan Verbeek has come up against Valeri Gazzaev's CSKA before, with his SC Heerenveen side drawing 0-0 at home against the Russian outfit in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage.

• The CSKA team for that game on 3 November 2005 was:
CSKA: Igor Akinfeev, Deividas Šemberas, Sergei Ignashevich, Aleksei Berezutski, Daniel Carvalho, Rolan Gusev, Vágner Love (Sergei Samodin, 80), Chidi Odiah, Yuri Zhirkov (Miloš Krasić, 85), Evgeni Aldonin, Elvir Rahimić.

• CSKA defender Anton Grigoriev is within a booking of a one-match ban.

• Feyenoord lost their opening fixture 3-0 at AS Nancy-Lorraine while CSKA beat RC Deportivo La Coruña by the same margin in Moscow, two goals coming from starlet Alan Dzagoev and a third from Vágner Love.

• KKS Lech Poznań are at home against Nancy in Matchday 2's other Group H game. Deportivo are the only team in the section not in action on Thursday.