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08.04.2009 10:53

Barça v Bayern: Did you know?

Roger Bogunyà

Barça and Bayern meet on Wednesday evening in the first leg of the CL quarterfinal ties. A look at the European records of the two sides throws up some interesting facts and figures.

- Barça have never beaten Bayern in a competitive European match. Four previous meetings have ended in three defeats and just one draw.

- However, recently, Barça has done well against German teams. Of the last eleven matches, Barça have won ten.

- In total, Barça have won 25 times against German opposition, drawn 9 and lost 11. If we just look at the home matches, Barça have won 15, drawn one and lost 5.
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- Bayern’s record away from home against Spanish teams is not good: 4 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats.

- The last time Bayern played a team from the Spanish league was a year ago. They eliminated Getafe (3-3) in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup after losing 3-1 with just five minutes to go in the match.

- The last three times that Bayern have reached the quarterfinals they have been eliminated - 2002, 2005 and 2007.

- Barça have a better record in quarterfinals. Barça have gone through to the semis on 9 occasions out of 10 whereas Bayern have managed 12 out of 20.

- Tonight’s match in the Camp Nou will be between the two highest scorers in this season’s competition – both sides have scored 24 goals so far.

- Of the eight teams remaining in the competition, Barça have conceded the most goals; 11, not including the preliminary phase. They haven’t managed a clean sheet in any of this season’s CL matches in the Camp Nou.

- Barça head the ranking of goal efforts with 68, 11 more than Bayern (57).

- It will be the fifth meeting between Guardiola and Klinsmann but the first as coaches. In the four previous matches as players, Klinsmann has been unable to beat Guardiola.

- One of Bayern’s leading players, Mark van Bommel, played for Barça in the league and Champions League winning 2005-06 season. He is one of four players who are one yellow card away from a suspension.

- Márquez, Sergio Busquets and Borowski will miss the second leg in the Allianz Arena if they receive a yellow card tonight.

- Borowski already knows what it feels like to score but end up on the losing side in the Camp Nou when he came here with Werder Bremen in the 2005-06 season (3-1). He returned the following season with the (now) injured Miroslav Klose and lost again (2-0).

- Icelandic international Gudjohnsen was part of the Chelsea team that eliminated Bayern in the quarterfinals of the 2004-05 Champions League. Chelsea had already eliminated Barça in the previous round.

- Thierry Henry is one goal away from a total of 50 in the Champions League.

- Bayern is one goal away from conceding 350 in all UEFA competitions.

- Franck Ribery tops the ranking of goal assists in this year’s competition – six.