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14.04.2009 11:30

Bayern-Barça: did you know that…?

Roger Bogunyà

This Tuesday Bayern Munich and Barça are going head-to-head in the return leg of their Champions League quarter final. Here are some curious facts and figures about the game.

• Neither team has overcome a 4-0 first leg deficit in the Champions League. If Bayern want to get through they’ll have to make a little bit of history.

• The biggest ever comeback in the Champions League took place when Deportivo de la Coruña beat AC Milan 4-0 at home after losing the first leg 4-1.

• Barça’s biggest Champions League defeats have been against AC Milan and Dynamo Kiev, on both occasions going down 0-4.

• Bayern has got through 7 of the 17 ties in which they played the second leg in Munich after having lost the first leg. However, on every occasion they were only one goal down.

• Barça has only been knocked out on 3 of the 36 occasions on which they have won the first leg at home, and always against English teams.

• The Catalans have not lost away from home in this season’s Champions League. They won their three group stage games and drew in the last 16 at Lyon ( 1-1 ).

• The Germans are likewise unbeaten at home in the Champions League, having beaten Fiorentina, Steaua and Sporting Lisbon and drawn with Lyon in the group stage.

• Bayern has twice scored four against a Spanish team. Both times it was against Real Madrid, but the 4-1 scoreline on both occasions would not be enough for the Germans on Tuesday evening.

• Both teams won their League encounters on Saturday. Bayern beat Eintracht Frankfurt 4-0 and Barça defeated Recreativo Huelva 2-0 .

• Barça’s record with German sides is 26 wins, 9 draws and 11 defeats. Just counting away matches it is 9 wins, 8 draws and 5 defeats.

• Barça has won 11 and drawn one of its last 12 clashes with German teams.

• Leo Messi (8 goals) is top scorer in the Champions League while Klose (7 goals), sidelined through injury, is second.

• The only Bayern player to have appeared in all the club’s European matches this season is Schweinsteiger.

• Two Bayern players, Ribéry and Toni, have been fouled more often than any of the other players left in the Champions League.

• The German’s have won fewest corners at 44.

• Barça is top in a whole raft of statistics: goals scored (28), shots (75), and fouls received (165). It has also committed fewest fouls (105) and been offside least often (15).

• Borowski, Demichelis and ex-Barça player Van Bommel are one yellow card away from being suspended.

• In the Barça camp only Sergio Busquets is in the same boat. Márquez picked up his third yellow at Camp Nou so misses the Allianz Arena clash.

• Bayern Munich’s ground will host the 2012 Champions League final.