Dynamo in need of PSG turnaround

FC Dynamo Kyiv had a rude awakening to Group A when they lost 4-1 at Paris Saint-Germain FC on matchday one and must now turn the tide as the teams meet again in Ukraine with PSG needing only a draw to join FC Porto in the last 16.

• On 18 September, PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimović opened the scoring from the penalty spot before centre-backs Thiago Silva and Alex added further goals. Miguel Veloso pulled one back but Javier Pastore made it 4-1.

• The Kyiv club then beat GNK Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 at home in Oleh Blokhin's first UEFA Champions League match as a coach before the double header against Porto resulted in a 3-2 away defeat and a goalless home draw.

• The French side followed their opening win with a 1-0 defeat in Portugal. They then won away (2-0) and home (4-0) against Dinamo Zagreb and have nine points, one fewer than already-qualified Porto but five more than third-placed Dynamo, who must win in Kyiv to have any chance of overtaking their opponents.

Previous meetings
• The sides last met in Ukraine in a UEFA Cup quarter-final second leg on 16 April 2009 when Dynamo won 3-0 with Ognjen Vukojević scoring the third. The game at the Parc des Princes had ended goalless.

• The lineups in Kyiv were:
Dynamo: Bogush, Betão, Vukojević, Sabljić, Aliyev, Bangoura (Corrêa 69), Eremenko, Milevskiy, El Kaddouri, Ninković (Ghioane 83), Yussuf (Nesmachniy 82).
PSG: Landreau, Ceará, Makelele, Luyindula, Hoarau (Giuly 68), Sessegnon, Traoré (Bourillon 16), Camara, Chantôme, Armand, Clément (Rothen 46).

• The teams' only other fixtures came in the 1994/95 UEFA Champions League group stage, PSG winning 2-1 away and 1-0 at home. Goalkeeper Olexandr Shovkovskiy, then just 19, appeared in both games for Dynamo.

• PSG defeated SC Tavriya Simferopol 5-0 on aggregate in the 2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup third round with a 1-0 away win. In the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League group stage they drew 1-1 away against FC Karpaty Lviv and won 2-0 at home.

• In four other home games against French sides, Dynamo's single victory was a 2-0 success against AS Saint-Étienne in the 1975/76 European Champion' Clubs Cup quarter-final first leg, although they went down 3-0 in the return. The other three contests ended in two draws and a defeat.

Match background
• Dynamo are involved in their 14th UEFA Champions League group campaign but their first since 2009/10.

• PSG are in the UEFA Champions League for the fifth time. Their goals in Zagreb were their first in five European away games, having also failed to score away in last season's UEFA Europa League group stage.

Team ties
• Jérémy Ménez scored in France's 2-0 victory against Ukraine in Donetsk on 15 June at UEFA EURO 2012. Taras Mikhalik, Yehven Kacheridi, Andriy Yarmolenko, Oleh Gusev and substitute Artem Milevskiy were in the losing side.

• France's Ménez, Mamadou Sakho and Blaise Matuidi faced Ukraine in a friendly, also in Donetsk on 6 June 2011. The visitors won 4-1 with Kacheridi and Milevskiy on the losing side.

• Ibrahimović scored the opening goal in Sweden's 2-1 defeat by Ukraine in the UEFA EURO 2012 group fixture at Kyiv's Olympic Stadium on 11 June. Khacheridi, Gusev, Yarmolenko, Mikhalik and substitute Milevskiy were all on the opposite side.

• In September 2011, Diego Lugano scored the second goal in Uruguay's 3-2 victory in a friendly international against Ukraine in Kharkiv. Shovkovskiy and Yarmolenko, who scored and provided an assist, were in the home team.

• As an Olympique de Marseille player between 2004/05 and 2010/11, Taye Taiwo faced PSG 11 times, recording five wins, three draws and three defeats including a 2-1 loss in the 2005/06 French Cup final at the Stade de France.

• Taiwo played alongside Thiago Silva and Ibrahimović at Milan last season.

• Ideye Brown played in FC Sochaux-Montbéliard's 2-1 Ligue 1 defeat by PSG at the Parc des Princes on 15 January 2011. Five months earlier he had scored the second goal in Sochaux's 3-1 win in the reverse fixture.

• Lukman Haruna and Nenê were team-mates at AS Monaco FC in 2009/10.

• Marco Ruben plays with Ezequiel Lavezzi and Pastore for Argentina.