Dynamo still chasing first points

There is nothing but pride to play for when Sporting Clube de Portugal and FC Dynamo Kyiv meet in Lisbon, after events on Matchday 5 decided their respective fates in Group F.

• Sporting's 2-1 loss at Manchester United FC ended their faint hopes of UEFA Champions League progress, although Dynamo's 4-1 home defeat by AS Roma on the same night at least assured the Portuguese club the consolation of third place in the section and entry into the UEFA Cup.

• Paulo Bento's Sporting team go into this final match on four points – four better off than Dynamo who are the only club in the UEFA Champions League yet to register a single point.

• Sporting can equal their best performance in the group stage if they beat Dynamo. In their first campaign in the restructured competition, 1997/98, they took seven points – with two wins and a draw – to finish third in their section. They were bottom of their group both in 2000/01 (2 points) and 2006/07 (5 points).

• For their part, Dynamo need a win to avoid their lowest points haul, which currently stands at two – their meagre tally from both last season's competition and the 1994/95 edition.

• Six teams have gone through the initial group stage without collecting a point: PFC Levski Sofia (2006/07), SK Rapid Wien (2005/06), RSC Anderlecht (2004/05), FC Spartak Moskva (2002/03), Fenerbahçe SK (2001/02) and MFK Košice (1997/98). Bayer 04 Leverkusen also achieved the unwanted feat in the second group stage in 2002/03.

• Sporting led Manchester United 1-0 through Abel's first-half goal on Matchday 5 before succumbing to second-half strikes from Carlos Tévez and Cristiano Ronaldo.

• Their only win to date in the group came in Kiev on Matchday 2, where Tonel and Anderson Polga found the net either side of Vladyslav Vaschuk's goal for Dynamo. Besides that, Sporting have lost at home (0-1) and away to United, while drawing at home (2-2) with Roma and losing away (1-2).

• Dynamo were already 3-0 down against Roma when Ismaël Bangoura found the net 63 minutes into their eventual 4-1 defeat on Matchday 5.

• They have had three coaches during a campaign that began with Anatoliy Demyanenko overseeing the 2-0 loss at Roma on Matchday 1. József Szabó was then in charge for the home defeats by Sporting and United (2-4) before Oleh Luzhny took the helm for the reverses against United (0-4) and Roma.

• Dynamo's form in Group F continues their unhappy recent history in Europe. This season included, they have failed in their last seven attempts to progress from the group stage and they have not appeared in the latter stages of the UEFA Champions League since reaching the semi-finals in 1998/99.

• Dynamo have not won any of their last 12 matches – losing ten of them – with their last victory in the competition coming on 23 November 2004 when a Traianos Dellas own goal and a Maxim Shatskikh strike secured a 2-0 home success against Roma.

• On their travels, Dynamo have recorded a draw and six defeats in their last seven away matches. The last time they took three points was in September 2004 when they were awarded a 3-0 default win against Roma after the game was abandoned because a missile struck referee Anders Frisk.

• The Ukrainian team's last outright win away from home was on 8 March 2000, 2-1 at Rosenborg BK.

• Dynamo have lost all three of their past matches in Portugal. They went down 2-1 to FC Porto in the first leg of their European Champion Clubs' Cup semi-final in 1986/87 – en route to a 4-2 aggregate reverse – then lost 5-0 at SL Benfica in the 1991/92 group stage, and 3-1 at Boavista FC in the 2001/02 first group stage.

• This is Sporting's first home match against Ukrainian opposition.

• Sporting coach Bento and Dynamo head coach Luzhny both appeared as substitutes in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier between Portugal and Ukraine in Kiev in October 1996, which the home side won 2-1. Bento also featured as a substitute in the return in Porto, where Portugal prevailed 1-0.

• Dynamo goalkeeper Olexandr Rybka, midfielder Taras Mikhalik and forward Artem Milevskiy were part of the Ukraine side that reached the UEFA European Under-21 Championship final in Portugal in 2006.

• They faced the Sporting pair of goalkeeper Vladimir Stojković and striker Milan Purović in the semi-final against Serbia and Montenegro in Aveiro. It was Purović's missed spot-kick, against goalkeeper Rybka, which sent Ukraine through as 5-4 shoot-out winners following a goalless draw. Sporting's Montenegrin midfielder Simon Vukčević was an unused substitute.