Greens aiming to leapfrog Galatasaray

Galatasaray AŞ inflicted a humbling 3-1 home defeat on Panathinaikos FC on Matchday 1, and revenge would have an added bonus for the Greek side as they look to seal a top-two finish in Group F.

• With ten points, Galatasaray are already through but they would confirm top spot with a victory. A draw would be enough for Panathinaikos to qualify and a win would put them top of the section going into Matchday 6.

Previous meetings
• Galatasaray won 3-1 in Athens on Matchday 1 in the sides' first ever meeting. The Turkish giants have twice hosted Panathinaikos's domestic rivals Olympiacos FC, winning 1-0 both times. Panathinaikos's only previous trip to Istanbul ended in a 1-1 draw against Fenerbahçe SK.

Match background
• Galatasaray are unbeaten in ten European fixtures this season – seven successes and three draws. In their five 2009/10 home games, they have won four and drawn one, scoring 18 goals and conceding just two.

• Since the loss to Galatasaray, Panathinaikos have won their last three European games by the same result – 1-0.

Team facts
• Galatasaray's coach is central defender-turned-midfielder Frank Rijkaard, who started and finished his career at AFC Ajax but reached his peak at AC Milan, winning two European Champion Clubs' Cups and two Serie A titles from 1988-93. A 1988 UEFA European Championship winner with the Netherlands, he has since coached the Oranje, Sparta Rotterdam and FC Barcelona.

• Panathinaikos coach Henk ten Cate worked as Rijkaard's assistant at Barcelona. Together, the duo won the 2004/05 and 2005/06 Liga titles as well as the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League before Ten Cate returned to the Netherlands to spend the following season in charge at Ajax.

• Current Greens midfielder Gilberto featured for Arsenal FC against Barcelona in that 2006 UEFA Champions League final in Paris.

• Rijkaard remained at Barça for another two campaigns but enjoyed no more major trophy success.

• Ten Cate spent most of his playing career as a winger with Go Ahead Eagles, one of a number of Dutch clubs whom he then coached.

• Before the first game, Rijkaard said: "It's something special because I worked with Henk and normally cheer for his team. Now it's different, but the important thing is that the friendship remains afterwards."

• Both coaches are of Surinamese descent.

• Greece and Turkey met twice in UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifying, with Turkey winning 4-1 in Athens on 24 March 2007, but losing the return fixture in Istanbul 1-0 on 17 October the same year.

• Panathinaikos's Giorgos Karagounis and Kostas Katsouranis played in the first match, while Dimitris Salpingidis was an unused substitute. Galatasaray's Servet Çetin, Gökhan Zan and Sabri Sarıoğlu were on the victorious Turkey side.

• Karagounis was the only Panathinaikos player involved in the second leg, with Servet and Gökhan included in the opposition lineup.

• Galatasaray's Milan Baroš and Harry Kewell played alongside Panathinaikos's Djibril Cissé at Liverpool FC in the 2004/05 season.

• Panathinaikos winger Sebastian Leto, another former Liverpool player, faced Galatasaray while on loan at Olympiacos last season, coming on 57 minutes into a 1-0 UEFA Cup group-stage defeat.

• Panathinaikos host FC Dinamo 1948 Bucureşti on Matchday 6, with Galatasaray visiting SK Sturm Graz on the same night, 16 December.