Hamburg resume quest for hometown final

Hamburger SV will hope history can repeat itself in their round of 32 meeting with PSV Eindhoven as Bruno Labbadia's men continue their quest to reach the UEFA Europa League final at their own Arena Hamburg on 12 May.

Previous meetings
• Hamburg and PSV met in the second round of the 1980/81 UEFA Cup, Branislav Zebec's Hamburg beating Thijs Libregts' charges 3-2 on aggregate thanks to a 2-1 second-leg victory at the old Volksparkstadion.

• The lineups for that game on 5 November 1980 were:
Hamburg: Koitka, Kaltz, Hidien, Buljan, Jakobs, Groh, Reimann (Milewski, 71), Hartwig, Hrubesch, Magath, Memering.
PSV: Doesburg, Wildschut, Huh, Brandts, Poorvliet, Postuma, Rene van de Kerkhof, Willy van de Kerkhof, Van Kraay, Valke, Van der Kuijlen.

Match background
• Hamburg's 11 games against Dutch opposition have yielded the record W5 D1 L5; at home W3 D0 L3. PSV have played 32 games against German teams and their record is W8 D8 L16; in Germany W1 D4 L11.

• The Dutch club's only success on German soil was a 2-1 UEFA Cup win at TSV Eintracht Braunschweig on 7 December 1977.

• UEFA Cup semi-finalists last season, Hamburg featured in the competition's last 32 in three of the last four campaigns and progressed to the round of 16 on all three occasions, beating FC Thun (2005/06), FC Zürich (2007/08) and NEC Nijmegen (2008/09).

• Labbadia's side are unbeaten in their last four European home games, recording three wins and a draw since losing 1-0 to Randers FC in the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.

• PSV last played in the UEFA Cup round of 32 in 2007/08, beating Helsingborgs IF en route to a quarter-final exit at the hands of ACF Fiorentina.

• Undefeated in five European away fixtures this season (three wins and two draws), PSV last lost a UEFA Cup away fixture on 14 April 2004, going down 2-1 at Newcastle United FC.

Team facts
• Coached by Dutchman Martin Jol last season, Hamburg boast plenty of talent from the Netherlands in the form of Joris Mathijsen, Eljero Elia and Ruud van Nistelrooy, signed from Real Madrid CF in January. In addition, Marcus Berg previously played in the Eredivisie with FC Groningen.

• Van Nistelrooy has not came up against PSV in a competitive game since leaving the club for Manchester United FC in 2001. From 1998 to 2001, Van Nistelrooy scored 62 goals in 67 league games for PSV and won two league titles, two Dutch Player of the Season awards and was twice the league's top scorer.

• Elia, Van Nistelrooy and Mathijsen are Dutch internationals, as are PSV's André Ooijer, Ibrahim Afellay and Orlando Engelaar.

• Mathijsen and PSV's Jan Kromkamp were defensive team-mates at AZ Alkmaar in 2004/05. Mathijsen and Danny Koevermans were also AZ team-mates from 2005 to 2007.

• Elia and Engelaar played together at FC Twente in 2007/08 before the latter moved to Germany to join Fred Rutten at FC Schalke 04. He then followed the coach back to PSV in the summer.

• Andreas Isaksson and Ola Toivonen are team-mates with Berg for Sweden.

• Hamburg's David Rozenhal and PSV's Timmy Simons were team-mates at Club Brugge KV from 2003 to 2005.

• Danko Lazović spent 2005/06 at Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

• Hamburg need four goals to bring up 400 in UEFA club competition and have conceded 248 times.

• PSV are also four goals short of 400 in UEFA club competition.

• The tie concludes in Eindhoven on 25 February with the winners to face Athletic Club or RSC Anderlecht in the round of 16 on 11 and 18 March, playing the first leg at home.

Hamburg
Suspended: none
Misses next match if booked: David Jarolím, Piotr Trochowski
Players added to squad: Ruud van Nistelrooy, Tolgay Arslan, Henrik Dettmann, Gerrit Pressel
Players removed from squad: Mickaël Tavares, Romeo Castelen

PSV
Suspended: none
Misses next match if booked: none
Players added to squad: none
Players removed from squad: Stef Nijland, Haibin Zhou, Jonathan Reis, Nigel Hasselbaink