Team ties • Podolski played for Bayern from 2006 until 2009, scoring 15 goals in 71 league games. Either side of that spell he spent a total of six years with 1. FC Köln and in ten games against Bayern was only once on the winning side. • Per Mertesacker scored SV Werder Bremens goal in a 3-1 home defeat against Bayern on 29 January 2011. After Arjen Robbens equaliser, the defenders own goal put Bayern 2-1 in front. During five years in Bremen Mertesacker faced Bayern 16 times, winning only two. • Mertesacker and Pizarro were team-mates at Bremen between 2008 and 2011, Mesut Özil joining them in 2008/09 and 2009/10. • Tomáš Rosický scored 20 goals in 149 Bundesliga games for Dortmund between 2001 and 2006, winning the title in 2001/02. • Mertesacker, Özil and Podolski are Germany team-mates with Manuel Neuer, Jérôme Boateng, Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Müller and Mario Götze. • Robben scored in Chelseas 2-0 win at Arsenal on 18 December 2005. In his three years at Stamford Bridge, Robben faced the Gunners on four occasions and never lost. • Ribéry plays for France alongside Bacary Sagna, Abou Diaby, Giroud, Koscielny and Mathieu Flamini. • Müller scored in Germanys 2-1 win in a Paris friendly against a France team who included Ribéry, Sagna, Koscielny and Giroud. Lahm, Podolski, Mertesacker, Özil and Kroos played for the visitors. • Giroud scored in Frances 2-1 friendly win in Bremen on 29 February 2012 against a Germany team who included Boateng, Kroos, Özil, Müller and Manuel Neuer. Ribéry also played for the visitors. • Javi Martínez and Thiago Alcántara are Spain team-mates of Santi Cazorla and Nacho Monreal. • Thomas Vermaelen and Daniel Van Buyten both play for Belgium. • Serge Gnabry was in VfB Stuttgarts youth team until 2011.
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