UEFA CUP 2008/9

[johntheclaret]

Tonights results


FC Moscow 2 - 0 Legia Warsaw
FC Midtjylland 0 - 1 Manchester City
Man City win 4-2 on penalties
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 3 - 0 Vojvodina
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona 1 - 2 Litex Lovech
Zrinjski Mostar 0 - 2 Braga
Viking FK 1 - 2 FC Honka
Hertha Berlin 1 - 0 Interblock
Hertha Berlin v Interblock Fixture played
NK Slaven Koprivnica 2 - 0 Aris Salonika
Rosenborg 5 - 0 Djurgardens IF
Kalmar FF 4 - 0 AA Gent
Cherno More 2 - 0 Maccabi Netanya
Lillestrom 2 - 4 FC Copenhagen
SV Salzburg 0 - 1 Suduva
Omonia Nicosia 2 - 2 AEK Athens
MSK Zilina 2 - 1 Slovan Liberec
Brondby 2 - 0 FC Haka
FC Vaslui 3 - 1 FK Metalurgs
Austria Vienna 2 - 0 Wit Georgia Tbilisi
Sturm Graz 1 - 1 FC Zuric
FC Zuric win 4-2 on penalties
Rennes 1 - 0 Stabaek
Aston Villa 1 - 1 FH Hafnarfjordur
Hajduk Split 0 - 1 Deportivo

[devilsadvocate]

So, 4 English sides in the Eufa draw tomorrow.

Spurs
Portsmouth
Man Citeh
Aston Villa

I'm tipping a Spurs v AC Milan Final, but of course it all depends on the Champions League dropouts.

[devilsadvocate]

Shiiiiiiite.....Make that 5 English teams

Everton

[JK]

Shiiiiiiite.....Make that 5 English teams

Everton

It's always ok to leave Everton out mate

[devilsadvocate]

Shiiiiiiite.....Make that 5 English teams

Everton

It's always ok to leave Everton out mate

I thought one of you reds would pipe up with a gem like that.

Gold.

[johntheclaret]

Could be an all Mersey deby in the UEFA, unless Pool can lift their game

[johntheclaret]

Some ups and some downs for UK clubs tonight

Thanks to Sport365

Round Up

Tottenham battled their way through to the UEFA Cup group stages with a nervy 3-2 aggregate victory over Polish champions Wisla Krakow.
Arkadiusz Glowacki diverted Gareth Bale's teasing cross into his own net just before the hour mark at Stadion Wisly to extend Spurs' lead from the first leg, but Pawel Brozek's late strike set up a tense finale.
Spurs may be bottom of the Premier League in their worst start for 53 years - but head coach Juande Ramos is a UEFA Cup specialist and they clung on to their slender lead.
They now face Hull at the weekend looking for their first league win, before the draw for the group stages is made next Tuesday.

Everton's sorry start to the season continued as David Moyes' side crashed out of their second cup competition in the space of eight days with a 2-1 defeat at Standard Liege.
After being dumped out of the Carling Cup last Wednesday by Blackburn, Everton's UEFA Cup hopes have also now ended at the first hurdle.
A far-post tap-in from Axel Witsel gave the Belgian side the lead and, although Phil Jagielka gave the Toffees hope, Milan Jovanovic grabbed the winner from the spot after being bundled over by Leighton Baines to secure a 4-3 aggregate win for the Belgians.

Goals from Elano and Shaun Wright-Phillips steered Manchester City into the group stages of the UEFA Cup with a 2-1 win over AC Omonia securing a 4-2 aggregate triumph.
Elano made the breakthrough in the 48th minute and Wright-Phillips extended their lead seven minutes later. City though had to show their mettle against AC Omonia, who pulled a goal back with 12 minutes to go.

Marlon Harewood struck his first goal of the season as Aston Villa booked their place in the group stages of the UEFA Cup despite being held 1-1 at home in the second leg by Litex Lovech.
The former West Ham striker broke the deadlock after 27 minutes only for the visitors to level matters shortly after the break through a controversial penalty from Wilfred Niflore.
But Villa were always in command and progressed 4-2 on aggregate.

Motherwell's first European match at Fir Park for 13 years turned into a huge anti-climax as Nancy scored twice inside the opening quarter for a 2-0 win on the night.
Marc-Antoine Fortune followed up Benjamin Gavonon's free-kick to score in the 18th minute, and the same free-kick taker's intended cross found the net five minutes later to leave Motherwell needing four goals.
Other than a decent spell just after the break, they rarely looked like getting one as they succumbed to a 3-0 aggregate first-round defeat.

[devilsadvocate]

Could be an all Mersey deby in the UEFA, unless Pool can lift their game

Not any more!

Should have posted in here that Everton are out. Poor Timmy Cahill!

[johntheclaret]

Not this years comp but still an interesting UEFA Cup story

Thanks to The Scottish Sun

RANGERS were at the centre of a match-fixing riddle over their UEFA Cup final defeat to Zenit St Petersburg.

Two alleged leaders of a Russian mob were among 13 people nabbed in Spain over claims £32MILLION was paid so Zenit would win the trophy.
Zenit beat the Ibrox side, skippered by Barry Ferguson 2-0 in the final in Manchester in May.
It’s alleged the mob also fixed the Russian side’s 5-1 semi-final aggregate win over German giants Bayern Munich.

A Spanish newspaper claimed cops had launched a probe into the betting scam — after allegedly hearing two Mafia kingpins BOAST about it on an intercepted phone call. UEFA last night vowed to probe the allegations.
Madrid-based daily ABC said Godfather Gennadios Petrov and Leonid Khristoforov were TWICE recorded speaking about the sting. It is unclear how they had allegedly influenced the outcome of the matches.

But another paper El Pais said Judge Baltasar Garzon, Spain’s leading criminal investigator, sent details of the alleged match-fixing to the German State prosecutor. Their sources said Petrov was heard stating he had paid 50million to the German team — but did not clarify if it was in dollars, euros or Russian roubles.
Petrov and Khristoforov were among 13 people, all from the St Petersburg area, arrested by Spanish cops as part of a wide-ranging inquiry into money laundering, drug trafficking, gun-running, prostitution and extortion.

A spokesman for the National Police in Madrid said he could not make any comment about the report of match fixing. UEFA said it was looking to cooperate with the Spanish authorities over the allegations. William Gaillard, director of communications, said last night: “Our disciplinary unit will of course try to get in touch with the Spanish judge and see if he can share some of his information. It depends if Spanish law allows this type of sharing. But we will be looking into this.”

Reports in Spain also claimed police have opened a separate dossier into the alleged match-fixing as a result of the intercepted phone calls. Rangers have declined to comment on the allegations. Bayern Munich also refused to discuss the claims.

Goals by Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyryanov gave Zenit — led by captain Anatoliy Tymoschuk, victory over Walter Smith’s team in the final.

[JK]

Shiiiiiiite.....Make that 5 English teams

Everton

It's always ok to leave Everton out mate

I thought one of you reds would pipe up with a gem like that.

Gold.

Told you it was ok to leave them out mate

[Dirko]

I reckon Chelsea will win it.....

[Dirko]

Shiiiiiiite.....Make that 5 English teams

Everton

Dude, read my post on the Carling Cup thread....

[Pidge]

8-[

I reckon Chelsea will win it.....

No way that will happen

[devilsadvocate]

Beckham tp AC Milan:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11854_4369371,00.html

Wow!

[mighty_tiger_79]

UEFA CUP - just cut and pasted from BBC website


Thursday, 06 November 2008
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AC Milan 0-0Braga L


Ajax 0-0MSK Zilina L

Benfica 0-0 Galatasaray L


Bookings:
Cetin 11
Akman 14

FC Metalist Kharkiv 0-0 Hertha Berlin R


Bookings:
Simunic 6
Kacar 60




Feyenoord 1-2CSKA Moscow L
Van Bronckhorst 29
Berezutsky 14
Vagner Love 40


Bookings:
Andre Bahia 44

Bookings:
Aldonin 57




Lech Poznan 2-2AS Nancy R
Peszko 5
Stilic 22
Malonga Ntsayi 10
Zerka 81


Bookings:
Peszko 73

Bookings:
Andre Luiz 24
Bracigliano 22+4




Man City 1-0Twente Enschede L
Wright-Phillips 2



Racing Santander 0-0 Schalke 04 L



Slavia Prague 0-0Aston Villa L



Spartak Moscow 1-2Udinese FT
Rodriguez 17
Quagliarella 12
Quagliarella (pen) 60


Bookings:
Pasquale 40
Floro Flores 90+3



Sent off:
Pasquale 86




St Etienne 0-0 Rosenborg L



Standard Liege 0-0 Sevilla L



Tottenham v Dinamo Zagreb



VfB Stuttgart 2-0Partizan Belgrade R
Gomez 77
Gomez 80


Bookings:
Hilbert 40

Bookings:
Obradovic 69
Knezevic 72




Wolfsburg 2-1Heerenveen L
Dzeko 34
Grafite 39
Vayrynen 31


Bookings:
Vayrynen 48

[devilsadvocate]

COME ON YOU SPURS!!!
1-0 over Zagreb.

Great cross by Luca Modric against his old club, tucked away by Darren Bent.

Allo, allo, we are the Tottenham boys...

[devilsadvocate]

2-0!!!!

Darren Bent!!! 8th goal in all comps now.
COYS! Dominating!

[devilsadvocate]

Hatrick to Darren Bent - 9th goal in all comps!

4-0 to Spurs with Tommy Huddleston dominating. The big HUDD is built for European football.

Get in you Spurs!

[devilsadvocate]

The rather embarrassing thing about tonights game is that it is Gareth Bale's first win in Spurs colours.

A highlight however is Johnny Bostock, who became the youngest player to ever don a Lillywhite strip in a competitive game. Played well for 15 mins too and went close to scoring.

We won't be propping up the league for long!

[RoosterMarty]

First win for Bale?????? That is an amazing stat.

Have you seen the goals DA? Apparently Hudd's goal was a belter, volley from a corner?? I think I read that somewhere. I'm a fan of the bloke, he can certainly hit a ball.