The English contingent in the UEFA Cup put up a
good fight but still went out, albeit in the most dramatic fashion.
Penalties, the disease that usually afflicts the
national team, were fatal for Tottenham and Everton, who bravely equalized the
aggregate score against PSV Eindhoven and Fiorentina in the return leg before
it came to spot kicks. Bolton came Qiu Qiu Onlinetantalizingly close against the
2005 finalists Sporting Lisbon, but it will be the Portuguese who will take on
Rangers, the last British representatives in the quarterfinals.
Rangers, who have had a dream season so far, are
chasing four trophies but the strain could prove too much in the final stage of
the campaign play bazaar against Sporting, who are now fully concentrated on the European
stage. The last time that a Scottish club made a continental finals was in 2003
when Celtic lost to Porto by 2-3 in Seville.
Elsewhere, Bayern will try and confirm their
status of the team to beat when they face the Spanish surprise package in
Getafe. In the previous round, the Bavarians got rid of Anderlecht in a bizarre
replica of their 1987 encounter in the European Cup. On that occasion, Bayern
beat the Belgians 5-0 at home and drew 2-2 in Brussels in a game which
Anderlecht were winning by 2-1 until the 90th minute. This time, Bayern ran
riot in the first leg in Belgium scoring an amazing 5-0 win but suffered a 1-2
defeat at home.
Round of thirty two 1st 2nd
Zenit vs Villarreal
1-0 1-2
Marseille vs Spartak 3-0 0-2
Galatasaray vs Bayer 0-0 1-5
AEK vs Getafe 1-1 0-3
Bordeaux vs Anderlecht
1-1 1-2
PSV vs Helsingborgs 2-0 2-1
Rangers vs Panathinaikos 0-0 1-1
Brann vs Everton 0-2 1-6
Werder vs Sporting
Braga 3-0 1-0
Sporting Lisabon vs Basel 2-0 3-0
Aberdeen vs Bayern 2-2
1-5
Zürich vs Hamburger SV 1-3 0-0
Rosenborg vs
Fiorentina 0-1 1-2
Bolton vs Atletico
Madrid 1-0 0-0
Slavia vs Tottenham
1-2 1-1
Benfica vs Nürnberg 1-0 2-2
Round of sixteen 1st 2nd
Anderlecht vs Bayern
0-5 2-1
Fiorentina vs Everton 2-0 0-2 (4-2 pen)
Benfica vs Getafe 1-2
0-1
Rangers vs Werder 2-0
0-1
Bolton vs Sporting L. 1-1 0-1
Bayer vs Hamburger SV
1-0 2-3
Tottenham vs PSV 0-1
1-0 (5-6 pen)
Marseille vs Zenit 3-1
0-2
Quarterfinals (3rd and 10th of April)
Bayer vs Zenit
Rangers vs Sporting
(L)
Bayern vs Getafe
Fiorentina vs PSV
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