Mutu god in Uefa Cup : Fiorentina through

Incredible night in the Uefa Cup!
Adrian Mutu qualifies Fiorentina in the semi-finals after he scored twice on Phillips Stadium, scoring a beautiful first goal with a great shot from outside the box. Score on aggregate 3-1 and Fiorentina meet Glasgow Rangers in the semi-finals , the Scottish team winning in Lisbon against Sporting.
Contra strikes again against Bayern Munich after he scored in the first leg too, but the Germans qualify. The Romanian defender scored in the 44th minute the first goal of the match, but Ribery equalised in the 90th minute.After extra time Bayern goes through with agregate 4-4. The Munich team will meet Zenit in the semi-finals.

Leverkusen didn’t make the miracle

Bayer Leverkusen won today in St.Petersburg 1-0 against the home team Zenit, but they leave the Uefa Cup competition because of the 4-2 aggregate. Zenit hopes now to repeat the CSKA performance from 2005 when they won the competition. Leverkusen leaves Bayern Munich to be the only German team left in the European competitions who will have a tough match at Getafe Zenit will play with the winner from the quarterfinal Getafe - Bayern (1-1 first leg on Allianz Arena).

First leg of the quarterfinals

The last 3 games of the UEFA Cup just ended and these are the reuslts:

Bayern - Getafe 1-1 (Toni 26′/ Contra 90′) -it looks like things aren’t so smooth for Bayern now

Fiorentina - PSV Eindhoven 1-1 (Mutu 56′/ Koevermans 63′ ) -a boring game in which the injury of Gomes was the notable thing

Glasgow Rangers - Sporting Lisbon 0-0 - Sporting starts favorite in their home game but anything is possible

Incredible win for Zenit St.Petersburg

Zenit, the Russian champion, made an incredible game today in Leverkusen and won incredible 4-1 against the German side, which were favorites

The first half ended 1-1 after Zenit scored first, but in the second half the match went one sided and 3 goals were scored in 12 minutes, thus making it 4-1 for Zenit who can’t miss the semi-finals .They will play with the winner of the duel Bayern-Getafe if they make their 99.9% chances real

A new ball for the Uefa Cup final

Today was revealed to the public,on occasion of the draws in Nyon,the official Nike ball for the Uefa Cup final 2008.

History part
The ball has prnted the Uefa Cup trophy and has references to the last 10 cities that hosted the final,including Manchester.It has a high-tech 5 layer design and it’s cross-linked.The nitrogen-expanded foam makes it to stay flexible and makes it good for any weather conditions.For a good release on impact it features a compressed polyethylene layer that stores energy and the stability,as well as the structure are given by the polyester support fabric.Uefa has a partnership contract signed with Nike since 2007.

The UEFA Cup Conquest Ball will be available in shops from Saturday.

UEFA Cup quarterfinals

And this is how the quarterfinals look like:

• Q1 : Leverkusen - Zenit
• Q2 : Rangers - Sporting
• Q3 : Bayern - Getafe
• Q4 : Fiorentina - PSV

S1: winner Q3 - winner Q1

S2: winner Q2 - winner Q4

FINAL : winner S1 - winner S2

Sporting eliminates Bolton

Sporting is the last team in the UEFA Cup quarterfinals after eliminating Bolton tonight.After a first half that ended 0-0 , the home side forced the win altough a draw whould have been enaugh and got it in the 85th minute thanks to  Pereirinha .  Sporting is the only team from Portugal left in the European Competitions , while Bolton leaves England with no more teams in the UEFA Cup. We now wait for the draw of the quarterfinals

Werder eliminated.Rangers in the quarterfinals

Werder Bremen won the game against Glasgow Rangers tonight 1-0, but the scottish team is the one qualified thanks to the 2-0 win from the first leg.Germany has now 2 teams remaining in the UEFA Cup, Bayern and Leverkusen, the two teams with more chances of winning this trophy then the others ;).The only goal of the match was scored by Diego in the 58th minute.

We now wait for the last game of tonight, Sporting Lisbon - Bolton 0-0 in the 64th minute

2 more games in the UEFA Cup tonight

The final 2 games of the UEFA Cup last 16 will be played tonight : Werder Bremen-Glasgow Rangers (0-2) and Sporting Lisbon-Bolton(1-1) .After this we will find out who the best 8 teams of the UEFA Cup are.We know 6 of them : Getafe, Bayern, Zenit, PSV Eindhoven, Leverkusen and Fiorentina. It’s going to be a long night

Final results in the UEFA Cup last 16

• ZENIT 2 -0 Marseille
• Hamburger 3-2 LEVERKUSEN
• BAYERN 1-2 Anderlecht
• Everton 2-0 FIORENTINA (Penalty Kicks)
• PSV EINDHOVEN 0-1 Tottenham (Penalty Kicks)
• GETAFE 1-0 Benfica

 The teams in bold are through the next stage.

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