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| October 06, 2007 | Saturday | Ramazan 23, 1428 |
UEFA Cup Ajax crash out; Bayern through
LONDON, Oct 4: Former European champions Ajax Amsterdam made a shock exit from the UEFA Cup on Thursday after a 3-2 home defeat by Dinamo Zagreb gave the Croatians a 3-3 draw on aggregate and victory on the away goals rule.
The upset dominated a night on which fellow favourites Bayern Munich reached the group stage with a 2-0 win at Belenenses, Spain's Atletico Madrid and Villarreal enjoyed crushing wins and Premier League hopefuls Tottenham Hotspur, Everton and Bolton Wanderers all went through.
Ajax's elimination was all the more of a surprise as they had been leading 1-0 after the away leg two weeks ago.
They fell behind on the night to a Luka Modric penalty in the first half which eventually sent the tie into extra time.
Atletico Madrid completed a 9-0 drubbing of Turkey's Erciyesspor, knocking in another five on Thursday, while Villarreal rounded off a 6-1 win over BATE of Belarus.
Second-half goals by James McFadden and Victor Anichebe earned Everton a 3-2 comeback win at Metalist Kharkiv and a 4-3 win on aggregate, while Bolton Wanderers beat Rabotnicki 1-0 with a Nicolas Anelka winner after finishing 1-1 in Macedonia.
Blackburn Rovers went out 3-2 on aggregate to Larissa of Greece despite winning 2-1 on the night, and Tottenham Hotspur settled for a 1-1 draw at Anorthosis Famagusta after their 6-1 demolition of the Cypriot team at White Hart Lane.
Thursday’s results:
Uniao Leiria 3 Bayer Leverkusen 2
(Bayer Leverkusen win 5-4 on aggregate)
Braga 4 Hammarby 0
(Braga win 5-2 on aggregate)
Fiorentina 1 Groningen 1 (2-2 on aggregate, Fiorentina win 4-3 on penalties)
Palermo 0 Mlada Boleslav 1
(1-1 on aggregate, Mlada Boleslav win 4-2 on penalties)
AZ Alkmaar 0 FC Pacos de Ferreira 0
(AZ Alkmaar win 1-0 on aggregate)
FC Twente 3 Getafe 2
(3-3 on aggregate, Getafe win on away goals)
Real Zaragoza 2 Aris Salonika 1 (2-2 on aggregate, Aris Salonika win on away goals)
Girondins Bordeaux 1 Tampere United 1
(Girondins Bordeaux win 4-3 on aggregate)
Blackburn Rovers 2 Larissa 1
(Larissa win 3-2 on aggregate)
Bolton Wanderers 1 Rabotnicki Skopje 0
(Bolton Wanderers win 2-1 on aggregate)
FC Copenhagen 2 Racing Lens 1
(FC Copenhagen win 3-2 on aggregate)
Rapid Vienna 0 Anderlecht 1
(Anderlecht win 2-1 on aggregate)
Red Star Belgrade 1 Groclin Grodzisk 0
(Red Star Belgrade win 2-0 on aggregate)
Metalist Kharkiv 2 Everton 3
(Everton win 4-3 on aggregate)
Stade Rennes 1 Lokomotiv Sofia 2
(Stade Rennes win 4-3 on aggregate)
Belenenses 0 Bayern Munich 2
(Bayern Munich win 3-0 on aggregate)
Club Bruges 1 Brann Bergen 2
(2-2 on aggregate, Brann Bergen win on away goals)
Galatasaray 5 Sion 1
(Galatasaray win 7-4 on aggregate)
AIK Stockholm 0 Hapoel Tel Aviv 1
(Hapoel Tel Aviv win 1-0 on aggregate)
Salzburg 1 AEK Athens 0
(AEK Athens win 3-1 on aggregate)
Ajax Amsterdam 2 Dinamo Zagreb 3
(3-3 on aggregate, Dinamo Zagreb win on away goals)
Standard Liege 1 Zenit St Petersburg 1
(Zenit St Petersburg win 4-1 on aggregate)
Panionios 0 Sochaux 1
(Panionios win 2-1 on aggregate)
BATE Borisov 0 Villarreal 2
(Villareal win 6-1 on aggregate)
Basle 6 Sarajevo 0
(Basel win 8-1 on aggregate)
CSKA Sofia 1 Toulouse 1
(1-1 on aggregate, Toulouse win on away goals)
Elfsborg Boras 0 Dinamo Bucharest 1
(2-2 on aggregate, Elfsborg Boras win on away goals)
Haecken 1 Spartak Moscow 3
(Spartak Moscow win 8-1 on aggregate)
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1 Aberdeen 1
(1-1 on aggregate, Aberdeen win on away goals)
Valerenga 2 Austria Vienna 2
(Austria Vienna win 4-2 on aggregate)
AaB Aalborg 0 Sampdoria 0
(2-2 on aggregate, Aalborg win on away goals)
FC Zurich 3 Empoli 0
(FC Zurich win 4-2 on aggregate)
Hamburg SV 3 Litex Lovech 1
(Hamburg SV win 4-1 on aggregate)
Helsingborg 5 Heerenveen 1
(Helsingborg win 8-6 on aggregate)
Erciyesspor 0 Atletico Madrid 5
(Atletico Madrid win 9-0 on aggregate)
Lokomotiv Moscow 2 Midtjylland 0
(Lokomotiv Moscow win 5-1 on aggregate)
Anorthosis Famagusta 1 Tottenham Hotspur 1
(Tottenham Hotspur win 7-2 on aggregate)
Rapid Bucharest 2 Nuremberg 2
(2-2 on aggregate, Nuremberg win on away goals)——Reuters
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