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BERLIN, Dec 4: Amateurs SpVgg Unterhaching extended their impressive German Cup run with a 3-2 victory over first division Hansa Rostock in a third-round match on Tuesday.
Two goals from Angelo Vaccaro and one from fellow striker Francisco Copado enabled the former first division club, now playing in the equivalent of the third division, to reach the quarterfinals for the first time in their history.
The club from a Munich suburb, who had knocked out second division clubs FSV Mainz and Union Berlin in the previous rounds, are the only remaining amateur side in the competition.
Northerners Rostock had gone ahead through Magnus Arvidsson after 15 minutes and the Swedish striker also had them level at 2-2 after 63 minutes before Vaccaro’s 70th-minute winner.
A first-half goal from Germany midfielder Paul Freier gave VfL Bochum a 1-0 victory at Hamburg SV in Tuesday’s only clash between first division clubs.
Bayer Leverkusen, last season’s losing finalists, and TSV 1860 Munich went through with 2-1 victories over second division opponents, Waldhof Mannheim and Rot-Weiss Oberhausen respectively. Both needed a second-half penalty to progress.
German Cup third round results
Hamburg SV 0 VfL Bochum 1
TSV 1860 2 R’ Oberhausen 1
Leverkusen 2 W’Mannheim 1
Unterhaching 3 Hansa Rostock 2
LONDON: Manchester United avoided a potential banana skin against Burnley but Sunderland suffered English League Cup embarrassment at the hands of first division Sheffield United on Tuesday.
Goals in each half by strikers Diego Forlan and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer gave Manchester United a comfortable 2-0 win in their fourth-round tie at first division Burnley and a place in the quarterfinals.
Sunderland, third from bottom in the Premier League, were sunk 2-0 at Bramall Lane, with Shaun Murphy and Wayne Allison scoring Sheffield United’s goals.
League Cup fourth round results:
Burnley 0 Manchester United 2
Crystal Palace 2 Oldham (II) 0
Sheffield United 2 Sunderland 0
PARIS: Nice reclaimed provisional top spot in the French first division on Tuesday with a comfortable 3-0 home win over lowly ranked AC Ajaccio.
With 33 points from 18 games, Nice are two points ahead of reigning champions Olympique Lyon, who travel to struggling Paris St Germain Wednesday.
They opened the scoring with a lucky goal as Brazilian defender Everson’s 25-metre free kick took a deflection and went in off a post.
Ten minutes later striker Kaba Diawara swivelled round two defenders on the left and set up Serge Ayeli, who slipped the ball inside the right post to make it 2-0.
Diawara scored the third five minutes from time with a well-struck shot from a Laurent Gagnier cross.—Reuters
