Thursday, December 15, 2011

Drama on the field - Wisla and Salzburg advance, 2009 finalist and PGS out

Yesterday was the first of the two days for Europa league matches and again the football fans were fascinated by the results and the performances of some teams. Dramatic battles for every goal were what we saw in almost every pitch and it was astonishing how the teams of PSG and 2009 finalists Fulham were knocked out from advancing into the elimination stage of the tournament. Here's a lost of all the results from Wednesday noght matches:

Group F:

Slovan Bratislava 2-3 Salzburg

PSG 4-2 Athletic

Despite PSG' little chance for qualification for the last-32 stage they managed to overtake spanish Atletico in a clash with 6 goals. Even though half brake showed early signs for success, it was inevitable that they were going out after a great turnout of Salzburg against Slovan. After coonceding 2 goals from the brave hungarians Salzburg still managed to cope with the opponents strong play and get the 3 vital points that enabled the Austrian team to advance to the knock-out stage.



Group D:

Zürich 2-0 Vaslui

Lazio 2-0 Sporting

Lazio won a vital game that was enough to qualify them in Europa league. Portugese Sporting had to motivation for the match since they had already insured their place in the knock-out stage. Goals of Kozak(42) and Sculli(55) were just what the italian team needed to insure their place in the next round. In Switzerland, romanian Vaslui was unable to beat Zurich and manage to qualify for the first time in their history.


Group E:

Dynamo Kyiv 3-3 M. Tel-Aviv

Beşiktaş 3-1 Stoke

Besiktas was strong in their performance last night and managed to score 3 goals to beat english Stoke. After conceding an early goal from already qualified team of Toni Pullis, the Istambul team won a penalty and red card for M. Upson in the beginning of the second half and eventually scored it, along with a corner kick goal and a stunner from brazilian Edu. In Kyiv, Dynamo had little chances for succes in the tournament but after scoring 2 goals in the early 20 minutes, I made their match hard by 2 red cards of L. Almeida and Y. Khacheridi. Eventually Gusev saved the team from a dramatic and humiliating loss against the Israel team with a 80-minute goal for 3-3 deuce.


Group J:

M. Haifa 0-3 Schalke

Steaua 3-1 AEK Larnaca

Steaua insured their place in the elimination stage after beating cyprus AEK in Bukurest with 3-1 win. 2 goals of Nikolic in the second half did what Steaua was aiming for and with the lost of Laccabi against german Schalke, romanias succeeded in continuing for the fight for the Europa league Cup.


Group K:

Wisła 2-1 Twente

Fulham 2-2 OB

Glorious win of Wisla in Krakow against Twente Enschede was proof for the sensation in the group and the polish team qualified instead of english Fulham that failed to beat the weak denmark Odense with 2-2 deuce in West London.


Group L:

Sturm 1-3 AEK

Anderlecht 5-3 Lokomotiv Moskva

Since in this group there was little to decide fans didn't think something interesting will happen but furtunalety lot of goals have been scored. Greek AEK won in Austria against Sturm Graz with 3-1 in a glory match for nothing and proved to their fans their football duties. In a clash for the first possition in the group Anderlecht won with astonishing 5 to 3 goals against russian Lokomotiv. 8 goals, 1 red card a lot of emotions were the proof for the great battle won my austrians.

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