| |  uefa.com - NewsAll news about European Football. Generic news, match previews, match reports and much more. · Fates conspire to send six more clubs through
VfL Wolfsburg, SC Braga, Valencia CF, Aston Villa FC, AFC Ajax and Hamburger SV are all through to the UEFA Cup Round of 32 after Matchday 4 results went their way on Thursday, but the party is over for five clubs. · Top marksman leaves CSKA with top marks
AS Nancy-Lorraine 3-4 PFC CSKA Moskva
Vágner Love moved clear at the top of the UEFA Cup scorers' chart with a treble in France as the Army Men secured a fourth successive Group H win. · ?igi? heads Valencia on to the next level
Valencia CF 1-1 Club Brugge KV
Nikola ?igi? struck to take the home side through to the last 32 as Club Brugge failed to get full value for Antolin Alcaraz's brave opening goal. · Shock win at Villa still fails to save ?ilina
Aston Villa FC 1-2 M?K ?ilina
Ten-man ?ilina earned a famous victory, but it was not enough to keep their UEFA Cup hopes alive while Aston Villa progressed despite the loss. · Misimovi? shows Portsmouth no mercy
VfL Wolfsburg 3-2 Portsmouth FC
Zvjezdan Misimovi? delivered the decisive blow as Felix Magath's men earned their passage to the knockout stage and Portsmouth crashed out. · Hamburg gain is Slavia's loss
SK Slavia Praha 0-2 Hamburger SV
Goals from Croatian duo Ivica Oli? and Mladen Petri? helped the German side book their passage to the last 32 while eliminating the Czech club. · Braga fightback wins a last-32 place
SC Heerenveen 1-2 SC Braga
The Portuguese club's comeback win left them out of reach of their Dutch hosts in Group E and with two feet in the competition's knockout stage. · Rosenborg hopes dashed in Denmark
FC København 1-1 Rosenborg BK
The Norwegian visitors were eliminated from this season's UEFA Cup after a late Mikael Antonsson header gave the home team a point in Copenhagen. · Draw keeps Lech and Depor in contention
KKS Lech Pozna? 1-1 RC Deportivo La Coruña
Both teams remain in the qualification shake-up from Group H after Hernán Rengifo cancelled out a second-minute opener by Deportivo's Diego Colotto. · Positive meeting ahead of OM-Atlético
UEFA has today held a very positive and successful security meeting ahead of the UEFA Champions League tie between Olympique de Marseille and Club Atlético de Madrid at the Stade Vélodrome on Tuesday evening. · UEFA announces EURO club contributions
Clubs who contributed to making UEFA EURO 2008? such a success are set to receive solidarity contributions after UEFA finalised the amount of money to be handed to national associations following the finals. · Madrid challenge excites Huntelaar
New Real Madrid CF forward Klaas Jan Huntelaar admitted on Thursday to feeling star-struck after his ?27m move from AFC Ajax, saying: "This is the biggest club in the world and I'm still trying to take everything in." · Keane ends Sunderland stay
Roy Keane's reign as manager of Sunderland AFC has ended after the former Manchester United FC midfielder stood down on Thursday with the north-east club in the Premier League's relegation zone. · Vágner Love to continue CSKA affair
As PFC CSKA Moskva prepare to round off their Group H campaign against AS Nancy-Lorraine, Vágner Love has told uefa.com he will be staying in the Russian capital after shining brightest in a relatively disappointing season. · Meyong gives Braga something to brag about
Joint-top scorer in the UEFA Cup, Samuel Eto'o's sometime Cameroon strike partner Albert Meyong hopes to fire SC Braga into the Round of 32 with a win at SC Heerenveen, saying: "I am a striker and love to score." · Filipe goes back to his roots with Deportivo
Brazilian defender Filipe Luís Kasmirski is excited to be going back to his roots as RC Deportivo La Coruña travel to KKS Lech Pozna?, telling uefa.com: "Polish culture and traditions are still a big part of my family life." · Khamitzhanov confident of Kazakh progress
Kazakhstan Football Federation general secretary Sayan Khamitzhanov told uefa.com he believes the country's national side is moving forward despite a poor start to their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign. · Been jumping after NEC nick a win in Moscow
NEC Nijmegen have put thoughts of their decisive Matchday 5 game with Udinese Calcio on ice following their shock late win at FC Spartak Moskva, with coach Mario Been saying: "First we are going to celebrate." · Son versus father in family affair in Prague
Hamburger SV's Czech Republic midfielder David Jarolím will be taking on an SK Slavia Praha side coached by his father Karel in Prague on Thursday, with only one of the two clubs likely to reach the last 32 from Group F. · Hamrén hankers to prove a Nordic point
Erik Hamrén will look to contest FC København coach Ståle Solbakken's claim that "Danish sides are the best in Scandinavia" as he brings his Rosenborg BK team to Copenhagen needing a victory in Group G. |
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