Success of British Clubs in the UEFA Cup © EuroFootball.com

On Thursday, sixteen second-round group stage matches were played in the UEFA Cup. All British clubs emerged victorious - three English and one Scottish, as well as both French and two out of the three Dutch teams, and one team each from Romania, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, and Greece, with three matches ending in a draw.

Thursday's match statistics

Group A

Belgrade's "Partizan" 1 - 1 "Livorno"

70' [1 - 0] Nenad Mirosavljevic

88' [1 - 1] Marco Amelia

Glasgow's "Rangers" 2 - 0 Haifa's "Maccabi"

5' [1 - 0] Nacho Novo

89' [2 - 0] Charlie Adam (11m.)

Group B

Bucharest's "Dinamo" 2 - 1 Istanbul's "Besiktas"

21' [1 - 0] Adrian Cristea

58' [1 - 1] Deivson

87' [2 - 1] Claudiu Iulian Niculescu (11m.)

Players sent off: Gokhan Zan ("Besiktas"), Cosmin Iosif Moti, Silviu Andrei Margaritescu (both "Dinamo")

London's "Tottenham" 3 - 1 "Club Brugge"

14' [0 - 1] Ibrahim Salou

17' [1 - 1] Dimitar Berbatov

63' [2 - 1] Robbie Keane

73' [3 - 1] Dimitar Berbatov

And so on for other groups...