© EuroFootball.com
On Thursday evening, all UEFA Cup tournament round of 16 second leg matches took place in Europe, which were full of intense battles and unexpected results. After them, 16 teams emerged, which will continue to fight for the second most important European club football trophy - among them will not be the unexpected failure against Haifa's "Maccabi" experienced Moscow's "CSKA" with Deivid Šemberas, as well as teams such as Istanbul's "Fenerbahce", Amsterdam's "Ajax", while "Sevilla" will continue to defend the title of the champions.
CSKA finished the first match in Russia goalless, and in the second leg match, despite the fact that the hosts' team was affected by the flu, the only goal was scored by "Maccabi" in the 14th minute by Roberto Colautti. Lithuanian legionnaire D.Šemberas played in the Moscow team until the 74th minute.
Bremen's "Werder" club almost wasted a three-goal advantage, losing the match to local "Ajax" in Amsterdam, but still advanced to the next stage. At the beginning of the match, "Ajax" Brazilian Leonardo and the visitors' striker Hugo Almeida exchanged goals, and after the break, goals from Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Ryan Babel gave the visitors a slight hope, but the Dutch club could not score any more and was forced to withdraw from the tournament.
Last year's champions, "Sevilla" club, easily progressed for the second time after defeating Bucharest's "Steaua" team. The only goal at the end of the first half was scored by the Russian Alexander Kerzhakov for the Spanish team. Three more Spanish clubs made it to the quarterfinals - "Espanyol", which forced "Livorno" to surrender for the second time, "Osasuna", who scored a dramatic victory with a goal in the last minute of extra time against "Bordeaux", and "Spartak" Moscow, who defeated Vigo's "Celta" club in a tough battle.
