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Great day in the UEFA Cup
By: Ian Rose |
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Some excellent matches today, with everything you could want from a day of European football. Comebacks, underdog wins, a few dominating performances and a few gutsy draws. Let’s take a look at a few matches.
Zenit St. Petersburg 2-2 Nurnberg
The Germans gained the first point in the most unlikely of their four matches – [...]
Category: UEFA Cup
Tags: Aalborg, Copenhagen, Elfsborg, Galatasaray, Getafe, Group Stage, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Helsingborg, Henrik Larsson, Larisa, Locomotiv Moscow, Match reviews, Mlada Boleslav, Nurnberg, Panionios, Tottenham, Toulouse, UEFA Cup, Zenit St. PetersburgUC Memories: 26 November 1957
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Before there was such a thing as the UEFA Cup, the second-tier cup competition in Europe was known as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It matched up clubs with custom-made city teams like London XI and Frankfurt XI. The very first of these cups was contested between 1955 and 1958, with preliminaries followed by [...]
Category: UEFA Cup MemoriesMissed opportunity for Romanian football
By: Ian Rose | 4 Comments
As Bob so fittingly put it this week:
Every year there is at least one team in the Champions League that makes you wonder how in the world they even qualified for the thing. This year it is Steau Bucharest. The Romanian club has been simply awful.
It’s true. In the last two seasons, the three [...]
Category: EuropeLate results: Viola go nuts, Aberdeen get a point
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Italy has had a rough UEFA Cup, with three out of their four teams failing to make the group stage. But the single Italian representative, Fiorentina, staked their claim on the knockout rounds today with a classic win over an outmatched Elfsborg team, 6-1. The Viola victory was one of only two home [...]
Early results: Bolton take shock point in Munich
By: Ian Rose | 7 Comments
The early matches of UEFA Cup group stage day 2 are over, and there are some real shocks. Bayern Munich, nearly everyone’s favorite for the Cup title, dropped their first points at home today, as Bolton shocked them with a 2-2 draw. It’s the third draw in four matches of the Megson era [...]
Tags: Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Bolton, Brann, Europe, Galatasaray, Group Stage, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Helsingborgs, Larisa, Rennes, Spartak Moscow, Tottenham, Tournament News, UEFA Cup, Zenit St. PetersburgUC Memories: 3 November 2005
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Two years ago today, Middlesbrough beat Ukrainian side Dnipro 3-0 in the UEFA Cup group stages. This wasn’t a particularly memorable game in the history of the UEFA Cup, but it does highlight how quickly things can change in professional football. Two years ago, Middlesbrough were winning convincingly in Europe. They would [...]
Category: UEFA Cup MemoriesUC Memories: 1 November 2001
By: Ian Rose | 1 Comment
A little history for you. Six years ago today, one of the biggest upsets in UEFA Cup history took place in London, as Hapoel Tel Aviv managed a 1-1 draw with Chelsea to take the tie 3-1 on aggregate and eliminate the Blues from the tournament. Other than their 2004 Champions League semifinal, [...]
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