Zenit lost Tymoshchuk

On Wednesday, the first matches of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup, the current owner of the UEFA Cup St. Petersburg Zenit began defending the title at this stage of the tournament with victory over the German "Stuttgart" in his native Petrovsky. The first attack of the hosts, held in the second minute of the game, ended with a goal.

The burning combination was completed by the newcomers of Zenit - Igor Semshov and Sabolch Huty. Ricochet, after the pass, Danny played in favor of the midfielder of the Russian national team. Igor struck the gates of Lemann about 10 meters from 10. With the blow of Semyzhov, the veteran coped, but the ball flew away from him straight to the midfielder of the Hungarian national team, and wounded the hut almost into the empty gates. And without interference from the defenders of the German club. The return goal happened after half an hour of the game. For some reason, Roman Shirokov began to stroke next to his penalty area. Having beaten the seemingly Mario Gomez, the defender stumbled, unsuccessfully knocked out the ball into the center, where the opponents intercepted him and redirected the gomens, which, in turn, calmly chatted the Vyacheslav Malafeev round in the near corner. However, the teams of Zenit Anatoly Tymoshchuk did not allow the teams to take a break with this score. In added to the first time, the Ukrainian was a beautiful blow to the nine from behind the penalty limits.

This is not to say that the account fully corresponded to the game. “Zenith” these goals were difficult. However, in the second half, the home team looked much better. Only Pavel Pogrebnyak missed at least three true points, but in the end the teams stopped at 2: 1 numbers. Although such an account gives Zenit a small advantage over the return match in Germany, but it cannot guarantee an exit to the next stage without any problems. Moreover, Zenit suffered a decisive loss. At the end of the match in St. Petersburg, Tymoshchuk received another yellow card. Accordingly, in Germany, a key player of the lawyer team will not be able to help teammates, since he will serve disqualification by exceeding the permissible cards limit.

The main surprise of the environment was presented by the Kharkov "Metalist", which apparently turned out to be a place among the 32 best teams of the tournament. The team, which occupies the second place in the championship of Ukraine, took and beat the Sampdoria, and with full knowledge of the matter. After the somewhat chaotic beginning, the Metalist took the initiative to his hands and began to regularly threaten the gates of the Genoese. Load and Valentin Slyusar missed their chances, but at the end of the gaming gaming overwhelming, he logically turned into a goal, which was scored by Denis Oleinik after the flank program of Alexander Rykun. After a break, the Kharkiv people, of course, had to withstand the fair pressure of the hosts, but they defended their gates and now in a home match they have a handicap in one ball.

Other representatives of Ukraine and Italy, who held their matches on Wednesday, completed their fights in a draw. Dynamo Kiev was forced to recoup at home, having already passed in the eighth minute from the attacker of Valencia David Silva, and was saved in a “standard” way - 1: 1. The same result, but on the road was achieved by Milan, who met with Verder. Indzagi Sr. scored not obligatory, but the necessary guest goal, to which the Bremenites answered with a flurry of massive and mostly stupid attacks. One of them was nevertheless crowned with success when a certain share of rationality in the actions of the hosts introduced Hugo Almeid and Diego. The Portuguese won an air battle in someone else's penalty area and sighted the ball to the partner, and the Brazilian brown technically the projectile and put it in the corner of the goal of Dida. In the end of Verder, the Milanians themselves almost helped to wrest the victory, who decided to beat on their goal, but ruined the song Claudio Pizarro, who inappropriately intervened in the events and launched the ball into heaven instead of the grid.

Large victories won Hamburg, Olborg and Braga. “Hamburg”, who was in Nemigen, achieved an advantage in two goals already for a break, and then Ivitsa olich completed the defeat, mockingly lazily poked the ball past the goalkeeper. Children's and Portuguese teams won at home. “Braga” scored three beautiful goals against the Liezhsky “Standard”, and “Olborg” surprisingly easily dealt with the “deportivo” from La-Corunie. Having made a ridiculous mistake in his penalty and allowing Anders Due, the central machine of guests Adrian Lopez, apparently, was upset and decided to do nothing more, as a result of which the due scored more. After that, the mood was already deteriorated at the goalkeeper of Arance, who earned a penalty into his own goal and did not beat him. Wallowing 0: 3 in a week of Magnus Persson in the Galisians will not be easy to play.

UEFA Cup

1/16 finals

The first matches

"Dynamo" K (Ukraine) - "Valencia" (Spain) - 1: 1 (0: 1)

Goals: Silva, 8 (0: 1), Milevsky, 62 (1: 1)

"Olympiacos" (Greece) - "Saint -Etienne" (France) - 1: 3 (0: 2)

Goals: Ilan, 12, Dernis, 43 (0: 2), Georgevich, 63 - with a penalty (1: 2), Gomis, 90 (1: 3)

"Verder" (Germany) - "Milan" (Italy) - 1: 1 (0: 1)

Goals: Indzagi, 35 (0: 1), Diego, 84 (1: 1)

"Bordeaux" (France) - "Galatasaray" (Türkiye) - 0: 0

Nek (Holland) - "Hamburg" (Germany) - 0: 3 (0: 2)

Goals: Trokhovski, 41, yes Silva, 44, olich, 75

PSG (France) - "Wolfsburg" (Germany) - 2: 0 (0: 0)

Goals: OARO, 80, 85

"Sampdoria" (Italy) - "Metalist" (Ukraine) - 0: 1 (0: 1)

Goal: Oleinik, 45

"Olborg" (Denmark) - "deportivo" Spain - 3: 0 (0: 0)

Goals: DUE, 54, 72, Jacobsen, 90 - from a penalty

"Braga" (Portugal) - "Standard" (Belgium) - 3: 0 (2: 0)

Goals: Rentery, 17, Leone, 26, Agiyar, 84

"Zenit" (Russia) - "Stuttgart" (Germany) - 2: 1 (2: 1)

Goals: Husy, 2 (1: 0), Gomez, 15 (1: 1), Tymoshchuk, 45 (2: 1)

Zenit: Malafeev, Anyukov, Shirokov, Krizhanats, Shirl, Tymoshchuk, Semshov, Zyryanov (Tekke, 75), Hasy (Fayzulin, 88), Danny, Pogrebnyak

Stuttgart: Lemann, Osorio, Bulakhruz, Taschi, Manin, Hedira (Boka, 72), Hitzlshperger, Hilbert, Lanig, M. Gomez, Marika (Shiber, 77)

02/19/2009 / Mikhail Melnikov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 30 dated 02.20.2009.