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UEFA Cup. "Midlsbro", "Seville" and "Rapid" made their way to the 1/4 finals
On Wednesday, three reciprocal matches of the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Cup in football, following which the English Midlesbro, the Spanish Seville and Rapid from Bucharest made their way to the next stage of the tournament, leaving the Italian Roma, the French Lille and the German Hamburg, respectively.
| "Hamburg" | 3: 1 (0: 2) | "Rapid" (Bucharest) |
| Laut 24; Barbares 36; Van der vart 62 | Bug 51 | |
| "Roma" | 2: 1 (0: 1) | "Midlsro |
| Mansini 43, 68 (Pen) | Hasselbine 32 | |
| "Seville" | 2: 0 (0: 1) | "Lill" |
| Kanuta 29; Lus Fabiano 45+2 |
( In brackets, the result of the first meeting )
Five more response matches of the 1/8 finals will be held on Thursday. The attention of Russian fans, of course, will be riveted to the duel of the St. Petersburg Zenit with the Marseille Olympic . In the first match in Marseille, the wards of the Persiyymil Petrzhela won with the minimum advantage, thanks to the magnificent Grand of Andrei Arshavin, and have good chances to enter the next stage of the tournament.
Starting from the 1/16 finals of the tournament, the teams find out relations in the system of paired matches of the playoffs, and only the final will consist of one match. The decisive match will be held on May 10 at the Filips stadium in Eindhoven.