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Depleted squad Chelsea upset by Hapoel Tel-Aviv 2-0 in UEFA Cup
Updated: Friday October 19, 2001 4:58 AM
LONDON (AP) -- A depleted Chelsea was felled by a red card and two late goals as Hapoel Tel-Aviv scored an upset 2-0 win Thursday in a second round, first leg UEFA Cup tie. Five Chelsea players, including French World Cup winner Emmanuel Petit, pulled out of the Israel leg of the tie citing safety reasons. After Chelsea's Mario Melchiot was sent off early in the second half, Hapoel scored from an 89th minute penalty from Shimon Gershon and an injury time header from Sergei Kleschenko. In the 22 other games around Europe Thursday, two lesser heralded teams held their better known opponents. Spain's Real Zaragoza was held to a 0-0 draw against Switzerland's St. Gallen while Valencia came from behind to draw 1-1 with Poland's Legia Warsaw. Italian clubs did better -- AC Milan defeated Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia 2-0, Parma won 3-1 at Dutch club Utrecht and Fiorentina beat Tirol Innsbruck 2-0. Paris Saint German thrashed Rapid Vienna 4-0 while in England, Leeds United beat French club Troyes 4-2. In Denmark, FC Copenhagen drew 0-0 with former Dutch Champions Cup winner Ajax and Celta de Vigo defeated Czech club Liberec 3-1 in Spain. Glasgow Rangers beat Dynamo Moscow 3-1 In Tel-Aviv, Chelsea needed the heroics of goalkeeper Mark Bosnich, who was playing his first competitive game for 18 months. The Australian made three stunning saves for Chelsea, which lost Melchiot on a red card for kicking Gershon off the ball. The home team was awarded a late penalty after John Terry had stopped a cross with his hand and Gershon fired the spot kick into the top corner of the net. Soon after Kleschenko headed high to score Hapoel's second. The game took place amid tight security heightened by Wednesday's assassination of Israel's Tourism Minister, Rehavam Zeevi. Before the kickoff there was a minute's silence as a mark of respect. In Paris, Brazilian star Ronaldinho scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Rapid Vienna 4-0 to notch up its first home win since Aug. 25. French international Nicolas Anelka and defender Bernard Mendy also netted goals as the expensively assembled Paris club claimed a rare home victory at the Parc des Princes stadium. Favored Valencia came from behind to draw with tough fighting Legia Warsaw in Poland. Legia took the lead in the 11th minute when striker Bartosz Karwan caught the ball in the middle of the penalty area and sent it home from six meters (yards). The equalizer came rather unexpectedly in the 61st minute when Valencia's striker Adrian Ilie went down at the edge of the penalty area and the referee called the penalty kick. Ilie's powerful shot landed in the net to make it 1-1. In Spain, three goals by Russian international midfielder Alexander Mostovoi gave Celta de Vigo a 3-1 win over Czech club Slovan Liberec. Liberec equalized after Celta's Brazilian midfielder Edu Schmidt headed in an own goal, but the home side recovered with two more goals from Mostovoi. In Leeds, two goals apiece from Mark Viduka and Lee Bowyer helped Leeds United to a 4-2 win over Troyes. Leeds could have won by a greater margin but wasted several chances -- before and after Troyes' Medhi Meniri was sent off in the 49th minute for elbowing Australian striker Viduka. But the French club, in its first UEFA Cup competition, scored two goals from former French international Patrice Loko, the second while outnumbered in the 81st minute. In Florence, Italy, second-half goals by Domenico Morfeo and Nuno Gomez lifted Fiorentina to a 2-0 win over Tirol Innsbruck. Fiorentina broke through a minute after the break when Morfeo handled a Moreno Torricelli pass, turned and fired a low shot into the left corner. Five minutes from time, Portugal's Nuno Gomez sealed the win by chipping in a shot over charging 'keeper Marc Ziegler. In Milan, Rui Costa and Andriy Shevchenko each notched a goal to help AC Milan cruise to a 2-0 win over CSKA Sofia. Costa fired a shot from outside the area that deflected off Bulgarian defender Stoian Petrov and into the right corner after 20 minutes. Ukrainian striker Shevchenko scored with a diving header in the 50th minute. Parma striker Marco Di Vaio scored twice as the Italian side won 3-1 at FC Utrecht in the Netherlands. Di Vaio headed his first in the 21st minute and dodged past the Utrecht defense to add his second in the 69th. Emiliano Bonazzoli headed Parma's third soon after half time. The Dutch side gained a small reward with Arco Jochemsen's toe poke inside the post 13 minutes from time. Kallon lifts InterTRIESTE, Italy (AP) -- In a three-minute span, Mohamed Kallon followed a simple goal with a stupendous one to lift Internazionale to a 2-0 UEFA Cup win Thursday over Wisla Krakow. The Sierra Leone striker broke a scoreless tie in the 61st minute, finishing off an easy header after a blast from Brazilian youngster Adriano deflected down off the crossbar. Before the Polish squad could regroup, Kallon struck again, meeting a cross from recent Turkish acquisition Okan Buruk with a spectacular over-the-head shot into the right corner. Inter was forced to play the first-leg match in this northeastern city after being suspended for three games from its home field in Milan for fan violence in UEFA Cup action last season. The visitors had the best first-half chances. In the 30th minute Maciej Zurawski curved a 25-meter (yard) shot that 'keeper Francesco Toldo slapped over the crossbar. A minute later, Inter defender Grigorios Georgatos had to head a ball off the line after a bicycle shot by Arkadiusz Glowacki off a corner kick looked headed for the net. Atop the Serie A standings, Inter faces crosstown rival AC Milan in the feature Italian league match Sunday. Wisla will host Inter in the second-leg UEFA Cup match in two weeks. Ipswich tied by HelsingborgsIPSWICH, England (AP) -- Ipswich and Helsingborgs fought out a 0-0 tie in the first leg of a second round UEFA Cup matchup on Thursday leaving the Swedish club with a slight advantage to gain round three. Well organized and making fewer mistakes, Helsingborgs will be delighted at not conceding a goal at Portman Road while George Burley's Ipswich has a tough job in Sweden in two weeks time. After Helsingborgs goalkeeper Sven Andersson tipped a header from John McGreal over the bar, the visitor forced home goalkeeper Matteo Sereni to make three good saves before half time. The former Sampdoria 'keeper kept out a shot from Alvaro Santos, then palmed a header from the Brazilian forward round the post and also kept out a shot from midfielder Rade Prica. Sereni saved again from Alvaro early in the second half and, although Michael Hansson beat the Italian 'keeper with an angled shot, the ball rolled past the far post. But the home team looked more impressive in the second half and, after Jermaine Wright had a shot blocked, Andersson raced off his line to smother one from Nigerian star Finidi George. The ball rolled clear to Pablo Counago whose follow up shot flew past the far post. Rangers roll over DynamoGLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Goals from Lorenzo Amorusa, Michael Ball and Ronald de Boer gave Glasgow Rangers a 3-1 win over Dynamo Moscow in a second round, first leg UEFA Cup tie Thursday. Despite Dynamo's defensive play, de Boer sealed the win in the 80th minute. The Russians scored a consolation goal from Rolan Gusev in injury time. Claudio Reyna set up Rangers' first goal. The U.S international midfielder's free-kick reached Craig Moore in the box who headed against the far past. The ball rebounded to Amoruso whose shot squeezed under Dynamo's 'keeper Vasily Khonutovsky in the ninth minute. Dynamo then went on the attack, but Rangers' Bert Konterman blocked a shot from sweeper Mikhail Zharinov and Alexander Tochilin fired the rebound at Rangers' 'keeper Stefan Klos. The Russians then nearly scored from a free-kick, but it was saved by Klos. With a strong and deep Dynamo defense, Rangers found it difficult to further the score. Reyna sent Claudio Caniggia down the right, but Russian defenders blocked his cross to Tore Andre Flo. Reyna was close to scoring five minutes from halftime when a pass from de Boer found him in the box. But under pressure from Zsolt Hornyak, Reyna hit the ball just past the post. Ball marked his debut in European competition by scoring Rangers' second in the 61st minute. Ball took a free-kick from 20 yards (meters) and the ball was deflected into the net off Dynamo defender Deividas Semberas. De Boer scored the third in the 80th minute. Reyna drove a shot at the goalkeeper before setting up de Boer to head the ball for the third goal from a free-kick. In stoppage time Gusev pulled a goal back after substitute Evgueni Kharlachev flicked the ball into his path as the midfielder arrived unchallenged in the box.
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