Fulham goes through

Swiss champion Basel to face Scottish titlist Celtic

BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Swiss double winners FC Basel booked a Champions League date with Scottish champions Celtic next week after overcoming Slovakians MSK Zilina 3-0 on Wednesday.

A Christian Giminez double and a further strike from Murat Yakin ensured a 4-1 aggregate win for Christian Gross' side at the St Jakob Stadium.

Basel will now face Celtic in the final qualifying round of the Champions League.

The opening leg will be played in Glasgow on Tuesday or Wednesday before the return clash in Switzerland two weeks later.

Dynamo Kiev also moved into the final qualifying round after drawing 2-2 with Armenia's FC Pyunik.

The Ukrainians, who won the first leg 4-0 at home, put the tie beyond doubt with goals from Maxim Shatskikh and Olexander Melashenko before Pyunik restored some pride.

Sparta Prague secured a 5-1 aggregate victory against Torpedo Kutaisi of Georgia, winning 2-1 away with goals from Lukas Zelenka and Tomas Jun.

The Czech side now face Belgians KRC Genk for a place in the group stages.

Boavista, who were second in the Portuguese league last season, will face AJ Auxerre of France in the final qualifying stage despite being held to a 3-3 draw by Maltese champions Hibernians. Boavista qualify 7-3 on aggregate.

England's Manchester United will play FC Zagreb for a place in the Champions League after the Croatians, trailing 1-0 from the first leg, knocked out Hungary's Zalaegerszegi on away goals thanks to a 2-1 home victory.

Elsewhere, Bosnian side Zeljeznicar booked a third round clash with English premier league club Newcastle after defeating Norway's Lillestrom 1-0 at home for a 2-0 aggregate win.

Poland's Legia Warsaw also secured a high-profile encounter with Spanish giants Barcelona after drawing 1-1 with Vardar Skopje of Macedonia and progressing 3-1 on aggregate.

Fulham through to Intertoto final as Aston Villa fails

LONDON (Reuters) -- English premier league club Fulham progressed to the final of the Intertoto Cup on Wednesday after beating France's Sochaux 2-0 away in the second leg of their semi-final.

Sylvain Legwinski put the Londoners ahead in the 64th minute while Barry Hayles made it 2-0 on the night and 3-0 on aggregate six minutes later.

Jean Tigana's team must now beat Italian Serie A side Bologna over two legs to book a place in the UEFA Cup.

Bologna beat Czech's FC Teplice 3-1 away and 8-2 on aggregate with two goals from Claudio Bellucci and one from Carlo Nevro within the first 20 minutes.

In the other semifinals, Stuttgart beat Slaven Belupo 1-0 in Croatia thanks to a goal from Sean Dundee in the 39th minute.

The Germans, who progressed with a 3-1 aggregate victory, face Lille in their final after the French side beat England's Aston Villa 2-0 away for a 3-1 aggregate victory.

Elsewhere, Troyes of France beat Spain's Villarreal 2-1 after a goalless first leg, and will face Malaga after the southern Spanish club beat Dutch side Willem II 1-0 for a 3-1 aggregate win.

The winners of the three finals will play in next season's UEFA Cup.

Champions League

LONDON (Reuters) -- Collated results of Champions League second qualifying round, second leg matches played on Wednesday:

    In Kutaisi: Torpedo Kutaisi (Georgia) 1 Sparta Prague (Czech
Republic) 2
    (First leg: 0-3; Sparta Prague win 1-5 on aggregate)
    Scorers:
    Torpedo Kutaisi: Zurab Ionanidze 33
    Sparta Prague: Lukas Zelenka 41, Tomas Jun 57
    Halftime: 1-1; Attendance: 4,000
    - -
    In Borisov: Belshina Bobruisk (Belarus) 0 Maccabi Haifa
(Israel) 1
    (First leg: 0-4; Maccabi Haifa win 5-0 on aggegate)
    Scorer: Nenad Pralija 7pen
    Halftime: 0-1; Attendance: 300
    - -
    In Yerevan: Pyunik Yerevan (Armenia) 2 Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)
2
    (First leg: 0-4; Dynamo Kiev win 6-2 on aggregate)
    Scorers:
    Pyunik Yerevan - Artavaz Karamyan 30, Arman Karamyan 60
    Dynamo Kiev - Maxim Shatskikh 8, Olexander Melashchenko 28
    Halftime: 1-2; Attendance: 14,000
    - -
    In Graz: Graz AK (Austria) 2 Sheriff Tiraspol (Moldova) 0
    (First leg: 4-1; Graz AK win 4-1 on aggregate)
    Scorers: Gregor Poetscher 58, Mario Bazina 89pen
    Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 4,350
    - -
    In Nicosia: APOEL Nicosia 4 Maribor Slovenia 2
    (First leg: 1-2; APOEL win 5-4 on aggregrate)
    Scorers:
    APOEL: Costas Malekkos 33pen, Marios Elia 45, Constantinos
Charalambides 57, Demetris Daskalakis 69
    Maribor: Samir Duro 31pen, 82
    Red Card: Marios Agathocleous 38
    Halftime: 2-1; Attendance: 12,000
    - -
    In Sofia: Levski Sofia (Bulgaria) 2 Skonto Riga (Latvia) 0
    (First leg: 0-0; Levski win 2-0 on aggregate)
    Scorers: Georgi Chilikov 12, Sasa Simonovic 31
    Halftime: 2-0; Attendance: 15,000
    - -
    In Basel: FC Basel (Switzerland) 3 MSK Zilina (Slovakia) 0
    (First leg: 1-1; FC Basel win 4-1 on aggregate)
    Scorers: Christian Giminez 12, 50, Murat Yakin 23
    Halftime: 2-0
    - -
    In Bucharest: Dinamo Bucharest (Romania) 0 Club Bruges
(Belgium) 1
    (First leg 1-3; Club Bruges won 4-1 on aggregate)
    Scorer: Rune Lange 18
    Halftime: 0-1; Attendance: 10,000
    - -
    In Warsaw: Legia Warsaw (Poland) 1 Vardar Skopje (Macedonia)
1
    (First leg: 3-1; Legia Warsaw win 4-2 on aggregate)
    Scorers:
    Legia Warsaw - Cezary Kucharski 33
    Vardar Skopje - Roger Oliveira 51
    Halftime: 1-0; Attendance: 5,604
    - -
    In Valletta: Hibernians (Malta) 3 Boavista (Portugal) 3
    (First leg: 0-4; Boavista win 7-3 on aggregate)
    Scorers:
    Hibernians - Adrian Mifsud 32, 58pen, Ndubisi Chuknere 55
    Boavista - Liberato Jocivalter 28, Luiz Claudio 38, Paolo
Turra 40
    Halftime: 1-3; Attendance 2,500
    - -
    In Tirana: Dinamo Tirana (Albania) 0 Brondby (Denmark) 4
    (First leg: 0-1; Brondby win 5-0 on aggregate)
    Scorers: Peter Madsen 47, Ruben Bagger 50, 87, Aurelijus
Skarbalius 90pen
    Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 9,000
    - -
    In Sarajevo: Zeljeznicar Sarajevo (Bosnia) 1 Lillestrom
(Norway) 0
    (First leg: 1-0; Zeljeznicar Sarajevo win 2-0 on aggregate)
    Scorer: Bulend Biscevic 90
    Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 13,000
    - -
    In Belgrade: Partizan Belgrade (Yugoslavia) 4
Hammarby (Sweden) 0
    (First leg: 1-1; Partizan win 5-1 on aggregate)
    Scorers: Vladimir Ivic 49, Danko Lazovic 54, Ivica Iliev 64,
Sasa Ilic 75
    Halftime: 0-0; Attendance 13,917
    - -
    In Zagreb: Croatia Zagreb (Croatia) 2 Zalaegerszegi
(Hungary) 1
    (First leg: 0-1; Aggregate score: 2-2; Zalaegerszegi win on
away goals)
    Scorers:
    Croatia Zagreb - Damir Milinovic 2, Krunoslav Lovrek 28
    Zalaegerszegi - Florian Urban 89pen
    Red card: Gergely Kocsardi (Zalaegerszegi) 80
    Halftime: 2-0; Attendance: 4,000

Intertoto Cup

Semifinals
Second leg
   Slaven Belupo (Croatia) 0, VfB Stuttgart (Germany) 1 
   (VfB Stuttgart advances 3-1) 
   Teplice (Czech Republic) 1, Bologna (Italy) 3 
   (Bologna advances 8-2) 
   Aston Villa (England) 0, Lille (France) 2 
   (Lille advances 3-1) 
   Sochaux (France) 0, Fulham (England) 2 
   (Fulham advances 3-0) 
   Troyes (France) 2, Villarreal (Spain) 1 
   (Troyes advances 2-1) 
   Willem II (Netherlands) 0, Malaga (Spain) 1 
   (Malaga advances 3-1) 

 

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