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Gothenburg out Ipswich, Red Star Belgrade qualify for UEFA CupPosted: Thursday August 29, 2002 2:08 PMUpdated: Thursday August 29, 2002 7:34 PM
LONDON (Reuters) -- Ipswich Town crushed Avenir Beggen 8-1 and former European champions Red Star Belgrade trounced Kairat Almaty 3-0 in the UEFA Cup qualifying round on Thursday to book their places in the first round proper. Hapoel Tel Aviv, whose fairytale run in the UEFA Cup last season was ended in the quarter-finals by AC Milan, also went through to Friday's draw after a 4-1 second leg win over Partizani Tirana in Albania. Scotland's Aberdeen and Livingston both edged into the first round, but Swedes IFK Gothenburg, who won the UEFA Cup twice in the 1980s, were dumped out by Zimbru Chisinau of Moldova. The place to be for goals was Portman Road, where Ipswich demolished their Luxembourg opponents with a hat-trick from Spanish striker Pablo Counago and two from Tommy Miller. Darren Ambrose, John McGreal and Wayne Brown also got on the scoresheet for the first division club, while Gregory Molitor headed Beggen's consolation goal. Comparing Thursday to their first leg performance, Ipswich manager George Burley said: "We created a lot more space, we passed it better and we got the ball to the strikers' feet more. "It was good to score eight goals." Ipswich, UEFA Cup winners in 1981 and whose run to the third round last season was ended by Inter Milan, completed a 9-1 aggregate win after their 1-0 away victory. Red Star, European Cup winners in 1991 and who held a 2-0 lead from the first leg in Kazakhstan, were 1-0 up on the night when Kairat had Ali Aliev red-carded in the 43rd minute. The Belgrade side went on to score two more for a 5-0 aggregate win. Happy Hapoel Hapoel returned to the European stage after building on their 1-0 victory in the first leg with a late flurry in the second against 10-man Partizani. Hapoel, who knocked out Chelsea on their way to the last eight, also celebrated a famous 1-0 win over five-times champions Milan last season before going down 2-0 in the second leg at the San Siro. Beaten 3-1 away in the first leg, IFK Gothenburg bowed out after a 2-2 draw with Zimbru Chisinau, despite their opponents losing Ilie Balasa to an eighth minute red card for a scything tackle on Gothenburg defender Magnus Erlingmark. A low shot from Thomas Rosenkvist put the hosts in front, before Zimbru's Levan Gvazava finished off a superb run with a snap shot in the 33rd minute. Two minutes later, Boris Cebotari put Zimbru ahead with a shot off the post -- only for Rosenkvist to get his second of the night within three minutes. "I am very pleased. I had never thought that we'd go through against such a strong team," said Zimbru coach Gabriel Stan. "They played two very good games," said Gothenburg boss Stefan Lundin, as fans shouted for his resignation. Aberdeen's 0-0 draw in Moldova against Nistru Otachi earned them a 1-0 aggregate win, but the most fortunate side to get through were fellow Scots Livingston after a 0-0 draw. At the very end of the match, 10-man Vaduz of Liechtenstein had the ball in the Livingston net -- only to discover the referee had blown the final whistle in the seconds between their corner being taken and Daniele Polverino firing home. Livingston went through on the away goals rule, having drawn the first leg 1-1. The draw for the first round of the UEFA Cup is made Friday, with matches starting on Sept. 19. Teams with automatic entry into the first round include Belgium's RSC Anderlecht, Denmark's FC Copenhagen, English clubs Chelsea, Leeds United and Blackburn, Spain's Celta de Vigo and 2001 finalist Alaves, Paris Saint Germain, Germany's Schalke 04, Italy's Verona, Parma and Lazio, Portugal's Porto and Scotland's Rangers. They join clubs who failed in the last hurdle of qualifying for the Champions League including Glasgow Celtic, Austria's Sturm Graz and Grazer AK, Denmark's Brondby, Sporting Lisbon and Turkey's Fenerbahce. The UEFA Cup final is on May 21 at the Olimpico stadium in Seville, Spain.
Qualifying round, second leg
In Geneva: Servette (Switzerland) 3 Spartak Yerevan
(Armenia) 0
First leg: 2-0; Servette win 5-0 on aggregate
Scorers: Paulo Diogo Cruz 38, 43, Alexander Frei 78.
Halftime: 2-0
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In Sofia: CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) 1 Dynamo Minsk (Belarus) 0
First leg: 4-1; CSKA win 5-1 on aggregate
Scorers: Artim Sakiri 64pen
Red cards: Alaiksei Dabravolski (Dynamo Minsk) 67, Joao
Carlos(CSKA Sofia) 86
Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 5,000
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In Vestmannaeyjar: IBV Vestmannaeyjar (Iceland) 1 AIK
(Sweden)3
First leg: 0-2; AIK win 5-1 on aggregate
Scorers:
IBV Vestmannaeyjar - Gunnar Thorvaldsson 3
AIK - Mats Rubarth 9, Daniel Hoch 45, 66
Halftime: 1-2; Attendance: 534
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In Lugano: Lugano (Switzerland) 1 Ventspils (Latvia) 0
First leg: 0-3; Ventspils win 3-1 on aggregate
Scorer: Christian Andreoli 55
Halftime: 0-0
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In Siroki Brijeg: Siroki Brijeg (Bosnia) 3 Senec (Slovakia)
0
First leg: 2-1; Siroki Brijeg win 5-1 on aggregate
Scorers: Hrvoje Erceg 8, Mirko Hrgovic 48, 73
Halftime: 1-0; Attendance 2,500
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In Belgrade: Red Star Belgrade (Yugoslavia) 3 Kairat Almaty
(Kazakhstan) 0
First leg: 2-0; Red Star win 5-0 on aggregate.
Scorers: Ivan Gvozdenovic 19, Mihajlo Pjanovic 45, Radovan
Krivokapic 73.
Red card: Ali Aliev (Kairat) 43
Halftime: 2-0; Attendance: 10,000
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In Tirana: Partizani Tirana (Albania) 1 Hapoel Tel Aviv
(Israel) 4
First leg: 0-1; Hapoel Tel Aviv win 5-1 on aggregate.
Scorers:
Partizani Tirana - Marcelo Brachini 35
Hapoel Tel Aviv - Omri Afek 26, Pini Balali 73, 83, Cafir
Udi 86
Red Card: Marcelo Brachini (Partizani Tirana) 76
Halftime: 1-1
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In Budapest: Ujpest (Hungary) 1 KI Klaksvik (Faroe Islands)
0
First leg: 2-2; Ujpest win 3-2 on aggregate
Scorer: Ferenc Horvath 37
Halftime: 1-0; Attendance: 4,000
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In Livingston: Livingston (Scotland) 0 Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
0
First leg: 1-1; Livingston win on away goals.
Red card: Martin Telser (Vaduz) 75
Halftime: 0-0; Attendance: 7,219
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In Strumica: Belasica GC Strumica (Macedonia) 1 Leixoes
(Portugal) 2
First leg: 2-2; Leixoes win 4-3 on aggregate
Scorers:
Belasica GC Strumica - Zoran Baldovaliev 80
Leixoes - Brito 35, Mene 74
Halftime: 1-0; Attendance: 3,500
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In Luxembourg: Grevenmacher (Luxembourg) 2 Anorthosis
Famagusta (Cyprus) 0
First leg: 0-3; Anorthosis Famagusta win 3-2 on aggregate
Scorers: Pierre Manzangala 34, Christian Albrecht 86
Halftime: 1-0; Attendance: 400
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In Kaunas: FK Suduva (Lithuania) 3 Brann (Norway) 2
First leg: 3-2; FK Suduva win 6-4 on aggregate
Scorers:
FK Suduva - Tomas Radvinevicius 3, 31, 39
Brann - Nkosinathi Nhleko 17, 45
Halftime: 3-2; Attendance: 3,000
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In Brussels: Excelsior Mouscron (Belgium) 3 Fylkir (Iceland)
1
First leg: 1-1; Excelsior win 4-2 on aggregate
Scorers:
Excelsior - Steve Dugardein 36, Claude Bakadal 45,
Christophe Gregoire 56
Fylkir - Bjor Asbjornsson 45
Halftime: 2-1; Attendance: 6,000
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In Ipswich: Ipswich Town (England) 8 Avenir Beggen
(Luxembourg) 1
First leg: 1-0; Ipswich Town win 9-1 on aggregate
Scorers:
Ipswich Town - Tommy Miller 3, 19, Pablo Counago 18, 21, 74,
Wayne Brown 42, John McGreal 61, Darren Ambrose 79
Avenir Beggen - Gregory Molitor 56
Halftime: 5-0
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In Linfield: Linfield (Northern Ireland) 1 Stabaek (Norway)
1
First leg: 0-4; Stabaek win 5-1 on aggregate.
Scorers:
Linfield - Glenn Ferguson 44
Stabaek - Tryggvi Gudmundsson 82
Red cards: Andre Flem (Stabaek) 62, Glenn Ferguson
(Linfield) 79, Martin Andresen (Stabaek) 79
Halftime: 1-0
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In Valletta: Birkirkara (Malta) 0 Metalurg Zaporizhzhya
(Ukraine) 0
First leg: 0-3; Metalurg win 3-0 on aggregate
Attendance, 1,900
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In Dundalk: Dundalk (Ireland) 0 Varteks (Croatia) 4
First leg: 0-5; Varteks win 9-0 on aggregate
Scorers: Matija Kristic 21, Nedim Halilovic 50, Ivica Huljev
69, Ivan Fumic 79
Red card: Bryan McCrystal (Dundalk) 55
Halftime: 0-1
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In Odense: OB Odense (Denmark) 2 MyPa (Finland) 0
First leg: 0-1; OB Odense win 2-1 on aggregate
Scorer: Mwape Miti 63, 90
Halftime: 0-0
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In Silkeborg: FC Midtjylland (Denmark) 3 FK Pobeda Prilip
(Macedonia) 0
First leg: 0-2; FC Midtjylland win 3-2 on aggregate
Scorers: - Razak Pimpong 60, Frank Kristensen 80, Jens
Jessen 116 golden goal
Halftime: 0-0; 90 minutes: 2-0
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In Llansantffraid: TNS Llansantffraid (Wales) 2 Amica Wronki
(Poland) 7
First leg: 0-5; Amica Wronki win 12-2 on aggregate
Scorers:
TNS Llansantffraid - Steve Anthrobus 20, John Toner 28
Amica Wronki - Grzegorz Krol 26, 72, 86, Marcin Burkhardt
34, 75, Remigiusz Sobocinski 66, Przemyslaw Ludzinski 88
Halftime: 2-2
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In Sarajevo: Sarajevo (Bosnia) 2 Sigma Olomouc
(Czech Republic) 1
First leg: 1-2; Aggregate: 3-3; Sarajevo win 5-3 on
penalties
Scorers:
Sarajevo: Emir Obuca 55, Adnan Osmanhodzic 79
Sigma Olomouc: Pavel Putik 8
Halftime 0-1; Attendance 17,000
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