By AVI CREDITOR
The Europa League field will be down to 16 teams Thursday, as a slate of 15 second-leg matches will determine who moves on to the next round of the knockout stage.
Benfica took care of business by eliminating Hertha Berlin 4-0 (5-1 aggregate) on Tuesday.
Landon Donovan, Tim Howard and the rest of Everton will look to hold on to their 2-1 edge at Sporting Lisbon at 3:05 p.m. EST (DirecTV channel 462), hoping that a late penalty that yielded an away goal last week won't make the difference in their tie.
The other matches that kick off at 3:05 are:
- Fenerbahce vs. Lille (DirecTV 467, Lille leads 2-1)
- Hapoel Tel Aviv vs. Rubin Kazan (DirecTV 464, Rubin Kazan leads 3-0)
- Juventus vs. Ajax (GOLTV, Juventus leads 2-1)
- SV Salzburg vs. Standard Liege (DirecTV 468, Standard Liege leads 3-2)
- Valencia vs. Club Brugge (DirecTV 465, Club Brugge leads 1-0)
- VfL Wolfsburg vs. Villarreal (DirecTV 463, teams tied 2-2)
- Werder Bremen vs. Twente Enschede (DirecTV 466, Twente leads 1-0)
Earlier Thursday, the following teams advanced to the Round of 16:
- Anderlecht (defeated Athletic Bilbao 4-0, 5-1 aggregate)
- Panathinaikos (defeated AS Roma 3-2, 6-4 aggregate)
- Marseille (defeated FC Copenhagen 3-1, 6-2 aggregate)
- Liverpool (defeated Unirea Uziceni 3-1, 4-1 aggregate)
- Atletico Madrid (defeated Galatasaray 2-1, 3-2 aggregate)
- Fulham (drew 1-1 with Shakhtar Donetsk, 3-2 aggregate)
- Hamburg SV (lost to PSV Eindhoven 3-2, 3-3 aggregate, advanced on away goals)
If you will be watching any or all of these games on TV or via live Internet feed, please share your thoughts and any play-by-play in the comments section below.
FULHAM ADVANCED! YESSSSSSSS!!! COYW!!!
The whole team was bad. The 3-0 result is pretty fair. Sporting was that much better.
I hope that Dempsey is healthy when Fulham plays Juventus in the next round
What happened with LD? Sounds like it was bad all around if he was subbed out at 63 min.
I think Everton’s biggest problem was letting Sporting get into the game. They should have taken it to them earlier, and maybe would have got something to stem their onslaught.
LD played a beautiful ball to Saha that should have resulted in a goal (miss by Pienaar)
Was it just me… or did Sporting get some great no calls and Everton got shafted?
I watched the entire match and Landon was not bad…just not good either… he played the line right…the CBs should have held their line…
Oh and Landons sub… Jags GOT OWNED HARDCORE at the end.
sure if they follow Portugal… but I think most here are following Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
that’s all folks!
That was just bad.
Time for Tim Howard to come up
my apologies, haha
Agree about being happy to return to the Galaxy.
Who wants to play in the best league in the world when you can play in a mostly empty stadium against old men and second rate footballers.
nice run by Arteta, he (like the rest of the midfield) has been quiet
I hope they don’t. I’d hate to see that display again. The one team that came to play should win the game
well good game for Howard. had some bad luck on the goals.
wow…real lazy by LD not chasing his man. Rookie move to stand still with your hand up. He wasn’t even watching the defensive line as the 2 center-backs were clearly not playing the trap.
Landon had poor outing, little energy, as did most of the team.
Not over just yet if Everton can put one in.
GOOOOLLLLLLOOOO SPORTING!!! They’re finally playing well… and Bill, Miguel Veloso scored (you can stop calling him “that guy”) because he’s a pretty talented player that most football followers know of.
as the game is now, i would be shocked if Everton scored. They have looked slow and out of their league
Everton down now… 2-0
It is hard for me to become a fan of Everton. It does not seem like they want to win. Donvan should be taking the corner kicks and the past few games they are not giving him the chance. The only few opportunities they have had to score have come from Donvan. I think he is going to be happy to be going back to the Galaxy. He should not have been taken out.
the better team definitely moves on
Sporting scores again. The dream is over
Donovan got caught ball watching on the goal. The guy he should have marked on the return pass scored
heads back the other way and a couple of crosses go in Saha ends up with the ball 2 yards from goal but it ends up saved. not Everton’s night so far. Nice to see some urgency though, there best run of the game
Landon off…
beautiful cross by Landon and saha gets pushed down. Landon off right after that. Quiet night for him. Baines gives it up easy and Sporting goes on a run
landon subbed off . . .
donovan off.
boo
Everton*
and Evertopn lost their fire a bit
cheap free kick given away by Everton and the header off of it goes straight to Howard comfortable.
is it me or is Everton very left handed?
finally they are pushing and osman earns a corner off the throw by kicking it on the defender’s knees. Corner is a bit too long and the header to send it back to the middle is too high and gets picked off by the keeper. Waste
Miguel Veloso scored, assisted by Yanick Djalo.
Time for Landy to take matters into his own hands. Or feet.
Now Everton has picked it up. Pienaar and Baines work down the left but there cross is to Sporting
nobody even stuck out a foot on the pass to (whoever scored).
and Sporting comes back the other way and score. Thought he was offside. Ope no. Nobody picked him up. Tragedy for Everton. That being said, Sporting has earned it
Everton gets scored on. They’re done
im tracking on bbc but i like getting the info here more
And landon has space to saha who handles it off to pienaar who pushes it wide. Great work by landon terrible aim by Pienaar had all the time in the world cause the CBs were on the backfoot from chasing Saha
Try this:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/europa-league/2009-2010/sporting-cp-everton-343543.html?u=1267132947#co
Rodwell on for Bily. Hasn’t really done much
k but it will not have correct grammer (grammar?)
i’m with scott, i can’t stream from in here
TIM HOWARD! Save
howard saves everton’s ass again