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.
I didn’t watch the game but all the reports I’ve read are saying the same thing, the whole team was horrible. Sky Sports fan ranking gave Donovan a 5.4 which was second best behind Timmy’s 6.4.
http://www.skysports.com/football/match_report/0,19764,11065_3227927,00.html
I wonder why Moyes pulled LD out so early?
whoever does that for their job is a nuttsack douche and we should string up and cyber kill them from this site.
then it was calinick’s fault! argh
thanks buddy, this saved me…until my wife made me leave for a bar that didn’t have the game…
I really wanted to see Donovan’s second half.