LONDON (Reuters) - Striker Luca Toni scored twice late in extra time against Getafe on Thursday to spare Bayern Munich's blushes and send the four-times European champions into a UEFA Cup semi-final with Zenit St Petersburg.

The Italian's double strike put favourites Bayern through on away goals after a thrilling 3-3 draw (4-4 on aggregate) in Spain against a Getafe side who, despite the early dismissal of defender Ruben De la Red, had looked on course to continue a fine first season in European competition.

Bayern now take on Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg, the only team left in the competition never to have won a major European trophy.

Zenit eased through 4-2 on aggregate against Bayer Leverkusen, despite losing their home leg 1-0 on Thursday.

Prolific Romania striker Adrian Mutu sent Fiorentina, losing finalists in 1990, into a last four meeting with Rangers after his double strike sealed a 2-0 away win at PSV Eindhoven for a 3-1 aggregate success.

Rangers won 2-0 in Lisbon against Sporting after a goalless first leg in Glasgow.

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Bayern had French winger Franck Ribery, as well as Toni, to thank for their lifeline. Trailing to Cosmin Contra's late first-half goal at the Coliseo, Ribery struck just over a minute from time.

Then, in a thrilling extra period, Getafe took a 3-1 lead with strikes from Francisco Casquero and Braulio.

Bayern were given hope five minutes from the end when Getafe keeper Roberto Abbondanzieri dropped a Mark van Bommel cross at the feet of Toni and he fired in from close range.

With time running out keeper Oliver Kahn piled forward into the opposition area, disrupted the Getafe defence as he got a touch on the ball and Toni headed in to earn his side a remarkable comeback win.

Rangers have already won the Scottish League Cup this season and are in pole position to reclaim the league title from arch rivals Celtic.

Their victory over Sporting, with second-half goals from Jean-Claude Darchville and Steven Whittaker, was somewhat tarnished by yellow cards for captain Barry Ferguson and fellow midfielder Kevin Thomson which will rule them out of the semi-final first leg at Ibrox on April 24 through suspension.

Fiorentina will also be without midfielder Marco Donadel through suspension for the opening leg.

Two well taken goals from Mutu gave the Florence side a deserved win in Eindhoven.

Mutu struck with a free kick late in the first half and sealed the tie with a fine curling finish on 53 minutes.

"The important thing is to have gone through but then I am very happy with my goals, especially the first which was really great," Mutu told La7 television.

"We are proud of being the last Italian side in Europe and now we will try and go to the end."

Zenit could not replicate their exhilarating display in Germany last week but did enough at their Petrovsky stadium to reach the last four for the first time.

Russia striker Dmitri Bulykin gave Leverkusen some hope after their first-leg drubbing with an 18th-minute header but the German side's challenge petered out.

Zenit wasted the chance to secure a draw on the night when Anatoliy Tymoschuk's tame 85th-minute penalty was comfortably saved by Rene Adler.

(Editing by Clare Lovell)