Bayer Leverkusen moved a step closer to their second UEFA Cup title after seeing off Bundesliga rivals Hamburg despite a 3-2 loss in their last-16 second leg.

Leverkusen twice went ahead through Sergej Barbarez (18) and Theofanis Gekas (55) only to see Hamburg equalise with strikes from Piotr Trochowski(53) and Jose Paolo Guerrero (64).

Rafael van der Vaart gave Hamburg the lead in the 80th minute but it was not enough for the hosts as Leverkusen, UEFA Cup champions in 1988, moved into the last eight on the away goals rule after the 3-3 aggregate draw.

Zenit St Petersburg also squeezed through to the quarter-finals on the away-goals rule thanks to Pavel Pogrebnyak's brace in the second leg of their last-16 tie against Marseille.

Pogrebnyak drove home neat finishes in either half - his second coming in the 78th minute - to sink OM, who were left to rue Andrei Arshavin's late away goal in the first leg last week.

The visitors had their chances to score an away goal themselves in St Petersburg but their finishing let them down.

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