Europa League - Behind Enemy Lines: Hamburg held in cracker

Eurosport - Mon, 26 Oct 16:53:00 2009

A look at how British Europa League opposition fared in their domestic competition, with Celtic's opponents Hamburg held in one of the games of the weekend.

2009 Football Bundesliga Schalke - Hamburg - 0

GROUP C

Hamburg (face Celtic at Nordbank Arena on November 5)

Schalke 3-3 Hamburg

Schalke's Kevin Kuranyi headed a last-minute equaliser to complete a double strike and salvage a 3-3 draw with Hamburg in a barnstorming Bundesliga clash in Gelsenkirchen.

Hamburg squandered a two-goal first-half lead and were reduced to 10 men just past the hour after a red card for David Rozehnal.

The visitors still thought they had the game won when Marcus Berg got his second to make it 3-2 with 10 minutes left.

However, Kuranyi, who had already scored with a header in the 50th minute, dashed their hopes with his second goal to leave Schalke in fourth place on 20 points.

Rapid Vienna 4-0 Mattersburg

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 0-4 Hapoel Tel Aviv

GROUP E

Roma (face Fulham at Stadio Olimpico on November 5)

Roma 0-1 Livorno

Former Roma striker Francesco Tavano came back to haunt the Giallorossi with a 40th-minute goal.

Roma could not exploit a one-man advantage when Livorno keeper Alfonso De Lucia was sent off in the 64th minute.

Mirko Vucinic hit the woodwork for the hosts in the 56th minute having moments earlier missed an open goal.

CSKA Sofia 0-3 Minyor Pernik

FC Luzern 4-5 FC Basel

GROUP I

Benfica (face Everton at Goodison Park on November 5)

Benfica 6-1 Nacional

Benfica followed up their 5-0 win over Everton in ominous form, hammering Nacional with a scintillating second-half display to move top of the Portuguese Liga.

Oscar Cardozo made it 15 so far this season with a hat-trick, while Javier Saviola netted a brace and Nuno Gomes joined in the fun.

Edgar Costa had levelled Cardozo's opener to make it 1-1 at half-time.

Aris 1-1 AEK Athens

BATE Borisov 2-2 MTZ RIPO Minsk

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  1. am not looking forward to celtic's next match­ against hamburg i fear the worst celtic back four all­ over the place just now we've got a cracking keeper­ (boruc) but he alone not going to stop hamburg

    From the azzurri, on Tue 27 Oct 2:52PM

  2. HHamburg did not squander a 2 nil lead. Though they did­ lose it. Felix Magath is a Manager who always gets the­ very best out of his teams. He was also an ex Hamburg­ player before he went into Management!

    From Easyrider2609, on Mon 26 Oct 11:45PM
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