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Bremen edges toward Champions League group stage
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 19 - 08 - 2010

Werder Bremen and Hapoel Tel Aviv look likely to reach the Champions League group stages after playoff wins Wednesday.
Clemens Fritz, Torsten Frings and Claudio Pizarro scored in the second half to give Bremen a 3-1 win over 10-man Sampdoria, while Hapoel Tel Aviv won 3-2 at Salzburg for a crucial edge ahead of next week's second-leg matches.
Braga shocked Spain's Sevilla 1-0 in Portugal, Basel beat FC Sheriff 1-0 and Anderlecht drew 2-2 at Partizan Belgrade.
Werder was without Mezut Oezil for the first time at the Weserstadion after selling the Germany playmaker to Real Madrid this week, but still took the lead against Sampdoria in the 51st through Clemens Fritz.
Giampaolo Pazzini almost equalized when his shot across goal bounced off the far post and into the arms of stranded goalkeeper Tim Wiese. Sampdoria's luck got even worse when the referee finally tired of the Italian side's cynical defending and sent off Stefano Lucchini with a second yellow card for holding an opponent in the area.
Frings scored with the resulting penalty in the 67th and Pizarro completed the scoring for Bremen, bursting into the area after an exchange of passes and shooting past goalkeeper Gianluca Curci.
Pazzini gave Sampdoria some hope with a last-minute header from the edge of the six-yard box but Lucchini will be suspended for Tuesday's return match in Genoa, leaving the Italian side with a tough task to reach the Champions League for the first time.
Sampdoria lost to Barcelona in the 1992 European Cup final, the last before the tournament was revamped as the Champions League.
With away goals counting double if scores are level after next week's second-leg matches, Hapoel Tel Aviv looks set to make the group stage after scoring three in Austria.
The Israeli side took the lead with a third-minute penalty scored by goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama and, after Nikola Pokrivac equalized midway through the first half, went 3-1 up by the 53rd through Ben Sahar and Itay Shechter.
Roman Wallner scored a 66th-minute penalty for Salzburg to give the Austrian side some hope.
The winners over two games earn places in the lucrative group stage and the losers drop into the second-tier Europa League.
Sevilla won the Europa League under its previous guise of the UEFA Cup in 2006 and ‘07 but needs to score at least once at its Sanchez Pizjuan stadium after Brazilian striker Matheus headed in a 62nd-minute rebound to give Braga a 1-0 victory.
Basel beat Moldova's Sheriff 1-0 through Valentin Stocker's 54th-minute close-range header but missed a 90th-minute penalty when Vladislav Stoyanov saved Benjamin Huggel's spot kick.
Sheriff has been in the Champions League qualifying stages for 10 straight years but never reached the competition.
This is its second appearance in the third qualifying round, having entered the Europa League after losing to Olympiakos at this stage last season.
Partizan Belgrade equalized twice to keep alive realistic hopes of edging Anderlecht to a spot in the group stages, but the Belgian side takes two away goals from defenders Guillaume Gillet and Roland Juhasz.
Four-time European champion Ajax drew 1-1 at Dynamo Kiev in one of five games Tuesday. Tottenham's hopes of reaching European football's top club competition for the first time in 48 years were hit by a 3-2 first-leg loss at Switzerland's Young Boys, while Zenit St. Petersburg beat Auxerre 1-0.
Rosenborg beat FC Copenhagen 2-1 and Slovakia's Zilina won 2


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