UEFA Cup: Horses Eliminate Villa; Spurs Lose; Citizens Win; Werder Comeback Stuns Milan; PSG, Saint-Etienne, Marseille All Advance; AaB and Zenit Too

The UEFA Cup Round of 32 concluded Thursday:

At Kharkov, Ukraine:

Goals courtesy of Serhiv Valyeyev (30'), and Jaja (40') powered FC Metalist Kharkiv to a 2-0 home win in game two of their two-match series with Sampdoria, enabling the Yellow-Blue to take their two-match series 3-0 on aggregate.

At Valencia, Spain:

Thanks to Artem Kravets' double (34', 73') Dynamo Kiev gained a game-two 2-2 road draw with Valencia, enabling them to take the two-match set on away goals, though the two clubs each scored three goals on aggregate. Next up for Dynamo, a Round-of-16 two-match encounter with fellow Ukranian club Metalist.

At Moscow:

Powered by tallies from Yuri Zhirkov (61') and Vagner Love (90'+3), CSKA Moscow defeated Aston Villa 2-0 at home in game two to take the two-match set 3-1 on aggregate.

At London:

Fernardinho's 86th-minute tally enabled Shakhtar Donetsk to gain a 1-1 game-two road draw with Tottenham Hotspur. The Ukranian club took their two-set series 3-1 on aggregate and earned the right to take on CSKA Moscow in the Round-of-16.

At Hamburg, Germany:

Ivica Olic scored the only goal of match two (9') as Hamburg blanked visiting NEC Nijmegen 1-0 to finish off the Dutch club on aggregate 4-0.

At Istanbul, Turkey:

After a scoreless opening match in France last week, game two provided a goalfest as Galatasaray defeated Bordeaux 4-3 at home to take the series on aggregate by the same goal. Arda Turan scored twice (43', 65'), Harry Kewell tallied once (45'), and Sabri Sarioglu, at 90 minutes, provided the game---and series---winner for Galatasaray, who will next face Hamburg in the eighthfinals.

At Enschede, Netherlands:

After Hatem Ben Arfa's goal at 24 minutes deadlocked the series (1-1, with each team scoring once on the road) to force what proved to be a scoreless half-hour of overtime, Marseille won the penalty-kick shootout 7-6 to advance to the Round-or-16 at FC Twente's expense.

At Amsterdam:

Leonardo scored the series-winning goal at 88 minutes as Ajax gained a 1-1 home draw in game two with Fiorentina to win their two-match set 2-1 on aggregate and set up a Round-of-16 encounter with Marseille.

At Wolfsburg, Germany:

Peguy Luyindula's double (PK-38', 73') helped propelled Paris Saint-Germain to a 3-1 road win in game two, which allowed the club from the French capital to win their two-match set with VfL Wolfsburg on aggregate, 5-1.

At Liege, Belgium:

Luis Aguilar's goal at 88 minutes helped gain a 1-1 game-two road draw for Sporting Braga, who won their two-match set with Standard de Liege 4-1 on aggregate. The Portuguese club (who won the Intertoto Cup by lasting the longest in the UEFA Cup among survivors from that now-defunct competition) will next face PSG.

At Milan, Italy:

Claudio Pizarro's second-half double (68', 78') enabled Werder Bremen to come back from a two-goal deficit to gain a 2-2 road draw in game two against AC Milan. The German club won the series because of the away goals (2-1) rule even the two clubs each scored three goals in the two-match set.

At Saint-Etienne, France:

Goals from Dimitri Payet (45') and Ilan (58') lifted Saint-Etienne to a 2-1 home win in game two over Olympiacos, thus enabling the French club to win their two-match set on aggregate, 5-2. Up next for Les Verts: Werder Bremen.

At Stuttgart, Germany:

Zenit Saint Petersburg racked up a second 2-1 win in game two of this series, this time on the road over VfB Stuttgart as the Russian club won the series 4-2 on aggregate. Igor Semshov (42') and Viktor Fayzulin (86') provided the defending UEFA Cup holders with the goals.

At Udine, Italy:

Udinese won their two-match set with Poland's Lech Poznan 4-3 on aggregate, this, after claiming game two at home 2-1. Simone Pepe (57') and Antonio Di Natale (90'+1) provided the Little Zebras with the goals that sent them into a Round-or-16 matchup with Zenit Saint Petersburg.

At Manchester, England:

Craig Bellamy's double (73', 80') lifted Manchester City to a 2-1 home win in game two over FC Copenhagen, enabling the Citizens to capture their two-match series 4-3 on aggregate.

At La Coruna, Spain:

Thanks to goals from Luton Shelton (41'), Andreas Johansson (45'), and Thomas Enevoldsen (45'+1), all in the first half, Aalborg BK completed their two-game dismemberment of Deportivo La Coruna, winning game two 3-1 on the road, and the series 6-1 on aggregate. AaB would become the second straight Danish club to face Manchester City, this time in the Round-of-16.