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Craig HillUEFA Cup: Everton and Tottenham lose on penalties
March 13th 2008 03:10
Just a day after Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson hailed the English Premier League as the best in Europe, the curse of the English spot-kick nightmares resurfaced with Everton and Tottenham both exiting the UEFA Cup at the fourth round stage on penalties against Fiorentina and PSV respectively.
Despite clawing back a two-goal deficit from the first leg, the blue half of Merseyside couldn't find the killer third goal as both sides went close in extra-time. With the aggregate score level at 2-2 after extra-time, penalties beckoned but crucial misses by Ayegbeni Yakubu and Phil Jagielka sealed the home side's fate as Fiorentina went onto win 4-2 on penalties thus sealing a berth in the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup.
Meanwhile at the Philipsstadion, Spurs boss Juande Ramos' dream of a UEFA Cup hat-trick was ended as Tottenham crashed out of the UEFA Cup 6-5 on penalties to Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven.
Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov provided the crucial breakthrough with a superb volley to level the scores in the 81st minute but to no avail as Jermaine Jenas and crucially, Pascal Chimbonda failed from the spot to send PSV through to the next round.
Fiorentina and PSV will be joined in the UEFA Cup quarter finals by Bayer Leverkusen, Getafe, Bayern Munich and Zenit St Petersburg with two more vacancies yet to be filled.
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