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Soccer News of Tuesday, 25 February 2003

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Ghanaians in Europe Feb 22-24/2003


The performances of Ghanaian players across the leagues in Europe at the weekend: Continue checking for updates

AUSTRIA:

BELGIUM: Jupiler League
Beveren 3-1 G. Beerschot
Kwame Quansah played 67 minutes. Anthony Obodai played the full 90 minutes. Both with the losing team.

CZECH

DENMARK: Superleague

FRANCE
En Avant Guingamp came from two goals down to defeat Paris Saint-Germain FC 3-2. Alex Nyarko (PSG) had a defensive midfield role.

OGC Nice were held to a 1-1 draw at SC Bastia. Essien did not play.

Division 2
Ibrahim Razak played in the "A team", but he made many mistakes and was eventually substituted in the 78th. (Saint-Etienne/Metz 1-1).

Lawrence Quaye played the game last Saturday in "B team". (Saint- Priest/Saint-Etienne 0-1).

GERMANY: Bundesliga
Stuttgart 4-0 M'gladbach
Bor. M'gladbach: Stiel - Pletsch, Embers - Eberl, Korell, M?nch - Kluge, Ulich - Demo - L. Aidoo (55. Strasser), Forssell

Wolfsburg 1-1 Munich 1860
Sarpei was red-carded in the 85th minute.
Lineup for VfL Wolfsburg : Reitmaier;Biliskov, Schnoor, Quattrocchi, Weiser;Karhan, M?ller (60. Peter Madsen); Sarpei;Effenberg (64. Petrow) Maric, Klimowicz (79. Pr?ger)

Hansa Rostock 1-1 VfL Bochum
Lineup for Hansa Rostock : Schober;Lange, Jakobsson, Hill, Maul;Wibran (78. Aduobe), Lantz, Meggle, Persson;Salou, di Salvo (72. Arvidsson)

GREECE: Hellenic National League
OFI Crete 2-0 Proodeftiki
OFI Crete FC secured a fifth win in seven game by beating Proodeftiki FC 2-0 OFI tried to score early so as to force Proodeftiki to abandon its defensive posture. It succeeded as Derek Boateng scored early (16', Belevonis assist). This was his first league goal for OFI. OFI scored again on a header of Soarez. The soccer played was pretty uninspiring, mostly because the terrain has become a swamp!

Akratitos - IRAKLIS 0-2
IRAKLIS: Chalkias, Milojevic, Katsabis, Gonias, Murati (78' Bachramis, 80' Xenidis), Stoltidis, Nebegleras, Koutsoures, Drougas, Fofonka, Mieciel (85' Hagan)

ISRAEL

ITALY: Serie A
Brescia 2-1 Reggina
Brescia (4-4-2) Sereni; Martinez, Petruzzi, Bilica, Seric; Filippini, Appiah, Matuzalem, Bachini; Baggio, Toni.

Modena 1-0 Chievo
Chievo (4-4-2): Lupatelli, Moro (30' st Mensah), Legrottaglie, D'Anna, Lanna, Luciano (1' st Bierhoff), Perrotta, Andersson, Franceschini, Cossato, Pellissier (6' st Della Morte).

Serie B
Cosenza - Napoli 1-0

Goal: 30' Edusei
Cosenza (4-4-2): Ripa; Brioschi, Oshadogan, Marco Aurelio, De Angelis; Antonelli (23' st Tedoldi), Edusei, Bedin, Lentini; Guidoni, Alteri (30' st Gonzales). (20 Agliardi, 28 Paschetta, 17 Parisi, 11 Tedesco, 32 Piemontese).

NETHERLANDS
Feyenoord beat Groningen 4-1, sending Groningen deeper into the relegation zone and reducing the gap with second placed Ajax to four points. Christian Gyan played the full game in defence.

There was a red-card in Vitesse Arnhem's 2-2 draw at home to AZ Alkmaar. It looked like being the latest in a string of defeats for Vitesse after Dejan Stefanovic was sent off and they trailed 2-0. However in the 76th minute Vitesse pulled one back after Matthew Amoah netted a spot-shot and a second by Michael Jansen 5 minutes from the end claimed a point.

Eric Addo was solid in defence as Roda JC boosted their chances of a place in next season's UEFA Cup by moving up to fourth place in the Dutch first division after a 2-0 away win at Twente.

NORWAY: Tippeligaen

PORTUGAL

ROMANIA
The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has approved the Romanian Professional League (LPF)'s decision to postpone the restart of the Divizia A season because of extreme weather conditions. The season will resume on 8 March rather than 1 March

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY
Ankarag?c? 3-0 Altay
MKE Ankarag?c? recorded their first win under new coach Tevfik Lav, defeating Altay GK 3-0 thanks to two goals goals from Ghanaian striker Augustine Ahinful and one from fellow forward Hakan Keles.
Ankarag?c?: Zafer ?zg?ltekin, Hakan Kutlu, G?kmen Bar??, ?hsan Burak ?zsara?, Hakan Kele?, Y?lmaz ?zlem (85 Levent Kartop), ?mit Ozan Kazmaz (75 ?zg?r Volkan Y?ld?r?m), Reinaldo Vicente Sim?o, Mehmet T?rkmehmet, Augustine Ahinful, H?seyin Kartal (61 Stephen Baidoo)

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C. GyanJ. MensahE. Addo Baidoo
SarpeiD. Boateng S. AppiahM. Edusei
Ahinful M. Amoah