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Soccer News of Monday, 28 May 2001

Source: EkowB/Various

Ghanaians in Europe May 24-28/2001

Sam Johnson's FENERBAHCE clinched the Turkish League title on Saturday with a 3-1 win against Samsunspor.

Yakubu's Ajax gained a lucrative place in next season's Champions' League by thumping AZ on Sunday. The Amsterdam giants cruised home at the Arena thanks to goals from Rafael van der Vaart (2), Andy van der Meyde, Shota Arveladze and Cedric van der Gun. Dries Boussatta had given the visitors hope with an equaliser in the first half.
Matthew Amoah's Vitesse slipped from fifth to seventh - their worst finish for several seasons - after drawing 2-2 at lowly Sparta Rotterdam.
Eric Addo's PSV Eindhvoen were already champions and Feyenoord certain of second spot before the final round of games.

AUSTRIA
Sturm Graz 1 Rapid Vienna 1
Lineup for Sturm Graz: Sidorczuk, Neukirchner, Mahlich,Vastic, Korsos, Schopp, Ibertsberger, Charles Amoah,Schupp(62 Reinmayr),Martens(47 Minivand),Haas(46 Szabics)

CZECH REPUBLIC
Liberec 0 Brno 0
Lineups Liberec: Kinsk?; Piln?; Luk?š, Johana; Capek, Siln?, Michal?k (77. Hod?r), Neumann; Baffour Gyan(88. Jun), Diveck? (61. Mor?vek), Nezmar.

DENMARK
AaB Aalborg 2 Midtjylland 1
Lineup for FC Midtjylland: Peter Skov-Jensen;Kenneth From, Jesper Mikkelsen, Frank Kristensen;Thomas Thomasberg, Kenneth M?ller Pedersen;
Allan Bak Jensen, Morten Skoubo, Mogens Laursen, (Razak Pimpong 59)

Silkeborg 0 Brondby 1
Lineup for Silkeborg
Peter Kj?r; Morten Bruun, Michael Larsen, Jacob Rasmussen, Brian Pedersen(Jesper Thygesen 46); Kern (Godwin Attram 65), Jakob Juhl(Nicolai Wael 76), Thomas R?ll Larsen, Per Ottosen, Thomas Poulsen; Henrik Pedersen

HOLLAND
Ajax Amsterdam 5 - Rafael 22, 30; Meyde 52 ; Arveladze 59
Cedric van der Gun 71
AZ Alkmaar 1 - Dries Boussatta 26
HT: 2-1; Att: 36,600
Lineup for Ajax: Grim; O'Brien, Pasanen, Yakubu, De Cler; (73' Chivu) Galasek, Van der Vaart, Ikedia, Machlas (63. Cruz), Arveladze (63. Van der Gun>), Van der Meyde

NEC Nijmegen 2 - Dennis Schulp 33; Rene van Rijswijk 58
PSV Eindhoven 4 - Arnold Bruggink 10, 34, 70; Bjorn van der Doelen 89
HT: 1-2; Att: 9,000
Eric Addo played 90mins.

Sparta Rotterdam 2 - Michael Langerak 10
Nordin Boukhari 42pen
Vitesse Arnhem 2 - Emile Mbamba 44
Viktor Sikora 66
HT: 2-1; Att: 9,000
Matthew Amoah played 90mins

ITALY
Lecce 1 - Willian Viali 57
Parma 2 - Savo Milosevic 63, Patrick Mboma 81
Red card: Cristiano Lucarelli (Lecce) 62
HT: 0-0; Att: 22,716
Lineup for Parma: Buffon 6.5, Thuram 6, Sensini 6.5, Cannavaro 6, Sartor 6, Lamouchi 6, Appiah 5.5, Junior 6.5, Micoud 5, Milosevic 6
(76'Di Vaio -), Mboma 6.5.

Udinese 0 Napoli 0
HT: 0-0; Att: 18,000
Lineup for Udinese: Turci 6, Gargo 6.5, Sottil 6, Bertotto 6, Alberto 6 (83'Genaux -), Giannichedda 6, Fiore 6, Diaz 5, Jorgensen 5(54'Helguera 6), Sosa 5 (80'Iaquinta -), Muzzi 6.

SWEDEN
Young Ghanaian Jones Kusi Asare scored the for the second time in a week to help struggling Djurgaarden claim their first win of the season in Sweden, beating Halmstad 2-1.

GIF Sundsvall 0 Djurg?rdens IF 0
Linep forDjurg?rdens: Isaksson;Rasck, Samuelsson, Eriksson Ohlsson, Karlsson; Rehn, Pehrsson,Dorsin (59, B?rlin);A Johansson, Kusi Asare, Barsom (74, Chanko)

TURKEY
Samsunspor 1-3 Fenerbahce
Samsunspor: Goksel, Kenan, Ercan, Baidoo, Serkan, Mehmet, Tumer, Muslim, Ali, Ertugrul and Ilhan.
Fenerbahce: Rustu, Mustafa, Mert, Mirkovic, Johnson, Lazetic, Revivo, Abdullah, Yusuf, Serhat and Rapajc.

Istanbulspor 1 ?aykur Rizespor 0
Lineup of ?AYKUR RIZESPOR: Hamidou, G?rol, Omar, Fatih, Devran, Evren, Mutlu, Mbidia, Serkan, Saffet, Emmanuel Tetteh