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Soccer News of Monday, 5 November 2001

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Ghanaians in Europe November 2-5/2001

  • Ghanaian Top Scorers in Europe

    AUSTRIA
    Charles Amoah was a starter as Sturm Graz missed an opportunity to close the gap on Austrian leaders Tirol when they drew 1-1 at third-placed city rivals Grazer AK at the Schwarzenegger stadium. Charles was substituted in the middle of the second half.
    Skelley Adu Tutu came on as a sustitute in the 72nd min for Grazer AK .

    BELGIUM
    Blay played 90 mins for Standard Liege in a 1-1 drawn game.

    CZECH
    Fresh from eliminating Celta Vigo from the Uefa Cup, Slovan Liberec eased past Teplice 4-1. Jiri Stajner did most of the damage with an excellent hat-trick while Petr Lukas added a fourth. Radek Divecky scored Teplice's last-minute consolation. Young Ghanaian striker Baffour Gyan left the field in the 80 minute, with scoreline at 4-0

    DENMARK

    FRANCE
    Nantes capped a fine week by beating fellow strugglers Monaco 2-1 at the on Saturday. Alex Nyarko played 90 minutes for Monaco

    Elsewhere, two goals from Tony Vairelles helped Bastia come from behind to beat Lorient in Corsica. The visitors took a 20th minute lead courtesy of their in-form striker Jean-Claude Darcheville. But Bastia drew level when Vairelles scored from the spot in the 51st minute, before going ahead when the former Lens star netted his second four minutes later. Midfielder Michael Essien sealed the win for the home side with a third goal 22 minutes from time.

    GERMANY
    Sammy Kuffour impressed as Bayern Munich kept their amazing winning streak going as two late goals from Peru striker Claudio Pizarro sealed victory over Hamburg.
    The Ghanaian international, is only two games from his Champions League half-century after the reigning champions topped their group with a 1-0 win at Sparta Prague last week.

    C K Akonnor led Wolfsburg to a convincing 5-0 victory over Numburg, in the clash of the strugglers at VfL stadium. Hans Adu Sarpei also played for 90 mins. Wolfburg have now pulled four points clear of the relegation zone.

    Ibrahim Tanko helped SC Freiburg beat Energie Cottbus 3 - 1.

    GREECE
    Xanthi 4 - 5' Labriakos,7' Ouakili ,37' Zografakis,70' Ouakili
    Iraklis 1 -76' Fofonka

    Lineup for Iraklis: Chalkias, Xenidis (46' Drougas), Haxhi, Koutsoures (76' Moutsios), Fofonka, Stoltidis, Hagan, Milojevic, Nebegleras, Alexopoulos (16' Bachramis), Kormaris.

    ITALY
    Udinese maintained their fine away form with victory away to away to Piacenza. David di Michele, in for the injured Roberto Sosa, gave them a first half lead, and, although Dario Hubner levelled from the spot, another penalty two minutes later from Roberto Muzzi restored Udinese's advantage. came on as a substitute in the 68 minute.

    Parma's caretaker coach, Pietro Carmingniani, left Stephen Appiah on the bench, as he got his reign off to a winning start against Perugia. Marco di Vaio put Parma ahead after 20 minutes, Sisis Vryzas equalised on 69 minutes, but Di Vaio struck again in injury time to seal the victory.

    Appiah on the dismissal of Parma's Coach: "We are really sorry for Ulivieri. We were not expecting something like that. At present we have just to work to improve."

    NETHERLANDS
    Sparta 2
    Feyernood 1
    There was a rare start for Christian Gyan, in Feyernood's defence, but that did not stop the club from going down by 2-1 to Sparta.

    A last-minute goal by Ghanaian striker Matthew Amoah, his first of the season, earned second-placed Vitesse a 1-1 draw at Willem Twei in Holland.

    PORTUGAL

    ROMANIA

    RUSSIA

    SWEDEN
    The Season is over!

    SWITZERLAND
    Alexander Tachie-Mensah claimed his 11th of the season as Neuchatel drew 1-1 with FC Zurich

    FC Aarau 2 -29, 63 Tarone
    Lausanne-Sports 0

    Lineup for Lausanne 18 Zetzmann, 4 Meyer, 6 Charles Wittl, 7 Lombardo, 9 Chav?riat, 15 Lutsenko,17 Meoli (73 Yoksuzoglu) , 19 Zambaz, 20 Karlen, 23 Gobet, 24 Simon(67 Udovic)

    TURKEY
    Goals by Ghanaian pair Ohene Kennedy and Augustine Ahinful gave Ankaragucu a 2-1 win at Istanbulspor in Turkey.

    Diyarbakirspor K 1
    Yimpas Yozgatspor K 1

    Yozgatspor: Saliou Diallo, Selim ?zer, H?seyin Sunar Karakayis (46' Mustafa ?zer), Cihat Arslan, Ilker Dal?i?ek, ?zg?r Bayer, Cem Karaca, Joachim Yaw Acheampong, Ilyas Kahraman (76' Hamza Hamzaoglu), Cengizhan Hin?al, Mustafa Kocabey (57' Arben Nuhiji)

    Kocaelispor K Izmit 0
    Samsunspor K 1

    Samsunspor: Alloum Boukar, Ercan Kologlu, Ertugrul Saglam, Vural Korkmaz, Stephen Baidoo, Mehmet Hilmi Yilmaz, Serkan D?kme (67' Alfred Maimane Phiri), Ben Ofosu Piasare (73' Mehmet Nas), Kenan Yelek, Celil Sagir (90' Serkan Karababa), M?slim Can

    Kocaelispor: Detlef M?ller, Faruk Sarman, Engin ?ztonga, Nuri ?olak (60' Zdravko Ivanov Lazerov), Kwame Ayew, Alexander Iordanov Alexandrov, Ahmet Arslaner, Ayman Mohammed Abd el-Aziz (69' Roman Dobrowski), Cihan Haspolatli, B?lent Kaan Bilgen, Serdar Topraktepe

    Besiktas JK Istanbul 2
    ?aykur Rizespor K 1

    Rizespor: Souleymanou Hamidou, Mustafa Koray Avci, Recep Asil, K?rsat Duymus (81' Chikelue Iloenyosi), Turan Bilge, ?nal Alpugan, Nicolas Alnoudji (84' Okan ?zt?rk), Devran Ayhan, Serkan ?zdemir, ?mit Ozan Kazmaz, Emmanuel Tetteh (87' Sener Askaroglu)