Ruud van Nistelrooy was delighted to have marked his full Hamburg debut with a goal

HAMBURG 3
- Mathijsen 23
- van Nistelrooy 40
- Jarolim 76

ANDERLECHT 1
- Legear 45

**Ruud van Nistelrooy was delighted to have marked his full Hamburg debut with a goal last night to take the north German club one step closer to their dream UEFA Europa League final in their own stadium thanks to a 3-1 win over Anderlecht.

HSV's quality play soon earned them a deserved lead. Joris Mathijsen found himself onside with the ball at his feet and unmarked just outside the six-yard box, 1-0 position for the host.

Second goal A header from Petric found Elia close to the byline, the Dutch winger sliding the ball into the path of his fellow countryman. Van Nistelrooy then poked the ball past Proto at his front post from a very tight angle, took place in the 40th minute.

In the 45th minute Jonathan Legear stepped over the ball, striking it sweetly and curling it right past Frank Rost into the 'keeper's top left corner, leaving the glovesman with no chance, thus allowing the Belgians to end the half with a bit more confidence, 2-1 position.

The consistent pressure by the home side paid off once again, as a failure to clear a cross from Petric allowed David Jarolim to gallop forward onto the loose ball and fizz a low shot into Proto's right hand corner. Hamburg had taken the score to a more advantageous 3-1.

Teams :

Hamburg : Frank Rost, David Rozehnal, Joris Mathijsen, Dennis Aogo, Marcell Jansen, Jose Ze Roberto, David Jarolim, Tomas Rincon, Mladen Petric, Eljero Elia (Piotr Trochowski, 78),Ruud van Nistelrooy

Anderlecht : Aliaj Sylvio Proto, Ondrej Mazuch, Olivier Deschacht, Jelle Van Damme, Roland Juhasz, Lucas Rodrigo Biglia, Cheikhou Kouyate, Guillaume Gillet, Rubenilson Kanu (Matias Suarez, 77), Jonathan Legear, Romelu Lukaku

Goal from Miralem Pjanic gave French side Lyon a stunning 1-1 draw with Real Madrid

MADRID 1
- Ronaldo 6

LYON 1
- Pjanic 75

**A second-half goal from Miralem Pjanic gave French side Lyon a stunning 1-1 draw with Real Madrid on Wednesaday, eliminating the Spaniards from the Champions League 2-1 on aggregate

Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring for Real Madrid, Guti showed all his quality on five minutes pinpoint into the path of Portuguese. He burst away from Cris before firing the ball through Lloris’ legs from an unlikely angle, 1-0 for los Blancos.

Lyon had wrestled the upper hand of this game away from their hosts and would stun the Bernabeu with 15 minutes remaining. Delgado, who had looked dangerous throughout the second half, spun a low pass into the box for Lisandro, whose touch from 12 yards was perfect for Pjanic to march onto, take a touch and smash into the net.

An onslaught followed as Lyon defended for their lives but Real could not produce another comeback.

That proved a mere footnote, Real Madrid's dreams of a Champions League final at their Bernabeu home were crushed by Lyon tonight were knocked out at the last-16 stage for the sixth successive season.

Teams Lineup :

Real Madrid: Iker Casillas; Sergio Ramos, Raul Albiol, Ezequiel Garay, Alvaro Arbeloa (Mahamadou Diarra 84); Esteban Granero (Rafael van der Vaart 62), Lassana Diarra, Kaka (Raul 77), Guti, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Higuain.

Olympique Lyon: Hugo Lloris; Anthony Réveillère, Cris, Jean-Alain Boumsong (Kim Kallstrom 46), Aly Cissokho; Sidney Govou, Jeremy Toulalan, Jean Makoun (Maxime Gonalons 46), Miralem Pjanic (Ederson 84), Cesar Delgado; Lisandro Lopez.

Wayne Rooney continued his incredible, Ji Sung Park and Darren Fletcher completed success.

MANCHESTER UNITED 4
- Rooney 13,
- Rooney 46,
- Park 59,
- Fletcher 88

MILAN 0

**Manchester United strolled into the last eight of the Champions League for the fourth successive season with a routine 4-0 victory against AC Milan at Old Trafford that sealed a 7-2 aggregate win.

The first goals for Manchester United re-established themselves and took the lead in the 13th minute. Gary Neville was allowed to advance in the Milan half and sent in an inch-perfect cross for Rooney to outjump Daniele Bonera and head past Christian Abbiati.

Within attacks United have extended their lead, Nani played a superb pass with the outside of his foot to play Rooney in on goal, sprinted down the left and then sent an astute ball towards Rooney, who go to it before Abbiati and rolled under the keeper and into the net from 17 yards.

After half-time after Ji-Sung Park drilled in the third on the hour as United exerted complete control, he to slide the ball past Abbiati into the far corner, the Red Devils went 3-0 up.

In the 88th minute as Rafael put in a good cross, Fletcher has just emphasised the point by heading a Rafael cross in at the back post.

Teams Lineup :

Manchester United: Edwin van der Sar; Gary Neville (Rafael 66), Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra; Nani, Darren Fletcher, Paul Scholes ( Darron Gibson 73), Park Ji-Sung; Wayne Rooney (Dimitar Berbatov 66), Antonio Valencia

AC Milan: Christian Abbiati; Ignazio Abate (David Beckham 64), Daniele Bonera (Clarence Seedorf 46), Thiago Silva, Marek Jankulovski; Andrea Pirlo, Massimo Ambrosini, Mathieu Flamini; Ronaldinho; Marco Borriello (Filippo Inzaghi 69), Klaas Jan Huntelaar

Darren Bent's hat-trick and Fraizer Campbell's opener ; Sunderland 4-0 Bolton

SUNDERLAND 4
- Campbell 1,
- Bent 64,
- Bent (pen) 74,
- Bent 88

BOLTON WANDERERS 0

**It was 15th time lucky for Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on Tuesday as a Darren Bent hat-trick inspired the home side to a 4-0 win over Bolton for Steve Bruce's side's first league victory this year.

Fraizer Campbell's opener, when Anton Ferdinand playing at the unfamiliar left back position, played the ball to Lorik Cana, he looped the ball into the Bolton area, allowing Frazier Campbell to score after 45 seconds of the game.

At least Sunderland managed a second goal following a couple of decent passes. First Steed Malbranque played in Cattermole who, finally finding his range, slipped a lovely ball to Bent, when Bent was put through before slotting past Jussi Jaaskelainen.

After soon, It got worse for Bolton and even better for Bent. First Sam Ricketts was sent off for a second yellow card offence, namely the shove which sent Bent tumbling in the area, thereby conceding a penalty.

Next the victim dusted himself down and stepped forward to convert that kick before completing his first Sunderland treble by shooting through a crowded area after playing a lovely one-two with Campbell.

Bent has now scored 19 times this season for his club and with every goal is making it harder for the England manager to ignore him.

Teams Lineup :

Sunderland: Gordon; Hutton, Turner, Mensah (Zenden 79), Ferdinand; Campbell, Cana, Cattermole (Bardsley 70), Malbranque (Mwaruwari 85); Jones, Bent

Bolton: Jaaskelainen; Steinsson, Ricketts, Knight, Robinson; Chung-yong, Gardner (Taylor 73), Muamba (Weiss 58), Wilshere; Elmander (Klasnic 64), Davies

Fiorentina won, but Robben scores rescues Bayern send to the quarter-finals

FIORENTINA 3
- Vargas 27,
- Jovetic 54,
- Jovetic 64

BAYERN MUNICH 2
- van Bommel 60,
- Robben 65

**Arjen Robben's superb strike sent Bayern Munich through to the Champions League quarter-finals on away goals on Tuesday despite a 3-2 defeat by Fiorentina in a thrilling last 16 second leg.

The Italian team carried the game to its opponent and appeared set to snatch the series from the Bundesliga giants. From winger Juan Vargas gave Fiorentina the lead in the 27th minute, Vargas missed an audacious free kick from 40 yards.

Gilardino stopped the ball dead with a marvellous touch with his heel, teeing it up for Stevan Jovetic to smash home from about 10 yards, Jovetic made it 2-0 after 54 minutes. That's a wonderful goal by Fiorentina.

A well-struck goal by Bayern's captain, Mark van Bommel, off a cross from Franck Ribery, who had lured three defenders out of position, made it 2-1, tying the series on aggregate, 3-3, with each team having scored one vital road goal.

Fiorentina fans believed they had it won when Jovetic, a 20-year-old rising star from Montenegro, scored his second goal of the match, making it 3-1 in the 64th minute, but 72 seconds later Robben ruined their hopes.

Taking the ball on the right flank and cutting inside his defenders, Robben let fly with a shot from 30 yards that sailed into the upper left corner of the net. There was little that Fiorentina goalkeeper Sebastien Frey could do about the shot.

The game ended with a 3-2 Fiorentina win and with the series tied at 4-4, but Bayern advanced because of its two away goals. That left fans at the Artemio Franchi Stadium chanting "Thieves, Thieves" in reference to what they perceived as the first-leg robbery in Munich.

Teams:

Fiorentina: Sebastien Frey; Lorenzo De Silvestri, Cesare Natali, Per Krøldrup, Felipe (Manuel Pasqual '79); Riccardo Montolivo, Cristiano Zanetti; Marco Marchionni, Stevan Jovetić, Juan Vargas (Keirrison '82); Alberto Gilardino.

Bayern Munich: Hans-Joerg Butt; Philipp Lahm, Daniel van Buyten, Holger Badstuber, David Alaba; Arjen Robben, Mark van Bommel, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Franck Ribery (Danijel Pranjic '90); Thomas Mueller, Mario Gomez (Miroslav Klose '30).

Bendtner hat-trick establish all too easy to bring The Gunners to the quarter-finals

ARSENAL 5
- Bendtner 9,
- Bendtner 25,
- Nasri 63,
- Eboue 66,
- Bendtner (pen) 90

FC PORTO 0

**Nicklas Bendtner grabbed a hat-trick as Arsenal cruised into the quarter-finals of the Champions League with an emphatic victory over Porto at the Emirates Stadium.

Facing a 2-1 deficit from the first leg, Arsenal set the the tone for the evening by going at the opposition from the very first whistle. A punt from the back from Almunia. Arshavin, of all people, outjumped Rolando and nodded the ball down to NAsri before pivoting and dashing towards the box in search of the return. Nasri obliged, forcing two centre-backs to converge on the Russian, and Bendtner stretches out a leg to poke the breaking ball past the keeper and into the net from 16 yards.

That's terrific work from Arshavin, who dodged his way past three defenders on the left-hand side of the box and then slashed the ball across the face of goal. Bentner, standing all alone, slams it into the net, make (agg : 3-2) Arsenal lead.

In the 62th minute was the turning point, Nasri received the ball with his back to goal, just outside the right-hand corner of the box. He spun past one defender, then danced his way past another two and spanked the ball in off the post.It was a special goal from a player who had been the outstanding individual on the pitch.

But woes Porto were compounded, two minutes later as Arsenal produced a breakaway goal to end the contest early. Arshavin picked the ball up inside his own half and scampered forward, leaving defenders in his wake to Emannuel Eboue as Porto were left brutally exposed and slide the ball into the empty net.

The remaining twenty-five minutes Eboue burst into the area only to be tripped by the hapless Fucile, and Bendtner completed his first senior hat-trick with the resulting penalty kick. It's a Bendtner hat-trick in this season.

In the last moments until the referee stop the match become an evening that ultimately proved all too easy to bring the Gunners light shine, won the final results (agg : 6-2)

Teams Lineup:

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Campbell, Vermaelen, Clichy, Nasri (Denilson 73), Song, Diaby, Rosicky (Eboue '57), Bendtner, Arshavin (Walcott '76).

Porto: Helton, Fucile, Rolando, Bruno Alves, Pereira, Ruben Micael (Guarin '76), Coelho (Rodriguez '45), Raul Meireles, Varela (Gonzalez '76), Falcao, Hulk

Hugo Rodallega gives good skills in relegation battle

WIGAN ATHLETIC 1
- Rodallega 35

LIVERPOOL 0

**Competed for 90 minutes, plus injury time, Liverpool finally had to admit the benefits of Wigan Athletic. The Reds defeated 0-1 by goals scored by Hugo Rodallega.

In the action in DW Stadium, Monday (8/3/2010) , Liverpool created enough chances, but none of them managed to convert into goals. In contrast, Wigan appear effective.

One goal was succeeded by taking advantage of carelessness of Dirk Kuyt. And finally succeeded in their goal to maintain the long whistle sounded.

These results do not change the position of Liverpool who are still stuck in sixth position with a notch 48 value. As for Wigan, this victory made their position up to the order of 14 with a collection of 28 value.

Match path

Liverpool became the first team to earn a chance at this fight. Football Steven Gerrard corner passed by Sotirios Kyrgiakos to the Fernando Torres. Direct last name continues to kick volleyball. Damn him, the ball still hit the goalpost.

Wigan responded to pressure. At minute 18, Charles N'Zogbia to puncture and successfully passed Emiliao Insua. He gives pass to Marcelo Moreno who was standing in front of goal. Unfortunately for Wigan, Jamie Carragher swiftly grab the ball has led to Moreno.

In the 27th minute, Gerrard's turn to get a golden opportunity. Receive a pass from Yossi Benayoun, Liverpool captain is directly off a hard kick. Chris Kirkland was unable to defuse it, but the ball was still widening.

Continue to be attacked, instead Wigan scored first in minute 35. Superior host after Dirk Kuyt made a mistake. Defense toward Operannya instead cut by Mohamed Diame.

Diame then send feedback to the defense cross 'The Red' and Rodallega who was there, successfully pass with a flick. Liverpool's goal was breaking.

In the second half, Liverpool raise the tempo of the game. Two minutes after halftime, scoring chance for it to come again. Pass to Maxi Rodriguez Insua forwarded directly to the Torres. But Torres failed to solve this opportunity well after his shot soared above the crossbar.

One chance again obtained Torres on 75 minutes. Same as before, getting feedback from the mature Rodriguez, from Spain striker is continuing with volleyball kick hard enough,

The result? The ball has not met the target, but wide in the side of the goal. 15-minute live action towards the end and Liverpool never could convert the chances into goals.

Teams :

Wigan: Chris Kirkland, Emerson Boyce, Gary Caldwell, Titus Bramble, Maynor Figueroa, Mohamed Diame, (Hendry Thomas 83) James McCarthy, Charles N'Zogbia, Paul Scharner, Hugo Rodallega (Jason Scotland 87), Marcelo Moreno (67 Victor Moses ).

Liverpool: Jose Reina, Javier Mascherano, Jamie Carragher, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Emiliano Insua, Lucas Leiva (Glen Johnson 55), Steven Gerrard, Maxi Rodriguez, Dirk Kuyt (Ryan Babel 83), Yossi Benayoun (Alberto Aquilani 69), Fernando Torres.