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Athletic Bilbao, PSV advance in Europa League - Update

Posted : Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:22:00 GMT
By : dpa
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Hamburg - Athletic Bilbao joined group rivals Werder Bremen into the knockout stage of football's Europa League with an emphatic 3-0 win at Austria Vienna in a match marred by crowd trouble on Thursday. The match was interrupted midway through the second half after objects were thrown from the stands and several spectators ran onto the pitch shortly after Bilbao's second goal.

The referee took the players off as police moved across the pitch to a fan section behind a goal. The match was continued after about 20 minutes.

Fernando Llorente in the 19th and 83rd minutes and San Jose in the 61st gave the Spanish side the points to set up a meeting with Bremen in two weeks to decide top spot in Group L.

Bremen overcame Nacional 4-1 with Markus Rosenberg scoring twice in the first half. Ruben Micael on the hour had given the Portuguese side hope but Marcelo Moreno and Marko Marin added two late on as Bremen ran out comfortable winners.

Dutch side PSV Eindhoven clinched progress as winners of Group K thanks to a last-gasp goal from Jonathan Reis for a 1-0 win over Sparta Prague.

Martin Vingaard and Dame N'Doye scored first-half goals for Copenhagen for a 2-0 victory over Romanian outfit CFR Cluj to set up a decider against Sparta on December 16.

The results leave Eindhoven on 11 points, with Sparta and Copenhagen both on 7, with Cluj now out of the running on 3.

French side Toulouse stayed in contention with a 1-0 victory over Partizan Belgrade in Group J thanks to a 54th-minute goal from Norwegian striker Daniel Braaten.

UEFA Cup holders Shakhtar Donetsk, who had already made sure of qualifying, dropped their first points in a goalless draw with second-placed Club Brugge but clinched top spot in the group.

Brugge now face visiting Toulouse - a point behind them - in a match to decide second place on December 16.

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