It was a mixed night for Italian sides
in the Europa League, with Lazio and
Inter Milan both winning but Napoli
losing 3-0 to PSV Eindhoven.
Ederson's 62nd-minute winner saw
Lazio overcome Slovenia's Maribor 1-0
in Rome to put them top of Group J by
a point.
Inter overpowered Neftci of Azerbaijan
3-1 in Group H but are still second
behind Rubin Kazan.
Joey Barton, on loan at Marseille from
QPR, notched an assist in a 5-1 win
over Cyprus side AEL Limassol.
GROUP A
The early kick-off saw veteran striker
Samuel Eto'o seal the points for big-
spending Russian side Anzhi
Makhachkala. The Cameroonian's two
late strikes - one a penalty, the other a
close-range finish - saw off visitors
Young Boys. The 2-0 match was played
out in front of a sparse crowd in
Moscow, after Uefa banned Anzhi from
hosting games in the troubled Dagestan
region.
Udinese came from behind to seal
three points at Anfield, 3-2 against
Liverpool. Antonio Di Natale capped a
virtuoso display with a goal 32 seconds
after the restart. Liverpool lie third with
work still to do to secure a place in the
knockout stages.
GROUP B
Defending champions Atletico Madrid
snatched a win at home to Czech team
Plzen with a 90th minute Cristian
Rodriguez goal. The Uruguayan winger
joined Atletico in May from Porto, and
his new side now top the group by
three clear points.
Academica still prop up the table after
drawing 1-1 at home to Hapoel Tel-Aviv,
but it could have been so much better
for the Portuguese hosts. Salim Cisse
scored in the 47th minute but they
were denied all three points by Israeli
international striker Omer Damari's
effort in the final minute.
GROUP C
Two six-goal thrillers in this group, with
Marseille and Fenerbahce joint top after
overpowering AEL Limassol and
Borussia Monchengladbach 5-1 and 4-2
respectively.
Cristian Baroni, a Brazilian defensive
midfielder, scored a brace for Turkish
side Fenerbahce, and was ably assisted
by former Chelsea star Raul Meireles
and ex-Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt.
Marseille's on-loan midfielder Joey
Barton provided the corner from which
Rod Fanni scored to equalise, before
the Ligue 1 side ran away with the
fixture with two goals from Loic Remy
and a goal apiece from Lucas Mendes
and Andre-Pierre Gignac.
GROUP D
Premier League side Newcastle top the
table after thumping Bordeaux 3-0 at
home. An own goal from Brazilian
defender Carlos Henrique represented
the nadir for the French team, with
strikes either side of it from Shola
Ameobi and Papiss Cisse.
Club Bruges saw off Maritimo 2-0 at
home with two second-half goals
courtesy of Colombian forward Carlos
Bacca and Belgian international Bjorn
Vleminckx.
GROUP E
Molde, under the stewardship of
former Manchester United striker Ole
Gunnar Solskjaer, secured their first
points of the Europe League campaign
with a 2-0 victory over German
opponents VfB Stuttgart. In front of
6,000 in Norway, Jo Inge Berget set the
home side off and running before
defender Daniel Chukwa made the
game safe late on.
Steaua Bucharest edged past visitors FC
Copenhagen 1-0 thanks to an 83rd
minute strike from number 90 Stefan
Nikolic. The Romanian side now top the
group.
GROUP F
A five-goal thriller in Sweden as AIK
Solna fell 3-2 at home to Dnipro. The
Ukrainians emerge victorious thanks to
a goal apiece from Nikola Kalinic, Vitaliy
Mandzyuk and Yevhen Seleznyov.
An easier night for Eredivisie side PSV
Eindhoven, whose 3-0 success over a
humbled Napoli means they leapfrog
the Italians into second place.
GROUP G
Belgian side Genk top the group after
holding FA Basel to a 2-2 draw at the
Cristal Arena. Genk raced into the lead
through Benjamin De Ceulaer and Jelle
Vossen, but let two points slip after a
second-half double from Swiss
international striker Marco Streller.
Hungarians Video Fehervar strolled to a
3-0 home win over Sporting Lisbon,
with Paulo Vinicius, Filipe Oliveira and
Nemanja Nikolic all scoring before half-
time. The humbling leaves The Lions
bottom of the standings with just a
single point.
GROUP H
First-half strikes from Philippe Coutinho,
Joel Obi and Marko Livaja gave Inter
Milan a 3-1 win at Neftci of Azerbaijan.
"This group of players is on the way
up," said coach Andrea Stramaccioni,
whose side face AC Milan in the derby
on Sunday.
Rubin Kazan still top the group ahead
of the Italians following a 2-0 home win
over Partizan Belgrade. Gokdeniz
Karadeniz scored on the stroke of half-
time and Alexander Ryazantsev added a
second just after the interval.
GROUP I
Lyon top the group after a seven-goal
thriller in Israel, Gueida Fofana's
stoppage-time winner seeing off Hapoel
Kiryat Shmona 4-3. The Israeli side, who
were only formed in 2000 after a
merger of Hapoel Kiryat Shmona and
Maccabi Kiryat Shmona, now find
themselves a full five points behind the
French group leaders.
Plenty of goals in Prague also, as Sparta
emerged 3-1 victors over Athletic
Bilbao. Last season's defeated finalists
Bilbao now find themselves far behind
the two at the head of the table and in
real danger of exiting the 2012 Europa
League.
GROUP J
Lazio overcome NK Maribor 1-0 in
Rome to lead the chasing pack by a
point. Ederson's 62nd-minute strike
pushed Slovenian champions Maribor
down into second place in the group
following their 3-0 defeat on
Panathinaikos in their opening group
game.
The Athens-based side recovered from
falling a goal behind to draw 1-1 with
Premier League outfit Tottenham. Spurs
defender and captain Michael Dawson
had nodded his side in front in the first
half, only for Spanish striker Toche to
slide home for the equaliser.
GROUP K
FC Metalist Kharkiv sealed a 2-0 win
over visiting side Rapid Vienna in front
of more than 40,000 at Metalist
Stadium. Second-half strikes from
Edmar Halovskyi and Cleiton Xavier
secured the three points and pushed
the Ukrainian side to the head of the
group.
A home defeat for Rosenborg, 1-0 at
the hands of German side Bayer
Leverkusen, saw Stefan Kiessling net the
decisive strike with 14 minutes left.
GROUP L
Only one win in this group, as
Hannover 96 overcame Spanish
opponents Levante 2-1. The German
hosts played with 10 men from the 10th
minute but still managed to come from
behind to secure the victory with a
penalty from Szabolcs Huszti and the
winner courtesy of Didier Ya Konan.
In the other game, Sweden's
Helsingborgs prop up the table after
seeing their 2-0 lead over FC Twente
wiped out by Rasmus Bengtsson and
Douglas.
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