MMB

I'd say Lokeren is pretty much through to the next round after a 0-4 slaughtering against Dinamo Tirana

PastyHusty

I think we can safely say Manchester City are through to the first round proper of the UEFA Cup. They thrashed TNC (Welsh team) 5-0 tonight at the new City of Manchester stadium with goals from Sinclair, Wright-Phillips, Jihai, Sommeil and Anelka.

MMB

That's one English team and one Belgian team through to the next round with certitude

PastyHusty

There were loads of Qualifying matches last night, nothing too special worth mentioning apart from Man. City beating TNS 2-0 in Wales and Lokeren defeating Dinamo Tirana 3-1.

The draw for the first round was made earlier:

Dundee .v. Perugia
Newcastle .v. NAC Breda
Hearts .v. Zeljeznicar
Genclerbirligi .v. Blackburn
Liverpool .v. Olimpija Ljubljana
Man City .v. Lokeren
Southampton .v. Steaua Bucharest
AIK Stockholm .v. Valencia
Dinamo Bucharest .v. Shakhtar
Maccabi Haifa .v. Publikum
Torpedo Moscow .v. CSKA Sofia
Cementarnica .v. Lens
Benfica .v. La Louviere
Panionios .v. Nordsjaelland
Udinese .v. Salzburg
Puchov .v. Barcelona
Dinamo Zagreb .v. MTK Hungaria
Hapoel Rumat Gan .v. Levski Sofia
Kaiserslautern .v. Teplice
Sartid .v. Slavia Prague
Villarreal .v. Trabzonspar
Grasshoppers .v. Hadjuk Split
Hertha Berlin .v. Groclin
Valerenga .v. Grazer AK
Zimbru Chisinau .v. Aris Salonika
FC Copenhagen .v. Ferencvaros
Varteks .v. Debrecen
Hamburg .v. Dnipro
Bordeaux .v. Petrzalka
Roma .v. Vardar
Spartak Moscow .v. Esbjerg FB
Wisla Krakow .v. NEC Nijmegen
Leiria .v. Molde
Austria Vienna .v. Borussia Dortmund
Auxerre .v. Xamax
Ventspils .v. Rosenborg
Gaziantepspor .v. Hapoel Tel Aviv
Odense .v. Red Star Belgrade
Sporting Lisbon .v. Malmo
Utrecht .v. Zilina
Metalurh .v. Parma
MyPa .v. Sochaux
Schalke .v. Kamen Ingrad
Mallorca .v. Appoel
Feyenoord .v. Karnten
PAOK Salonika .v. Lyn
Malatyaspor .v. Basel
Brondby .v. Viktoria Zizkov

.... and now they will meet in the first round.

MMB

That's a great draw for Lokeren This match will surely give them a lot of short term profit, just what they were looking for.

And could be two nice matches as well.

DrTagnian

Bye bye NAC Breda

Riapanonias

i see rosenborg got a really easy theam to play against.. maybe they'll suprise and win over them.

PastyHusty

Genclerbirligi 3-1 Blackburn Rovers
Poor from Blackburn. They started promisingly but couldn't keep up the pressure for long. After about 15-20 minutes they let Gen (well I'm not gonna bother remembering how to spell this team, I definitely can't pronounce it!) get into the game and suddenly Balckburn found themselves under immense pressure. Gen.. had three very good chances to score with headers. The first didn't have enough power on it and Friedel made a comfortable save. The second hit the bar and went over and the third was just wide. Three let-offs for Balckburn.

The first goal did come from Gen.. just a few minutes before half-time and they more than deserved it. Skoko scored the goal and it was a beauty. Friedel had to come out of his goal to head clear a long ball (he was 20 yards out at this point) but the ball went stright to Skoko who struck the ball on the half-volley from about 35 yards out over Friedel and just under the crossbar. Less than a minute later Youla beat the offside trap and sent a fierce shot just past Friedel's left hand.

I didn't see any of the second half, but Andy Cole came on and helped set up Blackburn's goal fro Brett Emerton after 57 minutes .... but sloppy defening three minutes later gave Youla a chance to put Gen.. two goals back in front and he didn't miss. Blackburn have a tough task back at Ewood Park in three weeks.

Riapanonias

not to good for blackburn

rosenborg won theyr game 4-1 against some strange theam i dont remember the name of

PastyHusty

Indeed.

Ventspils (wherever they come from!).

Leiria 1-0 Molde.

Puchov 1-1 Barcelona!

Southampton have just gone 1 behind at home to Steaua Bucharest.