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Four Spanish teams disputed yesterday on Thursday his meetings back of 1/16 of end of the Europe League; only two go forward: the Athletic one of Madrid and the Valencia. Both gained his meetings, although with many difficulties, while the Athletic of Bilbao and the Villarreal they went out hammered of Belgium and Germany, respectively.

Those of Joaquín Caparrós succumbed before an Anderlecht led by the jovencísimo Lukaku — 16 years, Belgian of Congolese origin—; he marked the first one to four minutes and generated the move of the second one, which San Jose transformed into proper door. It finished the imprisoned from Bilbao set of the initial impetus of the places, and there disappeared his illusion of happening to the eighth ones; 4-0 was the final scoreboard.

Very similar was the script of the meeting that the Villarreal disputed at the Wolsfburgo. The best local forward, the Bosnian Dzeko, moved forward the Germans to 9 minutes, and Angel marked in proper door the second one to the quarter of an hour. Although Capdevila cut distances away, it was for nothing, since the yellow set showed serious weaknesses in defense and went out also hammered by 4-1.

The Athletic one and the Valencia put the positive note. The rojiblancos managed to win in extremis in Ali Sami Yen for 1-2 with a Forlán goal in the last minute. The Atleti was top in the going, but it did not achieve the victory and reached the called ‘Turkish hell’ with the obligation to mark. Very serious party of the set of Madrid, which was provided with the falls of (sanctioned) Domínguez, Of Gea (hairdo) and Tiago (not registered person), some of the men who have provoked the improvement. Also, there joined that of Omen, which received a kick of Servet Çetin in the face and had to be replaced before the rest.

The one who yes was and was vital is Kings, that now it has turned into the most determinant player, for the kilometers that it covers with the ball, for the opposite ones that it avoids and for his skill to give assistance and to be close to the goal. In Turkey it did not mark because it came across with Leo Franco and with crossbeam, but he invented again like nobody. In fact, it was the utrerano who saw the Forlán desmarque in the last sigh and put a ball to the space that the Uruguayan did not waste.

Earlier, Simao had erased the fear ‘mattress-maker‘ of not marking, but Keita had tied of similar form to as it did it in the going, with the mistake of included Asenjo. As polemic, a clear penalty for Perea hand, neither that nor the experimental umpire of area indicated.

And later, more enough, the Valencia achieved his pass after mending the result to the Bruges. There began the meeting of a shining form, since It Kills to 19 seconds equalled the qualifying round. But the set che had to come up to the extension to overcome not already the Bruges, which it disarmed without problems, but his doorman, Stijnen, who realized a memorable party and prevented to those of Unai Emery from solving earlier the duel; it was the guilty only one. Miscellany was not, expelled in the going, but neither the Valencia threw him too much in absence.

César entered eleven instead of questioned Moyá in the goal, and the veteran guardamente solved well the problems with important interventions in the last stretch of the party. It went over to the extension and the weariness appeared in the muscles, but also the figure of Pablo Hernández, author of two goals more than deserts that sealed the pass to the round of eighth, and of an assistance to Bush that this one could not turn. Now, the rivals are already definite; the Valencia will have that them turn with the Werder German Bremen, while the Atético of Madrid will face the Sporting of Lisbon. The going, on March 11; the return, one week later.

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