{"id":44297,"date":"2010-08-26T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/26\/wealthy-russians-left-out-of-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2010-08-26T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:32:00","slug":"wealthy-russians-left-out-of-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/26\/wealthy-russians-left-out-of-champions-league.html","title":{"rendered":"Wealthy Russians Left Out of Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Crouch struck a hat-trick to help Tottenham Hotspur complete a great comeback against Young Boys and reach the Champions League for the first time while Luis Suarez led Ajax Amsterdam back to the elite in a 2-1 win over Dynamo Kiev.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Tottenham\u2019s 4-0 win at White Hart Lane on Wednesday took them through 6-3 on aggregate\u2014a prospect that had looked highly unlikely when they trailed 3-0 after less than half an hour of last week\u2019s first match, which they eventually lost 3-2.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Uruguay World Cup striker Suarez got the first goal as four-times European champions Ajax overcame Dynamo 3-2 on aggregate to reach the group stage for the first time since 2005-06\u2014the last occasion their Ukrainian opponents failed to qualify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Slovakian champions Zilina reached the group stage for the first time, beating Sparta Prague 1-0 thanks to a spectacular bicycle kick from Gambian Momodou Ceesay to complete a 3-0 aggregate win.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>FC Copenhagen went through on away goals, beating Rosenborg Trondheim 1-0 for a 2-2 aggregate draw, and Auxerre beat nine-man Zenit St Petersburg 2-0 to qualify for the first time since 2002-03 with a 2-1 aggregate win.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Zenit St Petersburg could not match a spirited challenge from Auxerre and had two players sent off in the second half.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The team from Burgundy, who had lost the first leg 1-0, scored early in each half, both from corners. The first was a superb header by defender Cedric Hengbart and the second an acrobatic volley by Poland striker Ireneusz Jelen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Zenit, by far the wealthier club, had goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeev sent off for handling the ball outside the area and Tomas Hubocan for a second yellow card.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team from Burgundy, who had lost the first leg 1-0, scored early…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[14316,10940,14317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}