Mar 13, 2008, 0:02 GMT
Hamburg - There was penalty heartache for Premiership clubs Everton and Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday as both crashed out in a penalty shoot-out despite winning their return leg in the UEFA Cup round of 16 matches.
Everton managed to beat Serie A side Fiorentina 2-0 to reverse a first leg defeat, but went out 4-2 on penalties, while Tottenham managed a 1-0 victory at PSV Eindhoven, but lost 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 aggregate score.
Everton had an ideal start when Andy Johnson put them ahead after just 16 minutes after being set up by South African international Steven Pienaar.
Mikel Arteta sent the game into extra time with a second for the home side in the 67th minute, but penalty misses by Phil Jagielka and Yakubu Ayegbeni broke the home fans' hearts.
In Eindhoven, PSV seemed well on course for a place in the quarter-finals after having won 1-0 at Tottenham in the first leg. But Dimitar Berbatov equalized the tie nine minutes from the end with the only goal of the match.
After Paul Robinson saved Danko Lazovic's spot-kick, Spurs were in the driving seat and Jermaine Jenas could have put them into the next round had he converted his side's fifth spot-kick, but goalkeeper Heurelho da Silva Gomes saved the penalty to push the shoot-out into sudden-death, where French defender Pascal Chimbonda missed Spurs' second kick.
There was more luck for Bundesliga clubs Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen, who also lost their return legs but still advanced.
Bayern Munich, who had done all the work in the first leg in Anderlecht winning 5-0, lost 2-1 on the night in Munich to go through 6-2, while Bayer Leverkusen survived a late furious onslaught from fellow German club SV Hamburg to advance despite losing 3-2.
They went through on the away goal rule after the tie ended 3-3 on aggregate.
In Munich, Brazilian international Lucio gave Bayern - who started the game with several reserves being given a starting place - an early lead in the eighth minute, but Serhat Akin and Alexander Iakovenko turned things around for the visitors.
Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld said that he was not very happy with his side's performance.
'We should have done more with our game, especially after winning the first game 5-0,' he said. 'But the main thing, of course, is that we are through.'
In Hamburg, goals by Sergej Barbarez and Theofanis Gekas gave Leverkusen the goals they needed, although it was tough going at the end after Paolo Guerrero and captain Rafael van der Vaart gave the home side hope by putting them 3-2 ahead with 10 minutes remaining.
Piotr Trochowski had earlier equalized for the home side.
Leverkusen coach Michael Skibbe admitted after the game that his side had been lucky to advance.
'We lost our way in the second half and Hamburg came back strongly,' he said.
'I would not say that we really deserved to go through as we made too many mistakes, but at the end of the day, I am happy that we are in the next round and now we want to go as far as we can.'
In the earlier game Zenit St Petersburg managed to overcome a 3-1 deficit from the first leg against Olympique Marseille to advance to the next round on the away goal rule after winning 2-0 on the night to tie the game 3-3 on aggregate.
After winning the first leg match in France 3-1, Marseille were expected to advance to the next round, but two goals by Pavel Pogrebnyak turned the tie Zenit's way.
The Russian international striker opened the scoring in the 39th minute after Andrei Arshavin managed to beat the Marseille offside trap with a header to Pogrebynak, whose shot gave Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda no chance.
Marseille then managed to curtail the home side's pressure until late in the game, but 12 minutes from the end, Pogrebnyak added a second to see his side through.
Also through on the night was Spanish club Getafe who beat Benfica 1-0 through Juan Albin's second half goal to advance 3-1 on aggregate after having won 2-1 in Lisbon in the first leg.
The final two places in the quarter-finals will be decided on Thursday when Rangers defend a 2-0 lead in Germany against Werder Bremen, while Bolton Wanderers travel to Sporting Lisbon with the tie evenly poised at 1-1.
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