Here are the results from the first leg UEFA Cup Round of 32 games ( 2008-09 season) played on 18-19 February.
February 19 final scores:-
FC Copenhagen 2-2 Man City (Ailton Almeida 59′, Martin Vingaard 90+1’/ Nedum Onuoha 29′, Stephen Ireland 61′)
Fiorentina 0-1 Ajax Amsterdam (Kennedy Bakircioglü 60′)
Lech Poznan 2-2 Udinese (Hernán Rengifo 81′, Manuel Arboleda 84’/ Manuel Arboleda OG 55′, Fabio Quagliarella 50′)
Marseille 0-1 Twente (Marko Arnautovic 22′)
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur ( Yevgen Seleznov 79, Jadson 88′)
18 February 2009 Final Scores:-
AaB Aalborg 3-0 Deportivo La Coruna ( Anders Due 53′, Anders Due 71′, Michael Jakobsen 90’pen)
Aston Villa 1-1 CSKA Moscow ( John Carew 69′ / Wagner Love 14′)
FC Girondins de Bordeaux 0-0 Galatasaray
Braga 3-0 Standard Liege ( Renteria 17′, Andre Leone 27′, Luis Aguiar 84′)
Dinamo Kiev 1-1 Valencia CF ( Artem Milevskiy 63’/ David Silva 8′)
NEC Nijmegen 0-3 Hamburger SV ( Piotr Trochowski 41′, Alex Silva 45′, Ivica Olic 75′)
Olympiakos 1-3 St.Etienne ( Predrag Djordjevi? 64′ pen/ Ilan 12′, Geoffrey Dernis 43′, Bafetimbi Gomis 90+1′)
Paris St Germain 2-0 Vfl Wolfsburg ( Guillaume Hoarau 80′, 83′)
Sampdoria 0-1 Metalist Kharkiv ( Denys Oliynyk 45+3′)
Werder Bremen 1-1 AC Milan ( Diego 84’/ Fillippo Inzaghi 36′)
Zenit St.Petersburg 2-1 Vfb Stuttgart ( Szabolcs Huszti 2′, Anatoli Tymoschuk 45+3’/ Mario Gomez 15′)
Goals by Carew and Diego saved the day for Villa and Werder Bremen in the first leg. While the Villans are well and truly capable of winning the away leg, I doubt if any such thing can take place at the San Siro when Bremen go visiting. With the intimidating atmosphere, combined with the fact that this will be the only chance to salvage something from the season, Milan will show their full strength in front of their home crowd, and the Germans may not be able to hold out.