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UEFA Cup fourth round first leg

Arsenal,Mallorca run riot
PARIS. March 3: English Premiership giants Arsenal produced one of the greatest performances in their history to trounce 10-man Spanish league leaders Deportivo La Coruna 5-1 in their UEFA Cup fourth round first leg match on Thursday, reports AFP.
Runaway French league leaders Monaco also found being reduced to 10-men. Mexican defdnder Rafael Marquez being sent-off for a second bookable offence. too much to cope with as they went down 4-1 away at 1999 Cup Winners Cup.finalists Real Mallorca - Jovan Stankovic grabbing a hat-trick.
Italian league leaders Juventus will also have their work cut out In the second leg next week having squeezed a 1-0 win at home over another Spanish side Celia Vigo.
Galatasaray. Lens and Leeds United can all look forward to their UEFA Cup fourth round second leg matches with a certain amount of confidence after getting good results away from home.
Galatasaray. a club used to grabbing upset wins in European competiton. beat the once mighty German outfit Borussia Dortmund 2-0 capped by a fine effort from venerable Romanian playmaker Georghe Hagi on the stroke of halftime.
Both Lens and Leeds came away with draws, the French side twice going ahead against Atletico Madrid through inspirational midfielder Olivier Da-court only for Jimmy Floyd Hasselbalnk to hit back twice -Leeds got a scoreless draw against Italian giants AS Roma.
First-half strikes from Lee Dixon and Thierry Henry put the Gunners in control against a Deportivo side who have shown a clean pair of heels to Real Madrid and Barcelona on the domestic front.
The visitors were thrown a lifeline after 55 minutes when Flavio was felled in the box by Swedish international Fredrik Ljungberg and DJaiminha stepped up to beat Seaman from the spot with an audacious chip.
Tempers flared as Deportivo sprang back to life and it was no surprise when DJaiminha, who had tested the referee's patience several limes during the game, received his marching orders for head-butting Gilles Gri-mandi.
Arsenal raised their game against the ten men and brought on Nigerian Nwankwo Kanu for Marc Overmars to vary their attacking options.
And alter 67 minutes the Gunners made it 3-1 when Emmanuel Petit's free-kick was met by Henry whose thumping header flashed past Jacques Songo'o into the top right-hand corner.
Kanu scored the goal of the game with a wonderlui solo effort 11 minutes later while Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp rounded off a vintage Arsenal performance by scoring a fifth.
Al Palma Stankovic scored all his goals from dead ball situations for Mallorca. Three times he outfoxed Monaco's French World Cup winning goalkeeper Fabien Barthez. first from a freekick and then twice from the penalty spot.
For Galatasaray it was the combination of (he Bull of the Bosphorus and the Maradona of the Carpathians Hakan Sukur and Hagi - that accounted for the Germans who also had to battle against a 25,000 strong Turkish contingent in (he crowd (here is a thriving Turkish community In Germany.
it was Sukur, a legendary figure In Istanbul, vyho put the Turks ahead after 33 minutes with a goal set up by his fellow Turkish international Erdem Arif.
On the stroke of half-time 35-year-old veteran Hagi, who earned his nickname because of his similarity as a player to Ar-gentinian legend DJego Maradona. rnad<»it two.
The Romanian let fly from distance with his favoured left foot and his shot beat Dortmund keeper Jens Lehmann with the help of a slight deflection.
Dortmund. European and World Champions in 1997, had only one real chance with Fredi Bobic spurning an opportunity alter 84 minutes ana the ailing Bundesliga side are still without a win under new coach Bemd Krauss.
Hasselbalnk. who singlehandedly has kept Atletico's season alive scoring 21 goals in the championship, kept the fallen Spanish giants UEFA Cup hopes alive with a fine double. although the second, his sixth in the campaign, a low stooping header owea a lot to the Lens defence losing concentration just two minutes after they had retaken the lead in a pulsating match.
Hasselbaink’s double was matched by Dacourt. a big money summer signing from English Premiership side Everton. who ensured that the 1998 French champions retained their unbeaten away record in the competition this season.
Dacourt. who had two excellent earlier second-half efforts beaten away by Atletico keeper Jose Molina, had Just scored with a beauty in the 79th minute sighting Molina off ills line he lobbed the ball over him from outside the area.
"1 decided to go for the more subtle approach the third time as the other two were more jxjw-erful but easy prey for the goalkeeper." Dacourt said.
Il's going to be some Cup tie next week that's for sure!" he added.
Atletico's Italian coach Claudio Ranieri said he wasn't afraid of next week's return.
"The fact we came back twice tells me that this is a side of extraordinary lighting qualities." he said.
Leeds courageous effort was spearheaded by England number two goakeeper Nigel Martyn. who showed that he was more than ready to displace David Seaman as first choice national keeper in the febrile atmosphere of the Olympic sta-
However. the Italian club will be kicking themselves after’ squandering a string of chances to kill off the tie.
Leeds lost this same first leg fixture I -0 last season and it took an Inspired performance by Leeds goalkeeper Nigel Martyn to keep a clean sheet in front of 38.000 at the Olympic stadium.
Roma could have been three or four goals up at the break. And while it could just as easily have been 2-0 to the Yorkshire club. Roma still had by far the better chances in a less frantic second half.
However. Leeds coach David O'Leary was full of praise for his young side afterwards.
"We showed that we have improved a lot from last year when we lost 1 -0 here to them so that was satisfying." the former Republic of Ireland defender said.
Roma coach Fabio Capello was disappointed with the draw but could only pay tribute to the Leeds keeper. I think it s very tough to play a match like this one. to have lots of scoring chances and to find yourself at the end with a 0-0 draw." he said. Sometimes we were unlucky because a shot went only just wale but when we did get one on target their goalkeeper was fust superb. He made at least three saves that were truly sensational."