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"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football
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UEFA Cup - 2008/2009

Round 4

Dates: 12 March 2009 + 18/19 March 2009

First leg          
Olympique Marseilles (Fra) - Ajax Amsterdam 2 - 1
Second leg          
Ajax Amsterdam - Olympique Marseilles (Fra)   -  

Round 3

Dates: 18 - 19 February 2009 + 26 February 2009

First leg          
NEC Nijmegen - Hamburger SV (Ger) 0 - 3
Fiorentina (Ita) - Ajax Amsterdam 0 - 1
Olympique Marseilles (Fra) - FC Twente Enschede 0 - 1
Second leg          
Hamburger SV (Ger) - NEC Nijmegen 1 - 0
Ajax Amsterdam - Fiorentina (Ita) 1 - 1
FC Twente Enschede - Olympique Marseilles (Fra) 0 - 1
Marseilles win after penalties

Round 2 - Group stages

Group 1: Group 2: Group 3: Group 4:
Schalke 04 (Ger)
Paris Saint Germain (Fra)
Manchester City (Eng)
Racing Santander (Spa)
FC Twente (NL) 		Benfica (Por)
Olympiakos Piraeus (Gre)
Galatasaray (Tur)
Hertha BSC (Ger)
Metalist Kharkiv (Ukr) 		Sevilla (Spa)
VfB Stuttgart (Ger)
Sampdoria (Ita)
Partizan (Ser)
Standard Liege (Bel)		 Tottenham Hotspur (Eng)
Spartak Moscow (Rus)
Udinese (Ita)
Dynamo Zagreb (Cro)
NEC (NL)
Group 5: Group 6: Group 7: Group 8:
AC Milan (Ita)
SC Heerenveen (NL)
Sporting Braga (Por)
Portsmouth (Eng)
VfL Wolfsburg (Ger) 		Hamburger SV (Ger)
Ajax (NL)
Slavia Prague (Cze)
Aston Villa (Eng)
MSK Zilina (Slo)		 Valencia (Spa)
Club Brugge (Bel)
Rosenborg BK (Nor)
FCC Copenhagen (Den)
Saint. Etienne (Fra) 		CSKA Moscow (Rus)
Deportivo la Coruna (Spa)
Feyenoord (NL)
AS Nancy (Fra)
Lech Poznan (Pol)

Date Home Away    
23/10 Aston Villa - Ajax 2 - 1
23/10 AS Nancy - Feyenoord 3 - 0
23/10 Dynamo Zagreb - NEC 3 - 2
23/10 FC Twente - Racing Santander 1 - 0
23/10 SC Heerenveen - AC Milan 1 - 3
06/11 Ajax - MSK Zilina 1 - 0
06/11 Feyenoord - CSKA Moscow 1 - 3
06/11 Manchester City - FC Twente 3 - 2
06/11 VfL Wolfsburg - SC Heerenveen 5 - 1
27/11 Deportivo La Coruņa - Feyenoord 3 - 0
27/11 Hamburger SV - Ajax 0 - 1
27/11 NEC - Tottenham Hotspur 0 - 1
03/12 FC Twente - Schalke 04 2 - 1
03/12 Spartak Moscow - NEC 1 - 2
04/12 SC Heerenveen - Sporting Braga 1 - 2
17/12 Ajax - Slavia Prague 2 - 2
17/12 Feyenoord - Lech Poznan 0 - 1
17/12 Portsmouth - SC Heerenveen 3 - 0
18/12 Paris Saint-Germain - FC Twente 4 - 0
18/12 NEC - Udinese 2 - 0

Group standings

Round 1

Date Home Away Result
18/09 Feyenoord - Kalmar FF (Swe) 0 - 1
03/10 Kalmar FF (Swe) - Feyenoord 1 - 2
             
18/09 Borac Cacak (Cro) - Ajax 1 - 4
03/10 Ajax - Borac Cacak (Cro) 2 - 0
             
18/09 Stade Rennes (Fra) - FC Twente 2 - 1
03/10 FC Twente - Stade Rennes (Fra) 1 - 0
             
18/09 Vitoria Setubal (Por) - SC Heerenveen 1 - 1
03/10 SC Heerenveen - Vitoria Setubal (Por) 5 - 2
             
18/09 NEC - Dynamo Bucharest (Rum) 1 - 0
03/10 Dynamo Bucharest (Rum) - NEC 0 - 0


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