Ghanaians in Europe Nov. 1-3/2002

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AUSTRIA
Grazer AK continued their return to form with a 2-0 home victory over SK Rapid Wien, Toni Ehmann heading in from a Martin Amerhauser corner for the opener. Adu Skelley Tutu came on in 67 minute, as his side doubled the advantage 16 minutes from the end.

FK Austria Wien consolidated top spot in the Austrian Bundesliga by beating Charles Amoah's SK Sturm Graz 4-0 at the weekend. Eric Akoto (Togolese) got Wien into the groove just before the half-hour mark, Thorstein Helstad hit the second on 56 minutes Radoslav Gilewicz collected the third soon after and Akoto struck his second to complete the scoring. was substituted after the second goal.

BELGIUM: Jupiler League
The big game in Belgium was the eight-goal thriller in the Antwerp derby between Royal Antwerp and Germinal Beerschot, with six of the goals scored by Africans.
Within half an hour Beerschot were leading 3-0 with goals from Sierra Leone's Paul Kpaka and his new partner from Ghana, Kwame Quansah who scored twice.
But amazingly, Royal came back to win 5-3, with Burkinabe Omar Mussa getting two goals and Guinean Ibrahima Yattara one in a superb fight back.

CZECH
Baffour Gyan opened the scoring for Slovan Liberec in their 2-0 win over Tescoma Zlin.

DENMARK: Superleague
In the 5-0 win for FC Midtjyl over K?ge, 21-year-old Razak Pimpong scored their fouth goal in the 64 minute.

FRANCE
Sedan 3 - 1 PSG Paris Saint Germain's hopes of going top of the French league were shattered Sunday following a 3-1 defeat at the hands of lowly Sedan. Alex Nyarko played 90 minutes.

GERMANY: Bundesliga
SV Werder Bremen 2-0 FC Bayern M?nchen
Bayern Munich's hopes of rebounding from their humiliating exit from the Champions League were dashed Sunday as Werder Bremen defeated them 2-0. Samuel Kufuor played 90 minutes in defence. He was voted the best Bayern player by kicker Online.

Hannover 96 3-1 VfL Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg: C. Reitmaier - T. Rytter (62. D. Munteanu), M. Franz, S. Schnoor, T. Rau - M. Karhan, C. Akonnor (62. H. Sarpei) - S. Effenberg - R. Ponte, D. Klimowicz (46. M. Petrov), T. Maric

FC Hansa Rostock 2-2 Kaiserslautern
Rostock: M. Schober - G. Wimmer, A. Jakobsson, M. Kovar, D. Hill - R. Rydlewicz, G. Aduobe, T. Meggle (76. P. Wibran), M. Lantz - R. Prica (88. B. Salou), M. Vorbeck (80. M. Arvidsson)

FC N?rnberg 2-2 Borussia M?nchengladbach
Gladbach: J. Stiel - M. Eberl (79. M. Ketelaer), S. Korell, J. Strasser, M. Witeczek - M. Hausweiler (29. M. Pletsch), S. Stassin, M. M?nch - L. Aidoo (46. M. K?ntzel), J. van Hout, M. Skoubo

GREECE: Hellenic National League
Kofi Amponsah's PAOK took the important 3 points away from home after defeating Akratitos 3-1 at Ano Liosia and are within striking distance of top spot. Kofi played all 90 minutes.

Olympiakos 0-0 Proodeftiki
Olympiakos continues to fail to impress in both Europe and Greece as after one month of soccer last season's Greek champion has failed to record a win. In front of their home crowd of about 8,000 fans and new coach Srecko Katanec, who left the game eight minutes from time, Olympiakos managed to draw Proodeftiki 0-0. Aleksandris and Ofori-Quaye teamed together up front - a formation that hasn't been used at Olympiakos for quite some time. Each managed to bother Proodeftiki only once as Aleksandris had a header in the 16th that was blocked by Kois while Ofori-Quaye failed to convert in the 26th.

ITALY: Seria A
Torino are staring in the face of relegation after bowing down to Brescia in the Stadio delle Alpi. Roma transfer-target Stephen Appiah four minutes from time piled on Torino's misery. The Ghana midfielder tapped in a shot released by Luca Bucci to make it 2-0. Appiah remains the only African scorer in the top flight with his second of the season for Brescia.

NETHERLANDS

Norway: Tippeligaen

PORTUGAL

ROMANIA
A solitary Nicolae Iorga goal gave goalkeeper Ibrahim Dossey's side FC Brasov victory against FC Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt

RUSSIA

SWEDEN
Djurgaarden won 2-0 at Elfsborg to win the Swedish football league title on Saturday, their first championship for more than 30 years. Issa Mohhammed's Norrkoping, second from bottom, join Kalmar in automatic relegation and next season they will be replaced by Enkoping and Oster.

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY
Elaz??spor 0-3 Gen?lerbirli?i
Genclerbirligi hit three goal past Richard Kingston at Elazigspor. Youla, Balci and Cihan got the goals

Augustine Ahinful's lone strike was enough to give Ankaragucu a 1-0 victory at home against Istanbulspor. Stephen Baidoo played the full game on the winning side.