Ghanaians in Europe Oct. 25-27/2002

Team & Player of the week

AUSTRIA
Sturm Graz 3-0 VfB Admira Wacker
Charles Amoah (Sturm Graz) started and played 67 minutes. He was substituted with the score at 2-0.

BELGIUM: Jupiler League
KFC Germinal Beerschot Antwerpen proved too strong for KAA Gent with a 2-1 victory to move into eighth place in the table. First-half strikes from Americo Fronio Walker (35) and Kwame Quansah (41) put the hosts in a commanding position at the break but they failed to kill off their opponents. Djima Oyawole then set up a tense final 18 minutes when he pulled a goal back but Germinal held on for the points.

CZECH

DENMARK: Superleague

FRANCE
PSG romped to a 3-0 win over rivals Marseille on Saturday in a match marred by incidents. Ronaldinho helped himself to a double before Martin Cardetti completed the rout. Alex Nyarko (PSG) started and was replaced in the 84' with the score at 3-0.

GERMANY: Bundesliga
VfL Wolfsburg moved up to seventh in the 1. Bundesliga table on Sunday thanks to Diego Klimowicz's solitary strike against FC Hansa Rostock.
Wolfsburg: C. Reitmaier - T. Rytter, M. Franz, S. Schnoor, T. Rau - M. Karhan, S. Effenberg, C. Akonnor - R. Ponte (81. H. Sarpei), D. Klimowicz, T. Maric (77. R. Pr?ger)

Rostock: M. Schober - G. Wimmer, A. Jakobsson, M. Kovar, R. Maul - R. Rydlewicz, K. Hansen (79. T. Meggle), G. Aduobe, M. Lantz - M. Arvidsson (75. R. Prica), M. Vorbeck

Bayern's fine domestic form deserted them at struggling Hannover although they were just eight minutes from victory before Daniel Stendel scored his second goal of the game to earn a priceless 3-3 draw for the home side. Kuffour played 90 minutes in defence.

Borussia M?nchengladbach 0-1 TSV M?nchen 1860
Gladbach: J. Stiel - M. Eberl, S. Korell, J. Strasser, M. M?nch - M. Hausweiler (53. S. Stassin), M. Witeczek, I. Demo - L. Aidoo (72. M. Ketelaer), J. van Hout, P. van Houdt (46. M. Skoubo)

GREECE: Hellenic National League
PAOK tie Olympiakos 1-1
PAOK (A. Anastasiadis): Tochouroglou, Amponsah (Koutsis 114'), Fucini, Markos, Koutsopoulos, Kafes, Frousos (Spasic 46'), Georgiadis, Kukielka, Salpiggidis (Yiasemi 46'), Okkas.

OLYMPIAKOS (Y. Kollias): Eleftheropoulos, Patsatzoglou, Venetidis, Anatolakis, Dracena. Mavrogenidis, Giannakopoulos, Karembeu (Ze Elias 61'), Zetterberg (Niniadis 101'), Choutos (Ofori Quaye 64'), Djordjevic.

Panathinaikos beat Aris 3-2
In the 18th minute, Basinas executed a free kick which deflected off the wall and ended up in the back of the net, and ran to dedicate the goal to Boateng who was sitting on the bench with whom he had gotten into a fight just a few days back.

ITALY: Seria A
AC Milan's unbeaten run came to an end with a 3-2 defeat at John Mensah's AC Chievo Verona on Saturday.
CHIEVO (4-4-2): Lupatelli; Moro, Legrottaglie, D’Anna, Lanna (34' Mensah); Lazetic, Perrotta (73’ Della Morte), Corini, Franceschini; Cossato, Marazzina (24’ Bierhoff).

Stephen Appiah returned after injury, but that did not stop Brescia remaining down in relegation trouble. They were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Como. Pasquale Padolino looked to have given the visitors all three points with a 73rd minute effort, but Roberto Baggio's penalty eight minutes from time spared the Rondinelle's blushes.

Mohamed Gargo is still on Udinese's injury list.

NETHERLANDS

PORTUGAL

ROMANIA

RUSSIA

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

TURKEY
Kocaelispor 3-0 Ankarag?c?
Bottom-side Kocaelispor finally recorded their first victory of the season with a 3-0 beating of Ankaragucu. Stephen Baidoo and Augustine Ahinful, both played 90 minutes on the losing side.

Sam Johnson the full games, as his side, Fenerbahce, lost further ground on the leaders when they only managed a draw at Genclerbirligi. Youla gave the home side the lead, only for Washington to equalise from the spot.

Richard Kingston kept a clean sheet, as his side Elazigspor drew 0-0 at Adanaspor.