It was a nice evening for the English side on Thursday. The English clubs grabbed big wins last night in the UEFA Cup. Tottenham, Manchester City and Aston Villa were the two English clubs to own striking results.
Tottenham smashed Dinamo Zagreb by 4-0, City beat FC Twente 3-2 and Villa built over Ajax with a 1-0 win at Slavia Prague. In other matches, Galatasaray defeated Benfica by 2-0, AC Milan thrashed Braga 1-0, and Sevilla splashed 1-0 at Standard Liege. Darren Bent with his hat trick on Thursday took the game to Tottenham’s side re-igniting the Premier League team’s hopes of further advancing.

The match was affected by clashes between Dinamo fans and officials following the lighting of a flare. Bent struck in a game for Spurs ferociously for the first time to take his season tally to nine, which is one more than his whole of last season. He scored twice in the first half and once in the second. Tom Huddlestone added the score for Tottenham taking its total points to three from two matches. Tottenham is now ahead of Dinamo by virtue of the teams’ head-to-head record. Both the teams are three points behind Group D leader Udinese.

Udinese is now in good form with a 2-1 win at Spartak Moscow. Manchester City has good news with Zimbabwe striker Benjani Mwaruwari making a come back after an injury after four-months. City is a point behind Schalke, which made a draw 1-1 at Racing Santander.

Mario Gomez made two goals in five second-half minutes taking Stuttgart a 2-0 victory over Partizan Belgrade. Villa made its first goal through John Carew. Milan made its efforts alive with a last minute goal by Ronaldinho Group E. Galatasaray, the 2000 champion reached on the Group B top list and is four points ahead of Hertha.

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