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The defending Russian Premier League champions, Zenit St. Petersburg, stunned the world after progressing to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League following their aggregate win against Liverpool FC.
The Russian outfit went to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergei-Semak-c32976 at Petrovsky stadium, and managed to score an away goal at Anfield.
The English Premier League club remained unfortunate not to seek qualification in the next round after being eliminated from the coveted tournament despite scoring three goals in the return leg at Lane 4.
Zenit attacking midfielder, Danny Miguel, has backed the Meshki to win the Europa League after insisting that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Luciano-c22574 Spalletti’s men deserved to go through after winning against a worthy opponent.
The St. Petersburg club will now play against Swiss champions, FC Basel, in the European tournament. There is little arguing to the statement that the RotBlau were unfortunate to seek elimination from UEFA Champions League.
Though they managed to win the second and third qualifying round of the continental tournament against Flora Tallinn and Molde, Basel forgot to tie up their laces in the play-off round against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/CFR-Cluj-c38778 as they suffered a 1-3 defeat
against the Romanian professional club.
“First of all, we will work on tactics and coaching interaction in the attack. We'll have to run a lot, and it will certainly help us prepare for the game against Basel.”
“Basel are a strong team and they deserve to play in the European competition every year. I think we will get in shape after playing against a strong team. But we need to believe in ourselves and try to defeat the Swiss in the
cup competition.”
“We need to attain optimum shape to achieve our goal - to get to the final of the Europa League.” The UEFA Cup winner was quoted as saying.
Danny went on to admit that the European fixtures will help them in the domestic league as well.
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