Things don’t get any easier for Middlesbrough, who are fighting for their lives at the foot of the table, as Man Utd are next up for Gareth Southgate’s team.

UEFA Cup semi-final, first leg
Dynamo Kiev 1-1 Shakhtar Donetsk
Teams:
Dynamo Kiev: 31-Stanislav Bogush; 3-Betao, 6-Goran Sabljic, 37-Ayila Yussuf, 30-Badr El Kaddouri; 7-Carlos Correa (19-Florin Cernat 82), 5-Ognjen Vukojevic, 36-Milos Ninkovic; 10-Ismael Bangoura (4-Tiberiu Ghioane 46), 8-Olexandr Aliyev, 25-Artem Milevskiy.

Shakhtar Donetsk: 30-Andriy Pyatov; 33-Darijo Srna, 5-Olexandr Kucher, 27-Dmytro Chygrynskiy, 26-Razvan Rat; 3-Tomas Hubschman, 4-Igor Duljaj; 11-Ilsinho (22-Willian 56), 8-Jadson (18-Mariusz Lewandowski 76), 7-Fernandinho; 17-Luiz Adriano (21-Olexandr Gladkiy 46)

Scorers:
Dynamo Kiev: Dmytro Chygrynskiy 22 own goal
Shakhtar Donetsk: Fernandinho 68

Halftime: 1-0

Referee: Konrad Plautz (Austria).

Werder Bremen 0-1 Hamburg

Teams:
Werder Bremen: 1-Tim Wiese; 8-Clemens Fritz (15-Sebastian Proedl 85), 29-Per Mertesacker, 4-Naldo, 2-Sebastian Boenisch; 16-Alexandros Tziolis, 22-Torsten Frings, 11 Mesut Ozil; 24-Claudio Pizarro, 10-Diego, 23-Hugo Almeida (9-Markus Rosenberg 61)

Hamburg: 1-Frank Rost; 20-Guy Demel, 16-Michael Gravgaard, 5-Joris Mathijsen, 40-Dennis Aogo (30-Collin Benjamin 79); 14-David Jarolim, 2-Alex Silva (19-Jerome Boateng 75); 21-Jonathan Pitroipa, 15-Piotr Trochowski; 9-Paolo Guerrero, 11-Ivica Olic (35-Tunay Torun 90+1)

Scorer: Piotr Trochowski 28

Halftime: 0-1

Referee: Howard Webb (England).

Things don’t get any easier for Middlesbrough, who are fighting for their lives at the foot of the table, as Man Utd are next up for Gareth Southgate’s team.

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