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Leverkusen, Everton dumped

USING HIS HEAD: Tim Cahill's diving header to score a goal was not enough for Everton as it lost to Dinamo Bucharest.

LONDON: Former champions Bayer Leverkusen, Feyenoord and Galatasaray were dumped out of the first round of the UEFA Cup on Thursday.

Leverkusen lost 1-0 at CSKA Sofia — Morocco's Mourad Hdiouad scoring with a 67th-minute header off Hristo Janev's cross — and lost the two-leg tie 2-0 on aggregate.

It was a good night for Romanian clubs, with Steaua Bucharest, the 1986 European champion, beating Valerenga 3-1 to advance 6-1 and Dinamo Bucharest eliminating England's Everton 5-2 on aggregate.

Leverkusen won the UEFA Cup in 1988 and was runner-up in the 2002 Champions League. Dutch league leader Feyenoord, UEFA Cup champion in 1974 and 2002, lost 1-0 at Romania's Rapid Bucharest to exit 2-1 on aggregate. Mugurel Buga scored with a 12th-minute header.

Galatasaray, the Turkish club that beat Arsenal for the 2000 title, drew 1-1 with Tromso, but the Norwegian club advanced 2-1 on aggregate.

CSKA Moscow advances

Defending champion CSKA Moscow overcame an early goal from FC Midtjylland to win 3-1 at Herning, Denmark, and advance 6-2 on aggregate. Moscow's Brazilian midfielder Daniel Carvalho scored twice and Sergei Samodin also sent the ball past Midtjylland's Swedish goalkeeper Ola Tidman.

Other winners: Bulgaria's Levski Sofia, Spain's Espanyol, Switzerland's Grasshoppers and Basel, AZ Alkmaar, Greece's PAOK, Russia's Lokomotiv Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg, Israel's Maccabi Petach-Tikva, the Czech Republic's Slavia Prague, Germany's Stuttgart, Ukraine's Shaktar Donetsk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Denmark's Brondby, Portugal's Guimaraes, Bulgaria's Litex Lovech, Norway's Viking, Turkey's Besiktas, Hertha Berlin, Hamburg, Italian clubs Palermo, Sampdoria and Roma. — AP

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