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Scottish Football Results. Results Wednesday in Scottish football (home teams listed first):

League Cup quarterfinal

Kilmarnock 1, Celtic 3.

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Spanish Football Results.

Results from the first leg of the fourth round in the Copa del Rey (home teams listed first):

Wednesday’s Games

Portugalete 1, Valencia 4

Ponferradina 1, Sevilla 0

Orihuela 0, Atletico Madrid 1

Polideportivo Ejido 5, Villarreal 0

Hercules 1, Valladolid 5

Rayo Vallecano 1, Almeria 2

Celta Vigo 2, Espanyol 2

Castellon 0, Real Betis 2

Murcia 2, Racing Santander 1

Elche 0, Deportivo La Coruna 2

Numancia 0, Sporting Gijon 1

Malaga 1, Mallorca 1

Athletic Bilbao 2, Recreativo Huelva 0

Getafe 0, Osasuna 0

Thursday’s Game

Real Union vs. Real Madrid.

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English Football Results.

Results Wednesday in English football (home teams listed first):

Premier League

Arsenal 4, Tottenham 4

Aston Villa 3, Blackburn 2

Bolton 0, Everton 1

Fulham 2, Wigan 0

Hull 0, Chelsea 3

Liverpool 1, Portsmouth 0

Manchester United 2, West Ham 0

Middlesbrough 2, Manchester City 0

Stoke 1, Sunderland 0.

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Italian Football Results.

Results in the Serie A, the Italian first-division football league (home teams listed first):

Wednesday’s Games

Bologna 1, Juventus 2

Catania 0, Udinese 2

Chievo Verona 1, Lazio 2

Fiorentina 0, Inter Milan 0

Genoa 2, Cagliari 1

Lecce 1, Palermo 1

AC Milan 2, Siena 1

Napoli 3, Reggina 0

AS Roma vs. Sampdoria, ppd., rain

Torino 2, Atalanta 1

Saturday’s Games

Reggina vs. Inter Milan

Juventus vs. AS Roma

Sunday’s Games

Atalanta vs. Lecce

Cagliari vs. Bologna

Lazio vs. Catania

Palermo vs. Chievo Verona

Sampdoria vs. Torino

Siena vs. Fiorentina

Udinese vs. Genoa

AC Milan vs. Napoli.

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French Football Results.

Results from the 11th round of the French first-division football league (home teams listed first):

Wednesday’s Games

Sochaux 0, Lyon 2

Nantes 1, Marseille 1

Le Mans 0, Auxerre 2

Paris Saint-Germain 0, Toulouse 1

Grenoble 0, Lille 0

Valenciennes 0, Rennes 0

Caen 1, Nice 1

Monaco 3, Nancy 1

Saint-Etienne 1, Lorient 4

Saturday, Nov. 1

Lille vs. Nantes

Nancy vs. Bordeaux

Nice vs. Paris Saint-Germain

Toulouse vs. Caen

Lorient vs. Grenoble

Auxerre vs. Valenciennes

Marseille vs. Saint-Etienne

Sunday, Nov. 2

Rennes vs. Sochaux

Le Havre vs. Monaco

Lyon vs. Le Mans.

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Dutch Football Results.

Results from the eighth round of the Eredivisie, the Dutch first-division football league (home teams listed first):

Wednesday’s Games

Sparta Rotterdam 2, Feyenoord 1

NEC Nijemegen 2, FC Groningen 2

NAC Breda 0, FC Twente 1

SC Heerenveen 0, Vitesse Arnhem 2

Heracles Almelo 1, Ajax 3

Thursday’s Game

De Graafschap vs. FC Utrecht

Saturday’s Games

NAC Breda vs. Groningen

SC Heerenveen vs. AZ Alkmaar

FC Twente vs. Ajax

PSV Eindhoven vs. Willem II

Sunday’s Games

Sparta Rotterdam vs. NEC

Roda JC vs. Feyenoord

FC Volendam vs. De Graafschap

FC Utrecht vs. Heracles Almelo

Vitesse Arnhem vs. ADO The Hague.

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German Football Results.

Results in the 10th round of the Bundesliga, the German first-division football league (home teams listed first):

Wednesday’s Games

Hamburger SV 2, Stuttgart 0

Eintracht Frankfurt 1, Bayern Munich 2

Hertha Berlin 3, Hannover 0

Bochum 1, Hoffenheim 3

Cologne 0, Borussia Dortmund 1

Friday’s Game

Bayer Leverkusen vs. Wolfsburg

Saturday’s Games

Werder Bremen vs. Hertha Berlin

Stuttgart vs. Cologne

Hannover vs. Hamburger SV

Bayern Munich vs. Arminia Bielefeld

Energie Cottbus vs. Schalke

Hoffenheim vs. Karlsruhe

Sunday’s Games

Borussia Dortmund vs. Bochum

Borussia Moenchengladbach vs. Eintracht Frankfurt.

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Greek Football Results.

Result Wednesday from the Greek football league:

Panathinaikos 2, Ergotelis 3.

Lyon beats Sochaux 2-0 in French league. Lyon beat Sochaux 2-0 with goals from Karim Benzema and Cesar Delgado and increased its lead to three points in the French league on Wednesday.

France forward Benzema fired from the edge of the box in the 66th minute for his league-leading seventh goal this season.

Two minutes into injury time, Delgado chipped over goalkeeper Teddy Richert.

“I missed two scoring chances in the first half so I had to redeem myself because we needed that victory,” Benzema said. “I scored a nice goal in the second half but I’m especially happy because the win is doing us a lot of good.”

Bottom-placed Sochaux was reduced to nine men after midfielder Stephane Dalmat was red-carded in the 81st for a tackle on Miralem Pjanic while centerback Damien Perquis received a second yellow card in stoppage time.

After 11 rounds, Lyon tops the standings with 24 points followed by Brodeaux and Toulouse on 21 each. Marseille slipped to fourth place with 20.

Lyon was under pressure before kickoff as Bordeaux routed Le Havre 4-0 on Tuesday to take the provisional lead.

Also on Wednesday, it was: Nantes 1, Marseille 1; Le Mans 0, Auxerre 2; Paris Saint-Germain 0, Toulouse 1; Grenoble 0, Lille 0; Valenciennes 0, Rennes 0; Caen 1, Nice 1; Monaco 3, Nancy 1; Saint-Etienne 1, Lorient 4.

Nantes opened the scoring against the run of play as fullback Remy Mareval fired a powerful strike from 30 meters into the top corner in the 44th.

But Ivory Coast forward Bakari Kone leveled for Marseille in the 76th with a semi-volley off a pass from Mamadou Samassa.

“The result is disappointing,” Marseille coach Eric Gerets told Europe 1 radio. “Today we lost two points. We played well but we lacked the finishing touch.”

Nantes forward Christian Bekamenga was sent off in the 79th after picking up a second yellow card for handling.

Dennis Oliech scored twice to help mid-table Auxerre stun Le Mans.

The Kenya international dribbled past goalkeeper Yohann Pele to flick the ball into the empty net in the 35th before beating Pele again from close range three minutes later.

Le Mans dropped to fifth place with 18 points.

Toulouse upset PSG thanks to defender Zoumana Camara diverting a corner kick into his own net in the 65th.

“We made a stupid mistake on the goal,” PSG coach Paul Le Guen acknowledged. “If you can’t win, then you have to seek a draw. But we didn’t have the strength to go and get the equalizer.”

In Caen, Steve Savidan headed in a cross from Julien Toudic in the 67th to put the host side ahead and bring his season tally to six goals. But Loic Remy converted a penalty in the 85th to equalize for Nice.

Frederic Nimani’s fourth goal this season gave Monaco a 1-0 lead. He converted a rebound in the 32nd after Nancy goalkeeper Gennaro Bracigliano stopped a shot from South Korea midfielder Park Chu-Young. Nikola Pokrivac doubled the lead in the 63rd with a free kick.

Youssouf Hadji slipped the ball past Monaco goalkeeper Stephane Ruffier in the 75th to pull one goal back for Nancy.

Substitute Alexandre Licata sealed the win for Monaco in the 88th with a 25-meter drive.

Lorient midfielder Jeremy Morel outpaced the Saint-Etienne defense to shoot past goalkeeper Jody Viviani in the 19th.

Saint-Etienne rallied in the 33rd when a header from Bafetimbi Gomis crashed against the crossbar before bouncing in off goalkeeper Lionel Cappone.

Bertrand Robert benefited from Kevin Gameiro’s crossing twice to score from close range in the 56th and 70th.

Ghana international Andre Ayew took advantage of a mishap from Viviani to make it 4-1 in the 88th with a tap-in.

Lorient leapfrogged Saint-Etienne into fourteenth place with 12 points.

Udinese and Napoli both win to stay atop Serie A. Udinese and Napoli won to extend their surprising runs atop the Serie A on Wednesday, while Inter Milan dropped behind following a 0-0 draw at Fiorentina.

Udinese beat Catania 2-0 with goals from Chile forward Alexis Sanchez and Italy forward Fabio Quagliarella. Argentine striker German Denis racked a hat trick as Napoli defeated last-place Reggina 3-0 to celebrate the reopening of the curves at San Paolo Stadium.

“Everyone should fear Napoli for the way we’re playing right now,” Napoli coach Edy Reja said. “If we continue performing at this level anything is possible.

“I said at the start that (Denis) was going to be a key player for Napoli, considering the 37 goals he scored in Argentina. But today (Marek) Hamsik was really extraordinary, providing two assists like only he knows how.”

Napoli next visits AC Milan, which beat Siena 2-1 with Filippo Inzaghi scoring once and earning a penalty that Kaka converted. After dropping its opening two games, Milan has gone unbeaten in its last seven, winning six.

The closest Inter came to scoring was when Amantino Mancini hit the crossbar five minutes in. Inter also drew 0-0 against Genoa at the weekend.

“I’m going home content tonight,” Inter coach Jose Mourinho said. “I can’t be satisfied with the result, but my squad played tough, and that’s what counts. We haven’t won the last two games, but we haven’t lost either. I think it’s only fair to give some merit to Genoa, to Fiorentina for how they played us.”

Udinese and Napoli lead with 20 points each, 1 more than Milan, followed by Inter with 18 and Fiorentina with 17.

Juventus has 15 points after Pavel Nedved scored twice in a 2-1 win over Bologna. It was Juve’s second straight win after going a month without a victory.

Also, it was: Chievo Verona 1, Lazio 2; Genoa 2, Cagliari 1; Lecce 1, Palermo 1; and Torino 2, Atalanta 1.

The AS Roma-Sampdoria game was stopped after six minutes with the score 0-0 due to heavy rain. It will be replayed later.

Mourinho dropped forwards Adriano and Julio Ricardo Cruz for punishment after the Genoa game, and surrounded Zlatan Ibrahimovic with Victor Obinna and Amantino Mancini in attack instead.

Ibrahimovic provided the pass when Mancini hit the crossbar and the Sweden center forward missed wide in the 27th.

Manuel Pasqual curved a free kick around Inter’s wall in the 43rd and Fiorentina argued for a penalty after defender Nicolas Burdisso appeared to tug down Giampaolo Pazzini as he was going for the rebound.

Mancini missed a wide open look in the 58th and was replaced by Patrick Vieira five minutes later. Hernan Crespo also came on for Obinna and the rarely used Argentina forward had a shot from a sharp angle blocked by Fiorentina goalkeeper Sebastien Frey two minutes later.

Mourinho sent on another attacking player, Ricardo Quaresma, for Dejan Stankovic with his final substitution, but it was Fiorentina that threatened in the final minutes, with Pazzini and Stevan Jovetic both missing high in the 86th and 88th, respectively.

Fiorentina was without its top forwards Alberto Gilardino and Adrian Mutu. Gilardino, the league’s scoring leader with seven goals, was suspended for two games for scoring with his hand against Palermo at the weekend, and Mutu was a late scratch due to a bad knee.

At the San Siro, Inzaghi took a pass from Gennaro Gattuso to put Milan ahead in the 31st, then earned a penalty that Kaka converted in the 65th after Siena captain Simone Vergassola had equalized in the 54th.

Nedved scored in the 12th and 56th, and provided the pass when Amauri hit the post in the 51st.

Former Juventus player Marco Di Vaio pulled one back for Bologna in the 75th.

Juventus captain Alessandro Del Piero sat out to nurse a bruise.

Top seed Petrova breezes in Bell Challenge match. Top seed Nadia Petrova breezed past Maria Mokh 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday in the Bell Challenge.

Petrova will face Varvara Lepchenko in the second round. Lepchenko beat Rossana De Los Rios 6-1, 6-3.

Fourth-seeded Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand fell to Frenchwoman Severine Bremond 6-2, 7-6. Bremond will face the winner of the Angela Haynes-Stephanie Dubois match.

Fifth-seeded Aleksandra Wozniak beat Edina Gallovits 6-4, 6-3. She will face Carly Gullickson, who topped Romania’s Ioana Raluca Olaru 7-6, 6-1.

In other first-round matches: No. 7 Olga Govortsova beat Vania King 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, Galina Voskoboeva upset No. 8 Sofia Arvidsson 6-3 6-2; Melinda Czink defeated No. 9 Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; and Nathalie Dechy dumped Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-3, 6-1.

Federer, Nadal into 3rd round at Paris Masters.
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and defending champion David Nalbandian reached the third round of the Paris Masters on Wednesday without dropping a set.

Nadal topped Florent Serra of France 6-2, 6-4, and eighth-seeded Nalbandian downed Nicolas Kiefer of Germany 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Federer had the most trouble, saving two set points in the tiebreaker to beat Robin Soderling 6-4, 7-6 (7).

“He’s got a big serve, really suits the indoors well,” Federer said. “I’m happy to be through, kind of a relief for me. I was surprised he didn’t return a bit better, but I think I’ve been really serving well lately, basically since the U.S. Open.”

Soderling won the Lyon Grand Prix on Sunday but lost for the eighth straight time to the Swiss star.

The Swede had set point at 6-5 on serve but hit a forehand wide. He got another chance after the next point but didn’t take it again and his long forehand gave Federer match point.

Federer is enjoying the end to a tough season, getting a win at the Swiss Indoors in Basel last week to add to an Olympic gold medal in doubles and the U.S. Open title for his 13th major.

“I’m happy the way things have gone this season after kind of a rough start and a rough Wimbledon final,” said Federer, who lost that final to Nadal. “So I’ve really been able to turn around, you know, get some emotional wins with the Olympic gold and Basel again and then the U.S. Open.”

Also, second-round winners were fourth-seeded Andy Murray, sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko, 10th-seeded Gilles Simon, 11th-seeded James Blake and 13th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. No. 5 David Ferrer and No. 12 Stanislas Wawrinka were upset.

Nadal was looking forward to facing No. 16 Gael Monfils of France for the first time in nearly 2 1/2 years.

“(Monfils) is playing very well this year,” Nadal said. “He can play aggressive, sometimes he plays defensive, two meters behind the baseline. He can do something different.”

Federer will play Marin Cilic of Croatia, and Nalbandian will meet Juan Martin del Potro for the third time in three weeks.

“That is a little bit strange,” Nalbandian said of facing his fellow Argentine. “It’s going to be a tough one, we both know each other very well.”

Nalbandian beat del Potro in the semifinals of the Swiss Indoors last week, after del Potro won in the Madrid Masters third round.

Murray defeated Sam Querrey of the United States 6-2, 6-4 to stay on track for a record third straight Masters title after winning at Cincinnati and Madrid.

Davydenko, the 2006 champion, advanced with a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win over Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia. He will play 2005 champ Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, who beat Wawrinka 6-3, 7-5.

Tsonga rallied to beat 2004 runner-up Radek Stepanek 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 and next faces No. 3 Novak Djokovic of Serbia.

“(Stepanek’s) difficult to play because he has a very special rhythm,” Tsonga said. “Sometimes he plays fast, sometimes slow, sometimes he changes the pace, and sometimes he plays shots no one would play.”

Djokovic beat Tsonga in the Australian Open final, then Tsonga paid him back somewhat by winning the Bangkok final.

Also, 10th-seeded Simon defeated Igor Andreev of Russia 6-3, 7-5 to keep alive his chances of reaching the eight-man Masters Cup in Shanghai. The Frenchman next faces seventh-seeded Andy Roddick of the United States, who was also vying for a Masters Cup spot.

Their hopes were improved when Ferrer lost 6-3, 6-2 to Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany.

Kohlschreiber will play Blake, who kept alive his Masters Cup chance with a 6-7 (10), 6-3, 6-4 win over Simone Bolelli of Italy.

Cilic won 6-4, 7-6 (2) over Marcel Granollers of Spain.

Results Wednesday from the Bell Challenge. A US$175,000 (?140,000) WTA Tour event on hard indoor courts at Club Avantage Multi-Sports de Quebec (seedings in parentheses):

Singles

First Round

Rebecca Marino, Canada, def. Jill Craybas, United States, 7-6 (4), 6-1.

Second Round

Melinda Czink, Hungary, def. Julie Ditty, United States, 6-1, 6-1.

Melanie Oudin, United States, def. Olga Puchkova, Russia, 6-1, 7-6 (3).

Nadia Petrova (1), Russia, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 6-2, 6-4.

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Results Wednesday from the Paris Masters. A ?2.27 million (US$2.9 million) ATP event on indoor carpet at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy (seedings in parentheses):

Singles

Second Round

David Nalbandian (8), Argentina, def. Nicolas Kiefer, Germany, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Marin Cilic, Croatia, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, def. David Ferrer (5), Spain, 6-3, 6-2.

Gilles Simon (10), France, def. Igor Andreev, Russia, 6-3, 7-5.

Nikolay Davydenko (6), Russia, def. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Florent Serra, France, 6-2, 6-4.

Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, def. Stanislas Wawrinka (12), Switzerland, 6-3, 7-5.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (13), France, def. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Robin Soderling, Sweden, 6-4, 7-6 (7).

James Blake (11), United States, def. Simone Bolelli, Italy, 6-7 (10), 6-3, 6-4.

Andy Murray (4), Britain, def. Sam Querrey, United States, 6-2, 6-4.

Nadal, Nalbandian into 3rd round at Paris Masters. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal and defending champion David Nalbandian advanced to the third round of the Paris Masters with straight-sets wins Wednesday.

Nalbandian, who beat Nadal in last year’s final, downed Nicolas Kiefer of Germany 7-6 (5), 6-3 to set up another meeting with fellow Argentine Juan Martin del Potro.

Nadal topped Florent Serra of France 6-2, 6-4 and next faces No. 16 Gael Monfils of France.

“(Monfils) is playing very well this year, and I have to play my best tennis if I want to have chances to win tomorrow,” Nadal said. “He can play aggressive, sometimes he play defensive, two meters behind the baseline. He can do something different.”

Nadal took only 27 minutes to win the first set before Serra rallied briefly, forcing Nadal to save a break point in the fourth game of the second set.

Sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko, who won here in 2006, advanced with a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win over Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia. He will play 2005 champion Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, who beat No. 12 Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3, 7-5.

No. 13 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France rallied to beat 2004 runner-up Radek Stepanek 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 and next faces No. 3 Novak Djokovic of Serbia.

Kiefer saved two match points before the eighth-seeded Nalbandian served out the match with an ace to secure a third matchup this month against the ninth-seeded Del Potro. Nalbandian beat Del Potro in the semifinals of the Swiss Indoors last week after losing to him in the third round of the Madrid Masters the week before.

“This is going to be the third time in three weeks, so that is a little bit strange,” Nalbandian said of facing del Potro again. “It’s going to be a tough one, we both know each other very well.”

Also, 10th-seeded Gilles Simon advanced 6-3, 7-5 past Igor Andreev to keep alive his chances of reaching the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai, which is reserved for the top eight players in the ATP race.

The Frenchman next faces seventh-seeded Andy Roddick of the United States, who is also vying for a Masters Cup spot.

Simon and Roddick both took a step closer to qualifying after No. 5 David Ferrer of Spain lost 6-3, 6-2 to Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber in Wednesday’s play.

Marin Cilic of Croatia also advanced to the third round with a 6-4, 7-6 (2) win over Marcel Granollers of Spain.

El Hamdaoui scores twice as AZ tops Dutch league. Mounir El Hamdaoui’s league-leading 10th and 11th goals of the season helped AZ Alkmaar beat Roda JC 2-0 and move atop the Dutch league on Tuesday.

Elsewhere, Ghana defender Eric Addo netted a rare goal in the 57th minute and Otman Bakkal added another in the last to give defending champion PSV Eindhoven a 2-0 victory over ADO The Hague.

AZ improved to 18 points, two ahead of FC Groningen, which plays NEC Nijmegen on Wednesday. NAC Breda, which hosts FC Twente on Wednesday was third with 16, and PSV fourth with 15.

Sergio Zijler and Paul Quasten scored in Willem II’s 2-2 draw against FC Volendam. Melvin Platje and Paul de Lange replied for Volendam, which picked up its first point of the season.

Volendam’s last home win against Willem II was in March 1998.

Injury-depleted Ajax travels to Heracles Almelo on Wednesday while Feyenoord hopes to secure its second win of the season at crosstown rival Sparta. Heerenveen meet Vitesse Arnhem in the other match.

Results Tuesday in English football. (home teams listed first):

Premier League

Newcastle 2, West Bromwich Albion 1

League Championship

Bristol City 0, Sheffield United 0

Burnley 1, Reading 0

Cardiff 2, Blackpool 0

Crystal Palace 1, Nottingham Forest 2

Derby 3, Norwich 1

Doncaster 0, Barnsley 1

Ipswich 1, Charlton 1

Preston 2, Watford 0

Queens Park Rangers 1, Birmingham 0

Sheffield Wednesday 0, Plymouth 1

Southampton 1, Coventry 1

Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Swansea 1

League One

Brighton 3, Leicester 2

Carlisle 0, Hartlepool 1

Crewe 1, Peterborough 1

Huddersfield 0, Yeovil 0

Leyton Orient 1, Milton Keynes Dons 2

Millwall 1, Hereford 0

Northampton vs. Colchester, postponed, snow

Oldham 3, Scunthorpe 0

Southend 1, Leeds 0

Stockport 0, Tranmere 0

Walsall vs. Swindon, postponed, heavy snow

League Two

Aldershot 1, Port Vale 0

Bradford 1, Bury 0

Chester 3, Brentford 0

Dagenham & Redbridge 4, Grimsby 0

Exeter 1, Chesterfield 6

Lincoln 2, Gillingham 0

Luton vs. Bournemouth, abandoned, snow

Morecambe 1, Accrington Stanley 1

Notts County 1, Rochdale 2

Rotherham 0, Darlington 1

Shrewsbury 2, Barnet 2

Wycombe vs. Macclesfield, abandoned, snow.

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Results Tuesday in Scottish football. (home teams listed first):

League Cup

Quarterfinals

Dundee United 1, Dunfermline 0

Falkirk 1, Inverness 0

Rangers 2, Hamilton 0.

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Results from the 11th round of the French first-division football league. (home teams listed first):

Tuesday’s Game

Bordeaux 4, Le Havre 0

Wednesday’s Games

Caen vs. Nice

Grenoble vs. Lille

Le Mans vs. Auxerre

Monaco vs. Nancy

Nantes vs. Marseille

Paris Saint-Germain vs. Toulouse

Sochaux vs. Lyon

Valenciennes vs. Rennes

Saint-Etienne vs. Lorient

Saturday, Nov. 1

Auxerre vs. Valenciennes

Lille vs. Nantes

Lorient vs. Grenoble

Nancy vs. Bordeaux

Nice vs. Paris Saint-Germain

Toulouse vs. Caen

Marseille vs. Saint-Etienne

Sunday, Nov. 2

Le Havre vs. Monaco

Rennes vs. Sochaux

Lyon vs. Le Mans.

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Results from the first leg of the fourth round in the Copa del Rey. (home teams listed first):

Tuesday’s Game

Benidorm 0, Barcelona 1

Wednesday’s Games

Portugalete vs. Valencia

Ponferradina vs. Sevilla

Orihuela vs. Athletic Bilbao

Polideportivo Ejido vs. Villarreal

Hercules vs. Valladolid

Rayo Vallecano vs. Almeria

Celta Vigo vs. Espanyol

Castellon vs. Real Betis

Murcia vs. Racing Santander

Elche vs. Deportivo La Coruna

Numancia vs. Sporting Gijon

Malaga vs. Mallorca

Getafe vs. Osasuna

Thursday’s Games

Real Union vs. Real Madrid

Athletic Bilbao vs. Recreativo Huelva.

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Results from the eighth round of the Eredivisie. The Dutch first-division football league (home teams listed first):

Tuesday’s Games

FC Volendam 2, Willem II 2

ADO The Hague 0, PSV Eindhoven 2

Roda JC 0, AZ Alkmaar 2

Wednesday’s Games

Sparta Rotterdam vs. Feyenoord

NEC Nijemegen vs. FC Groningen

NAC Breda vs. FC Twente

SC Heerenveen vs. Vitesse Arnhem

Heracles Almelo vs. Ajax

Thursday’s Game

De Graafschap vs. FC Utrecht

Saturday, Nov. 1

NAC Breda vs. Groningen

SC Heerenveen vs. AZ Alkmaar

FC Twente vs. Ajax

PSV Eindhoven vs. Willem II

Sunday, Nov. 2

Sparta Rotterdam vs. NEC

Roda JC vs. Feyenoord

FC Volendam vs. De Graafschap

FC Utrecht vs. Heracles Almelo

Vitesse Arnhem vs. ADO The Hague.

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Results in the 10th round of the Bundesliga. The German first-division football league (home teams listed first):

Tuesday’s Games

Werder Bremen 0, Bayer Leverkusen 2

Wolfsburg 3, Borussia Moenchengladbach 0

Arminia Bielefeld 1, Energie Cottbus 1

Karlsruhe 0, Schalke 3

Wednesday’s Games

Hamburger SV vs. Stuttgart

Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Bayern Munich

Hertha Berlin vs. Hannover

VfL Bochum vs. Hoffenheim

FC Cologne vs. Borussia Dortmund.

Bordeaux moves top with 4-0 win over Le Havre.
David Bellion scored twice as Bordeaux routed Le Havre 4-0 and moved to level on points with seven-time defending champion Lyon at the top of the French league on Tuesday.

Argentine striker Fernando Cavenaghi scored one and was involved in the three other goals.

In the 29th, Cavenaghi passed to Bellion who beat goalkeeper Christophe Revault with a powerful low shot, and Bellion got his second in the 47th when he was set up by Cavenaghi and Wendel.

Cavenaghi got Bordeaux’s third in the 71st with a neat finish off Marouane Chamakh’s pass, and Wendel completed the rout in the 80th after Cavenaghi stepped over the ball and let it roll to Wendel.

After 11 rounds, Bordeaux and Lyon both have 21 points, and Marseille was third with 19 points.

Bordeaux has a better goals difference, but Lyon has played a game less and can reclaim top spot if it wins at last-place Sochaux on Wednesday.

Also on Wednesday, it is: Caen vs. Nice; Grenoble vs. Lille; Le Mans vs. Auxerre; Monaco vs. Nancy; Nantes vs. Marseille; Paris Saint-Germain vs. Toulouse; Valenciennes vs. Rennes, and Saint-Etienne vs. Lorient.