{"id":13766,"date":"2011-12-15T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/psg-fulham-dumped-out-of-europe\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T01:00:04","slug":"psg-fulham-dumped-out-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/15\/psg-fulham-dumped-out-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG, Fulham dumped out of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtnfootball.com\/content\/photo_1323898542699-2-0_280x187.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Besiktas&#8217; Manuel Fernandez (L) vies with Stoke City&#8217;s Wilson Palacios (R)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paris Saint Germain may or may not end up offering David Beckham a spell in the twilight of his career, but the former England star will not find any Europa League fare on his menu after the capital club were eliminated Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>PSG beat already-qualified Athletic Bilbao 4-2 at the Parc des Princes to hand the Spaniards their first loss of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>But the win was not enough as Salzburg won 3-2 at Slovan Bratislava to see the Austrians take second place in Group F.<\/p>\n<p>That means there is no chance of the Parisians getting an attractive knockout round date with Champions League dropouts Manchester United, Beckham&#8217;s former club, when Friday&#8217;s draw is made at Nyon.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the European scrapheap are English Premier League side Fulham, runners-up in 2010 but who squandered a two-goal lead to draw at home to Denmark&#8217;s Odense.<\/p>\n<p>The Danes bagged their leveller in the third minute of time added on at Craven Cottage through substitute Djiby Fall&#8217;s header after Hans Henrik Andreasen had reduced the deficit following goals for the hosts from Clint Dempsey and Kerim Frei.<\/p>\n<p>The result means Poland&#8217;s Wisla Krakow progress instead after beating group winners FC Twente of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Recent media reports in France had suggested that PSG&#8217;s owners, Qatar Sport Investments (QSI), had offered Beckham a lucrative contract to become the figurehead of their drive to turn the under-achieving side into one of Europe&#8217;s top clubs.<\/p>\n<p>PSG, joint top of the French league table with Montpellier as they chase down a first domestic crown since 1994, spent 85 million euros in the summer following a Qatari buyout but the influx has not translated into success on the European stage and they now must ensure they reach the Champions League via a strong Ligue 1 finish.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Antoine Kombouare has been under the microscope in recent weeks following some poor results and the pressure will now only increase with just the league title to aim for.<\/p>\n<p>Kombouare was candid afterwards at his men&#8217;s shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a big disappointment, we really should have got through this group. But we weren&#8217;t able to do what we had to &#8211; now we have to get over it and do better in the league and French Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PSG sporting director Leonardo denied that the axe would fall on the man in the dugout and told reporters: &#8220;That was one of our season targets. So we are disappointed. It cannot be good for us to be eliminated &#8211; we wanted to go right through to the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Lazio reached the last 32 with a 2-0 win over Group D winners Sporting Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>English Premier league side Stoke went down 3-1 at Besiktas despite Ricardo Fuller giving them the lead but had already qualified from Group E.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Fernandes equalised with a penalty spot after Matthew Upson was sent off for felling Hugo Almeida, and substitutes Mustafa Pektemek and Edu secured the win at a heaving Inonu Stadium, leaving the Turks as group winners.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the 32 sides in the knockout round will comprise United and City&#8217;s fellow Champions League failures &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s Trabzonspor, Ajax, Valencia, Olympiakos, Porto, and Plzen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92011 AFP<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Besiktas&#8217; Manuel Fernandez (L) vies with Stoke City&#8217;s Wilson Palacios (R) Paris Saint Germain may or may not end up offering David Beckham a spell in the twilight of his career, but the former England star will not find any Europa League fare on his menu after the capital club were eliminated Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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