Both English sides lost last night, but with contrasting consequences – Villa’s surprise 2-1 home defeat to Zilina did not stop them qualifying due to results elsewhere, but Portsmouths’ 3-2 defeat in Wolfsburg meant they could not progress.

Obviously lots of goals last night, which is nice, as thanks to our friends at Wakuba we backed over 2.5 goals in the Portsmouth match. They also gave us an under-the-table long shot of Zilina at 11-1 – we’ll be dining out on that for a while!

If you like tales of betting woe, read on… the other bet we had was the last goal in the Pompey game being after the 74th minute. Joy became despair/anger when we realised Wolfsburg’s third goal was during rather than after the 74th minute (73.25 to be precise – 35 seconds too early). Hope anew with the award of a penalty to the Germans after 81 minutes – only for them to miss it!

A profitable night nonetheless…

A veritable mish-mash of fixtures this week, ranging from the Premiership last night, to the Carling Cup quarter finals, and also some UEFA Cup action. These are all the games that matter (courtesy of the BBC).