Giuseppe Cardone maintained Italy's interest in the UEFA Cup with Parma's winner against Seville on Thursday but wound up flat on his back after being hit in the face by an opponent.
Cardone scored the only goal in all 180 minutes between the two sides but, with a minute to go, was struck by Seville defender Aitor Ocio after the two tangled in the Parma area. There was concern as he lay on the turf for several minutes and appeared to have problems breathing but he got to his feet.
The result means Parma, struggling in Serie A, goes into Friday's quarterfinal draw as Italy's lone representative. By contrast, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus have all made it to the last eight of the Champions League.
There was drama, too, as Austria Vienna survived the first-half ejection of goalkeeper Joseph Didulica and went through on the away goals rule after a 2-2 draw with Real Zaragoza.
The Austrians went to Zaragoza with the teams at 1-1, and raced into a 2-0 lead through Sasa Papac and Tosin Dosunmu in the first 10 minutes.
Didulica was sent off in the 30th minute for bringing down Zaragoza's Brazilian forward Savio Bortolini as he raced for goal, and Zaragoza hit back against the 10-men visitor with goals by David Villa and Luciano Galletti. But Austria held on to gain a place in the last eight.
A last-minute winner by Pedro Barbosa gave Sporting Lisbon a 1-0 victory over Middlesbrough, and a 4-2 aggregate triumph to keep alive Portuguese hopes of another European title. FC Porto won last season's Champions League a year after capturing the UEFA Cup, and Sporting is Portugal's last survivor in either competition.
Auxerre was held 0-0 at home by Lille in an all-French matchup, but advanced 1-0 having won the away leg. Lille's Milivoje Vitakic was sent off for violent conduct 16 minutes from the end.
Brazilian stars Daniel Carvalho and Vagner Love fired CSKA Moscow into the last eight in a 2-0 victory over Partizan Belgrade, which had two players sent off in the last seven minutes.
Partizan's Nenad Djordjevic was dismissed for a professional foul in the 83rd minute, and he was followed two minutes later by Ivan Tomic for foul and abusive language as the Serbian side went out 3-1 on aggregate.
In Wednesday's games, Newcastle romped to a 4-0 victory over Greek club Olympiakos to advance 7-1, and Dutch team AZ Alkmaar beat Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 (5-2). In a first-leg game which had been postponed by heavy snow, Steaua Bucharest and Villarreal drew 0-0. They meet again on Sunday.
Swedish international Markus Rosenberg scored a dazzling goal in the 14th minute to give Malmo FF a 1-0 win over FC Copenhagen in a Group 1 match.
Some 170 fans from both sides clashed before the game, according to Swedish news agency TT. One supporter was injured, but not seriously. Police detained 45 fans, who were later released.
The win moved the Swedish champion within a point of group leader Rosenborg of Norway, which was idle. Rosenborg has four points, Malmo three, and last-placed Copenhagen one.
Rosenberg's shot into the top of the net was the young striker's fifth goal in seven Royal League games for the former two-time UEFA Cup champions.
Malmo had two other excellent scoring chances.
Niklas Skoog broke away all alone but fired wide late in the first half, and Peter Abelsson's header hit the crossbar in the second half.
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