Defending champions Sevilla were pitted against two-time winner Tottenham in Friday's draw for the UEFA Cup quarter-finals.
AZ Alkmaar were drawn against Werder Bremen, Bayer Leverkusen against Osasuna, and Espanyol against Benfica in the other two-leg quarter-finals to be played on April 5 and 12.
The semi-final draw was also made and an all-Spanish or an all-German final on May 16 in Glasgow is still possible.
The winner of Sevilla vs. Tottenham Hotspur will play Bayer Leverkusen or Osasuna next, while AZ Alkmaar or Werder Bremen will meet Espanyol or Benfica.
Sevilla made the draw after struggling to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 late on Thursday. Sevilla goalkeeper Andres Palop scored an injury-time equalizer before Javier Chevanton added the winner in extra time.
That game has boosted the club's confidence, Seville coach Juande Ramos said.
"Sevilla should [now] fear no one," Ramos said, adding that he would have preferred to play the second leg in Spain.
"The English create very good atmosphere at home, and having to play away against them means we're going to have to try to take a good first-leg result," he said.
Sevilla beat another Premier League team, Middlesbrough, in last year's final.
Tottenham, who won the UEFA Cup in 1972 and 1984, overcame an early own-goal with two goals by Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov to beat Braga 3-2, and advanced 6-4 on aggregate.
"It's going to be a very spectacular game because there are two attacking teams with great forward players," said Tottenham sporting director Damien Comolli. "They are like us, they are doing well in the league and they are still in the Copa del Rey, as we are in the FA Cup."
Bremen, second in the Bundesliga behind Schalke, travel to the Netherlands for the second time in the UEFA Cup this year to face AZ for the first leg.
They beat Ajax 3-0 at home and then squeezed through after a 3-1 defeat in Amsterdam.
"So we get a Dutch team again," Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf said. "They are very strong at home and it's going to be very important to get a good result there."
AZ are also second in their domestic league, eight points behind PSV Eindhoven.
Bayer Leverkusen, the second German team still in the competition, host Spain's Osasuna.
Leverkusen, the 2002 European Champions League runners-up, reached their first UEFA quarter-final in 12 years with a 3-0 win over France's Lens, overcoming a 2-1 loss in the first leg.
Osasuna beat Rangers 1-0 for a 2-1 overall score and their first ever European quarter-final.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB