Tottenham and Bolton gave their fans a UEFA Cup night to remember on Thursday as Bayern Munich were held to a draw by Portuguese minnows Sporting Braga.
Bolton Wanderers scored a dramatic last-minute equalizer at home to finish 1-1 with Aris Salonika.
Bolton manager Gary Megson acknowledged the draw, a drab affair, was a case of "after the Lord Mayor's Show."
Bolton beat Manchester United in the Premier League last Saturday and Megson reflected: "Sometimes it's a case of after the Lord Mayor's Show. There are no excuses for us -- it was a big game and although it was not a full house or Manchester United it was still a very important game."
"We didn't start right and when you don't do that it's hard to pick yourself up," Megson said. "Our performance overall was a poor one -- we didn't get out of second gear and in the end we played lot of hit-and-hope balls with players who can't play in that manner."
Tottenham Hotspur were a goal down after just two minutes, but fought back to beat Danish side Aalborg 3-2 at White Hart Lane.
Spurs, who were stretching their new coach Juande Ramos' unbeaten run to six games, are top of group G while Bolton are third in group F on three points behind leaders Bayern.
Bayern Munich remain top despite eking out a 1-1 draw away to Sporting Braga, their second draw of the competition but a result which nonetheless leaves the German giants clear on five points, one ahead of Aris and two ahead of Bolton.
High-flying German side Hamburg were among the early benefactors as the battle for the UEFA Cup's latter stages continued on Thursday.
SV Hamburg appeared not to need the benefit of home advantage as they brushed off the threat of French pretenders Rennes, winning 3-0 to seal their place in the last 32.
Rennes have failed to win their past five matches and were out of their depth against a side who, in the German Bundesliga, are only a point behind leaders Bayern Munich.
Dominated in the midfield and with their defense unable to keep up with Hamburg's attack, the Germans had little difficulty in scoring.
On the half hour Croatian Ivica Olic drew two Rennes defenders close in before slipping the ball off to Rafael van der Vaart who made no mistake from near the penalty spot.
Van der Vaart then turned provider for Eric Choupo-Moting in the 83rd minute and Hamburg grabbed their third goal from a Mohamed Zidan penalty seven minutes later.
Coach Huub Stevens, simultaneously celebrating his 54th birthday, said: "I'm really happy about how the players achieved this result -- it's a great birthday gift. After a slow start we effectively shut Rennes down. They didn't really give us any threat at all."
In Prague, Spartak Moscow forced their hosts Sparta Prague into accepting a scoreless draw, but there was arguably more drama off the pitch than on it.
After scuffles between rival fans in the city center, Czech police were forced to brandish and use their batons after fans of the Russian side attacked stadium stewards, according to Czech public television reports.
Violence erupted just before halftime and Czech police were forced to keep the Spartak fans in the stadium for more than half an hour after the final whistle.
And in Spain, 11 people were injured when supporters of Aberdeen and Atletico Madrid clashed on Thursday before their UEFA Cup Group B match which Atletico won 2-0.
Police intervened to separate the rival supporters who pelted each other with bottles and other objects in the Vicente Calderon stadium, radio Cadena Ser reported.
It said 11 people were injured, most of whom suffered bruises.
Another Russian club, Zenith St. Petersburg, missed the chance to go top of Group A after a late equalizer in a 2-2 draw at home to Nuremberg.
Angelos Charisteas gave the visitors a first-half lead before two goals in four second-half minutes from Pavel Pogrebnyak and substitute Aleksei Ionov put Zenith ahead.
Leon Benko then came off the bench to head home five minutes from time and level the scores.
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