Fulham had to win by two goals to avoid being out of the Europa League, that’s a tough situation against a team like Juventus. The Italians, however, have been out of balance lately.

Juventus started well when David Trezeguet scored the first goal after no more than two minutes. Fulham now needed three goals to advance. After 40 minutes Bobby Zamora tied it 1-1 and the Hungarian Zoltan Gera then scored twice to make it 3-1.

Juventus wasn’t doing themselves any favours though as a red card for Fabio Cannavaro resulted in only 10 players. And things didn’t improve when Jonathan Zebina got a red card too, but by then it was all over.

With eight minutes to go Clint Dempsey made a beautiful 4-1 goal and once the whistle was blown Juventus was out of the tournament and Fulham could start celebrating the fact that they now had advanced to the quarter finals.