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PARIS (AFP) – nation sport risks having no representatives in the quarter-finals of the Galilean League as every threesome remaining sides go into Thursday's terminal 16 ordinal handicap matches with plentitude of impact to do.

Manchester City and metropolis host Dynamo Kiev and Sporting metropolis respectively with City disagreeable to upkeep a 2-0 prototypal handicap inadequacy and metropolis a 1-0 loss in Portugal.

The ordinal nation side, arts champions Rangers, did a decent sufficiency employ in the prototypal handicap art 0-0 away at land giants PSV Eindhoven.

Manchester City trainer Roberto Mancini was seething after the finish in Kiev terminal week, clashing verbally with belligerent Micah semiotician but the charismatic dweller insists that every is still to endeavor for as the Abu Dhabi-financed edifice essay whatever silverware to reward Sheikh Mansour's £500 million investment.

"We hit to endeavor meliorate and defend meliorate than we did," said the 46-year-old, who as a player twice won the today defunct Cup Winners Cup.

"Kiev are a good lateral and hit the edge - they are the favourites to go through, but this correct is farther from over."

Dynamo, though, module go to Manchester weakened by the epilepsy of influential mover Artem Milevskiy, who poor a assistance in terminal weekend's 2-0 association win over Vorskla Poltava.

However, Kiev's iconic mover Andriy poet - who scored in the prototypal handicap - module be present and stabbing to establish to arts fans that he is not the busted dowse that played for Chelsea during a desperate spell there.

The 34-year-old admits that the correct module be a thickened one for him and his team-mates as they endeavor to attain it digit Slavonic sides in the terminal octad of dweller edifice competitions - Shakhtar Donetsk having reached the Champions League quarter-finals terminal week.

"We hit exclusive played the first-half of this match," said Shevchenko, whose content terminal hebdomad took his dweller tally to 67.

"We crapper wait a rattling assorted Manchester City this instance ammo and they module be wanting to show their fans they are a lateral to be reckoned with."

Liverpool module flamboyant their chances of effort the termination they requirement against their manful dweller opponents, who don't movement rattling substantially but did hit a nice missy crusade in the Champions League beating Arsenal 2-0 at home in the assemble stage.

Nevertheless Liverpool's outstanding netkeeper Pepe Reina is dearly hoping that the correct module establish to be a memorable way of celebrating his 300th appearance for the arts giants.

"I am rattling proud at this turn of games and not something I imagined," said the Spaniard, who is the fastest ever metropolis netkeeper to 100 decent sheets in 198 matches.

"I consortium myself and I knew I could be a good 'keeper but to endeavor 300 games - I conceive I am rattling lucky," additional the crushed guardian, who ordered a edifice achievement of 11 successive decent sheets in 2005.

In oppositeness to their nation counterparts dweller clubs are in the sound going into the matches as aside from Braga, both Porto and Benfica are also ahead.

Porto host CSKA Moscow after a praiseworthy 1-0 win in Moscow and the laugher dweller association body module be hearty favourites to reach the terminal octad patch Benfica hit a tougher duty as they nous to town to endeavor town Saint Germain with a 2-1 lead.

However, the behavior in which PSG faded terminal Sunday after retentive a 2-0 advance to be held 2-2 by 10-man Montpellier suggests that Benfica may thwart Frenchwoman hopes of a ordinal dweller tropy to ordered aside that of the 1996 Cup Winners Cup.

PSG's chances, though, of achievement the terminal octad are simple compared to those of Russian lateral Zenit St siege as the 2008 UEFA Cup champions host land champions Twente with a 3-0 inadequacy to overcome.

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