HARRY REDKNAPP was yesterday taking nothing for granted after Tottenham were handed the easiest possible route to the Champions League proper.

CELTIC manager Neil Lennon put up a brave face despite his side crashing out of the Champions League last night following a 4-2 aggregate defeat by Sporting Braga.

THE jeers at the final whistle told its own story.

BOHEMIANS have been drawn against Welsh side TNS (now The New Saints, formerly Total Network Solutions) in the Champions League second round qualifying round.

GERMAN-based striker Dimitar Rangelov will miss Bulgaria’s Group Eight qualifier with Ireland on Saturday.

BULGARIA overcame the absence of star striker Dimitar Berbatov and reignited their hopes of World Cup qualification with a hard-fought win over Cyprus in Sofia to claim their first victory in Group Eight yesterday.

Bulgaria 2 Cyprus 0

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy has added to his attacking options by signing Marlon Harewood on loan from Aston Villa until the end of the season.

FORMER Chelsea coach Avram Grant has met the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) to discuss the vacant post of national manager but is unlikely to be appointed because of salary demands.

Aston Villa strikers John Carew and Gabriel Agbonlahor have both been declared fit for Sunday's Barclays Barclays Premier League clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Aston Villa 1 Litex Lovech 1 (Villa win 4-2 on aggregate)

MARTIN O’NEILL has admitted he will be “devastated” if Aston Villa fail to make the group stages of the UEFA Cup tonight (kick-off 8pm) as he prepares to ring the changes for the second-leg clash with Litex Lovech at Villa Park.

Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill is likely to ring the changes for tomorrow’s UEFA Cup second-leg clash with Litex Lovech at Villa Park.

Martin O’Neill may make changes for tomorrow’s Carling Cup match against QPR at Villa Park.

Aston Villa have striker John Carew, winger Ashley Young and central defender Curtis Davies undergoing treatment in the build-up to Sunday’s clash against West Brom.

EVERTON twice had to fight back to grab a 2-2 draw in a vibrant UEFA Cup tie against Standard Liege.

Litex Lovech 1 Aston Villa 3

Aston Villa will have to make at least one change for the UEFA Cup first round tie against Litex Lovech tomorrow.

Aston Villa striker John Carew is not travelling to Bulgaria for the club’s UEFA Cup tie against Litex Lovech.

Aston Villa midfielder Steve Sidwell has targeted a return to first-team action in the Barclays Premier League clash with Tottenham at White Hart Lane on September 15.

PORTSMOUTH manager Harry Redknapp could be set to bring in two new faces as the club prepare to make their UEFA Cup debut.

Everton will have the chance to add to Belgian club Standard Liege’s Merseyside misery after being drawn with them in the first round of the UEFA Cup.

Tottenham will face Wisla Krakow in the first round of the UEFA Cup.

Aston Villa will face Litex Lovech in the first round of the UEFA Cup.

A SECOND-HALF equaliser from top scorer Eamon Zayed rescued Drogheda United after Henrik Larsson’s goal had put Helsingborgs in the driving seat in this UEFA Cup second qualifying round first leg.

Derry manager Stephen Kenny admits Paris St Germain was the hardest possible UEFA Cup draw for his side but insists the Candystripes will give a good account of themselves against the French giants.

Derry City are unseeded and have been placed in group two for this afternoon's UEFA Cup first round draw in Monaco.

Derry City will face Scottish First Division outfit Gretna in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup while Drogheda United must face Start of Norway.

An unlikely double from former Manchester City defender Daniel van Buyten was enough to take Hamburg past FC Thun and into the last 16 of the UEFA Cup.

Bolton will have to endure a nervy trip to Marseille next week following a goalless and bad tempered first-leg draw at the Reebok in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup.

Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren has urged his players to make the most of their best chance to lift a trophy and secure a third successive season of European football.

Middlesbrough skipper Gareth Southgate admitted his side’s defending was not up to standard as they twice allowed victory to slip from their grasp against Tottenham.

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was missing from the Middlesbrough team sheet for the Barclays Premiership clash with Tottenham at the Riverside Stadium.

MIDDLESBROUGH meet Stuttgart in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup.

Middlesbrough will take on Stuttgart in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup.

Middlesbrough will be without Chris Riggott for Sunday’s Barclays Premiership clash with Tottenham at the Riverside Stadium.

Middlesbrough 2 Liteks Lovetch 0

Middlesbrough 2 Litex Lovech 0

Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren admits he would not know what to do with himself if the club were not competing in four different competitions.

Middlesbrough striker Mark Viduka is backing his side to head into the knockout stage of the UEFA Cup as Group D winners after taking the pressure off themselves with a battling draw in Holland.

AZ Alkmaar 0 Middlesbrough 0

Middlesbrough grabbed the point they needed to ensure their place in the knockout stages of this season’s UEFA Cup with a goalless draw against previously free-scoring AZ Alkmaar in Holland.

Middlesbrough will receive only 408 tickets for next month’s UEFA Cup clash against AZ Alkmaar in Holland.

MIDDLESBROUGH will face last season’s UEFA Cup semi-finalists AZ Alkmaar in Group D of this season’s competition.