Hamburg coach Armin Veh has been dismissed after yesterday’s 6-0 defeat at Bayern Munich, with his assistant Michael Oenning placed in charge until the end of the season.

Hamburg are closing in on the signing of David Rozehnal from Lazio.

MANCHESTER CITY manager Mark Hughes has warned his team to raise their game against Hamburg tonight in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup — or pay the price.

ROBERTO MANCINI etched his name into Inter Milan’s history books yesterday with a record-breaking ninth successive league victory, beating Messina 2-0.