FOOTBALL

ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP

Round III (Wednesday) — Blackburn Rovers 3 Birmingham City 0 Manchester United 0 Coventry City (II) 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Middlesbrough 0 Aston Villa 0 Leicester City (II) 1 Hull City (II) 0 Chelsea 4 Sheffield Wednesday (II) 0 Everton 3 West Ham United 1 Plymouth Argyle (II) 0 Fulham 1 Bolton Wanderers 2.

PRIMERA LIGA

Wednesday — Barcelona 4 (Lionel Messi 5,11, Andres Iniesta 22, Rafael Marquez 45+2) Real Zaragoza 1 (Alberto Zapater 10) Athletic Bilbao 0 Atletico Madrid 2 (Sergio Aguero 13, Diego Forlan 77) Deportivo Coruna 0 Recreativo Huelva 2 (Carlos Martins 12, Javi Guerrero 47) Osasuna 4 (Walter Pandiani 31, 52, Juanfran 57, Javi Garcia 77) Levante 1 (Djah Felix Ettien 34) Racing Santander 0 Villarreal 2 (Nihat Kahveci 40, Giuseppe Rossi 79) Real Mallorca 4 (Nunes 48, Juan Arango 50, 87, Victor 83) Real Valladolid 2 (Bartholomew Ogbeche 6, Victor 26) Real Murcia 0 Almeria 1 (Felipe Melo 43) Valencia 2 (Silva 16, David Villa 32) Getafe 1 (Braulio 76).

SERIE A

Wednesday — Catania 1 (Jorge Martinez 48) Empoli 0 Fiorentina 2 (Alessandro Gamberini 24, Adrian Mutu 80pen) AS Roma 2 (Mancini 19, Ludovic Giuly 37) Genoa 3 (Marco Borriello 20, 48, 73pen) Udinese 2 (Asamoah Gyan 51, Giandomenico Mesto 78) Inter Milan 3 (Zlatan Ibrahimovic 24, 49), Luis Figo (58) Sampdoria 0 Juventus 4 (Nicola Legrottaglie 48, Hasan Salihamidzic 50, David Trezeguet 76, Raffaele Palladino 90+2) Reggina 0 Lazio 3 (Tommaso Rocchi 48, 84, Goran Pandev 60) Cagliari 1 (Robert Acquafresca 70) Napoli 1 (Roberto Sosa 85) Livorno 0 Palermo 2 (Aimo Diana 73, Fabrizio Miccoli 90+3) AC Milan 1 (Clarence Seedorf 10) Parma 2 (Reginaldo Ferreira 62, Bernardo Corradi 64) orino 0 Siena 1 (Simone Loria 32) Atalanta Bergamo 1 (Cristiano Doni 71pen).

RUGBY

WORLD CUP

Lens (Wednesday), Pool D — Georgia 30 bt Namibia 0 (Tries: Akvsenti Giorgadze, Irakli Machkhaneli, Davit Kacharava. Conversions: Merab Kvirikashvili 3; Penalties: Kvirikashvili 3) St. Etienne, Pool A — Samoa 25 (Tries: Lome Fa’atau, Alesana Tuilagi, Kane Thompson; Conversion: Loki Crichton 2; Penalties: Crichton 2) United States 21 (Tries: Takudzwa Ngwenya, Louis Stanfill, Conversion: Mike Hercus, Penalties: Hercus 3).

TENNIS

ATP MUMBAI OPEN

Round I (Wednesday) — Olivier Rochus (8, Bel) bt Robin Haase (Ned) 6-2, 6-2 Stefan Koubek (6, Aut) bt Paul Capdeville (Chi) 6-3, 6-2 Fabio Fognini (Ita) bt Somdev Dev Varman (Ind) 6-3, 7-6 (8) Thursday, Round I — Ivan Navarro (Esp) bt Purav Raja (Ind) 6-4, 6-1 Lleyton Hewitt (2, Aus) bt Chen Ti (Tai) 6-3, 6-3 Boris Pasanski (Scb) bt Sergio Roitman (Arg) 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 Round II — Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) bt Lu Yen-hsun (Tai) 6-3, 6-3 Fabrice Santoro (5, Fra) bt Nicolas Devilder (Fra) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 Jarkko Nieminen (4, Fin) bt Toshihide Matsui (Jpn) 6-0, 6-4.