London, March 16:

Middlesbrough and Rapid Bucharest advanced to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup despite losing.

Middlesbrough lost to AS Roma 2-1, but advanced on away goals after the two-leg series ended 2-2 on aggregate. Rapid lost 3-1 at Hamburg but advanced on away goals after the series finished level at 3-3. Sevilla also reached the last eight beating Lille 2-0 to advance on a 2-1 aggregate score.

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink put Middlesbrough ahead in the 32nd minute. Amantino Mancini then scored twice for Roma.

In Hamburg, Sergej Barbarez scored one goal and set up the other two for Benjamin Lauth and Rafael van der Vaart. Mugurei Buga pulled one back for Rapid. Frederic Kanoute and Luis Fabiano scored for Sevilla.

Premiership

LONDON: Robbie Fowler scored his first goal in nine games since his return to Liverpool, helping the Reds beat Fulham 5-1. Fernando Morientes and Peter Crouch also scored for Liverpool. Fulham’s Michael Brown turned the ball into his own net and Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock added a fifth. Collins John’s reply for Fulham was a first-half equaliser.

The victory moves Liverpool within two points of second-place Manchester United, while Fulham stays two places above the relegation zone.

FA Cup

LONDON: West Ham beat Bolton 2-1 in an FA Cup fifth-round replay to set up a quarter-final meeting with Manchester City. West Ham’s Marlon Harewood broke down the right and there seemed no real danger when his low cross came to Nicky Hunt, who could have left goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen to deal but decided to concede a corner, only for the ball to bounce off the keeper and into an empty net. It was 1-1 in the 31st when West Ham’s Nigel Reo-Coker gave the ball away in his own half. It came to Kevin Davies, whose shot bru-shed the fingertips of Hammers keeper Shaka Hislop on its way into the net.

Harewood regained the lead for the Hammers when he turned home in the 96th minute.