Arsenal take strides as Leverkusen are humbled

• Matchday four fixtures
• Group standings
• Domestic leagues

• Tuesday’s games
  

Group A
Arsenal 2-0 Reading (Oxlade-Chamberlain 33 78)
Arsenal moved through to the English League Cup quarter-finals for the first time in four seasons as they defeated Jaap Stam’s Reading. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain opened the scoring with a confident finish after the second-tier visitors lost the ball in defence and the second was a deflected shot from the edge of the area. Arsenal are now 13 matches unbeaten.

✅ 90 minutes completed
✅ Two goals for his best mate

It’s been a good night for @carljenkinson pic.twitter.com/DBjxAiqUt3

— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) October 25, 2016

Montana 0-4 Ludogorets Razgrad (Keșerü 9 78, Natanael 32, Misidjan 90)
Ludogorets produced their second 4-0 ‘away’ win of the Bulgarian Cup (though the match was actually played in Razgrad) to cruise past last season’s beaten finalists and ensure no repeat of their round of 16 exit a year ago. The quarter-finals are in early April.

Group C
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Stuttgart (Johnson 31, Stindly 84)
Gladbach took their place in the German Cup last 16 with their first home win in a month. Lars Stindl followed up his UEFA Champions League goal at Celtic last week with a fine finish tonight against their 2. Bundesliga opposition.

Barcelona 0-1 Espanyol (Caicedo 10)
Barcelona took the opportunity to give their squad players a run-out in Tarragona as they lost to their neighbours in the Catalonia Super Cup. This was the second time the trophy had been played for, Barcelona beating Espanyol on penalties in 2014 after the competition was split from the Catalonia Cup now involving the rest of the regions’ teams.

🔴🔵 Barça XI:
25.Masip
5.Marlon
6.Denis
7.Arda
8.Aleñá
14.Carbonell
17.Alcácer
20.Nili
21.André Gomes
23.Moisés
24.Mathieu#FCBlive

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) October 25, 2016

Group D
Sparta Rotterdam 3-1 PSV Eindhoven (Vriends 15, El Azzouzi 53, Brogno 70; Ramselaar 51)
PSV’s Dutch Cup hopes were ended in the round of 32 by Sparta, who they had beaten 1-0 at home in the league only on Sunday. Bart Ramselaar was also the PSV scorer at the weekend.

Group E
Liverpool 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Sturridge 9 64; Janssen 76p)
Spurs exited the League Cup despite Vincent Janssen pulling one back from the spot after Erik Lamela was fouled. There was a first Tottenham start fior Georges-Kevin N’Koudou and a debut for 19-year-old Shayon Harrison, who came close to equalising after being introduced from the bench, but Spurs’ unbeaten start to the domestic season is over.

Sportfreunde Lotte 2-2, aet 4-3pens Bayer Leverkusen (Hilbert 47og, Freiburger 105; Volland 25 95)
Leverkusen crashed out of the German Cup to a team they beat 3-0 away in last year’s competition and who were promoted to the third tier for the first time this summer. Twice Kevin Volland put Levekersen ahead only for the home side to equalise, Lotte even reduced to ten men in the 78th minute. Volland was unable to convert in the shoot-out, which went to sudden death before Julian Baumgartlinger’s kick was saved and former Borussia Dortmund trainee and Wolfsburg reserve Luka Tankulić converted the winner for a Lotte team who previously knocked out Werder Bremen.

FINAL

Lotte wins.

Penalties⚫️🔴
⚽️❌- #Aranguiz
⚽️✅ – #Havertz
⚽️❌- #Volland
⚽️✅ – #Hilbert
⚽️✅ – #Wendell
⚽️❌- #Baumgartlinger#SFLB04 pic.twitter.com/yhTIsPWQEG

— Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@bayer04_en) October 25, 2016

Group H
Bjelovar 1-2 Dinamo Zagreb (Jaković 81; Šitum 13, Ćorić 71)
Dinamo moved into late November’s Croatian Cup quarter-finals as they saw off their third-tier opponents. The visitors’ two goals were of high quality but Bjelovar hit the woodwork twice and having pulled one back forced Dinamo goalkeeper Adrian Šemper into a late save.

• Wednesday’s games
  

Group B
Napoli v Empoli
Serie A