Sport 28-09-2001 Tractor Boys Sink Torpedo`s Euro Hopes who: Ipswich Town what: Through to UEFA Cup second round where: MOSCOW when: Last night snippet: "The Tractor Boys roll on," says Nick Szczepanik in The Times today. "Ipswich Town extended their return to European competition after 19 seasons with a heroic win in Moscow last night against the odds." In their UEFA Cup first round tie, Ipswich beat Torpedo Moscow 1-2 in the second leg at Luzhniki Stadium (2-3 on aggregate) after striker Marcus Stewart "shrugged off his penalty miss in the first leg to score a spot-kick that propelled his side decisively into the next round," says Sam Wallace in The Telegraph. "Ipswich were even blessed by one of football`s all-time worst misses," says The Mirror`s John Cross, "as Torpedo`s goalscorer Dmitri Vyazmikin hit the bar with an open goal at his mercy when the match was still goalless." "That miss proved costly," says The Independent`s Richard Gibson, "as the Suffolk club went on to change the face of the tie just seconds after the interval when George volleyed in. The Nigerian winger tucked the ball under Berezovsky after Jamie Clapham headed onto the back of Stewart from a Mark Venus delivery." "This gritty, determined victory would not have looked out of a place in the golden Ipswich side of the late 1970s and early 80s," says Charlie Wyett in The Sun. "And now, perhaps, Ipswich can sort out their form domestically, starting at home to Leeds on Sunday, and prove to us all they are no flash in the pan." [... more]

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