Werder Bremen 3-1 Sampdoria: Pazzini great-header

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Werder Bremen recorded a 3-1 victory over Sampdoria on the first leg play-off round of the Champions League, Wednesday (08/18/2010) and thus broaden the opportunities into the next round.

Playing at home in an opponent, Sampdoria looked really do not have attacking. Able to end the first half with the score 0-0 draw, they were flushed with three Bremen goals scored Clemens Fritz (51), Torsten Frings (67), and Claudio Pizarro (69), Giampaolo Pazzini to minimize lag in the 90th minute.

In other games, Sevilla was also a surprise 0-1 defeat of Braga. Goals scored by Braga Nascimento Leite Matheus (62).

Here are the results of play-off first leg Champions League, Wednesday (18/08/2010).
Braga 1-0 FC Sevilla
Nascimento Leite Matheus (63)
FC Basel 1-0 Sheriff Tiraspol
Valentin Stocker (63)
Partizan Belgrade 2-2 Anderlecht
Gabriel Cordova Cleverson Cleo (57), Jan Lecjaks (og 64); Guillaume Gillet (54), Roland Juhasz (66)
SV Salzburg 2-3 Hapoel Tel-Aviv
Nikola Pokrivac (28), Roman Wallner (pen 66); Vincent Enyeama (3 pen), Ben Sahar (44), Itay Shechter (53)
Werder Bremen 3-1 Sampdoria
Clemens Fritz (51), Torsten Frings (pen 67), Claudio Pizarro (69), Giampaolo Pazzini (90)