Shakhtar Donetsk v Fulham: Europa League success brings cash bonanza

By John Ley Published: 10:33AM GMT twenty-six February 2010

Rock: Brede Hangeland epitomized Fulham"s fighting suggestion Photo: ACTION IMAGES

Roy Hodgsons organisation sent the Uefa Cup holders out of the re-branded foe and right away have a erotically appealing two-legged strife with Juventus, the two-time Champions League winners.

The Europa League is some-more essential than the old Uefa Cup - by reaching the last sixteen Fulham have on trial around �3 million, and that could climb to �4m by the time they have played opposite David Trezeguet, Alessandro del Piero and company.

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And if Fulham can swell to the quarter-finals or even over the monetary incentives are even greater.

Fulham due an ancestral thoroughfare in to the last sixteen to Brede Hangelands first-half goal. Though Shakhtar equalised, Fulham went by on aggregate.

Hangeland said: "It feels fantastic. Its a really, unequivocally good feat for this bar and Im unapproachable to be a piece of it.

"It proves how far weve come as a organisation given Roy Hodgson became manager. Weve knocked about one of the tip teams in Europe and weve completed that by guileless in the approach we fool around and operative hard.

"Its positively good to be a piece of nights similar to this. Who would have thought this would be probable with this bar a whilst back?

"But it only proves that with tough work and a organisation of players and coaching staff pulling in the same direction, you can grasp things similar to this."

Last-16 draw

Juventus v FulhamAtltico Madrid v Sporting LisbonValencia v W BremenHamburg v AnderlechtBenfica v MarseilleLille v LiverpoolPanathinaikos v Standard LiegeRubin Kazan v Wolfsburg

Two-leg ties to be played Mar eleven & 18