BREMEN, Germany (AP)—Hamburg won 1-0 at Werder Bremen on a 29th-minute goal by Piotr Trochowski on Thursday night in the first leg of an all-German UEFA Cup semifinal.
Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wiese, who stopped three penalty kicks when Werder eliminated Hamburg in the semifinals of the German Cup last week, made good saves, including one from Ivica Olic early in the game. The goalkeeper also turned away striker Paolo Guerrero’s low shot in the 22nd.
The second leg of the total-goals series will be in Hamburg on May 7, and the winner will advance to the final on May 20 in Istanbul. Hamburg has not be in a European final since winning the 1983 Champions Cup.
In the other semifinal, Shakhtar Donetsk played a 1-1 tie at Dynamo Kiev.
Dynamo took the lead in the 22nd minute when Shakhtar defender Dmytro Chygrynskiy put Oleksandr Aliyev’s powerful free kick into his own net while struggling with Artem Milevskiy at the far post. Fernandinho tied the score in the 68th for Shakhtar, which hosts the second leg May 7.
