Winners:
American keeper TIM HOWARD, 25, was back in goal for MANCHESTER UNITED in the Carling League Cup a week after watching Roy Carroll, who won the starting role in September, blunder badly in the Champions League. Howard had a quiet evening as Man U downed Arsenal, 1-0, to reach the League Cup semifinals. American Danny Karbassiyoon, 20, played the final nine minutes for Arsenal while compatriot Frank Simek, 20, stayed on the bench. Illinois product Jonathan Spector, 18, was not on the bench for Manchester United, for which New Jersey-born Italian-American Giuseppe Rossi, 17, played the final 11 minutes.
American ZAK WHITBREAD, 20, started in the central defense for LIVERPOOL, which beat Tottenham on penalties following a 1-1 tie in the quarterfinals of the Carling League Cup. Whitbread was among Liverpool's three highest rated field players according The Sun. The Houston native who left the USA at age 1 and was raised in Singapore and England, has played for the U.S. U-20s and U-23s.
Manchester United will face Chelsea in the League Cup semifinals while Arsenal will face off with second-tier WATFORD, which has on its squad 24-year-old Wisconsin product JAY DEMERIT. The former University of Illinois-Chicago defender did not play in Watford's 3-0 quarterfinal win over Portsmouth, but he played in three previous League Cup victories.
Belgium's STANDARD LIEGE, with American OGUCHI ONYEWU playing the fill 90 minutes, tied Besiktas, 1-1, in Turkey in the UEFA Cup. The result means Standard Liege will advance to the knockout stage with a win over Athletic Bilbao Dec. 16. Onyewu was yellow-carded in the 75th minute after an altercation with Emre Asik.
Losers:
FULHAM's 2-1 loss to Chelsea, in which Brian McBride scored Fulham's lone goal and Carlos Bocanegra played the full 90 minutes, knocked it out of the League Cup.
On Monday, ENERGIE COTTBUS, with GREGG BERHALTER making his 11th straight start, lost 2-0 at Burghausen, its seventh loss of the season, and dropped into the relegation zone of the German Second Division.