Winners:
Halftime sub DaMARCUS BEASLEY set up PSV EINDHOVEN's final goal, with a corner kick, in a 4-0 win over ADO Den Haag, which keeps PSV's lead at the top of the Dutch Eredivisie at four points ahead of second-place AZ.
BLACKBURN, with American BRAD FRIEDEL in goal, downed Leicester, 1-0, to advance to the English FA Cup semifinals. MANCHESTER UNITED, with American TIM HOWARD in goal, reached the semis thanks to a 4-0 win over Southampton.
READING ended its 11-game English League Championship winless streak with a 3-1 win over West Ham. American goalie MARCUS HAHNEMANN played the full 90. U.S. midfielder Bobby Convey was not in the game-day squad for the victory that prevented West Ham from knocking Reading out of sixth-place, which at season's end is worth a spot in the Premier League promotion playoffs.
In Germany, MAINZ (15th place) escaped with a 0-0 tie at defending champion Werder Bremen with Conor Casey going 80 minutes. U.S. defender GREGG BERHALTER scored his first goal of the season for Second Division Energie Cottbus, but it went down, 3-1, to LR Ahlen. Cottbus is in 11th place, four points above the relegation zone.
American CALEB NORKUS, 26, who played at the University of North Carolina, with the A-League's Charlotte Eagles and in the German third division, scored his first goal since signing with Chilean First Division club, Union Espanola, in a 4-2 win over Coquimbo.
The U.S. WOMEN, led by interim coach Greg Ryan, advanced to the Tuesday's final of the Algarve Cup against Germany after compiling a perfect record in group play, downing France (1-0), Finland (3-0) and Denmark (4-0).
Losers:
For the first time since joining Bayer Leverkusen (7th place) in January, LANDON DONOVAN did not get playing time. Leverkusen tied, Hertha Berlin, 3-3. Goalkeeper KASEY KELLER had no chance on the Kasierslautern goal that downed Borussia Monechengladbach (14th place), 1-0.
STEVE CHERUNDOLO returned from yellow-card suspension and nicked the crossbar with a shot as HANNOVER 96 (10th place) fell, 1-0, to Wolfsburg to extend its losing streak to four games and its winless streak to six games.
