Sampdoria UC held on to their slender 1st-leg lead long into the 2nd half against PFC Cherno More until an added time goal by Christian Maggio secured their safe passage into the next stage of the competition.
Sampdoria, European Champions Clubs' Cup finalists in 1992, started the match at a high tempo however struggled to carve out any meaningful goalscoring opportunities inspite of adopting an attacking approach.
Cherno More, after resisting the onslaught of the opening 20 minutes, started to create chances of their own and came close to levelling the tie on aggregate when Georgi Andanov hit the outside of the near post with a free kick from the right midway through the 1st half.
At the other end, Claudio Bellucci contrived to head Sergio Volpi's cross on 23 minutes over the crossbar rather than towards goal.
The Bulgarian visitors continued to threaten in the early stages of the 2nd half and Sampdoria goalie Luca Castellazzi was forced to make an extraordinary save to turn away Kiril Djorov's powerful shot from only outside the penalty area.
Blucerchiati coach Walter Mazzarri then replaced attacking midfielder Vladimir Koman with full back Maggio in an attempt to stifle Cherno More's attacking impetus and the move proved more decisive than perhaps even he could have envisaged as it was the substitute who cropped up to latch on to a pass from Bellucci and score the winner for the home side 2 minutes into added time.
21 06 2007
The deadline for co-ownership agreements has passed and 14 players' futures will be decided by blind auction, that included Marco Cassetti and Fabio Quagliarella.
A blind auction takes place in Italian football when 2 sides cannot decide on the fate of a player.
Therefore they secretly place an offer, for the other club's 50 per cent stake in the individual, in a sealed envelope and then hand that over to the Italian Football League.
Whichever club bids the highest has to pay that fee in order to net the player. The envelopes will be opened Friday.
Some situations were resolved before the deadline. Davide Biondini and Paolo Bianco are now entirely owned by Cagliari after purchasing out Reggina and Catania respectively.
Davide Marchini is now co-owned by the Sardinians, having previously been on loan from Triestina.
Christian Maggio remains at Sampdoria after agreeing to share his contract with Fiorentina, renewing deals with Palermo for Christian Terlizzi and Massimo Bonanni as well as with Udinese for Mirko Pieri and Salvatore Foti.
Samp have sold their half of Luca Antonini to Milan and Mark Edusei to Catania.
However, the Blucerchiati have failed to reached an agreement with Udinese over the ownership of transfer hot property Quagliarella.
He goes into the blind auction along with 13 other players.
Blind auctions
Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria/Udinese)
Andrea Coda (Udinese/Empoli)
Marco Cassetti (Roma/Lecce)
Gianluca Comotto (Torino/Roma)
Damiano Ferronetti (Parma/Roma)
Giuseppe Scurto (Chievo/Roma)
Daniele Corvia (Siena/Roma)
Stephen Makinwa (Lazio/Palermo)
Michele Ferri (Cagliari/Palermo)
Davide Matteini (Palermo/Empoli)
Viktor Boudianski (Ascoli/Juve)
Daniele Gastaldello (Siena/Juve)
Tomas Danilevicius (Bologna/Livorno)
Mattia Graffiedi (Triestina/Milan)
