FK Era-Pack Chrudim and Hapoel Ironi Rishon Lezion moved into position in UEFA Futsal Cup Main round Group 5 on Tuesday while former semi-finalists FC Shakhtar Donetsk made a good start to Group 4.
Second day wins
Czech hosts Chrudim and Hapoel, who both reached last season's Elite round, drew their opening game 2-2 while Iberia 2003 Tbilisi defeated FK Nautara Kaunas 7-3. But today Hapoel overcame Iberia 3-2 and Chrudim beat Nautara 6-1 to put themselves in the frame to take the two places in the next round after the last set of games on Thursday.
Chrudim delight
Hapoel took a 26th-minute lead through Shmuel Doron Chicko and although Mucado and Rudolpho Konqueti Da Costa then gave Iberia the lead, two goals from Adam Cohen edged the Israeli side to victory. Chrudim were three up at half-time through Lukáš Rešetár, Michal Mareš and Radovan Kroulík, and although Aurimas Ivaškevicius pulled one back for the Preliminary round winners, Tomáš Sluka, Kroulík and Petr Vladyka decided the game. If Chrudim avoid defeat against Iberia on Thursday both they and Hapoel will be through even if the Israeli side lose the earlier game against eliminated Nautara.
Shakhtar win
Shakhtar, who reached the last four in 2005/06, made a bright start to their bid as they defeated Dutch side FC Blok Beverwijk 4-0 with two Vassura goals and one each for Ramis Mansurov and Igor Moskvychov. It was a similar story for Croatia's MNK Nacional Zagreb, who took a half-time lead against Hungarian hosts MVFC Berettyóújfalu through Tihomir Novak and went on to win 4-0. Nacional take on Shakhtar tomorrow while Beverwijk face Berettyóújfalu.