Quick Update 2/4/2011

Not a lot happened in the world of football today, as Germany's league leaders Dortmund drew with mid-table Schalke 0-0 despite several opportunities  that came very close. Manuel Neuer was the star of the Gelsenkirchen show as he pulled off several brilliant saves through-out the game. In Belgium, Gent showed Lierse who was boss with a 4-1 victory. Things started badly for the team at the second to last position in the Belgian Eerste Klasse when Gonzague van Dooren scored an own-goal in the 3rd minute. Bernd Thijs then slotted home a penalty in the 30th to make it 2-0. Thijs then scored a second penalty twenty minutes later to make it a 3-0 game. In the 82nd minute, Lierse finally stood up for themselves as Wesley Sonck struck to make it 3-1. They couldn't continue in this vein so instead Zlatan Ljubijankic put another in for Gent to make it 4-1 in the third minute of stoppage time. The Netherlands meanwhile saw Ajax beat De Graafschap 2-0 as Mounir El Hamdaoui and Siem de Jong struck twice for the Amsterdam side as they cruised to victory. Down in beautiful Portugal, the only Iberian country to be playing, Sporting Lisbon could only tie at home in Lisbon to Naval 1 Maio, the bottom of the table side. Liedson gave the lions an early lead before Fabio Junior's penalty two minutes before stoppage time leveled things. Michel Simplicio then struck a second for Naval 1 Maio to make it 2-1 as the half closed. Helder Postiga then equalised through his own penalty to make it 2-2 in the 60th. Naval 1 Maio then went ahead again, seven minutes later, as Nicolas Godemeche struck home to make it a 3-2 game. It was only in the 90th minute before Liedson could strike again to save Sporting a terrible defeat and leave Naval 1 Maio with a point. Finally, in Turkey, Bursaspor and Sivasspor fought a pitched match starting at the beginning but intensifying in the second minute of stoppage time in the first half when Sivasspor's Hayrettin Yerlikaya scored an own goal to put Bursaspor ahead during half time. Sivasspor came out in the second half with a vengeance though, as Kamil Grosicki scored five minutes into the half to make it 1-1. Both sides were aggravated as the match progressed before Bursaspor found a weakness and Kenny Miller took advantage of it in the 88th minute to win them the game.