Newcastle United 1 - Deportivo La Coruña 2

Newcastle: Given; Carr, Boumsong, Taylor, Elliott; Faye (Ameobi 53'), Parker, Milner (N'Zogbia 72'), Emre (Brittain 94'), Bowyer; Shearer. 4-5-1.
Deportivo: Molina; Manuel Pablo, Andrade, Romero, Capdevila; Scaloni, Duscher, Sergio (Valerón 73'), Munitis; Diego Tristán (Luque 55'), Rubén Castro (Juanma 63'). 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
1-0. 39. Milner. Turned ball wide of Molina after Bowyer played on Faye cross.
1-1. 45. Andrade. Touched ball over Given after Duscher headed on free kick.
1-2. 47. Munitis. Intercepted Elliott back pass and rounded keeper to score.

Deportivo made it through to a final with Olympique Marseille after coming from behind to beat Newcastle in this second leg match. The Galicians were defending a slender 2-1 lead from the first leg, and Capdevila had the chance to put them further ahead when he fired a shot over the bar from two yards out after Diego Tristán headed on a Munitis corner. But Molina had to be at his best to keep out a Shearer header around the half hour mark, and a few minutes later the home side took the lead when Milner turned the ball in from close range after Bowyer played in Faye's cross, putting Newcastle ahead in the tie on the away goal rule.

Tempers were starting to get frayed, with Shearer crashing in to Molina shortly before the goal and the Depor players going down theatrically after every tackle, and German referee Helmut Fleischer had his work cut out to keep the game under control (there was even a clash between managers when Graham Souness apparently threw water over an agitated Joaquín Caparrós!). But on the stroke of half time Deportivo equalised after Duscher headed on a long free kick, Andrade nipping in between Given and a defender to poke the ball over the head of the keeper for his second goal in a week.

Fleischer had a word with the two captains Shearer and Scaloni after there were further clashes going into the tunnel at half time, and things appeared to calm down from there on. But just two minutes after the restart the game was virtually over, Muntis intercepting a bad back pass by Elliott and playing the ball past Given to Tristán, who held off Carr's challenge to return the ball to the diminutive forward for him to roll a shot into the empty net. It was a killer blow, and although Molina had to make a couple of first class stops from Shearer and Ameobi and Emre hit the crossbar with a cracking free kick, the hosts were never going to get the three goals they needed. Depor were in to their final, and are now only one tie away from a place in the UEFA cup.