The pleasure of Bundesliga fans in seeing all eight German clubs advance into the European knockout stages was tempered by a more unpleasant reality on Thursday, as VFB Stuttgart was the just one of four to advance in the Europa League. AAll four clubs started the afternoon on their backheels after poor outcomes in their first leg Europa League features this morning, with the Swabians being the only club in a position to Aupgrade their destiny. VFB Stuttgart followed up an abject 1-1 draw in the home against Genk a week ago with a 2-0 win away as a result of goals from Boka and Gentner. Stuttgartas incentive is really a day at Rome to face Lazio, no stranger to teams from the Bundesliga after despatching Borussia MAnchengladbachAin the last round. Nobody would have thought Stuttgart, the German Europa League membership currently displaying the worst sort, would function as the sole survivors of the initial EL knockout round, but here they're. Genk:AKAteles a Ngcongca, Simaeys, Koulibaly, Tshimanga a Hyland, Kumordzi (Barda 61a) a Gorius, De Ceulaer (Joseph-Monrose 70a), Buffel (Ojo 77a) a Plet AStuttgart:AUlreich a Sakai, Tasci, RAdiger, Boka a Kvist, Gentner a Harnik, Okazaki (Holzhauser 77a), Traore (Maxim 75a) (Macheda 83a) Bayer Leverkusen puffed and huffed but eventually couldn't strike down the Benfica home because they lost 2-1 absent and 3-1 on aggregate. Ola John put Benfica 1-0 up on the night before Andre SchArrleAset up a grandstand finish with 15 minutes left, indicating only 1 more goal was needed from Bayer. Nevertheless almost quickly Nemanja Matic put the link beyond the Germans, indicating they sought out 3-1. Bayer had most of the chances but couldn't make them count as the pressure was soaked up by Benfica before striking them on the table. Benfica:AArtur a Almeida, Luisao, Garay, Melgarejo a Martins, (Salvio 53a), Matic, Gaitan a Perez, Cardoso (Lima 64a), JohnALeverkusen:ALeno- Carvajal, Wollscheid, Toprak, Boenisch a Reinartz (Milik 74a) a Bender (Hegeler 57a), Rolfes a SchArrle a' KieAling Borussia MAnchengladbachAcrashed out 5-3 on mixture absent to Lazio, after the Italian staff won 2-0 at Stade Olimpico. The game is put by goals from Candreva and Gonzalez in the first half to bed. Lazio were never truly troubled because they focused chances produced and the Bundesliga outfitsa heroics from last week were all for nothing in the long run. Itas been a fantastic year for Gladbach in Europe, and their supporters could be proud of the team especially after dropping Dante, Reus and NeustAdterAin the offseason. Lazio:AMarchetti a Konko, Biava, Cana, Radu a Candreva (Pereirinha 83a), Ledesma, Hernanes- A. Gonzalez (Onazi 69a), Lulic a Floccari (Kozak 79a) AGladbach:Ater Stegen a Jantschke, Stranzl, Dominguez, Wendt a Marx, Cigerci (Hanke 69a), Nordveit, Hermann a Arango (Younes 52a), p Jong Hannover drew 1-1 with Russian ensemble Anzhi Makhachkala meaning they go out 4-2 on combination. Pinto made the game interesting scoring with just 20 minutes left,Abut Hannover couldnat get the tie to be taken by another into extra time, and Lacina Traore scoring in the 9th second of harm time to eventually kill off the game. A wrap for Hannover who produced a lot of possibilities but couldnat capitalize on them, it will be interesting to observe Hannover bounce back from elimination from Europe. Hannover:AZieler a' H. Sakai (Sobiech 83a), Djourou, Schulz, Pocognoli (Rausch 70a) a Schmiedebach (Schlaudraff 61a), da Silva Pinto, Ya Konan, Huszti a Abdellaoue, M. Diouf AAnji:AV. Gabulov a Logashov, Joao Carlos, Ewerton, Yeshchenko a Jucilei, Diarra a Boussoufa, Akhmedov, Willian (Traore 68a) a' Etoao
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