Udinese fell Liverpool, Atletico snatch win

Liverpool lost 3-2 at home to Udinese and Videton, Sparta Prague and Molde pulled off surprise wins while Samuel Eto’o scored twice to give ambitious Anzhi Makhachkala a 2-0 Europa League win over Young Boys on Thursday.

Defending champions Atletico Madrid, one of several teams fielding a second string line-up, needed a goal deep in stoppage time from Cristian Rodriguez to overcome defiant Czechs Viktoria Plzen 1-0.

The Uruguayan player known as “The Onion” let fly from outside the area to leave Diego Simeone’s team with six points from two games at the top of Group B.

Eto’o, who last week ended his stand-off with Cameroon officials and agreed to play for his country again, converted a 62th minute penalty against the run of play.

He then turned in Oleg Shatov’s cross in the last minute to complete a 2-0 win over the Swiss side and extend Anzhi’s unbeaten run to seven matches in the competition, including the qualifiers.

The Group A match was played in front of a sparse crowd in Moscow, where Anzhi are playing for security reasons after Uefa refused to let them stage matches in the violence-plagued Dagestan region.