PSV beat Monaco for quarters berth
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| | QUARTERFINALISTS | AC Milan (Italy)
Bayern Munich (Germany)
Chelsea (England)
Juventus (Italy)
Liverpool (England)
Lyon (France)
PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)
*Inter Milan (Italy) or Porto (Portugal)
*Second leg to be played March 15 in Milan. First leg 1-1
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MONACO -- PSV Eindhoven cruised into the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Wednesday with a 2-0 victory in Monaco.
Striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink headed the Dutch league leaders in front on 27 minutes and substitute DaMarcus Beasley wrapped up a 3-0 aggregate win with 20 minutes left.
Monaco's bad night got worse on 76 minutes when defender Gael Givet was shown a straight red card for a wild lunge on PSV's Peruvian striker Jefferson Farfan.
"They (Eindhoven) had one chance on a dead ball situation and they converted it," said Monaco coach Didier Deschamps.
"We had many opportunities but we squandered all of them.
"If we had scored before the interval it would have been a totally different match. After they went 1-0 up it was almost impossible."
The French league side, who lost to Porto in last season's final suffered their first home defeat in the Champions League since losing 1-0 to Rangers in September 2000.
Monaco finished the match with four strikers on the pitch after Emmanuel Adebayor came on for midfielder Jaroslav Plasil but were subdued against Guus Hiddink's well-organized outfit.
"Over the two legs, PSV proved they were a better side than us," Deschamps said. "They are a strong and solid team."
Monaco, 11 points adrift of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon, now have only the French Cup to keep their hunt for a trophy this season alive.
PSV coach Guus Hiddink said his side had played "an exemplary match."
"We didn't play enough of the ball in the first half although we managed to get some corners," said Hiddink.
"We came here also to try and score, and not just to defend. In the second half we wanted to score another goal, and Beasley came up with it. That proved fatal for Monaco, but it was a great result for us. We must be the team with the smallest budget of all the qualified teams."
