Europa League 2014 Results: Group Tables, Final Scores for Matchday 5 Fixtures

Everton assured top spot in Group H of the Europa League on a monster night of 24 matches in the competition. Meanwhile, there were bizarre and disruptive scenes at White Hart Lane where Tottenham Hotspur hosted Partizan Belgrade. 

Here are the night's full results:

Fixture	Score	Result	Group
Dinamo Moscow vs. Panathinaikos	2-1	Moscow Win	E
Krasnodar vs. Lille	1-1	Draw	H
Lokeren vs. Legia Warsaw	1-0	Lokeren Win	L
HNK Rijeka vs. Standard Liege	2-0	HNK Win	G
Dynamo Kiev vs. Rio Ave	2-0	Dynamo Win	J
Trabzonspor vs. Metalist	3-1	Trabzonspor Win	L
Feyenoord vs. Sevilla	2-0	Feyenoord	G
Slovan Bratislava vs. Young Boys	1-3	Young Boys Win	I
AaB vs. Steaua Bucharest	1-0	AaB Win	J
Guingamp vs. Fiorentina	1-2	Fiorentina Win	K
Wolfsburg vs. Everton	0-2	Everton Win	H
Sparta Prague vs. Napoli	0-0	Napoli Win	I
Dinamo Minsk vs. PAOK	0-2	PAOK Win	K
Zurich vs. Apollon	3-1	Zurich Win	A
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Partizan Belgrade	1-0	Spurs Win	C
St Etienne vs. Qarabag	1-1	Draw	F
Torino vs. Club Brugge	0-0	Draw	B
Celtic vs. Salzburg	1-3	Salzburg Win	B
HJK vs. Copenhagen	2-1	HJK Win	D
Inter Milan vs. Dnipro	2-1	Inter Win	B
Astra vs. Dinamo Zagreb	1-0	Astra Win	F
Villarreal vs. Borussia Monchengladbach	2-2	Draw	D
Estoril vs. PSV Eindhoven	3-2	Suspended due to severe weather	A
Asteras vs. Besiktas	2-2	Draw	C

This is what those results mean for the standings in each group:

Group A
Position	Team	Won	Draw	Loss	Goal Difference	Points
1	Borussia Monchengladbach	2	3	0	7	9
2	Villarreal	2	2	1	6	8
3	Zurich	2	1	2	-1	7
4	Apollon	1	0	4	-12	3
Group B
1	Club Brugge	2	3	0	7	9
2	Torino	2	2	1	2	8
3	HJK	2	0	3	-5	6
4	Copenhagen	1	1	3	-4	4
Group C
1	Tottenham	3	2	0	6	11
2	Besiktas	2	3	0	5	9
3	Asteras	1	2	2	-3	5
4	Partizan Belgrade	0	1	4	-8	1
Group D
1	Salzburg	4	1	0	9	13
2	Celtic	2	2	1	0	8
3	Astra	1	1	3	-5	4
4	Dinamo Zagreb	1	0	4	-4	3
Group E
1	Dinamo Moscow	5	0	0	5	15
2	PSV Eindhoven	2	1	1	1	7
3	Estoril	1	0	3	-1	3
4	Panathinakos	0	1	4	-5	1
Group F
1	Inter Milan	3	2	0	4	11
2	Qarabag	1	2	2	-2	5
3	St Etienne	0	5	0	0	5
4	Dnipro	1	1	3	-2	4
Group G
1	Feyenoord	3	0	2	1	9
2	Sevilla	2	2	1	2	8
3	HNK Rijeka	2	1	2	0	7
4	Standard Liege	1	1	3	-3	4
Group H
1	Everton	3	2	0	8	11
2	Wolfburg	2	1	2	1	7
3	Lille	0	4	1	-3	4
4	Krasnodar	0	3	2	-6	3
Group I
1	Napoli	3	1	1	5	10
2	Sparta Prague	3	1	1	7	10
3	Young Boys	3	0	2	4	9
4	Slovan Bratislava	0	0	5	-16	0
Group J
1	Dynamo Kiev	4	0	1	6	12
2	AaB	3	0	2	-3	9
3	Steaua Bucharest	2	1	2	4	7
4	Rio Alves	0	1	4	-7	1
Group K
1	Fiorentina	4	1	0	8	13
2	PAOK	2	1	2	4	7
3	Guingamp	2	1	2	0	7
4	Dinamo Minsk	0	1	4	-12	1
Group L
1	Legia Warsaw	4	0	1	3	12
2	Trabzonspor	3	1	1	4	10
3	Lokeren	2	1	2	-1	7
4	Metalist	0	0	5	-6	0

To make up the last 32, the first phase of this tournament's knockout stages, 24 teams will qualify from the groups. They will be joined by eight third-placed teams at the culmination of the UEFA Champions League group stage.

Wolfsburg 0-2 Everton

Toffees boss Roberto Martinez appears to have snapped his team out of its early-season funk. Everton went to Germany and bested one of the Bundesliga's most exciting attacking teams.

Goals from Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas ensured Everton earned qualification to the knockout stages. They were also assured of top place in the group thanks to Lille only managing a stalemate away to Russian Premier League side Krasnodar.

But that was the only helping hand Everton got. Everything else was earned by a smart and efficient performance expertly crafted for European tournament play, as Liverpool Echo reporter Greg O' Keeffe noted:

The Toffees were structurally sound, in stark contrast to their performances earlier this season. A key to that solidity was the performance of young gem Muhamed Besic.

Signed for just a bargain £4 million from Ferencvaros this summer, the centre-back-turned-midfielder acted as a glorified sweeper in Germany. He routinely dropped back to fill the gap between veteran central defensive pairing Sylvain Distin and Phil Jagielka.

Michael Sohn/Associated Press

That rugged trio managed to shackle a dangerous Wolfsburg forward line featuring Kevin De Bruyne and Ivan Perisic. The latter was a game threat all night, but he never breached Everton's well-constructed three-pronged defensive barrier.

Further forward, Lukaku and Mirallas were ruthless on the break. The Belgian duo's pace and technique on the counter was terrific.

Mirallas is steadily developing a niche in this competition, per Squawka Football:

Martinez has been rewarded for taking Europe's second-tier competition seriously. He utilised key players such as Distin, Jagielka, Besic, Lukaku, Mirallas and goalkeeper Tim Howard. That's a positive sign of intent.

The result itself stands as another positive note in Everton's revival. Martinez has stuck to his principles of playing expansive, attractive football. But he's also managed to tighten up a defence that was leaking goals at the start of the season.

Now the Toffees are two points off the Premier League's top four and assured a place in the next phase of this competition.

Feyenoord 2-0 Sevilla

Checking in with the current holders of the trophy, Sevilla were stunned by Feyenoord. The Dutch outfit claimed a commendable win via goals from ex-Aston Villa midfield man Karim El Ahmadi and playmaker Jens Toornstra.

Those strikes marked a very rare slip from Sevilla at this stage of the competition, per Opta Jose:

The La Liga outfit fielded a strong team featuring Jose Antonio Reyes, Stephane Mbia and Arsenal target Grzegorz Krychowiak. But the team that won this competition last season couldn't get near a Feyenoord side smartly directed by the steady passing of miniature midfield maestro Jordy Clasie.

The 23-year-old skipper made his delight at progressing clear, via his official Twitter account:

The defeat may be initially disappointing for Sevilla, but they'll join the Dutch club in the next stage.

Tottenham Hotspur vs. Partizan Belgrade

One pitch-invader was mildly irritating. A second was downright annoying. But when a third attention-seeker leapt onto the grass at White Hart Lane, the referee and UEFA had clearly had enough.

Play was stopped, and the players for both Tottenham and Partizan were removed from the pitch. That gave the stewards and security personnel at Tottenham's stadium the chance to show their faces after they'd previously been largely anonymous.

Once play restarted, the game followed a similar pattern to the one set before the impromptu stoppage. Spurs probed, huffed and puffed but to little avail.

Alastair Grant/Associated Press

Meanwhile, Partizan were restrained (unlike certain members of the crowd) and cagey, always looking to pose a threat on the counter. Most of their best play came through wily 36-year-old schemer Sasa Ilic.

The one-club servant routinely threaded passes through a wide-open Spurs defence. Only profligacy up front wasted the aging skipper's classy supply.

Partizan were made to rue those missed chances early in the second half. Goal-starved striker Roberto Soldado, a clever attacker who's surprisingly struggled since moving to England last summer, hit the post, and Benjamin Stambouli followed up to net the winner.

The result was good enough to see Spurs through.

Sparta Prague 0-0 Napoli 

Napoli also made it through after a goalless draw against Sparta Prague. As he often does, manager Rafael Benitez coaxed a disciplined and stubborn defensive effort from his team.

At the heart of that effort was rock-steady centre-back Raul Albiol. Bentiez's countryman was in the thick of action, as stats from WhoScored.com reveal:

Benitez won this competition under its current format with Chelsea in 2013. He also claimed the trophy in its old guise as the UEFA Cup with Valencia back in 2004.

Few managers in the game are as adept at engineering successful cup runs as Benitez. Napoli will be a major threat in the knockout stages.

Felice Calabro'/Associated Press

Bentiez may be wary of another Italian outfit, Fiorentina. Manager Vincenzo Montella's team boasts some classy players such as forward Marko Marin and winger Juan Cuadrado. Expect the Florence club to make an impression in the next stage and still be a factor during the tournament's latter stages.

But if the men from Serie A bear watching, then so do Everton. Martinez has guided his team through the group stage in convincing fashion.

His squad combines plenty of experience with precocious young talents such as Lukaku and Ross Barkley. The Toffees surely represent the best hope of a Premier League team lifting this trophy.