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Martin Jol hopes to be involved in European club football's secondary competition post-Christmas despite the fact it can cause players to wilt as spring arrives, and after a Group K opener in which his Fulham side spurned countless chances, he should not reassess.

If Clint Dempsey's radar had been working, an abacus would have been required to tally the sack of goals he might have claimed, and Jol's players would have collected a deserved win. Instead, they ended with a point due the American's profligacy and FC Twente equalising Andrew Johnson's opener with their only real chance: a Luuk de Jong header that hit a post and deflected into the net off Mark Schwarzer's...

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