Valles takes Jerez pole for Liverpool

Perera was quickest in the group stages, and semi-final, but Valles pulled it off when it mattered. And with championship leader Davide Rigon enduring a nightmare qualifying, pole position breathes fresh hope into Liverpool's faint Superleague title chances.

Rigon's Beijing Guoan car will line up on the final row of the grid after the Italian went off on his first flying lap of group qualifying, ending his day in the gravel.

However while Rigon's incident is a boost for Liverpool, it appears to be game over for PSV, the only other title challengers, as Yelmur Buurman failed to make it out of the group stages and will start tomorrow's first race from the midfeld.

Harry Redknapp's Midas touch may have reinvigorated Spurs' football form, but it has failed to have an impact on the club's Superleague fortunes, with Duncan Tappy bumped out of a place in the quarter-finals in the dying seconds of the group stage by Sevilla's Borja Garica.

Ryan Dalziel looked liked giving Rangers their first appearance in the knock-out rounds, but he too suffered at the hands of the Spaniard's late improvement.

Andy Soucek of Atletico Madrid and Porto's Tristan Gommendy were the losing semi-finalists and will fill the second row tomorrow.

Pos  Driver                 Team
 1.  Adrian Valles          Liverpool
 2.  Franck Perera          AS Roma
 3.  Tristan Gommendy       FC Porto
 4.  Andy Soucek            Atletico Madrid
 5.  Alessandro Pier Guidi  Galatasaray
 6.  Robert Doornbos        AC Milan
 7.  Borja Garcia           Sevilla FC
 8.  Antonio Pizzonia       Corinthians
 9.  Duncan Tappy           Tottenham Hotspur
10.  Maximilian Wissel      FC Basel
11.  Ryan Dalziel           Rangers
12.  Bertrand Baguette      Al Ain
13.  Craig Dolby            Anderlecht
14.  Yelmer Buurman         PSV Eindhoven
15.  Tuka Rocha             Flamengo
16.  Stamatis Katsimis      Olympiacos
17.  Davide Rigon           Beijing Guoan