Shakhter Karagandy shocked Celtic with a 2-0 win in Kazakhstan while Zenit went to Paços de Ferreira in Portugal chalking up what seems to be an insurmountable lead of 4-1, with Roman Shirokov scoring a hat-trick. In the other games, Plzen and Real Sociedad have the advantage while AC Milan took a point away from Eindhoven.
The Play-offs for the Champions League get under way with the return legs being played next week. The ten winners of these ten games will join the twenty-two automatic qualifiers in the group phase of 32 teams split into 8 groups of four teams.
Paços de Ferreira (Portugal) 1 Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russia) 4
André leão, 58 Shirokov 27, 60, 90 Degra o.g. 85
Shakhter Karagandy (Kazakhstan) 2 Celtic (Scotland) 0
Finonchenko 12
Khizhnichenko 77
PSV (Netherlands) 1 AC Milan (Italy) 1
Matavz, 60 El Sharaawy, 15
Lyon (France) 0 Real Sociedad (Spain) 2
Griezmann, 17
Haris Seferovic, 50
Plzen (Czech Republic) 3 Maribor (Slovenia) 1
Cisovsky, 9 Mejac, 66
Darida, 58
Duris, 89
Playing Wednesday August 21
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) Austria Wien (Austria)
Ludogorets (Bulgaria) Basel (Switzerland)
Steaua Bucharest (Romania) Legia (Poland)
Schalke (Germany) PAOK (Greece)
Fenerbahçe (Turkey) Arsenal (England)
Photo: Roman Shirokov, Zenit
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru