Champions League: First round of play-offs completed

The best results of today were obtained by Arsene Wenger's Arsenal FC (3-0 in Turkey) and also Basel, (4-2 at Lodogorets' stadium in Bulgaria). These teams join Zenit and Real Sociedad as almost certainly teams going through to the group phase of the best 32 teams in Europe.

 

Today's results

Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 0 Austria Wien (Austria) 2

                                             Leovac, 68

                                             Stankovic, 75

 

Ludogorets (Bulgaria) 2 Basel (Switzerland) 4

Marcelinho, 23                Salah 12,59   

I.Stoyanov, 50                 Sio, 64   Schär  84 (pen).

 

Steaua Bucharest (Romania) 1 Legia (Poland) 1

Piovaccari, 34                          Kosecki, 53

 

Schalke (Germany) 1 PAOK (Greece) 1

Farfán, 32                   Stoch, 73

 

Fenerbahçe (Turkey) 0 Arsenal (England) 3

                                     Gibbs, 51

                                     Ramsey, 64

                                     Giroud, 77 (pen)

Played Tuesday

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

 

  

 

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

 

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