Tuesday, July 22, 2014

UEFA Champions League Qualifying: Sheriff, Bhoys, Sparta Prague, Dinamo Zagreb Advance To Third Qualifying Round

The second round of UEFA Champions League qualifying resumed on Tuesday with eleven games.

At Niksic, Montenegro:

Fred Benson (5'), Henrique Luvannor (35'), and Ismail Isa (54') each scored a goal as FC Sheriff dominated ten-man Sutjeska Niksic 3-0 on the road in game two en route to their 5-0 two-game aggregate victory over the Montenegrin club.

At Tallinn, Estonia:

Lukas Marecek scored in the 38th minute for Sparta Prague as the Czech club gained a game-two 1-1 road draw with Levadia Tallinn, more than enough for them to easily win their two-match series with the Estonian club 8-1 on aggregate.

At Dudelange, Luxembourg:

Roman Bezjak scored in the 51st minute for Ludogorets Razgrad as the Bulgarian club gained a 1-1 game-two road draw with F91 Dudelange and won their two-game series 5-1 on aggregate.

At Baku, Azerbaijan:

Reynaldo dos Santos Silva (15'), Chumbinho (48'), Danilo Dias (57'), and Leroy George (80') each scored a goal as Qarabaq FK demolished visiting Valletta 4-0 in game two and finished off the Maltese club 5-0 on aggregate.

At Larnaca, Cyprus:

In a match that was switched from Israel due to the ongoing crisis between the Israelis and Gaza, Maccabi Tel Aviv, with Eran Zahavi (PK-62') and Tal Ben Haim (90') delivering the goals,  blanked visiting FC Santa Coloma 2-0 in game two and won their series 3-0 on aggregate.

At Rhyl, Wales:

Marko Milinkovic scored both goals (74', 89') in FC Slovan Bratislava's 2-0 road victory in game two against The New Saints as the Slovakian club won their two-match series 3-0 on aggregate.

At Korce, Albania:

Edgar Olekhnovich scored in the 29th minute as FC BATE Borisov gained a game-two 1-1 road draw with Skenderbeu Korce, and with the aggregate score at 1-1, that goal gained a two-game series victory for the Belorussian club due to the away goals rule.

At Torshavn, Faroe Islands:

Nikola Ninkovic (49'), Danko Lazovic (75'), and Petar Grbic (90'+1) each scored once as Partizan Belgrade defeated HB 3-1 on the road in game two and won their two-match series 6-1 on aggregate.

At Vilnius, Lithuania:

El Arbi Hillel Soudani (47') and Josip Simunic (49') each scored a second-half goal two minutes apart as Dinamo Zagreb took a second 2-0 victory over Zagiris Vilnius and won their two-match series 4-0 on aggregate.

At Debrecen, Hungary:

Rene Mihelic (55') and Ibrahima Sidibe (79') provided the scoring as Debreceni VSC took both game two at home against Cliftonville FC and the series against the club from Northern Ireland on aggregate by the same score, 2-0.

At Edinburgh, Scotland:

Virgil van Dijk (13', 20') and Teemu Pukki (27', 71') each scored twice as Celtic demolished visiting KR Reykjavik 4-0 in match two and knocked out the Icelandic club 5-0 on aggregate.  The match was played at Edinburgh as the Bhoys' home stadium, Celtic Park in Glasgow, was being used for the opening ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games.

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