Wednesday, July 21, 2010

UCLQR2: Aktobe, Partizan, AIK Advance To Third Qualifying Round

The second qualifying round for the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League concluded on Wednesday as eleven more clubs punched their tickets for the third qualifying round.

At Rustavi, Georgia:

Murat Tieshev helped ice the two-game series at 90 minutes as FK Aktobe gained a 1-1 road draw in game two with Olimpi Rustavi and a 3-1 aggregate win in the two-match series.

At Yerevan, Armenia:

Cleverson Gabriel Cordova, better known as Cleo, scored the only goal of the match (45'+4) as Partizan Belgrade defeated Pyunik FC 1-0 on the road in game two and took the two-match set 4-1 on aggregate.


At Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg:


A 0-0 stalemate on the road in game two was good enough for AIK as the Swedish club won their two-match series with Jeunesse Esch 1-0 on aggregate.

At Helsinki, Finland:

Juhani Ojala's goal at 77 minutes enabled HJK Helsinki to take game two of their two-set match at home with FK Ekranas 1-0, forcing the series to go into overtime, where, sadly for the visiting Lithuanian club, right near the end of the second overtime period, Andrius Sidlauskas' own goal (129') sent the Finnish club into the third qualifying round as HJK took the two-game set 2-1 on aggregate.


At Zilina, Slovakia:

MSK Zilina overturned their 1-0 road defeat of last week with an overpowering performance at home, dominating visiting Birkirkira FC 3-0 in game two, enabling them to take the series 3-1 on aggregate.  Josef Piasek (21'), Ivan Lietava (77'), and Tomas Oravec (90'+2) provided the scoring that sent the Slovakian club into the third qualifying round.


At Prague, Czech Republic:


Marek Matejovsky (12') and Martin Zeman (43') each scored once as Sparta Prague took game two 2-0 at home and finished off Liepajas Metalurgs 5-0 on aggregate for the two-game set.


At Debrecen, Hungary:


Adamo Coulibaly (24'), Yannick Mbengono (32'), and Peter Szakaly (55') each delivered a goal as Debreceni VSC won game two 3-2 over Levadia Tallinn and eliminated the Estonian club 4-3 on aggregate after a very competitive two-game series.

At Poznan, Poland:

After Girts Kalsons scored in the 84th minute, enabling Inter Baku to take match two on the road against Lech Poznan 1-0 and forcing the two-game series into overtime (which was scoreless after 30 minutes), the issue was settled with a lengthy penalty-kick shootout.  Bartosz Bosacki, Jacek Kielb, Seweryn Gancarczyk, Jakub Wilk, Dimitrije Injac, Grzegorz Wojtkowiak, Manuel Arboleda, Semir Stilic, and Krzysztof Kotorowski all converted their spot kicks and the host Railwaymen topped the visiting Azerbaijani club 9-8 in the shootout to advance to the third qualifying round.


At Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina:


Douglas da Silva scored the only goal of the match (76') as Hopoel Tel Aviv concluded their smothering of FK Zeljeznicar Sarajevo with a 1-0 road win in game two and a 6-0 aggregate victory.


At Trondheim, Norway:


After a scoreless draw last week in Northern Ireland, Rosenborg, thanks to goals from Rade Prica (32') and Markus Henriksen (87'), took game two at home from Linfield FC and took the two-game set on aggregate by the same 2-0 score.


At Hafnarfjordur, Iceland:


Vitali Rodionov scored the lone goal of the match at 15 minutes as FC BATE Borisov took care of matters on the road as they defeated FH Hafnarfjordur 1-0 in game two and took the two-match set 6-1 on aggregate.


Matchups for the third qualifying round, with the host club for the opening contests of the respective two-game series:


Champions Path:


Sparta Prague vs. Lech Poznan


Aktobe vs. Hapoel Tel Aviv


FC Sheriff vs. Dinamo Zagreb


Litex Lovech vs. MSK Zilina


Debreceni VSC vs. FC Basel


AIK vs. Rosenborg


Partizan Belgrade vs. HJK Helsinki


FC BATE Borisov vs. FC Copenhagen


The New Saints vs. RSC Anderlecht


AC Omonia vs. Red Bull Salzburg


Non-Champions Path:


Ajax Amsterdam vs. PAOK FC


Dynamo Kiev vs. KAA Gent 


BSC Young Boys vs. Fenerbahce


Sporting Braga vs. Celtic


FC Unirea Urziceni vs. Zenit Saint Petersburg


The opening matches will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday with the return contests one week later.





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