Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Europa League Qualifying: Elfsborg, KF Tirana, Khazar Lankaran, Portadown Advance

Four games were played on Tuesday as the first qualifying round for the Europa League continued.


At Paola, Malta:


Daniel Mobaeck (20'), Oscar Hiljemark (50'), Per Frick (67'), and Viktor Claesson (77') each scored a goal as Elfsborg dominated Floriana 4-0 on the road in game two as the Swedish club, who will next face the winner of the Dacia Chisinau-Celje series in the second qualifying round, completed their two-match horsewhipping of the Maltese club 12-0 on aggregate.


At Dudelange, Luxembourg:


A 0-0 road draw in game two was good enough for KF Tirana as the Albanian club won their two-match series with CS Grevenmacher 2-0 on aggregate to set up a second qualifying round encounter with Aalesund of Norway.


At Tallinn, Estonia:


Ruslan Abisov (40') and Branimir Subasic (86') each delivered a tally as Khazar Lankaran blanked Nomme Kalju 2-0 on the road and won their two-game series 4-2 on aggregate.  Next up for the Azerbaijani club is a second-round two-match series with the winner of the Lech Poznan-Zhetsyu series.


At Portadown, Northern Ireland:


Richard Lecky (58') and Ross Redman (80') each scored a goal as Portadown, following their scoreless opening match last week, came from behind to defeat visiting Skendija 79 2-1 in game two to win their two-match series by that same score on aggregate.  The Ports will next take on Slaven Belupo of Croatia.

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