Europa League

The third round of Europa League qualifying continued on Thursday with 35 games.

CHAMPIONS PATH:

At Razgrad, Bulgaria:

Cosmin Moti scored the only goal of the match in the 16th minute as Ludogorets Razgrad defeated visiting Zrinjski Mostar 1-0 in the opening contest of their two-game series.

At Warsaw, Poland:

David Turpel's successful penalty kick in the 62nd minute produced the game winner as F91 Dudelange took the opening match of their series with Legia Warsaw 2-1 on the road.

At Yerevan, Armenia:

Marius Tucudean scored twice (5', PK-49') as CFR Cluj blanked Alashkert 2-0 on the road in their series opener.

At Ljubljana, Slovenia:

Issah Abass scored twice (38', 58') as Olimpija Ljubljana dominated visiting HJK Helsinki 3-0 in their series-opening contest.

At Tiraspol, Moldova:

Ziguy Badibanga scored the only goal of the match in the 85th minute as FC Sheriff took the opening game of their series with Valur 1-0 at home.

At Cork, Ireland:

Jonathan Levi scored twice (22', 44') as Rosenborg blanked Cork City 2-0 in their series opener.

At Riga, Latvia:

Guilherme Finkler's goal in the 52nd minute carried FK Suduva Marijampole to a series-opening 1-0 road victory over Spartaks Jurmala.

At Cardiff, Wales:

Paul Onuachu scored both goals (9', 27') in FC Midtjylland's series-opening 2-0 road win over The New Saints.

At Beersheba, Israel:

Ugochukwu Ogu (42') and Anthony Nwakaeme (70') each scored a goal as Hapoel Be'er Sheva came back from two goals down to gain a series-opening 2-2 home draw with APOEL FC.

Nuno Morais (13') and Guilherme Dellatorre (28') produced the goals for the visiting Cypriot club.

At Tbilisi, Georgia:

Giorgi Kukhainidze scored twice (2', 15') as Torpedo Kutaisi opened their series with Kukesi by dominating the visiting Albanian club 5-2.


MAIN PATH:

At Minsk, Belarus:

Uros Nikolic scored twice (12', 67') as Dinamo Minsk demolished Zenit Saint Petersburg 4-0 in their series-opening match.

At Graz, Austria:

Joan Truyols (46') and Ivan Trickovski (74') each scored once as AEK Larnaca opened their series by blanking Sturm Graz 2-0 on the road.

At Sarpsborg, Norway:

Alexander Gorgon's equalizer in the 83rd minute carried Rijeka to a series-opening 1-1 deadlock on the road against Sarpsborg 08.

Kristoffer Zachariassen scored for the hosts in minute #72.

At Istanbul, Turkey:

Istanbul Basaksehir and visiting Burnley (England) battled to a 0-0 series-opening draw.

At Zaporizhia, Ukraine (due to warlike conditions in eastern Ukraine):

Oleksandr Karavaev's goal in the 72nd minute enabled Zorya to salvage a series-opening 1-1 draw with visiting SC Braga.

Ricardo Horta scored in the 69th minute for the Portuguese club.

At Haifa, Israel:

Hans Hateboer (18'), Duvan Zapata (20'), Mario Pasalic (65'), and Musa Barrow (86') each scored once as Atalanta scored twice in each half en route to a dominating series-opening 4-1 road victory over Hapoel Haifa.

At Genk, Belgium:

Ruslan Malinovskiy (44') and Mbwana Samatta (56') each scored once as KRC Genk blanked visiting Lech Poznan 2-0 in game one.

At Arnhem, Netherlands:

Ricky van Wolfswinkel's goal in the third minute of second-half stoppage time carried FC Basel to a series-opening 1-0 road win over Vitesse Arnhem.

At Farum, Denmark:

Goran Zakaric scored the winning goal in the 64th minute as Partizan Belgrade knocked off FC Nordsjaelland 2-1 on the road in their series-opening contest.

At Edinburgh, Scotland:

Hibernian and visiting Molde played their series-opening contest to a 0-0 deadlock.

At Split, Croatia:

Hajduk Split and visiting Steaua Bucharest battled to a series-opening 0-0 stalemate.

At Seville, Spain:

Ever Banega scored the only goal of the match in the 34th minute as Sevilla took the opening match of their series with Lithuania's Zalgiris 1-0 at home.

At Olomouc, Czech Republic:

Sigma Olomouc, with Martin Sladky (21') and Vaclav Pilar (50') delivering the goals, blanked visiting Kairat 2-0 in their series opener.

At Bratislava, Slovakia:

Mateo Barac's own goal in the 49th minute may prove costly in the end of the series as Slovan Bratislava topped visiting Rapid Vienna 2-1 in their series-opening contest.

At Odessa, Ukraine (due to warlike conditions in eastern Ukraine):

Gaetan Laborde scored twice (33', 37') as Bordeaux defeated Mariupol 3-1 on the road in match one.

At Sofia, Bulgaria:

Denis Vavro (64') and Kenan Kodro (PK-74') each scored a second-half goal as FC Copenhagen knocked off CSKA Sofia 2-1 on the road in their series-opening game.

At Piraeus, Greece:

Lazaros Christodoulopoulos (10', 33') and Miguel Angel Guerrero (36', 84') each scored twice as Olympiacos played like Legends in their 4-0 series-opening home demolition of FC Lucerne.

At Glasgow, Scotland:

Alfredo Morelos (6'), James Tavernier (PK-50'), and Lassana Coulibaly (86') each scored once as Rangers defeated visiting Maribor 3-1 in game one.

At Zilina, Slovakia:

Antonio Mance produced a hat trick (6', 37', 63') as Trencin demolished visiting Feyenoord Rotterdam 4-0 in their series opener.

At Bialystok, Poland:

Jonathan David's goal in the 55th minute lifted KAA Gent to a series-opening 1-0 road win over Jagiellonia Bialystok.

At Belgrade, Serbia:

Dominik Kaiser (29') and Hany Mukhtar (47') produced the goals that carried Brondby to a 2-0 game-one road victory over Spartak Subotica.

At Ufa, Russia:

Ivan Oblyakov scored the winning goal as Ufa held off visiting Progres Niederkorn 2-1 in the opening contest of their two-game series.

At Istanbul, Turkey:

Ryan Babel scored the only goal of the match in the sixth minute as Besiktas took the opening game of their series, 1-0 at visiting LASK Linz's expense.

At Nicosia, Cyprus:

Emilio Zelaya scored twice (46', 58') as Apollon Limassol demolished visiting Dynamo Brest 4-0 in their series opener.

At Leipzig, Germany:

Matheus Cunha scored the winning goal in the 77th minute as RB Leipzig took their series-opening match 3-1 over visiting Universitatea Craiova.