Bruges late onslaught secures Europa passage
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December 2, 2011, Friday
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BRUGES scored four times in the last 17 minutes to beat Maribor 4-3 in the Europa League on Wednesday while Atletico Madrid and PAOK Salonika were among six teams to qualify for the knockout stage.
Braga, Metalist Kharkiv, Standard Liege and Hanover 96 were the other teams to go through to February's last 32.
Atletico Madrid, winner in 2010, won 1-0 at Celtic to qualify from Group I thanks to a powerful Arda Turan drive on the half hour. Ten-man PAOK qualified with a 2-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur, the Greeks all but eliminating last season's Champions League quarterfinalists with two early strikes.
Dimitris Salpingidis was gifted the opener after five minutes and Stefanos Athanasiadis added another eight minutes later after a sweeping move.
Luka Modric pulled one back for Tottenham in the 38th minute from a penalty harshly awarded for handball by Kostas Stafylidis, who was sent off, but PAOK held out after surviving a disallowed Jermain Defoe goal.
Rubin Kazan's 4-1 win over Shamrock Rovers, helped by two goals from Paraguay striker Nelson Haedo, sent the Russians three points clear of Tottenham with one match each to play and the pair level on their head-to-head record. Kazan has scored five more goals in Group A.
Metalist thrashed Austria Vienna 4-1 with Marko Devic, Edmar, Papa Gueye and Jose Ernesto Sosa sharing the goals for the Ukrainians who guaranteed top spot in Group G.
Deflected shot
Braga's 1-0 win at home to Birmingham City was enough for the 2011 runner-up in Group H, Hugo Viana scoring with a deflected shot after Nikola Zigic had missed an early penalty for the visitors.
Braga went through despite lying second behind group leader Bruges, which is not yet certain of progression after its heroics in Slovenia where Ryan Donk scored at both ends in the Belgian team's extraordinary win. Dalibor Volas gave Maribor an early lead which it doubled after halftime when Donk slid Dejan Trajkovski's low center into his own net. Volas then stabbed home the third from close range in the 68th minute.
Moroccan Nabil Dirar scored twice in three minutes to start the fightback, Joseph Akpala equalized with eight minutes left and Donk headed the winner in the last minute.
There was still time for Volas to hit the post and miss out on a hat-trick in stoppage time.
Standard Liege's 2-0 win over Hanover 96 in Group B sent both teams through after FC Copenhagen could only draw 1-1 at Vorskla Poltava.
Braga, Metalist Kharkiv, Standard Liege and Hanover 96 were the other teams to go through to February's last 32.
Atletico Madrid, winner in 2010, won 1-0 at Celtic to qualify from Group I thanks to a powerful Arda Turan drive on the half hour. Ten-man PAOK qualified with a 2-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur, the Greeks all but eliminating last season's Champions League quarterfinalists with two early strikes.
Dimitris Salpingidis was gifted the opener after five minutes and Stefanos Athanasiadis added another eight minutes later after a sweeping move.
Luka Modric pulled one back for Tottenham in the 38th minute from a penalty harshly awarded for handball by Kostas Stafylidis, who was sent off, but PAOK held out after surviving a disallowed Jermain Defoe goal.
Rubin Kazan's 4-1 win over Shamrock Rovers, helped by two goals from Paraguay striker Nelson Haedo, sent the Russians three points clear of Tottenham with one match each to play and the pair level on their head-to-head record. Kazan has scored five more goals in Group A.
Metalist thrashed Austria Vienna 4-1 with Marko Devic, Edmar, Papa Gueye and Jose Ernesto Sosa sharing the goals for the Ukrainians who guaranteed top spot in Group G.
Deflected shot
Braga's 1-0 win at home to Birmingham City was enough for the 2011 runner-up in Group H, Hugo Viana scoring with a deflected shot after Nikola Zigic had missed an early penalty for the visitors.
Braga went through despite lying second behind group leader Bruges, which is not yet certain of progression after its heroics in Slovenia where Ryan Donk scored at both ends in the Belgian team's extraordinary win. Dalibor Volas gave Maribor an early lead which it doubled after halftime when Donk slid Dejan Trajkovski's low center into his own net. Volas then stabbed home the third from close range in the 68th minute.
Moroccan Nabil Dirar scored twice in three minutes to start the fightback, Joseph Akpala equalized with eight minutes left and Donk headed the winner in the last minute.
There was still time for Volas to hit the post and miss out on a hat-trick in stoppage time.
Standard Liege's 2-0 win over Hanover 96 in Group B sent both teams through after FC Copenhagen could only draw 1-1 at Vorskla Poltava.
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