Wild Marseilleflew for the “16” of the Europa League with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang make history!
Marseille beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 in the second leg of the playoffs and after a 2-2 draw in Ukraine qualified for the next stage, with the Gabonese striker becoming the top scorer in the competition’s historyas he reached 31 goals in 56 matches of the competition and is now equal at the top with Henrik Larssonsurpassing Radamel Falcao and Klaas-Jan Hudelear who had 30.
In his match, the Ukrainians surprised the home team and after the penalty won, in the 12th minute, Sudakov executed accurately from the white bullet for 1-0. Marseille reacted immediately, created opportunities in the 23rd minute as well Aubameyang equalized at 1-1, a goal that sent him to the top scorers in Europa League history with 31 goals in 56 games!
Jean-Louis Gasset’s team was superior and pulled off a turnaround in the second half! Specifically, in the 74th Aubameyang he saw Sarr, who scored 2-1 and gave his team a qualifying score. The final 3-1 was formed by Joffrey Kodogbiasending the French team to the next stage, which is not without reason among the favorites to win the competition.
Huge qualification for her Sparta Praguewhich with a score of 4-1 destroyed the Galatasarai and got the ticket for the 16 best teams of the tournament! The Czechs, after losing 3-2 in Istanbul, were terrible, they took advantage of Ayhan’s red card and left out one of the favorites of the competition.
Brian Priske’s team entered strongly and just in the 8th minute opened the scoring with him Presiadohowever, the Turks had an immediate response in the 16th minute with Bardakji for the 1-1. The key point was the phase in the 70′ with Ayhan leaving his team with 10 players, which then paid dearly for it!
Specifically, in the 74th Cough made it 2-1, in the 80th minute Haraslin gave a qualification score with his goal for 3-1 and at 90+6′ Kuchta completed the triumph for Sparta Prague 4-1.
THE Sporting Lisbon after the 3-1 win over her Young Boys in the first match, she did her job and with the 1-1 draw she got in Portugal, she qualified for the “16” of the Europa League.
The “lions” entered strongly and opened the score in the 13th minute with You guys, while then they had several moments to find other goals. In fact, in the second half, specifically in the 57th minute, Gyokeres missed a penalty kick, while afterwards the many changes affected the pace of the match.
In the 84th minute, the Swiss won a penalty, the execution was taken over by Ganbulawho was on target for 1-1, which was also the final score of the match with Sporting getting the qualification for the next phase.
The results of the Europa League playoffs:
Rennes – Milan 3-2
(11′, 54′ penalty, 68′ penalty Bourisot – 22′ Jovic, 58′ Leao)
Toulouse – Benfica 0-0
Garabagh – Braga 2-3 par., 0-2 d.a.
(102′ Silva, 120+2′ Achunzade – 70′ Ferrantes, 83′ Tzalo, 115′ pen. Banza)
Freiburg – Lance 3-2 d.f., 2-2 d.c.
(67′, 90+2′ R. Salai, 99′ Gregoric – 28′ David Costa, 45+2′ Wai)
Sporting – Young Boys 1-0
(13′ Dziekeres – 84′ pen. Ganbula)
Marseille – Shakhtar 3-1
(23′ Aubameyang, 74′ Sarr, 81′ Kodogbia – 12′ pen. Sudakov)
Sparta – Galatasaray 4-1
(8′ Presiado, 74′ Toutsi, 80′ Haraslin, 90+7′ Kuchta – 16′ Bardaktzi)
Source: Sport Fm
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