Wednesday 26 August 2015

Monaco,Basel,Rapid Vienna and Skenderbeu Korce crashed out of Champions League group stage qualification.

 Monaco beats Valencia 2-1 at Stade Louis II on Tuesday but cannot put them through to the qualifying stage due to 4-3 aggregate courtesy Alvaro Negredo sublime chipped effort after Valencia has closed the game at Mestalla a week ago.
Meanwhile Basel was denied passage by hard fighting Maccabi Tel Aviv who played a 2-2 draw at St Jakob Park  last week and secure a 1-1 draw at home on Tuesday night to book a ticket in this year Champions League, denying Basel to reach the group stage of the Champions League for the first time in 11 years.
However, Shakhtar were only behind for five minutes thanks to Olexandr Gladkiy and Mircera Lucescu's ultimately sneaked into Thursday's draw, with their cause having been aided slightly by the late dismissal of Rapid's Mario Sonnleitner.
Elsewhere Dinamo Zagreb, who had Goncalo Santos sent off, ended Skenderbeu Korce's hopes of reaching the group stage for the first time with a 4-1 win in Croatia to go through 6-2 on aggregate. El Arabi Hilal Soudani netted twice for the home side.

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