The English Aston Villa Unai Emerythe Italian Fiorentina, the Greek PAOK Thessaloniki and the Turkish Fenerbahçe sealed their classification as group winners and directly accessed the round of 16 of the Conference League.
while, Legia Warsaw, Ferencvaros, Eintracht Frankfurt and Ludogorets passed as runners-up and they have to play a playoff in February against a rival from the Europa League, if they also want to be in the round of 16 of the Conference League.
Zaniolo’s goal confirms Aston Villa’s first place
Unai Emery’s Aston Villa are guaranteed qualification but need a point to secure first place in group E. They achieved it at the Pod Belim Brijegom stadium in Mostar against Croatian Zrinjski, bottom (1-1). The English team advanced Nicolò Zaniolo but Matija Malekinusic equalized the remaining three.
Legia defeated AZ Alkmaar (2-0) in Warsaw in a direct battle for second place. The purposes of Portuguese Yuri Ribeiro and Slovenian Blaz Kramer They gave the pass to Kosta Runjaic’s team, who played the second half with fewer players due to the dismissal of Bruno Martins Indi.
In group F, Ferencvaros and Fiorentina signed a 1-1 draw at the Groupama Arena in Budapest which was good enough for both teams.
The Italians, who equalized by Luca Ranieri in the 74th minute, they are in the round of 16 by finishing in first place and the Hungarians, who took the lead at the beginning of the second half with a goal Kristoffer Zachariassen, They will play in the playoffs as second.
Genk, in this group F, achieved a meaningless victory over Serbian Cukaricki (2-0). He placed third and was eliminated.
Fenerbahçe wins, first
Group H is the most open. Three teams, Fenerbahçe, Nordsjaelland and Ludogorets are bidding for two places.
They went to Fenerbahçe first after defeating Spartak Trnava (4-0) and beating Ludogorets on goal difference. Bosnian Edin Dzeko scored two goals. Ferdi Kadioglu and an own goal from goalkeeper Dominik Takac rounded off the Ottoman victory.
Ludogorets qualified second after defeating Danish Nordsjaelland at Huverpharma Arena 1-0 thanks to Jakub Piotrowski’s winner ten minutes from time.
Group G is defined before the deadline. PAOK, first, defeated HJK Helsinki (4-2) and Eintracht Frankfurt, second, lost in Scotland against Aberdeen in a pointless match (2-0).
Source: La Verdad
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