The Sheriff is in the third round and Oltra is down on penalties

Sheriff Tiraspol, who last year defeated Real Madrid at the Bernabéu in the group stage (1-2), now enters the third qualifying round after eliminating Slovenian Maribor today (1-0). Yansané’s goal in extremis in the 88th minute of the match played in Chisinau (Moldova), which cannot play in its territory, gave the Transnistrian team a pass after 0-0 in the first leg.

For its part, AEK Larnaca of Valencian coach José Luis Oltra fell on penalties (3-4) against Danish Midtjylland after drawing, as in the first leg, at home (1-1). Goals were scored in the opening moments: Olatunji put the Cypriots ahead in the 9th minute and Dalsgaard equalized in the 12th minute.

Great reaction of Armenian Pyunik

Armenian Pyunik, who lost 0-1 in the first leg, came from behind against Dudelange in their visit to Luxembourg (1-4). After conceding 1-0 to Mohicine Hassan (21′), he starred in a spectacular reaction thanks to goals from Juninho (24′), Juricic (54′ and 85′) and Otubanjo (76′). In the first preliminary round, he left Romanian Cluj in the gutter on penalties after forcing extra time and penalties with two goals in extremis (2-2).

In the remaining three ties today, Dinamo Zagreb also moved away from Macedonian Shkupi (0-1), 0-1, thanks to Ademi’s goal (47′), after conceding a 2-2 home win a week ago.

Bulgarian Ludogorets made a good 3-0 first leg and, despite losing to Irish Shamrock Rovers (2-1), reached the third qualifying round. Czech Plzen swept Finnish HJK Helsinki (5-0) after prevailing on the opposite side 1-2.

Results of the second qualifying round (round)

Today

AEK Larnaca (CYP) 1 – MIDTJYLLAND (DEN) 1 (3-4 pen) (First Leg: 1-1)

PLZEN (CZE) 5 – Hjk (FIN) 0 (2-1)

SHERIFF (MDA) 1 – Maribor (SLO) 0 (0-0)

Dudelange (LUX) 1 – PYUNIK (ARM) 4 (1-0)

Shkupi (MKD) 0 – DINAMO ZAGREB (CRO) 1 (2-2)

Shamrock Rovers (IRL) 2 – LUDOGORETS (BUL) 1 (0-3)

morning

Bodo/Glimt (NOR) – – Linfield (NIR) – (0-1)

Zurich (SUI) – – Qarabag (AZE) – (2-3)

Malmö (SWE) – – Zalgiris (LTU) – (0-1)

Fenerbahce (TUR) – – Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) – (0-0)

Slovan Bratislava (SVK) – – Ferencvaros (HUN) – (2-1)

Olympiacos (GRE) – – Maccabi Haifa (ISR) – (1-1)