The Norwegian Bodö/Glimt, who beat José Mourinho’s Roma twice in the last Conference League, defeated Lithuanian Zalgiris Vilnius 5-0 on Wednesday in the first leg of the third qualifying round of the Champions League. Red Star, European champions in 1990-91, also endorsed the ‘little hand’, in this case a 5-0 victory over Armenian Pyunik. And another historic one, Dynamo kyiv, achieved a tight 1-0 win against the Austrian Sturm Graz. The second leg will be played on August 9. Everyone dreams of reaching the playoffs, one step before the Champions League.
In other first leg matches of the third qualifying round of the Champions League played this Wednesday, Israeli Maccabi Haifa also triumphed, in this case 4-0 against Apollon Limassol of Cyprus. The Qarabag from Azerbaijan drew against Ferencvaros of Hungary (1-1).
This is Oleksandr Karavaev who, assisted by Vladyslav Dubinchak, gave victory to Dynamo kyiv in his goal, achieved in the 28th minute. Due to the war in Ukraine, the match was played in Lodz (Poland). Meanwhile, Franck Boli went ahead in the 17th minute against Ferencvaros in Qarabag, who leveled thanks to Owusu Kwabena in the 34th minute.
As for Bodö/Glimt, goals from Hugo Vetlesen (penalty in 33′), Amahl Pellegrino (36′), Lars-Jorgen Salvesen (58′), Marius Hoibraten (61′) and Runar Espejord (93 ‘). ). This Norwegian team faced Mourinho’s Roma in the group stage of the last Conference League (conquered by ‘gianlorossi’) and in the quarterfinals and only one loss in four meetings.
ANDl Bodö/Glimt endorsed Mourinho’s men 6-1 on Norwegian soil in the group stage and started with a 2-2 win against Olímpico. In the quarterfinals, the Scandinavians beat Roma 2-1 in the first leg, but lost 4-0 in the second leg, thus missing out on the semi-finals. Roma became champions after defeating Feyenoord 1-0.
in Belgrade, Osman Bukari scored a hat trick (29′, 44′ and 70′) for Red Star. They also scored for Serbs Kings Kangwa (33′) and Stefan Mitrovic (77′). Red Star winger Milan Rodic was sent off in the 90th minute after receiving his second yellow card.
A brace by Ali Mohamed (54′ and 62′) launched Maccabi Haifa before Apollon of Limassol. The Israelis opened the scoring thanks to an own goal by Mathieu Peybernes (38′) and closed it through Frantzdy Pierrot (79′).
The playoffs will be played on August 16 and 17 (first leg), and the second leg, August 23 and 24.
Source: La Verdad
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