An evening of surprises in the Champions League qualifiers, when several ranked teams found themselves out in the second round. The big disappointment is Fenerbahce, who appointed Portuguese Jorge Jesus and brought in players for nearly €20 million, only to be knocked out at home by Dynamo Kyiv.
After 0:0 in the first match held in Poland, the Ukrainians arrived in Istanbul and stunned with 1:2 in overtime. Attila Soloi scored a dramatic equalizer in the 89th minute, after Ener Valencia missed a penalty (70) and despite the sending off of Ismail Yuksak (53), but substitute Oleksandr Karabaev decided in the 114th minute and sent Dynamo Kyiv to meet Sturm Graz in the league.
Other meetings on the same route in the third round: Monaco against PSV Eindhoven, Union Saint-Gilleois against Rangers and Benfica against Meteoland.
In the Champions route, the sensation came from Sweden, where Zalgiris celebrated with 0:2 over Malmö and qualified for the third qualifying round for the first time in its history. The Lithuanian champion won 0:1 in the first game and was not scared in the away game either. Oliver Bowe scored for Mathias Oyebosi in the 34th minute and Renan Oliveira scored the second in the 52nd minute. The local Anders Christiansen was sent off with a second yellow in the 77th minute. In the next step, Zalgiris faces a meeting with Budo Glimt, who took out all the nerves on Linfield after the 1:0 loss in Northern Ireland and crushed it 0:8 in Norway. Amal Pellegrino excelled with a double.
The Azeri Karabakh also celebrated in an away game, after the Ghanaian Ousso equalized 2:2 in overtime against Zurich. The champion Switzerland got a winning goal from the Croatian Ivan Santini in the sixth minute of extra time, and the 1:2 at home after the 3:2 loss in Azerbaijan sent the game to extra time, but in it, as mentioned, the Azerbaijanis scored and they will meet Frantzvarosh.
Adama Traore, who played in the group stage last season with Sheriff Tirspol, was a signatory to the promotion of Franzvarous, who recovered from the 2:1 home loss last week with the help of a 4:1 in Slovakia against Sloven Bratislava. The Hungarians led 0:2 in the 31st minute, Vernon de Marco scored the goal that was supposed to be extra time (70) but Traore prevented it in the 89th minute and in added time Issa Laidoni closed the deal.