After last week’s 0-0, Benfica clearly taped out of a different keg. Fenerbahçe first escaped when the opening goal of Vangelis Pavlidis was rejected after a long VAR consultation. In the end it was a Turkish player who made the difference in the person of Kerem Aktürkoglu, who – although he is a former player of Galatasaray – not exuberantly cheered after his striking staircase towards the top corner.
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Fenerbahçe tried to attack in the second half, but created very little. After Talisca also got red in the 82nd minute – his second yellow in just a few minutes – the Turkish dream could be stored again for another season.
Bruges leaves nothing of Rangers
Club Brugge was close to the main tournament after last week’s 3-1 victory at Rangers, but was not nearly finished playing the Scots. Nicolo Tresoldi made the opening goal early and when Max Aarons also got a red card in the eighth minute, all the ambition at Rangers to make something of this game. The result was that there was already a 5-0 score on the scoreboard at half time.
In the second half, Bruges saved Rangers and there was only a goal for the Belgians. Final position: 6-0.
Qarabag and Copenhagen
The name of Qarabag is also in a ball at the Champions League loting on Thursday. It lost Ferencvaros (2-3) at home, but had won 1-3 in Hungary. So it can prepare for the billion -dollar ball.
FC Copenhagen qualified thanks to a 2-0 win over FC Basel. Last week in Switzerland it was 1-1.