In Europe, the ongoing preliminary tournament for an exit in the group stage of the Champions League.
Ukrainian footballer of Macedonian “FK Vardar” Eugene Novak in the away match against Malmo played the full 90 minutes and his team kept working chances of an exit in the following round of qualifying.
Champion of Armenia “Alashkert” stood in the away match against “BATE”. Ukrainian defender Dmytro Kovbasa played match from whistle to whistle.
Ludogorets away unexpectedly lost to “Zalgiris”. Ex-defender of FC Karpaty Igor Plastun were not included in the starting lineup and took the field five minutes before the end of the regular playing time.
The results of the first matches of the second round of qualifying:
Spartaks Jurmala (Latvia) — Astana (Kazakhstan) 0:1
Goal: Twumasi, 73
APOEL (Cyprus) — Dudelange (Luxembourg) 1:0
Goal: Bertoglio, 71
Sheriff (Moldova) — Kukesi (Albania) 1:0
Goal: Badibanga, 79 (penalty)
Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel) — Honved (Hungary) 2:1
Goals: Vitor, 35, Einbinder, 52 — Lanzafame, 63
Zrinjski (Bosnia and Herzegovina) — Maribor (Slovenia) 1:2
Goals: Todorovic, 89 — sahovic, 43, Tavares, 90+4 (pen)
Malmö (Sweden) — Vardar (Macedonia) 1:1
Goals: Brorsson, 75 — Nikolov, 63
BATE (Belarus) — Alashkert (Armenia) 1:1
Goals: Rios, 43 Rios, 78 (own goal)
Zalgiris (Lithuania) — Ludogorets (Bulgaria) 2:1
Goals: Niyazi, 78, Kuklis, 85 — Andrianantenaina, 18
Mariehamn (Finland) — Legia Warsaw (Poland) 0:3
Goals: Guilherme, 8 (penalty kick) Nagy, 39, hämäläinen, 44
Zilina (Slovakia) — Copenhagen (Denmark) 1:3
Goals: Špalek, 39 — P., 68, 73, 82
Dundalk (Ireland) — Rosenborg (Norway) 1:1
Goals: McMillan, 18 — Reginiussen, 44
Hafnarfjordur (Iceland) — Vikingur (Faroe Islands) 1:1
Goals: Parson, 49 — Laval, 73 (penalty)
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