Barca reaches EL quarters, Leicester advances in ECL

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the profitable objective for Barcelona to safe a 2-1 victory over Galatasaray on Thursday and ship the struggling European powerhouse into the quarterfinals of the Europa League.

Aubameyang netted from shut vary 4 minutes into the second half as Barcelona got here from a objective down to take care of its probabilities of ending the season with a trophy.

The Spanish big, which is taking part in Europe’s second-tier competitors after failing to advance to the Champions League knockout levels for the primary time since 2004, was held to a 0-0 draw at house by the Turkish membership within the first leg final week.

Rangers reached the quarterfinals on a 4-2 mixture rating regardless of shedding 2-1 to Crimson Star at Belgrade. Atalanta additionally superior 4-2 on mixture after profitable 1-0 at Bayer Leverkusen whereas Portuguese membership Braga progressed after holding Monaco 1-1.

One other Spanish group, Sevilla, takes a 1-0 lead into its second leg in opposition to West Ham later Thursday.

Within the inaugural Europa Convention League, Leicester superior 3-2 on mixture regardless of a 2-1 away loss to Rennes.

Marseille, PSV and Bodø/Glimt additionally made the quarterfinals.

Jose Mourinho’s Roma was taking part in Dutch aspect Vitesse later.

EUROPA LEAGUE

Barcelona, which additionally wanted an away win at Napoli simply to succeed in the spherical of 16, seemed to be in hassle when Marcão headed within the opener for Galatasaray off Alexandru Cicâldău’s nook within the twenty eighth minute.

However 19-year-old Pedri went previous two defenders each lunging to cease an anticipated shot earlier than equalizing with a composed low end previous goalkeeper Iñaki Peña 9 minutes later.

Aubameyang’s header hit the crossbar within the first-half damage time however was in the best place to show in a squared move from Frenkie de Jong, who had collected the rebound after a great save by Peña.

Midfielder Mirko Ivanić gave Crimson Star some hope with a first-half objective earlier than Ryan Kent’s deflected shot discovered the again of the web to revive a three-goal mixture benefit for Rangers.

El FardouBen Nabouhane gave Crimson Star the comfort win on the night time by changing a penalty in damage time.

Braga held a 2-0 benefit after the primary leg and Abel Ruiz stretched it to a few in Monaco earlier than Axel Disasi equalized within the last minute.

Substitute Jeremie Boga scored the lone objective in second-half stoppage time to safe Atalanta’s 1-0 win at Leverkusen.

Leipzig superior routinely as its opponent Spartak Moscow was amongst Russian golf equipment expelled from worldwide competitions following the nation’s navy invasion of Ukraine.

EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE

Leicester, the one English group within the final 16, had a 2-0 lead over Rennes from the primary leg however the French membership’s midfielder Benjamin Bourigeaud pulled a objective again early. Leicester defender Wesley Fofana headed in an equalizer off a nook kick within the second half in his first look of the season after seven months out with a damaged leg. Substitute Flavien Tait put Rennes again forward within the 78th however the French membership was denied an important third objective when goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel pulled off a great save to cease Serhou Guirassy’s effort with 5 minutes left.

After an exciting 4-4 house draw with Copenhagen within the first leg, PSV Eindhoven routed the Danish aspect 4-0 after two targets from Israeli ahead Eran Zahavi.

Marseille got here from a objective all the way down to beat Basel 2-1 for a 4-2 mixture rating.

Norwegian champion Bodø/Glimt wanted further time to advance after a 2-1 win for AZ Alkmaar left the mixture rating tied at 3-3. Proper-back Alfons Sampsted flicked in a low cross within the one hundred and fifth minute to ship the Norwegian aspect by way of.

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