Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the successful purpose 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.
Fellow Spanish group Sevilla was knocked out of the competitors it has received a report six occasions, dropping to West Ham after Ukraine ahead Andriy Yarmolenko scored the decisive purpose in additional time. West Ham received 2-0 to advance 2-1 on mixture, reaching the quarterfinals of a European competitors for the primary time since 1981.
Aubameyang netted from shut vary 4 minutes into the second half as Barcelona got here from a purpose down to take care of its probabilities of ending the season with a trophy.
The Spanish large, 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 dropping 2-1 to Red Star at Belgrade. Atalanta additionally superior 4-2 on mixture after successful 1-0 at Bayer Leverkusen whereas Portuguese membership Braga progressed after holding Monaco 1-1.
Sevilla’s cross-city rival Betis was additionally eradicated by Eintracht Frankfurt in additional time.
Lyon beat Porto 2-1 on mixture after a 1-1 draw at house.
In the inaugural Europa Conference League, Leicester superior 3-2 on mixture regardless of a 2-1 away loss to Rennes.
Jose Mourinho’s Roma wanted an injury-time equalizer by England ahead Tammy Abraham to salvage a 1-1 house draw towards Vitesse and safe a spot within the quarterfinals.
Of the 4 Dutch groups within the final 16, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord cruised into the quarterfinals whereas AZ Alkmaar and Vitesse had been knocked out.
Marseille, PAOK, Bodo/Glimt and Slavia Prague additionally superior.
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Barcelona, which additionally wanted an away win at Napoli simply to succeed in the spherical of 16, appeared to be in hassle when Marcao headed within the opener for Galatasaray off Alexandru Cicaldau’s nook within the twenty eighth minute.
But 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 Inaki Pena 9 minutes later.
Aubameyang’s header hit the crossbar within the first-half damage time however was in the appropriate place to show in a squared go from Frenkie de Jong, who had collected the rebound after an excellent save by Pena.
U.S. defender Sergino Dest limped off within the 56th minute after grabbing a hamstring.
Yarmolenko netted his second purpose in 5 days after additionally scoring for West Ham within the Premier League on Sunday in his first look since Russia’s invasion of his homeland. The substitute was readily available to faucet in a rebound after Pablo Fornals’ shot was parried into his path.
Czech Republic midfielder Tomas Soucek headed within the opening purpose for West Ham.
Borja Iglesias scored within the last minute for Real Betis to drive additional time at Frankfurt however Martin Hinteregger netted for Eintracht within the last seconds of additional time to ship the German membership via 3-2 on mixture.
Midfielder Mirko Ivanic gave Red Star some hope with a first-half purpose earlier than Ryan Kent’s deflected shot discovered the again of the online to revive a three-goal mixture benefit for Rangers.
El FardouBen Nabouhane gave Red 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 purpose in second-half stoppage time to safe Atalanta’s 1-0 win at Leverkusen.
Leipzig superior robotically as its opponent Spartak Moscow was amongst Russian golf equipment expelled from worldwide competitions following the nation’s army invasion of Ukraine.
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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 purpose 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 a vital third purpose when goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel pulled off an excellent save to cease Serhou Guirassy’s effort with 5 minutes left.
Vitesse seemed set to take Roma to additional time because of Maximilian Wittek’s purpose within the 62nd, however Abraham netted his tournament-high seventh purpose of the competitors to take the Italian membership via.
Feyenoord added a 3-1 house victory over Partizan to win 8-3 on mixture.
After an exhilarating 4-4 house draw with Copenhagen within the first leg, PSV Eindhoven routed the Danish facet 4-0 after two targets from Israeli ahead Eran Zahavi.
Marseille got here from a purpose all the way down to beat Basel 2-1 for a 4-2 mixture rating.
Norwegian champion Bodo/Glimt wanted additional time to advance after a 2-1 win for AZ Alkmaar left the combination rating tied at 3-3. Right-back Alfons Sampsted flicked in a low cross within the one hundred and fifth minute to ship the Norwegian facet via.
PAOK received 2-1 away at Gent to make it via 3-1 on mixture.
Slavia Prague was main 3-1 at Austria’s LASK however was decreased to 9 males after receiving two purple playing cards and misplaced the sport 4-3. But having received the primary leg 4-1, the Czech group nonetheless progressed.