Panathinaikos beat Marseille on penalties, Rangers reach Champions League play-off
Panathinaikos stunned Marseille on
penalties to reach the Champions League play-off round on Tuesday, while
Rangers teed up a clash with PSV Eindhoven.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang wiped out
Panathinaikos' 1-0 first-leg lead in the third qualifying round with his first
Marseille goal inside two minutes at the Stade Velodrome.
The former Arsenal and Barcelona
striker completed the turnaround in first-half added time by turning home his
second goal from Jonathan Clauss' low cross.
But there was a late twist, as just
seconds after Matteo Guendouzi had seen a strong penalty appeal waved away, the
Marseille midfielder was penalised for handball by VAR and Fotis Ioannidis
dispatched the resulting 99th-minute spot-kick to force extra time.
Vitinha had a goal ruled out by VAR
for an offside against Ismaila Sarr in the build-up as the Greeks held on for
penalties.
Filip Mladenovic stroked home the
winning penalty as Panathinaikos won the shoot-out 5-3, with goalkeeper Alberto
Brignoli's earlier save from Guendouzi proving crucial.
Panathinaikos will next face Braga,
with the winners to secure their first group-stage appearance in over a decade.
James Tavernier's second-half header
helped Rangers edge past Swiss side Servette with a 1-1 second-leg draw and 3-2
aggregate win.
The Scottish giants, who conceded 22
goals in six defeats on their return to the group stage last season, saw their 2-1
first-leg lead cancelled out by Servette midfielder Dereck Kutesa.
But Tavernier struck to set up a
play-off round rematch for Rangers against PSV Eindhoven, after their success
against the Dutch team at the same stage last year.
The first leg will be played next week
in Glasgow.
"It's a new team, it's about
gelling together and continuing to work hard," Rangers captain Tavernier
told BBC Scotland.
"It's there but it's about being
fully concentrated...
"We have to put a real marker
down at Ibrox (against PSV)."
Former European champions PSV sealed
their place in the next round with ease, adding a 3-1 win over Sturm Graz in
Austria to their 4-1 first-leg success, with Luuk de Jong netting his third
goal of the tie.
Elsewhere, FC Copenhagen beat Sparta
Prague on penalties in the Czech Republic after a dramatic 3-3 second-leg draw.
Faroese club KI Klaksvik's fairytale
run came to a heartbreaking end as Martin Linnes grabbed an extra-time winner
for Molde.
Braga, Polish champions Rakow,
Galatasaray and Maccabi Haifa all also progressed.
AEK Athens scored in the 90th minute
to beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 in the Croatian capital.
The match was the first leg of the tie
after last week's scheduled first game in Athens was postponed after the fatal
stabbing of a fan.
Greek prosecutors have since charged
105 people in connection with the incident
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