Champions League round-up: Valencia make if five for Spain

The second legs of a few Champions League playoff fixtures were played on Tuesday night with some notable teams getting knocked out on aggregate.

Jardim was unimpressed by Mark Clattenburg’s performance in the Champions League play-off first leg in Valencia, with the English official and his team missing an apparent penalty decision with 17 minutes remaining at the Mestalla Stadium.

“We tried to put Valencia under pressure in the second half, but we couldn’t quite make it. I’m happy with my players, who gave their all”.

Valencia joined holders Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla, who gained an automatic berth as last season’s winners of the second-tier Europa League. Celtic had an early goal disallowed for a phantom foul in the box, but after a win in the opening leg, this is a devastating loss for the Scottish club.

In Sweden, Malmo defeated Celtic 2-0 to turn around a first-leg defeat and advance 4-3 on aggregate.

Croatians Dinamo qualified for the third time in the past five seasons, beating Skenderbeu 4-1 at home to complete a 6-2 overall victory over the Albanians.

In other games on Tuesday, Maccabi Tel Aviv held Basel to a 1-1 draw to go through 3-3 on the away goals rule.

Marcus Rosenberg used his shoulder to deflect in a ball for Malmo in the 23rd, and Celtic was definitively sunk by Dedryck Boyata’s own goal in the 55th.

On the champions league this season, last match against Monaco was the first match for Valencia.

Vienna rallied and was briefly in line to progress on away goals after Louis Schaub netted in the 13th and Steffen Hofmann scored from a free kick four minutes later, but Shakhtar responded in the 27th minute when Oleksandr Hladkiy finished off a direct passing move. Even so there was still time for Pyatov to pull off a remarkable point blank block to Philipp Prosenik’s close range shot with the game five minutes into time-added on and ensured the Austrian side’s absence from the group stage was extended to ten years.