PARIS: Two-time former champions Benfica will play Ukraine’s Dynamo Kyiv whilst Ruud van Nistelrooy’s PSV Eindhoven will face Glasgow Rangers when they all certified for the overall Champions League qualifying play-off spherical on Tuesday. Luuk De Jong claimed an 109th-minute winner as PSV Eindhoven edged Monaco 3-2 in extra-time within the Netherlands, to move via 4-3 on mixture.
De Jong used to be adamant his facet deserved the win. “Monaco hit the bar and the put up, I hit the objective,” mentioned the PSV captain. Monaco were woke up in a single day when fireworks had been activate out of doors their lodge, and there used to be a fiery environment inside of a packed stadium in a see-saw fit. Joey Veerman fired the Dutch forward on 21mins with a candy shot into the some distance nook however Guillermo Maripan then levelled clinically with a groovy end in a goalmouth scramble.
Monaco striker Wissam Ben Yedder then raced directly to a sweeping via ball to smack house the go-ahead function earlier than PSV grabbed a past due equalizer as Mexican Erick Gutierrez delivered PSV on 89 mins. Benfica beat Mitjylland 3-1 to win 7-2 on mixture thank you in large part to midfielder Enzo Fernandez and 20-year-old striker Henrique Araujo who scored earlier than Pione Sisto replied for the Danes.
Argentinean Fernandez, 21, and Araujo had been making simply their 2d Ecu appearances as Diogo Goncalves claimed the 3rd function for the 1961 and 1962 winners. In Scotland Malik Tillman finished a flip round when he scored the decider with 11 mins left as Rangers beat Union Saint-Gilloise 3-0. The Belgian outfit had received the primary leg 2-0 of their first look in Ecu pageant since 1964-65.
Kostiantyn Vivcharenko and Viktor Tsygankov guided Dynamo Kiyv previous Austrians Sturm Graz 3-1 over two ties with efforts in time beyond regulation. Dynamo had been 2d within the Ukrainian Premier League when Russia invaded the rustic previous this yr. Previous, Moldovans Sheriff Tiraspol, who shocked Actual Madrid on the Santiago Bernabeu throughout final season’s team levels, had been knocked out via Viktoria Plzen because the Czech outfit received 4-2 over two legs. The primary leg of the play-offs happen on August 16/17 with the go back fixtures per week later. – AFP