Fenerbahce See Off Feyenoord To Book Champions League Playoff With Benfica

José Mourinho is 1 information distant from taking Fenerbahce backmost into nan Champions League for nan first clip successful 17 years.

The storied caput coach’s squad surged into nan Champions League qualifying playoffs by overturning a two-goal shortage connected aggregate Tuesday pinch a 5-2 qualifying information triumph against Robin van Persie’s Feyenoord.

Fenerbahce went done 6-4 connected aggregate and will look Benfica, wherever Mourinho sewage his first caput coach occupation 25 years ago, pinch a spot successful nan 36-team convention shape astatine stake.

The first limb is successful Istanbul adjacent Wednesday pinch nan return connected 27 August astatine nan Stadium of Light successful Lisbon, wherever Mourinho lasted little than 3 months successful 2000.

Benfica precocious aft beating Nice 2-0 astatine home, having won nan first limb by nan aforesaid people successful France past week.

Fenerbahce past played successful nan aged group shape of nan Champions League successful nan 2008-09 play and its biggest rival, Galatasaray, are besides successful nan tie arsenic Turkish champions.

Fenerbahce had mislaid 2-1 successful nan Netherlands past week and fell further down erstwhile nan Feyenoord defender Tsuyoshi Watanabe scored successful nan 41st minute.

Mourinho saw his players rally quickly pinch 2 goals earlier half-time – nan 2nd by nan Colombia guardant Jhon Durán, connected a season-long indebtedness from Saudi nine Al Nassr. The erstwhile Manchester United midfielder Fred padded nan lead early successful nan 2nd half earlier Taliscacompleted nan scoring.

Rangers precocious to nan playoffs 4-2 connected aggregate against Viktoria Plzen contempt a 2-1 conclusion successful nan Czech Republic.

The Scottish nine will invited Club Brugge successful adjacent week’s playoff first leg, aft nan Belgian broadside staged a 3-2 comeback triumph against Salzburg to beforehand 4-2 connected aggregate.

Pafos, champions of Cyprus, hit Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 to beforehand 3-0 connected aggregate. Pafos will play Red Star Belgrade, nan 1991 European Cup winners, who hit Lech Poznan 4-2 connected aggregate aft a 1-1 tie successful Serbia.

Copenhagen hit its adjacent neighbour Malmö 5-0, 1 week aft a first-leg scoreless draw. The Danish side’s reward is simply a two-legged playoff against nan Swiss champions Basel.

Qarabag of Azerbaijan routed North Macedonian champion Shkendija 5-1 and 6-1 connected aggregate, to gain a playoff against Ferencvaros, a 3-0 victor successful Budapest against Ludogorets of Bulgaria.

Kazakhstan’s Kairat Almaty won a punishment shootout astatine Slovan Bratislava, aft nan teams drew 1-1 connected aggregate. They will recreation to Scotland for nan playoff first limb against Celtic.