Shamrock Rovers secure glamour tie against Juventus

Published on Thursday 22 July 2010 23:41

SHAMROCK Rovers landed themselves a Europa League third qualifying round tie against Serie A giants Juventus after winning in Israel.

The Irish side had drawn the home leg of their tie against Bnei Yehuda 1-1 but a goal from Thomas Stewart was enough to see them through to set up the daunting task of meeting Juve.

Hibs' opponents in the next round were confirmed as Maribor of Slovenia who won 2-0 at home to Videoton of Hungary to wrap up a 3-1 aggregate victory.

Northern Ireland's Cliftonville advanced thanks to a goalless draw in Croatia against Cibalia, Ciaran Caldwell's first-leg goal proving the difference across the two legs. They will now meet CSKA Sofia.

Bangor City of Wales also secured their passage through as Chris Jones' injury-time strike gave them a 3-2 aggregate win over Honka of Finland, who had knocked them out at this stage of last season's competition.

Sampo Koskinen had put the visitors 1-0 ahead on the night, and 2-1 up on aggregate, before David Morley levelled matters five minutes from time and Jones struck to send them through to a meeting with Maritimo. Portadown, however, are out after a 1-1 draw at Qarabag saw them eliminated 3-2 on aggregate. Kevin Braniff had put them ahead but an equaliser from Afran Ismayilov put the Azerbaijan side through.

Garra Dembele scored both goals as Levski Sofia beat Dundalk 2-0 to complete an 8-0 whitewash. Dembele scored in the fourth and 33rd minutes at Oriel Park.

LAST NIGHT

Europa League 2nd qualifying rd 2nd leg: Apoel Nicosia 3 FC Tauras 1 (agg 6-1); Bangor City 2 FC Honka 1 (agg 3-2); Banik Ostrava 0 Georgia Tbilisi 0 (agg 6-0); Bnei Yehuda 0 Shamrock 1 (agg 1-2); Borac 1 Lausanne Sports 1 (agg 1-2); Breidablik 0 Motherwell 1 (agg 0-2); Buducnost Podgorica 1 FK Baku 2 (agg 2-4); Dinamo Bucharest 5 FC Olimpia 1 (agg 7-1); Dinamo Tbilisi 2 Gefle 1 (agg 4-2); Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev 1 Stabaek 1 (agg 3-3); Dukla Banska Bistryka 1 FC Zestafoni 0 (agg 1-3); Dundalk 0 Levski Sofia 2 (agg 0-8); Dacia Chisinau 0 Kalmar 2 (agg 0-2); FC Iskra-Stal 0 Elfsborg 1 (agg 1-3); FC Vaduz 0 Brondby 0 (agg 0-3); FK Jelgava 2 Molde 1 (agg 2-2, Molde win on away goals); FK Qarabag 1 Portadown 1 (agg 3-2); Gyor ETO FC 2 FK Atyrau 0(agg 4-0); HNK Cibalia Vinkovci 0 Cliftonville 0 (agg 0-1); HNK Sibenik 0 Anorthosis Famagusta 3 (agg 2-3); Kalev Sillamae 0 Dinamo Minsk 5 (agg 1-10); Karpaty Lviv 3 KR Reykjavik 2 (agg 6-2); Mika Ashtarak 0 Rabotnicki Kometal 0 (agg 0-1); Mogren Budve 2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1 (agg 2-3); NK Maribor 2 Videoton 0 (agg 3-1); Olympiakos 6 KS Besa Kavaje 1 (agg 11-1); Randers 1 Nogometno Gorica 1 (agg 4-1); Rapid Vienna 4 Suduva 2 (agg 6-2); Ruch Chorzow 0 Valletta 0 (agg 1-1, Chorzow won on away goals); Siroki Brijeg 0 FK Austria Vienna 1 (agg 2-3); SK Tirana 1 FC Utrecht 1 (agg 1-5); Spartak 2- FC 03 Differdange 0 (agg 5-3); Sporting Fingal 2 Maritimo 3 (agg 4-6); Teteks 3 FK Ventspils 1 (agg 3-1) Torpedo Zhodino 0 OFK Belgrade 1 (agg 2-3); TPS 1 Cercle Bruges 2 (agg 2-2, Brugge win on away goals); Tre Penne 2 Zrinjski Mostar 9 (agg 3-13); UE Sant Julia 0 MyPa 1 (agg 0-4); Vikingur 0 Besiktas 4 (agg 0-7); Wisla Krakow 5 FK Siauliai 0 (agg 7-0).

Friendly: Blackpool 2 Kilmarnock 2 (Blackpool won 5-4 on pens)

TONIGHT

Friendlies: Ajax v Chelsea (7.00); Forfar v Everton XI (7.30); Red Bull New York v Tottenham (1am, Sat); Berwick v St Johnstone (7.30).