Sporting celebrates runaway victory in Bucharest

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Sporting Lisbon, CSKA Moscow, APOEL Nicosia and Qarabag Agdam may be involved in the million game of the Champions League. The Quartet secured in addition to Liverpool, the last of the 32 Tickets for the group stage.

In addition to Hoffenheim, conquerors of Liverpool FC, four other Teams have reached the group stage of the Champions League: Sporting Lisbon began at the Romanian club Steaua Bucharest in a clear 5:1 (1:1) and avoided the nail-biter that had threatened after the 0:0 in the first leg. The former Wolfsburg striker Bas Dost struck between temporal 4:1.

Russia’s Vice-Champions CSKA held at 2:0 (1:0) at home against Young Boys of Bern in the first leg (1:0) harmless from and moved for the fifth Time in a row in the group stage. However, the club was there for the army-sport in the previous four appearances each end of the line.

Agdam surprised against Solbakken Team

For the biggest Surprise of the Playoffs outsiders Qarabag Agdam from Azerbaijan, the reached in spite of a 1:2 (0:1) FC Copenhagen for the first time in the group stage. The first leg had won the club based in the capital Baku with 1:0. Dino Ndlovu scored the all-important away goal to the intermediate 1:1 and transported by the former Cologne Coach Staale Solbakken trained Danes out of the competition.

Nicosia filed with Slavia Prague in a 0:0, the first leg had won the Cypriots 2:0. For the summer, with the Ex-Augsburg’s Halil Altintop prominently enhanced Czech masters of the dream from the second group phase participation, burst after 2007/08.

The 32 participants in the group stage of the Champions League:

Pot 1: Real Madrid (Spain), Bayern Munich (Germany), Chelsea FC (England), Juventus Turin (Italy), Benfica Lisbon (Portugal), AS Monaco (France), Spartak Moscow (Russia), Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)

Pot 2: FC Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Sevilla FC (all Spain), Manchester City, Manchester United (both England), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), Paris St. Germain (France), FC Porto (Portugal)

Pot 3: Tottenham Hotspur, FC Liverpool (both England), SSC Napoli, AS Roma (both Italy), FC Basel (Switzerland), Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece), Anderlecht (Belgium), Besiktas Istanbul (Turkey)

Pot 4: RB Leipzig (Germany), Celtic Glasgow (Scotland), CSKA Moscow (Russia), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal), APOEL Nicosia (Cyprus), Feyenoord Rotterdam (Netherlands), NK Maribor (Slovenia), Qarabag Agdam (Azerbaijan)

The draw will take place on Thursday at 18 PM CET, in Monaco.

asz (sid)