Qualification of the Champions League: the Rangers claim a victory at home, FCSB amazed in the north of Macedonia

The second qualification round of the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 started on Tuesday with 13 games. The old champions, established European names, as well as the wine was involved in the action.

The successful game of the Round was in Ibrox, where the Rangers beat Panathinaikos 2-0. It was far from a comfortable victory for the local team, which almost conceded 19 minutes. Erik Palmer-Brown was fantastically refused by Jack Butland, who extended in the middle of his goal to deny the central defender.

The Rangers, who had never beat their Greek opponents in four previous ones, went in front of seven minutes after restarting. Butland advanced the ball quickly, before Findlay Curtis curled up a hit well affected beyond Bartlomej Dragowski to give his team.

Panathinaikos would be reduced to 10 men a few minutes later, while Georgios Vagiannidis picked up his second yellow of the match. It turned out to be expensive because the Gers took control of the match from there. Djeidi Gassama added a second 12 minutes from time while the Scottish Première team takes a cushion of two goals to the Greek capital.

The most surprising result of the day came to the north of Macedonia, while Shkendija shocked the former winners of the European Cup FCSB 1-0. Ibrahim Alhassan scored the only goal of the match while the teams were reduced to 10 men nine minutes apart towards the end. The result leaves the side of Tetovo 90 minutes to become the second club in their country to participate in a continental group phase,

Elsewhere, Lech Poznan left with a dominant 7-1 success on Breidlik. Visitors were reduced to 10 men shortly after half an hour. From there, the Poles were in total control, because Mikael Ishak marked a triplet of penalties.

Crvena Zvezda, the other former winners of this Tour, prevailed 1-0 in Gibraltar against Lincoln Red Imps despite a man for 49 minutes. It was similar for Ferencvaros, which has ahead of FC Noah 2-1 from Armenia. The only difference was that they only had to survive a man in the light for eight minutes more time.

Several of the most established sides in Europe from less known leagues, such as Dynamo Kyiv, FC Kobenhavn, Slovan Bratislava and Malmo, also won without problem. As for Kups Kuopio in Finland, they are 90 minutes from a first appearance in a competition from the UEFA club proper after having defeated Milsami Orhei 2-0.

The goal of Samuel Mraz’s 13th minute gave Servette a 1-0 Victoire in Cheche against Viktoria Plzen, the same team that eliminated them in the playoffs of the UEFA conference League two seasons.

The only games that ended with prints occurred in Cyprus and Croatia. Paphos seized a 1-1 impasse against Maccabi Tel Aviv, while Rijeka and Ludogorets could not find the back of the net in their match.

Wednesday has two games that take place, while the Norwegian outfit Brann welcomes RB Salzburg and Shelbourne is looking for a scalp against Qarabag.

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