Group B round-up

Valencia and Lille into next round

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Group B round-up

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Valencia and Lille booked their places in the knockout phase of the Europa League with victories on Thursday.

Valencia went into their match at Genoa on top of Group B, but knew defeat could see them drop out.

But Los Che made no mistakes as they claimed a 2-1 success at the Luigi Ferraris.

Lille followed Valencia through in second place as they secured a 3-1 triumph at home to Slavia Prague.

The match in Genoa was the big match of the evening, as either the home side or Valencia could have made it through to the last 32.

Valencia took the lead on the stroke of half-time when Bruno grabbed the opener.

Hernan Crespo then levelled six minutes after the restart to give the home fans hope.

But David Villa snatched a winner in stoppage time, moments after missing a penalty.

Lille secured their place in the knockout phase with a clinical performance against Slavia Prague.

Yohan Cabaye opened the scoring after 25 minutes when he fired high into the net.

Gervinho netted six minutes before half-time when he got on the end of Pierre-Alain Frau's cross to steer home from six yards.

Stanislav Vicek gave Slavia hope when he found the target after 56 minutes but Ludovic Obraniak eased any lingering nerves when he converted 10 minutes from time.

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