Europa League round-up

Amauri at the double for Italian giants

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Europa League round-up

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Juventus avoided any upset against Shamrock Rovers with a 2-0 win over the Irish side in the first leg of their Europa League third qualifying round tie.

Two goals from Amauri gave the Italian giants a first-leg advantage to take back to Turin after a hard-fought victory at the Tallaght Stadium in Dublin.

Amauri silenced the home fans with the opener after just three minutes and he added a second 15 minutes from time with a header.

Welsh side Bangor City went down to a heavy 8-2 defeat to Portuguese outfit Maritimo.

Bangor faced an uphill battle from the moment James Brewerton was sent off on the stroke of half-time.

At 3-0 down Nicky Ward pulled a goal back for Bangor on 73 minutes, but Maritimo ran riot in the last 15 minutes by hitting five further goals rendering Eddie Jebb's 90th minute strike a mere consolation.

Stuttgart grabbed a thrilling 3-2 win over Molde in Norway to leave them in pole position to progress.

Sebastian Rudy gave Stuttgart the lead on 27 minutes, but Mattias Mostrom levelled matters on 65 minutes.

Zdravko Kuzmanovic restored Stuttgart's lead on 74 minutes only for Magne Hoseth to reply for the hosts two minutes later.

Recent signing Martin Harnik came off the bench to grab the winner for Stuttgart seven minutes from time.

Dutch side AZ Alkmaar proved too strong for IFK Gothenburg , running out 2-0 winners courtesy of two goals in four minutes from Ragnar Klavan (52) and Johann Gudmundsson (56).

Utrecht earned a narrow 1-0 win over Lucerne in their first-leg encounter thanks to Dries Mertens' strike ten minutes before the break.

Montpellier earned a 1-0 win at Gyor thanks to Olivier Giroud's first half strike.

Olympiakos came from behind to beat Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Athens.

Haris Medunjanin gave the visitors the lead from the penalty spot on 18 minutes, but Jaouad Zairi came off the bench to equalise on 67 minutes before new signing Dennis Rommedahl grabbed the winner on 73 minutes.

Simon Vukcevic's first half goal secured Sporting Lisbon a hard-fought 1-0 win over Danish side FC Nordsjaelland.

Galatasaray threw away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with OFK Belgrade in Istanbul.

The home side looked to be heading for a comfortable win after a double strike from Arda Turan (26, 76), but OFK stunned Galatasaray with two late goals from Milos Krstic (80) and Nenad Injac (86).

ResultsAZ 2 IFK Goteborg 0

Aalesund 1 Motherwell 1

Apoel Nicosia 1 Jablonec 0

Beroe 1 Rapid Vienna 1

Buducnost Podgorica 1 Brondby 2

Cercle Brugge 1 Anorthosis Famagusta 0

Crvena Zvezda 1 Slovan Bratislava 2

Dinamo Bucuresti 3 Hajduk Split 1

Dnepr-Transmash 1 Banik Ostrava 0

FC Inter 1 Genk 5

FC Nordsjaelland 0 Sporting 1

FC Utrecht 1 Lucerne 0

Galatasaray 2 OFK Belgrade 2

Gyor 0 Montpellier 1

IF Elfsborg 5 Teteks 0

Jagiellonia Bialystock 1 Aris Salonika 2

Kalmar FF 1 Levski Sofia 1

Karpaty Lviv 1 FC Zestafoni 0

Maccabi Haifa 1 Dinamo Minsk 0

Maribor 3 Hibernian 0

Maritimo 8 Bangor City 2

Molde 2 VfB Stuttgart 3

MyPa 1 FC Timisoara 2

Odense BK 5 Zrinjski Mostar 3

Olympiacos 2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1

Plzen 1 Besiktas 1

Rabotnicki Kometal 0 Liverpool 2

Randers FC 2 Lausanne Sports 3

Ruch Chorzow 1 FK Austria Vienna 3

SK Sturm Graz 2 Dinamo Tbilisi 0

Shamrock Rovers 0 Juventus 2

Sibir Novosibirsk 1 Apollon Limassol 0

Spartak 2 Dnipro 1

Wisla Krakow 0 FK Qarabag 1

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