Molde's UEFA Champions League prospects are hanging in the balance, while Fenerbahce almost suffered a surprise home defeat.
Molde lose at home to Basel as Anderlecht enjoy big win
Molde's UEFA Champions League prospects are hanging in the balance, while Fenerbahce almost suffered a surprise home defeat.
Anderlecht, Maribor and Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona all enjoyed convincing home wins as Helsingborgs delivered the most impressive result away from home.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's hopes of setting up a reunion with his former club Manchester United in the group phase look doubtful after 10-man
Molde lost 1-0 at home to
Basel.
Molde's chances of gaining a first-leg advantage were hit by Davy Angan's red card after 27 minutes and Basel, who reached the knockout phase last term and dumped out United in the process, took advantage to score the only goal on 79 minutes through Jacques Zoua.
Anderlecht produced a dominant first-leg performance as Dieumerci Mbokani scored a goal in each half in a 5-0 mauling of
FK Ekranas.
Tom de Sutter and da Rocha Kanu also scored in the first half for the Belgian side before former Liverpool flop Milan Jovanovic added a late fifth goal.
Club Brugge will be the favourites to join domestic rivals Anderlecht in the next round following a 0-0 draw away to
FC Copenhagen.
Fenerbahce almost suffered a surprise home defeat before salvaging a 1-1 draw at home to
Vaslui following a late equaliser.
Romanian outfit Vaslui took the lead 15 minutes from time through Liviu Antal, but Bekir Irtegun spared Fener's blushes by levelling the tie a minute from time.
Fatos Begiraj's 14th minute goal was enough to put
Dinamo Zagreb in the driving seat to progress following a 1-0 win away to
Sheriff Tiraspol.
Partizan Belgrade will have to overturn a first-leg deficit to progress after Patrick Vouho's 13th minute goal earned
AEL a 1-0 home triumph.
Helsingborgs produced an impressive result on their travels after posting a 3-0 win away to Polish side
Slask Wroclaw.
Alfred Finnbogason scored before half-time and second-half goals from Christoffer Andersson and Daniel Nordmark sealed the win before Slask had Rok Elsner sent off late on.
Ibrahima Sidibe turned from hero to villain as
Debrecen drew 1-1 away to
BATE Borisov, who reached the group stage last season.
Debrecen took the lead in Belarus through Sidibe midway through the second half, but he then scored an injury-time goal to leave the tie finely balanced.
Bryan Gerzyach scored twice in the second half to all-but send
Hapeol Ironi Kiryat Shmona into the next stage following a thumping 4-0 home success over
Neftchi Baku.
Maribor will be confident of moving on in the competition after Dejan Mezga netted in both halves during a 4-1 home win over
Dudelange.
CFR Cluj hold a slender lead going into their second leg against
Slovan Liberec after Ricardo Cadu's second-half penalty pinched a 1-0 home win.
