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Europa League round-up: AC Milan progress

MILAN, ITALY - AUGUST 03:  Giacomo Bonaventura of AC Milan celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the UEFA Europa League Third Qualifying Round S
Image: Giacomo Bonaventura celebrates after scoring the opening goal against Universitatea Craiova

AC Milan, the seven-time European champions, beat Universitatea Craiova 2-0 at the San Siro in the second leg of their Europa League third qualifying round to go through 3-0 on aggregate.

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Giacomo Bonaventura and teenager Patrick Cutrone scored the hosts' goals against the Romanian visitors.

Athletic Bilbao, runners-up in 2012, beat Dinamo Bucharest 3-0, with Raul Garcia netting twice, to go through 4-1 on aggregate.

Zenit St Petersburg, Red Star Belgrade, Panathinaikos and Fenerbahce were among the other winners.

Marseille are also into the play-off round after following a 4-2 victory at home to Oostende last week with a 0-0 draw in Belgium in the return leg.

However, fellow French side Bordeaux were knocked out by the Hungarians of Videoton, the UEFA Cup runners-up of 1985.

Videoton's 1-0 win secured a 2-2 aggregate score as they went through on away goals.

PSV Eindhoven were also knocked out, the Dutch club losing 1-0 away to Osijek of Croatia to go out 2-0 on aggregate.

And Freiburg of the German Bundesliga took a 1-0 lead to Slovenia for their return against Domzale, only to lose 2-0 on the night and go out.

The draw for the play-offs takes place on Friday, with the losing sides from the Champions League third qualifying round also going into the hat.