Maccabi Tel-Aviv are celebrating reaching the group stage for the first time in 11 years, while Dinamo Zagreb, Malm\u00f6, Shakhtar and Valencia also progressed as five play-off ties concluded.<\/p>\n
Monaco 2-1 Valencia (agg: 3-4)<\/strong> Shakhtar Donetsk 2-2 Rapid Wien (agg: 3-2)<\/strong> Malm\u00f6 2-0 Celtic (agg: 4-3)<\/strong> Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1-1 Basel (agg: 3-3, Maccabi through on away goals)<\/strong> Dinamo Zagreb 4-1 Sk\u00ebnderbeu (agg: 6-2)<\/strong> –<\/p>\n Source: UEFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maccabi Tel-Aviv are celebrating reaching the group stage for the first time in 11 years, while Dinamo Zagreb, Malm\u00f6, Shakhtar and Valencia also progressed as five play-off ties concluded. Monaco 2-1 Valencia (agg: 3-4) Elderson\u2019s 75th-minute follow-up effort was the winner on the night, but last season\u2019s quarter-finalists could not score again to take the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":146477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-146476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nElderson\u2019s 75th-minute follow-up effort was the winner on the night, but last season\u2019s quarter-finalists could not score again to take the tie to extra time.\u00a0\u00c1lvaro Negredo found the net inside five minutes for Valencia, who made the round of 16 in their most recent UEFA Champions League campaign in 2012\/13. Their participation means Spain will be the first country to have five clubs in the group stage.<\/p>\n
\nShakhtar forward Olexandr Gladkiy\u2019s equaliser to make it 2-2 proved decisive in a match where all the goals arrived in an 18-minute spell during the first half. Mircea Lucescu, presiding over his 200th European fixture as a coach, has guided the Pitmen into the group stage for the sixth consecutive season.<\/p>\n
\nGroup stage debutants last term, Malm\u00f6 will be among Europe\u2019s elite 32 clubs again. Both goals came from corners, Markus Rosenberg powering in a header midway through the first half and Felipe Carvalho glancing a 55th-minute effort towards the far post that went in off Celtic defender Dedryck Boyata.<\/p>\n
\nMaccabi avenged their losses to Basel in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League in 2013\/14. Eran Zahavi, on target twice in the first leg, proved the Swiss outfit\u2019s nemesis once more, cancelling out Luca Zuffi\u2019s 11th-minute free-kick.<\/p>\n
\nThree of the goals came in the opening quarter of an hour as Dinamo, last in the group stage in 2012\/13, booked their place in Thursday\u2019s draw. The hosts had Gon\u00e7alo Santos dismissed early in the second half, but that did little to halt the Croatian side\u2019s momentum as J\u00e9r\u00e9my Taravel and, with his third of the tie,\u00a0El Arabi Hilal Soudani added further goals.<\/p>\n