Liverpool grazed tragedy but finally managed to qualify on Wednesday for the group stage of Champions League football, for which he also sealed his ticket teams like Arsenal or Atlético Madrid, after the latter left out to Schalke 04. Alongside them will be in the drum of Monaco on Thursday theoretical other favorites in their respective playoffs, as Fiorentina, Marseilles or Fenerbahçe.
Anfield was undoubtedly the center of the tension of the day because the 'Reds', who had not dropped from a tie without goals in the first leg in Liege, nor succeeded in beating the Belgian goal, to the point of having to go to time extension.
Men who directs Rafael Benitez followed the script that is making its way into this boot season and signed a bad game, suffered a lot, but ended up winning right at the end, because Dirk Kuyt achieved victory in the 118, where it was expected and the wave of criminal.
In the first two games ligueros in England, Liverpool has joined two triumphs in the end, in Sunderland thanks to Fernando Torres and before the Middlesbrough on Saturday, with both Steven Gerrard in 90 2.
The other major duel of the day was spent at the Vicente Calderon in Madrid, where the athletes sealed his return to the main groups in continental club competition for the first time since the 1996-1997 campaign after a 4-0 Gol Germans of Schalke, the back side of the first leg 1-0.
The Argentine Sergio 'Kun' Agüero, a newcomer to win gold at the Games in Beijing, was the great figure of the encounter, which was attended by the father of her partner, the legendary Diego Maradona, who held the top throughout the many 'atleti'.
The 'Kun' opened the scoring in minute 19 after a heart of the Colombian Luis Perea. The small albiceleste scorer, barely 20 years, was present in many others, to serving the ball Uruguayan Diego Forlán (51, 2-0) and then Luis Garcia after a first attempt (82, 3-0).
At the end of the match, Portugal's Simao Sabrosa provoked a penalty, which was transformed by the Argentinian Maxi Rodriguez (87, 4-0). At the root of the move was again Agüero Simao, who gave an excellent pass.
More predictable was the classification of Arsenal, which had already dominated by 2 to 0 in the first leg in Holland and that in the Emirates Golea 4-0 at Twente, fulfilling the prediction.
In Prague, Fiorentina tied with no goals scored (0-0) with Slavia and Marseille won its move to overcome 2-1 to Brann Bergen Norwegian, in the French city of Vélodrome. In Istanbul, Fenerbahçe headed Luis Aragones will also be in the 'great' after removing the Champions Partizán Belgrade.
On Tuesday, FC Barcelona and Juventus, who had goals in the 4-0 first leg, managed to fulfil its classification after the procedure. The first lost 1-0 in Poland, while the Italians 1-1 in empataron ground Slovak, in matches with little tension.
The list of teams that have passed the third preliminary round is completed with Panathinaikos, Steaua Bucharest, Anorthosis, Shaktar Donetsk, Basle, Dinamo Kiev, Bate Borisov and Aalborg.
The draw for the group stage, with the presence of other teams who were already falling since last season, will take place on Thursday in Monaco.
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