Apoel knocked out of Europa League

Apoel have been knocked out of the Europa League by Basel.

A 38th-minute Fabian Frei penalty gave the Swiss side a 1-0 victory on Thursday night at St Jakob-Park, and a 4-0 triumph on aggregate over the Cyprus champions in the round of 32.

Elsewhere in the tournament on Thursday, Manchester United reached the last 16 after a 5-0 second-leg win over Club Brugge at Old Trafford secured a 6-1 aggregate victory.

Celtic have been knocked out as two late goals saw them lose 4-2 on aggregate to FC Copenhagen after a 3-1 second-leg defeat at Celtic Park.

Roma squeezed past Belgian rivals Gent to reach the last 16, while former winners Porto and compatriots Sporting went out and Wolverhampton Wanderers strolled through with a 6-3 aggregate victory over Espanyol.

Leverkusen blew Porto away with a 3-1 away win, after building a 2-1 lead last week, thanks to goals from Lucas Alario, Kerem Demirbay and Kai Havertz before Moussa Marega netted a consolation for the home side.

Sporting exited after losing 4-1 at Istanbul Basaksehir after extra time to go down 5-4 on aggregate after Edin Visca gave the hosts a lifeline with a late goal in normal time and then netted a penalty to take them through to the last 16.

Vfl Wolfsburg beat Swedish side Malmo 3-0 away to breeze through 5-1 on aggregate.

LASK Linz upset visiting Dutch side AZ Alkmaar 2-0 with a Marko Raguz brace which gave the Austrians a 3-1 aggregate success.

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