Hairdressing evening.
With a largely reworked eleven that included three French players – Axel Disasi, Benoit Badiashile, Christopher Nkunku – Chelsea secured their qualification for the Conference League this Thursday in Geneva. Although Nkunku opened the scoring from a penalty, Servette still won 2-1 with a goal from Enzo Crivelli. In the end, the Swiss only needed a small pawn to push the Blues in overtime.
Puskás Akadémia, for its part, kept the promise made to Fiorentina: despite Moise Kean’s opening goal, the Hungarians pushed their opponents around and snatched extra time thanks to a penalty from Zsolt Nagy in added time (90th + 7). Reduced to 10 with the expulsion of Luca Ranieri (90th + 4), then to 9 with that of Pietro Comuzzo (97th), Fio nevertheless found an escape route at the end of the night with the penalty shootout (1-1, 4-5 TAB).
Betis will also be at the championship stage after their success against Kryvbas (3-0), like Copenhagen, who avoided the trap set by Kilmarnock (1-1). Winner 6-1 in Krakow in the first leg, Cercle Bruges saw the threat of a comeback but resisted Wisla as best they could (1-4). Finally, Saint-Gall managed the feat of eliminating Trabzonspor in Turkey (1-1, 4-5 TAB).
An evening that goes straight to the Hall of Fame.
