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Europa League round-up: Gameiro’s late strike sends Sevilla into semis | |
(about 2 months later) | |
Sevilla’s Kévin Gameiro scored a late equaliser to snatch a 2-2 draw at Zenit St Petersburg that sent the Europa League holders into the semi-finals with a 4-3 aggregate win on Thursday. | |
Fiorentina also went through by beating 10-man Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 for a 3-1 aggregate win while Napoli completed a 6-3 win over two legs against Wolfsburg after a 2-2 draw in Italy. | |
Uefa’s fears of a final between teams from Russia and Ukraine were avoided as Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk became the only team from those two countries to reach the last four by beating Club Brugge 1-0 after the first leg had ended goalless. | |
Sevilla’s clash with Zenit was in the balance heading into the second leg with the Spaniards holding a 2-1 lead which they increased after six minutes with Carlos Bacca’s penalty. | |
The Russians, who were the only side left who had dropped into the competition in the last 32 from the Champions League, fought back with second-half goals from José Rondón and Hulk. | |
The visitors, however, wrapped up the tie when Gameiro rifled into the corner with five minutes remaining. | |
Napoli’s clash with Wolfsburg had the feel of a dead rubber in a tame first half and any hope of a German comeback was effectively extinguished by goals at the start of the second half from José Callejón and Dries Mertens. | |
The visitors salvaged some pride, however, with goals from Timm Klose and Ivan Perisic. | |
Dynamo Kyiv’s hopes of upsetting Fiorentina were hit when Jeremain Lens received a dubious second booking for diving and was dismissed in the 40th minute. | |
Fiorentina took the lead three minutes later with a goal from Mario Gomez before the substitute Juan Manuel Vargas made it 2-0 deep into stoppage time. | |
Dnipro reached the semi-finals when Yevhen Shakhov’s deflected effort found the back of the net after 82 minutes. |