PFC CSKA Qualify to UEFA Champions League Group Stage

In the return leg match of UEFA Champions League Play-off round at Arena Khimki PFC CSKA hosted Sporting.

Gutierrez scored the opener for Portuguese team in the first half, but in the second half the Army team managed to change the game. Doumbia scored twice and Musa once for PFC CSKA and brought their club to the UEFA Champions League Group Stage.

PFC CSKA and Zenit will find out their opponents for UEFA Champions League Group Stage in Thursday.

The Draw Ceremony in Nyon (Switzerland) will start at  18:45 Moscow time. The Army team, which got to the Group Stage visa qualification, are in the third bowl.

Bowl 1: Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayern, Juventus, Benfica, PSG, Zenit, PSV Eindhoven.

Bowl 2: Real (Madrid), Atletico (Madrid), Porto, Arsenal, Manchester United, Valencia, Bayer, Manchester City.

Bowl  3: Shakhtar (Donetsk), Sevilla, Lyon, Dynamo (Kyiv), Olympiacos, PFC CSKA, Galatasaray, Roma.

Bowl 4: BATE, Borussia (Mönchengladbach), Wolfsburg, Dinamo (Zagreb), Maccabi (Tel-Aviv), Gent, Malmö, Astana.

Each group will have only one representative of the same country, so getting in the same group with Zenit from St.Petersburg is impossible at this stage of the tournament. Besides, according to UEFA decision, Russian and Ukrainian team will be drawn into different groups.

PFC CSKA (Russia) – Sporting (Portugal) - 3:1 (0:1)

Goals: Gutierrez, 36 (0:1). Doumbia, 49 (1:1). Doumbia, 72 (2:1). Musa, 85 (3:1).

PFC CSKA: Akinfeev, Mario Fernandes (Nababkin, 34), Berezutskiy V., Ignashevich, Schennikov, Tosic, Wernbloom, Dzagoev, Eremenko, Musa (Milanov, 90+4), Doumbia (Berezutskiy A., 89).

Sporting (Lisbon): Rui Patricio, Joao Pereira, Oliveira, Naldo, Silva, Carrillo, Adrien Silva, Aquilani (Montero, 90+1), Joao Mario, Gutierrez (Slimani, 68), Ruiz (Carlos Mane, 89).

Cautioned: Oliveira, 48. Aquilani, 61. Dzagoev, 62. Doumbia, 69. Wernbloom, 83.

Sent-off: Joao Mario, 90+2 (foul play).

Referees: Kralovec, Wilczek, Patak, Prihoda, Mokrusch (all – from Czech Republic), Slysko (Slovakia).

26 August. Khimki. Arena Khimki.

First leg match – 1:2