Lisandro leads Lyon rout

A Lisandro Lopez hat-trick completed an emphatic 8-2 aggregate win for Lyon over Anderlecht this evening and ensured their place in the Champions League group stages. The former Porto attacker hit the net three times in the first half to hammer home the French side's superiority after a 5-1 home win last week.

Lopez, who scored one last week, was on target in the 26th, 32nd and 41st minutes. Matias Suarez pulled one back from the spot six minutes into the second half, but it did not stop the tie being one to forget for the Belgians.

Atletico Madrid sealed a 5-2 aggregate win over 10-man Panathinaikos.

Leading 3-2 from the first leg in Athens, Atletico needed just five minutes to further strengthen their stranglehold on the tie when Panathinaikos defender Loukas Vintra put through his own net.

That was a huge setback for the Greek side and their hopes of staging an unlikely fightback suffered a further blow midway through the second half when striker Djibril Cisse was sent off.

The Greek side in fact created some of their best openings when they were down to 10 men, but Sergio Aguero's goal seven minutes from time ensured there were no late scares for the Spanish side.

Maccabi Haifa booked their place spot in the competition with a 3-0 win at home to Salzburg in the second leg of their play-off tonight to seal an emphatic 5-1 aggregate success.

Vladimer Dvalishvili opened the scoring in the 31st minute for the Israelis and teenager Eyal Golasa made it two shortly before the hour mark.

Mohammad Ghadir added a third in the 90th minute.

FC Zurich also wrapped up a 5-1 aggregate win, knocking out Latvian side Ventspils.

The Swiss outfit won 2-1 tonight thanks to a 90th-minute winner from Almen Abdi.

Johan Vonlanthen had put them ahead in the sixth minute, only for Igor Tigirlas to level two minutes later.

Debrecen completed a 4-1 aggregate win over Levski Sofia with a 2-0 victory in Hungary tonight.

Two away goals in the Bulgarian capital last week had put Debrecen in the driving seat and they duly finished off the job thanks to efforts from Jozsef Varga (13) and Gergely Rudolf (36).

Shakhtar Donetsk cruised into the Europa Leaguewith a 5-0 aggregate win over Sivasspor of Turkey.

The Ukrainians, who have been regular Champions League participants in recent seasons, had a comfortable evening having won 3-0 in the first leg of the qualifier in Turkey.

And their progression to the Europa League proper was confirmed when Brazilian forward Jadson (21) extended the aggregate lead with a penalty before Julius Aghahowa completed the win with a spot kick of his own a minute before the hour mark.