Rangers, Celtic and Roma crash out

Rangers and Celtic both crashed out of the Europa League yesterday on a disappointing night for Scottish football while Serie A side Roma were also eliminated after a lacklustre 1-1 draw at home to Slovan Bratislava, of Slovakia.

Daniel Majstorovic saw red as 10-man Celtic lost were ousted with a 3-1 defeat against Swiss side Sion at the Stade de Tourbillon.

The tie was in the balance after a goalless first leg in Glasgow last week but that changed inside a minute when the Hoops defender brought down Guilherme Afonso inside the box.

After Majstorovic had walked off, Pascal Feindouno scored from the spot and from then on Celtic were fighting an uphill battle they never looked like winning.

Feindouno added a second after the break with Celtic’s Charlie Mulgrew and Giovanni Sio swap-ping goals late in the game as the home side ran out 3-1 aggregate winners.

Rangers could not go beyond a 1-1 draw against Maribor to bow out of the competition 3-2 on aggregate.

Carlos Bocanegra grabbed his first goal for the Gers to cancel out Dalibor Volas’ opener, but Rangers could not find a second goal to at least force the tie to extra-time for a bitter end to their Euro adventure.

Luis Enrique was jeered by the Roma fans after the Italian side were suprisingly held by Slovan Bratislava 1-1 at the Olympic Stadium to go out 2-1 on aggregate.

Trailing 1-0 from last week’s first leg in Slovakia, the Italians looked on course to overturn the tie when Simone Perrotta stabbed the ball home from a Francesco Totti corner.

Roma kept pushing forward by they could not find a second goal. Instead it was Slovan who struck the killer goal eight minutes from time when Stepanovky picked up Marco Cassetti’s poor clearance to fire home a crucial equaliser

Play-off round – 2nd legs

S. Moscow vs Legia Warsaw 2-3 (agg: 4-5); Dinamo Bucharest vs Vorskla Poltava 2-3 (3-5); S. Rennes vs Red Star 4-0 (6-1); PSV vs Ried 5-0 (5-0); Alania vs Besiktas 2-0 (2-3);

AEK Larnaca vs Rosenborg 2-1 (2-1); S. Trnava vs L. Moscow 1-1 (1-3); D. Kiev vs Litex Lovech 1-0 (3-1); Gaz Metan vs Austria Vienna 1-0 (2-3).

D. Tbilisi vs AEK Athens 1-1 (aet; 1-2); Hapoel Tel Aviv vs Ekranas 4-0 (4-1); CSKA Sofia vs S. Bucharest 1-1 (1-3); Young Boys vs Braga 2-2 (2-2; Braga win on away goals);

R. Bucharest vs S. Wroclaw 1-1 (4-2); S. Prague vs Vaslui 1-0 (1-2); Panathinaikos vs Maccabi TA 2-1 (2-4); Helsingborg vs S. Liege 1-3 (1-4); Schalke vs HJK 6-1 (6-3); P. Belgrade vs Shamrock (1-1); Anderlecht vs Bursaspor 2-2 (4-3); Guimaraes vs A. Madrid 0-4 (0-6); Rangers vs NK Maribor 1-1 (2-3); Dnipro vs Fulham 1-0 (1-3); Sion vs Celtic 3-1 (3-1); Bruges vs Zestafoni 2-0 (5-3);

Sochaux vs Metalist 0-4 (0-4); Roma vs S. Bratislava 1-1 (1-2); Rabotnicki vs Lazio 1-3 (1-9); Birmingham vs Nacional 3-0 (3-0); Stoke vs Thun 4-1(5-1); AZ Alkmaar vs Aalesund 6-0 (7-2);

Salzburg vs Omonia 1-0 (2-2; Salzburg through on away goals); Sevilla vs Hannover 1-1 (2-3); Karpaty vs PAOK 1-1(1-3); Tottenham vs Hearts 0-0 (5-0); PSG vs Differdange 2-0 (6-0); S. Lisbon vs Nordsjaelland late.

Group stage draw: Today.