The Universitatea Craiova football team has qualified for the second qualifying round of the Champions League. On Wednesday, the Romanian team defeated ML Vitebsk, the champion of Belarus, 1-0 in Craiova in the second leg of the first qualifying round. In the first leg, the Romanian champion had won 4-1 away from home, \u00a0in Hungary.<\/p>\n
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Over 14,000 spectators watched the game at Craiova\u2019s Ion Oblemenco Stadium. Universitatea dominated the match and had many scoring opportunities. The visitors were also dangerous, but Craiova goalkeeper Lauren\u0163iu Popescu had a great day and thwarted all of the Belarusians\u2019 attempts to score. Relying on the result from the first leg of the two-leg series, the Craiova team did not push too hard. They didn\u2019t score until stoppage time, when Nicu\u015for Bancu beat the Belarusian goalkeeper with a well-placed shot from outside the 16-meter box.<\/p>\n
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In the second qualifying round of the Champions League, Universitatea will face Levski Sofia. The Bulgarian champions eliminated the Bosnian team Borac Banja Luka after a 1-1 draw in the first leg away from home and a 4-0 victory in the second leg in Sofia. The first match between Craiova and Levski will take place next week at Levski\u2019s home stadium.<\/p>\n
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Next web bring you news from \u00a0with tennis. The WTA 250 tournament in Ia\u0219i, with 246,000 euros in prize money, is now without any Romanian players. The last remaining players were eliminated on Wednesday in the doubles competition, right in the first round. Ilinca Amariei and Carmen Herea were defeated 6-2, 4-6, 10-7 by the top seeds, Belgium\u2019s Magali Kempen and Russia\u2019s Alexandra Panova. Alesia Breaz and Cristiana Todoni were also defeated, 6-3, 6-2, by the pair consisting of Spanish player Georgina Garcia Perez and Russian player Alevtina Ibraghimova. The Romanian players did not advance past the first round in singles either. Among Wednesday\u2019s results, Slovenian Tamara Zidan\u0161ek moved to the quarterfinals after defeating seventh-seeded Hungarian Anna Bondar 7-6, 6-7, 7-5 in the fourth round. The match lasted three and a half hours. (MI)<\/p>\n
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