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Anderlecht cruise into next round of Champions League

Other News Materials 4 August 2010 02:51 (UTC +04:00)
Anderlecht proved too strong for Welsh side TNS in the Champions League Tuesday, winning 3-0 in their third qualifying round second-leg tie to secure a 6-1 aggregate win
Anderlecht cruise into next round of Champions League

Anderlecht proved too strong for Welsh side TNS in the Champions League Tuesday, winning 3-0 in their third qualifying round second-leg tie to secure a 6-1 aggregate win, dpa reported.

Tom de Sutter opened the scoring before second-half substitute Romelu Lukaku netted a brace to secure the comfortable victory.

Kazakhstan champions Aktobe shocked Hapoel Tel Aviv last week with a 1-0 win, but were unable to repeat the feat in Israel, going down 3-1 to go out of the tournament 3-2 on aggregate.

First-half goals from Eran Zahavi and Ben Sahar set the Israeli champions on the road to victory, while an own goal from Khalifa Elhadj Ba ensured Hapoel led 3-0 at the break.

Murat Tleshev netted a last-minute goal for Aktobe to make it 3-1 but it was too little too late.

TNS and Aktobe now both drop into the Europa League.

The Champions League continues Wednesday with 13 more third qualifying round return-leg ties.

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