The first games of the Europa League play-off were played on Thursday night.

As was predicted there were not many surprises, but have won the big contending teams to cut a ticket to the group stage. The only surprises were made by the Italians of Atalanta and the Germans of Red Bull Leipzig who stopped without goals.

Atalanta failed to score confirming the bad situation at this start of the new season, in the face of Kopenhagen. Already Atalanta will have to sweat too much to secure the qualification in the return match to the transfer. The Leipzig Germans have not been able to find the way to the goal in the face of the Ukrainians of Zoyra and now everything will be decided on the return game in Germany.

Olympiakos, Sevilla, Zenit Petersburg, Basel and Rangers did not have much difficulty getting victories in these first games in front of their opponents. Already these teams will find it easier to cut the ticket for the round of the groups of this competition.

Meanwhile, the beautiful dream of the modest team of Luxembourg, Dudelange, is already very close to qualifying for the Europa League groups, following the first victory against CFR Cluj at home 2-0. If qualified Dudelange would write history, as it would happen for the first time in its history. Earlier this team eliminated the Kosovo team Drita, while in the third round made the surprise, leading home a giant like the Legia Warsaw.

Below results of all matches:

Torpedo Kutaisi (Geo) 0 – 1 Ludogorets (Bul)

Zenit Petersburg (Rus) 3 – 1 Molde (Nor)   

 Trencin (Svk) 1 – 1 AEK Larnaca (Cyp)

APOEL (Cyp) 1 – 0 FC Astana (Kaz)

Sheriff Tiraspol (Mda) 1 – 0 Qarabag (Aze)

Sigma Olomouc (Cze) 0 – 1 Sevilla (Esp)

Suduva (Ltu) 1 – 1 Celtic (Sco)

Sarpsborg 08 (Nor) 3 – 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Isr)

Malmo FF (Swe) 2 – 2 Midtjylland (Den)

Atalanta (Ita) 0 – 0 FC Copenhagen (Den)

Basel (Sui) 3 – 2 Apollon (Cyp)

Dudelange (Lux) 2 – 0 CFR Cluj (Rou)

Olympiakos Piraeus (Gre) 3 – 1 Burnley (Eng)

FK Zorya Luhansk (Ukr) 0 – 0 RB Leipzig (Ger)

Genk (Bel) 5 – 2 Brondby (Den)

NK Olimpija Ljubljana (Slo) 0 – 2 Trnava (Svk)

Partizan (Srb) 1 – 1 Besiktas (Tur)

Rapid Vienna (Aut) 3 – 1 FCSB (Rou)

Gent (Bel) 0 – 0 Bordeaux (Fra)

Rangers (Sco) 1 – 0 Ufa (Rus)

Rosenborg (Nor) 3 – 1 Shkendija (Mac)