FC Twente draws with Rubin Kazan to advance to the next round –UEFA Europa League match update
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Twente-c39233 held Rubin Kazan to a 2-2 draw in the second leg of the last 32 round in the UEFA Europa League at De Grolsch Veste on Friday evening. Twente advance to the last 16 round, with 4-2 aggregate score, as they won 2-0 in the first leg last week.
Michel Preud’homme named the same starting line-up that won 2-0 in the first leg last weekend. On the other hand, Kurban Berdyyev made three changes to his team that lost 2-0 last weekend. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bibras-Natkho-c7592 were replaced by
Sergei Rhyzikov, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandr-Ryazantsev-c4607 respectively.
The first half kicked off as the hosts came extremely close to open the scoring in the sixth minute. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Peter-Wisgerhof-c29829 was fed in the box from the right wing and his shot was beautifully saved by Rhyzikov to deny the hosts. The hosts enjoyed a lengthy spell
of possession and created a lot of opportunities. The visitors first real chance of the game came when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christian-c9045 Noboa’s shot from inside the penalty area, missed the goal by a few inches. Rubin Kazan opened the scoring in the 21st minute, against
the run of play. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristian-Ansaldi-c9499, who finished it in the bottom left corner of the goal, to make it 1-0 for the visitors. Two minutes later, Kazan doubled their lead through Noboa. Ryazantsev played a lovely through
ball to Noboa who calmly finished from inside the penalty area and made it 2-0, and 2-2 on aggregate basis. With this score line in 25 minutes, Rubin Kazan looked favourites to progress to the next round. The game dried up after two goals but the hosts managed
to snatch one back just before the half time whistle. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Theo-Janssen-c34871 struck a shot from 20 yards, which beat everyone to find the back of the net, to make it 2-1 at the break.
Immediately after the resumption of second half, Twente equalized through Douglas http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Franco-c14050. Janssen’s in swinging corner was headed into the goal by Franco, to make it 2-2. The hosts made a remarkable comeback as the aggregate score became 4-2 in favour of
Twente. The hosts completely dominated the game and enjoyed long spells of possessions and controlled the midfield well. The visitors were drowned after squandering a two goal cushion and never really threatened towards the end of the game. The match finished
at 2-2 and FC Twente progressed to the round of 16.
Twente will take on Zenit St. Petersburg in the first leg of round of 16 on 10th March.
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