PORTO CRUISED INTO the group stage of the Champions League as they added a 2- 0 home win over Lille to their one-goal advantage from the first leg.
Yacine Brahimi got the ball rolling with a superb curling free-kick from 25 yards before Jackson Martinez breached the Lille defence to drill a low effort beyond goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Hulk netted a brace as Zenit beat Standard Liege 3-0 to seal a 4-0 success on aggregate, in a match that saw both sides end with 10 men.
Salomon Rondon opened the scoring with a simple header after Eiji Kawashima had parried into his path before Viktor Faizulin saw red for a second bookable offence.
Despite being a man down, Zenit extended their lead when Hulk scored his first from the penalty spot after Igor Smolnikov was felled by Jelle Van Damme.
His second was a sensational solo effort. After picking up the ball in his own half, Hulk powered his way through the Standard half and placed his shot in the bottom left-hand corner of the net.
Ricardo Faty’s red card in the closing stages rubbed salt in the wound for Standard.
In the day’s remaining fixture, BATE put three past Slovan Bratislava as they claimed a 4-1 win over the two legs.
Mikhail Gordeychuk, Sergey Krivets and Vitali Rodionov notched, with each of their efforts coming from a central area in the penalty box, raising question marks about the quality of the visitors’ defending.
