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UEL news: West Ham through after draw

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West Ham United reached the Europa League knockout stage despite a late own goal from Tomas Soucek  The Hammers have 10 points from four games. They are six clear of Genk with two games left and look set to go through as Group H winners. Finishing top of the group would guarantee them a last-16 spot. The group runners up to go into a play-off with a third-placed team from the Champions League. Dinamo Zagreb's 3-1 win over Rapid Vienna left the Croatian side second, four points behind West Ham.  KRC Genk 2 - 2 West Ham United These highlights are from the BT Sport YouTube channel. One fan told us: "Not the best performance but we'll be playing European football Christmas. That doesn't happen very often!" Dinamo Zagreb 3 - 1 Rapid Vienna These Dinamo players were clearly delighted with their performance. They have given themselves a great chance of joining West Ham in the next round. Three points and three goals for Dinamo Zagreb against Rapid Wien 👏💙 #UEL pi

UEL reaction: Ferencvárosi TC 2 - 3 Celtic

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Celtic picked up a crucial Europa League victory against Ferencvaros in Budapest. The Glasgow side moved a point behind Real Betis, who were thrashed 4-0 at Bayer Leverkusen, with two games to play in the group. The Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou told BT Sport: "Full credit to the boys. It was three great goals, I thought we could have had a couple more. I'm disappointed at conceding the second goal as I don't think it was a true reflection of how we played tonight. "The fact we can get three goals away from home is because we just go at teams. I still think that is the way forward. It's the kind of team we want to be and I think it's the team our supporters want us to be." One Celtic fan told us: "After some of the appalling performances last season, this campaign has been a breath of fresh air. We are looking superb at times and we could easily progress to the next stage of this competition." Another spoke with great passion about their man

UEL: Rangers 2 - 0 Brondby

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Leon Balogun's header and a Kemar Roofe tap-in - gave Rangers their first Europa League points at the third attempt to lift them off the bottom of their group. You can watch the highlights in the video below. Lyon's comeback win at Sparta Prague means Rangers sit a point behind Sparta and six adrift of the French at this halfway stage. A trip to Denmark next will hold no fears for the Scottish champions after Brondby offered very little opposition at Ibrox. Gerrard told the media after the match: "We deserved the victory, we played with a lot of control and style, we could have maybe got another couple of goals. "We have played really well for 45 minutes or 60 minutes but for some reason consistently we haven't found that level where we are churning out 90 after 90 minutes so that is the most pleasing thing for me tonight." This is how the group stands after three matches. Did you know? Brondby are now the only side without a goal in this season's Eu

UEL: Celtic 2 - 0 Ferencvárosi TC

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Celtic kept alive their Europa League knockout hopes with a hard-fought win over the Hungarian champions Ferencvaros. Kyogo Furuhashi slid home the opener from a sublime Jota pass after a frustrating first half. Balint Vecsei's unfortunate own goal final confirmed Celtic's win after Callum McGregor's had previously missed a penalty. Celtic's defeats against Real Betis and Bayer Leverkusen meant they had to win this match to have any chance of progressing in the competition. This was something acknowledged by manager Ange Postecoglou before the match. Click here for more Celtic news Some stats for you Celtic have won six of their eight matches at home to Hungarian opponents in all European competitions (D1 L1), keeping a clean sheet in four of their last five such games. A stat provided from the BBC:  Celtic have now ended a run of fourteen Europa League matches without a clean sheet. They recordedone for the first time since October 2019 at home to CFR Cluj. The Glasg