St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Shaktyr Karagandy (Pat's win 3-2 on aggregate)

Pete Mahon's side secured a Third Qualifying Round meeting with Ukrainians Karpaty Lviv thanks to goals by Evan McMillan and Derek Doyle to progress 3-2 on aggregate.

Karagandy started strongly and had the Saints defence under pressure in the opening moments. Their two giant defenders Aldin Dzidic and Nicola Vasilijevic were thrown forward for every set-piece.

Home keeper Gary Rogers had to make a critical save to keep out a flicked effort by Sergei Khizhnichenko after a fifth minute cross from the right by Kairat Utabayev. St Pat's struggled to clear and a follow-up shot from Aleksandr Kirov also brought out a save from Rogers.

Five minutes later Kirov had another strike on goal after the Saints failed to convincingly clear a corner and once again Rogers got down well to save.

Remarkably St Pat's took the lead four minutes later. Given the size of the Kazhaks, it was perhaps surprising that the home side went ahead through a set-piece themselves.

Stephen Bradley fired in an excellent corner delivery and Evan McMillan emulated his brother David's exploits from the first leg by finding the target with a well-placed header.

That meant the tie was level at 2-2 with the Saints leading on away goals.

Six minutes later, Maksat Bayshanov produced another low strike from 30 yards for the visitors and once more it was comfortably saved by Rogers.

Karagandy probably should have levelled in the 31st minute when a corner by Zhambyi Kukyev was flicked on at the near post and Dzidic's follow-up header clipped the top of the home crossbar.

From then it on it was all St Pat's for the remainder of the half with Daryl Kavanagh once again looking very comfortable on the European stage.

Kavanagh was unlucky with a shot over from the edge of the box in the 33rd minute after good work by Ian Daly and Derek Doyle in the build-up.

Three minutes later Kavanagh turned marker Kirov brilliantly and appeared to be taken down in the area but Belgian referee Sebastien Delferiere dismissed the calls for a penalty.

McMillan came close to pinching a second goal from a set-piece in the 40th minute when he appeared at the back post from a Bradley free-kick. The ball ended up in the side-netting with home fans claiming a defender was the last to touch the ball.

In first half injury-time the Saints had another penalty claim waved away when a low shot by Danny North appeared to be stopped by a defender's arm.

The second half was a cagier affair and the Saints were thankful for another good save by Rogers to deny Bayshanov in the 66th minute after he cut inside a defender. McMillan completed the work by booting the loose ball clear.

Three minutes later St Pat's got the second goal they craved when Derek Doyle volleyed home brilliantly from a fantastic right wing cross by Derek Pender, who did extremely well to create the crossing opportunity.

Kirov had a chance to level the tie on aggregate - an crucially away goals - in the 77th minute but his snap-shot after a clever free-kick routine spun narrowly wide.

Bradley then forced keeper Alexsandr Mokin to tip over spectacularly from a free-kick in the 80th minute as the Saints looked to kill the game off.

ST PATRICK'S ATHLETIC: Rogers; Pender, Bermingham, E McMillan, Shortall, Kavanagh, Bradley, McFaul, Doyle (Murphy 86), Daly (Mulcahy 82), North (D McMillan 77).

SHAKTYR KARAGANDY: Mokin; Utabayev (Bormantaev 79), Džidić, Vasiljević, Kirov, Konysbayev, Bayzhanov, Vičius, Kukeyev, Khizhnichenko, Petronijević (Dosmanbetov 74).

Referee: Sébastien Delferiere (BEL)

Bohemians 1-1 Olimpija Ljubljana (Olimpija Ljubljana won 3-1 on aggregate)

Pat Fenlon's side dominated Olimpija for long spells but it wasn‘t enough as they chased a 2-0 deficit from the first leg .

Christy Fagan's first half lead had raised hope as well as the rafters and clearly rattled the Slovenians. But a mix up with goalkeeper Barry Murphy resulted in midfielder Ger O'Brien putting the ball into his own net to end it.

Both sides made just the one change form the first leg in the ŠRC Stožice Stadium last week with Bohemians bringing Mark Rossiter in at left back after Ollie Cahill struggled with the pace and tricky of Matic Fink in the first leg.

Olimpija brought defender Erik Salkic back into their line up following his suspension from the first game.

Craig Sexton crying off due to illness just before the game was scarcely ideal as Fenlon had to go with no reserve keeper on the bench.

But once the game, eagerly watched by Josef Michorl, assistant manager of third round opponents Austria Vienna, started Bohemians got right at Olimpija with O'Brien and Fagan, twice, getting crosses into the visitors' box inside the opening two minutes.

Italian referee Paolo Mazzoleni's dubious early decisions were a frustration for the home players and crowd alike, though, none more so than on 14 minutes when two-goal first leg hero Dare Vrsic pounced on an error by Liam Burns.

But though his shot was just wide, Mazzoleni inexplicably gave a corner from which Fink flicked into the side netting at the near post.

Undaunted, Bohemians continued to enjoy much of the possession, with Olimpija restricted to threatening on the counterattack.

On the half hour, Barry Murphy had to get down smartly to push a low 25-yard drive by Anej Lovrecic out for the Olimpija's fourth corner of the game.

Fenlon had stressed in the build up the importance of scoring first up and his players obliged as Bohemians' pressure told from what was their fourth corner on 34 minutes.

Aidan Price got a touch to Killian Brennan's cross, Olimpija midfielder Davor Skerjanc, who'd given away the corner initially, directed his header towards his own goal.

Keeper Elvis Dzafic touched it onto the bar and out. But Fagan was there to nod the loose ball into the net to send the Jodi Stand into raptures.

Clearly rattled, a mistake by Dzafic and Salkic, who both missed a cross from Bayly, wasn't punished as there was no Bohemians player in the near vicinity.

Dzafic was a bag or nerves now and he slipped when trying to clear a back pass to almost let Fagan in again three minutes before the break.

Murphy was safer at the other end, keeping his concentration well to punch away a flick header from Sreten Sretenovic from a Salkic's cross in first half stoppage time.

Olimpija steadied themselves at the break, made a change, and had a little more composure about them on the resumption with Vrsic volleying over from a Davor Skerjanc pull back six minutes in.

A facial injury to defender Liam Burns on the hour mark disrupted Bohemians, forcing a reshuffle at the back.

And though they continued to take the game to Olimpija in search of the second goal to level the tie, the cruel twist arrived on 80 minutes.

A nothing ball from Vrsic was played back by midfielder O'Brien, who'd been exemplary throughout.

But Murphy rushed out and the ball agonisingly trickled past him and into the corner of the net for an own goal.

BOHEMIANS: Murphy; Heary, Burns (Cahill, 61 mins.), Price, Rossiter (Downes, 81 mins.); O'Brien; Buckley, Bayly (Forrester, 71 mins.), Cronin, Brennan; Fagan.

Olimpija Ljubljana: Dzafic; Jovic, Sretenovic (Kasnik, 86 mins.), Andelkovic, Stalic; Lovrecic, Radujko; Fink (Omladic, h/t), Vrsic, Skerjanc; Valencic (Cadikovski, 74 mins.).

Referee: Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni (Italy).

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