BERNE — Swiss champion FC Basel, conquerors of Manchester United last season, survived a last-ditch penalty miss to scrape into the Champions League playoffs Wednesday while AEL Limassol stunned Partizan Belgrade. Basel managed a 1-1 draw at home to Molde, qualifying 2-1 on aggregate, after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Norwegian champion missed a penalty in the second minute of stoppage time which would have sent it through. Magne Hoseth's effort was saved by Yann Sommer in the third qualifying round, second leg tie. Earlier, Jo Inge Berget had given Molde a first-half lead against nervy Basel who leveled through David Degen with 15 minutes left. AEL Limassol's attempt to emulate fellow Cypriots APOEL Nicosia, who last year made the quarterfinals, continued as a 1-0 win at Partizan Belgrade gave it a 2-0 aggregate victory. Dosa Junior scored the winner for Limassol's cosmopolitan lineup, which included players from Angola, Portugal, Brazil, France, Argentina, Ivory Coast and one from Cyprus itself. Former Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt got two late goals and ex-Lille forward Moussa Sow scored in added time as Fenerbahce won 4-1 at Romania's Vaslui to progress 5-2 on aggregate. Caner Erkin opened the scoring for Fenerbahce and Marius Nikulae replied for Vaslui in a clash between two non-champion teams. Second half goals by Joe Ledley and Giorgos Samaras gave Scottish champion Celtic, the 1967 winner, a 2-0 victory at HJK Helsinki for a 4-1 aggregate success despite Victor Wanyama being sent off for a second bookable offence after the break. Christian Bolanos and Cesar Santin scored in the last 15 minutes to give FC Copenhagen a 3-2 win at 1978 runner-up Bruges which took it through and Thomas Sorum's hat trick gave Helsingborg a 3-1 win over Poland's Slask Wroclaw. The Swedish champion qualified 6-1 on aggregate. Luxemburg champion F91 Dudelange's dream run ended with a 1-0 defeat at home to Maribor. Dudelange, beaten 5-1 on aggregate, had knocked out Salzburg in the previous round. On Tuesday, Dynamo Kiev of Ukraine and Belarus' BATE Borisov progressed from the Champions League third qualifying round after securing 3-1 aggregate victories. Kiev sealed safe passage late in the second leg when forward Ideye Brown scored in the sixth minute of added time for a 1-0 away victory over Dutch side Feyenoord. BATE arrived in Hungary deadlocked at 1-1 with Debrecen after the first leg, but goals either side of halftime from Dmitri Mozolevski in the 25th and Aleksandr Volodko in the 59th in the return leg ensured the Belarus side moves on. — Agencies
