Liverpool sneak through, Lausanne produce shock

BERNE, (Reuters) – Liverpool diced with elimination  before scoring two late goals to win 2-1 at Trabzonspor and  squeeze into the Europa League yesterday while Swiss second  division side Lausanne came through with a shock win over  Lokomotiv Moscow.

Rapid Vienna, who knocked out English Premier League Aston  Villa at the play-off stage last year, repeated the trick,  coming from behind with two late goals to win 3-2 away and  qualify 4-3 on aggregate in a rare boost for Austrian football.

Alessandro del Piero’s 53rd minute goal was enough for  Juventus, who beat Austria’s Sturm Graz 1-0 for a 3-1 aggregate  win, while ambitious Manchester City beat Timisoara 2-0 to  complete a 3-0 aggregate success.

Celtic, dumped out of the Champions League qualifiers by  Braga earlier this month, squandered a two-goal first leg lead  at Utrecht, losing 4-0 on another night of European misery.

Liverpool looked like suffering a similar fate as the  five-times European champions, taking a 1-0 lead to Turkey’s  Black Sea Coast, saw it wiped out after only four minutes by  Colombian forward Teofilo Guiterrez, who sidefooted Gustavo  Colman’s shot into the net from 12 metres.

The hosts led until the 83rd minute when defender Giray  Kacar turned Glen Johnson’s pass into his own goal under  pressure from David Ngog.

Five minutes later, Dutch striker Dirk Kuyt, whose mistake  led to the first goal, turned in a rebound after Onur Kivrak  spilled a Dani Pacheco shot to complete a 3-1 win for Roy  Hodgson’s team. Lausanne were beaten 6-0 in last season’s Swiss Cup final by  FC Basel but went into the Europa League hat after their  conquerors qualified for the Champions League preliminaries.

Held 1-1 in last week’s first leg, Lausanne went in front  with a header by Brazilian Silvio in the 17th minute and held  their lead until Alexander Aliev levelled with five minutes left  with a deflected free kick to level the aggregate score at 2-2.