Jose Mourinho is now on a Tour of Fenerbahce for the first time in 17 years back to the UEFA Champions League.
The team of the legendary coach rose the Champions League-qualifying play-offs by destroying a shortage of two goals on an aggregated Tuesday with a 5-2 victory against Feyenoord, coached by Robin van Persie.
Fenerbahce went 6-4 with the aggregated score and is confronted with Benfica-where Mourinho got his first head coach Job 25 years ago, with a place in the 36 team League phase at stake.
The first stage is in Istanbul on Wednesday next week, with the return on 27 August at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon, where Mourinho a double winner of the Champions League-Minder lasted three months in 2000.
Benfica progressed on Tuesday after beating Nice 2-0 at home after winning the first stage with the same score in France last week.
Fenerbahce played for the last time in the old group stage of the Champions League in the 2008-09 season, and the biggest rival, Galatasaray, is already in the main drawing of 28 August as the Turkish competition champion.
Fenerbahce had lost 1-2 in the Netherlands last week and fell further in the second stage of the third qualifying round collision when Feyenoord defender Tsuyoshi Watanabe scored the opener in the 41st minute.
Mourinho quickly saw his players rally with two goals before the Rust-De Second by Colombia Vooruit Jhon Durán, on a seasonal agreement from Saudi club Al Nassr.
Former Manchester United – midfielder Fred fell early in the second half and Talisca – another former teammate of Cristiano Ronaldo – completed the score.
Rangers went to the play-offs 4-2 aggregated against Viktoria Plzen despite a 2-1 loss on Tuesday in the Czech Republic.
The Scottish club will organize the first stage of his play-off next week against Club Brugge, who received three second half goals in a 3-2 comeback victory on Tuesday about Salzburg to go 4-2 on aggregated.
SALZBURG – The former team of Spits of Manchester City Erling Erling Haaland – played only six weeks ago in the FIFA Club World Cup, but it is unlikely that it would qualify for the next in 2029, which now misses the Champions League play for the first time in seven seasons.
Russian Pafos, the champion of Cyprus, defeated Dynamo Kyiv van Ukraine 2-0 to develop 3-0. Pafos is then confronted with Red Star Belgrade, the European Cup winner of 1991, who beat Lech Poznan 4-2 after a 1-1 draw on Tuesday in Serbia.
Copenhagen defeated his nearby neighbor, Malmö, 5-0, a week after a scoreless trek on the other side of the Oresund bridge that connects Denmark and Sweden. The reward of Copenhagen is a two-legged play-off against Swiss champion Basel.
Qarabag from Azerbaijan strive for North Macedonian champion Shendija with 5-1 and 6-1 on aggregated, to earn a play-off against Ferencvaros, a 3-0 winner in Budapest against Ludogorets from Bulgaria.
Kazakhstan’s Kairat Almaty won a penalty shootout in Slovan Bratislava, after the teams were aggregated 1-1, and then travel over four time zones to Scotland for the play-off first leg against Celtic.