Aab Aalborg of Denmark's Rasmus Thelander (C) fights for the ball between APOEL Nicosia of Cyprus's Marios Antoniades and Tomas De Vincenti (R) during their Champions League play-off match at the Nordjyske Arena in Aalborg August 20, 2014. REUTERS/Henning Bagger/Scanpix Denmark
BERNE (Reuters) - Zenit St Petersburg and Porto both put a foot in the Champions League group stage with 1-0 away wins in the first leg of their respective playoff ties on Wednesday.
Oleg Shatov's first-half goal gave Andre Villas-Boas' Zenit a 1-0 win at Standard Liege and a second-half effort from Hector Herrera was enough for the Portuguese coach's former team Porto at Lille.
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