Home sides struggled in Thursday's early matches in the round of the last 16 of the Europa League, with only Lech Poznan and Benfica Lisbon winning at home.
There were away victories for Dutch champions FC Twente, who won 2-0 at Rubin Kazan, while Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen trounced Metalist Kharkiv 4-0.
Dynamo Kiev secured a 3-1 victory at Beskitas and Ajax Amsterdam triumphed 3-0 at Anderlecht. The matches between BATE Borisov and Paris St Germain (2-2) and Napoli and Villarreal (0-0) ended in draws.
Toby Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen and Mounir El-Hamdaoui scored the goals for former Champions League winners Ajax Amsterdam against the Belgium side for whom Polish international Marcin Wasilewski missed a penalty ten minutes after the re-start.
Turkish club Besiktas struggled against Dynamo Kiev and the winners ran out comfortable 4-1 winners after Ognjen Vukojevic, Andriy Shevchenko, Atanda Yussuf and Oleg Gusyev with a late penalty scored the goals for the visitors.
Ricardo Quaresma scored for Besiktas.
In Lisbon Benfica came from behind to beat struggling Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart 2-1. Austrian international Martin Harnik gave the visitors the lead midway through the first half, but two second-half goals from Oscar Cardozo saw Benfica secure a deserved win at home.
Artjoms Rudnevs scored the only goal of the match in Poznan as Lech Poznan beat Sporting Braga 1-0.
French international Peguy Luyindula scored a last-gasp equalizer for PSG to give his side a share of the spoils at BATE Borisov. Renan Bressan and Mikhail Gordeychuk had twice given the home side the lead.
PSG's other goal was scored by Mevlut Erdinc.
Even though Bayer Leverkusen controlled the match in the Ukraine, the four-goal victory margin was a bit too high and was not necessarily a true reflection of the game.
Eren Derdiyok opened the scoring midway through the first half for the German side, before Gonzalo Castro added a second in the 72nd minute after a Renato Augusto shot was cleared off the line but hit Castro.
Sidney Sam added two more goals for Leverkusen in second half injury time.
In Moscow, Luuk de Jong and Peter Wisgerhof scored the goals for Twente late in the match, which was changed from Kazan to Moscow due to the condition of the Kazan pitch.
The home side enjoyed most of the early possession, but failed to capitalize and did not create any real chances.
They were punished 13 minutes from the end when De Jong scored after a Theo Janssen corner.
Worse was to come for Kazan as another Janssen corner with just two minutes remaining was again sent goalwards by De Jong.
Although goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis managed to save, the ball came to Wisgerhof, who made no mistake to give Twente a huge advantage ahead of the return leg.
There were away victories for Dutch champions FC Twente, who won 2-0 at Rubin Kazan, while Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen trounced Metalist Kharkiv 4-0.
Dynamo Kiev secured a 3-1 victory at Beskitas and Ajax Amsterdam triumphed 3-0 at Anderlecht. The matches between BATE Borisov and Paris St Germain (2-2) and Napoli and Villarreal (0-0) ended in draws.
Toby Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen and Mounir El-Hamdaoui scored the goals for former Champions League winners Ajax Amsterdam against the Belgium side for whom Polish international Marcin Wasilewski missed a penalty ten minutes after the re-start.
Turkish club Besiktas struggled against Dynamo Kiev and the winners ran out comfortable 4-1 winners after Ognjen Vukojevic, Andriy Shevchenko, Atanda Yussuf and Oleg Gusyev with a late penalty scored the goals for the visitors.
Ricardo Quaresma scored for Besiktas.
In Lisbon Benfica came from behind to beat struggling Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart 2-1. Austrian international Martin Harnik gave the visitors the lead midway through the first half, but two second-half goals from Oscar Cardozo saw Benfica secure a deserved win at home.
Artjoms Rudnevs scored the only goal of the match in Poznan as Lech Poznan beat Sporting Braga 1-0.
French international Peguy Luyindula scored a last-gasp equalizer for PSG to give his side a share of the spoils at BATE Borisov. Renan Bressan and Mikhail Gordeychuk had twice given the home side the lead.
PSG's other goal was scored by Mevlut Erdinc.
Even though Bayer Leverkusen controlled the match in the Ukraine, the four-goal victory margin was a bit too high and was not necessarily a true reflection of the game.
Eren Derdiyok opened the scoring midway through the first half for the German side, before Gonzalo Castro added a second in the 72nd minute after a Renato Augusto shot was cleared off the line but hit Castro.
Sidney Sam added two more goals for Leverkusen in second half injury time.
In Moscow, Luuk de Jong and Peter Wisgerhof scored the goals for Twente late in the match, which was changed from Kazan to Moscow due to the condition of the Kazan pitch.
The home side enjoyed most of the early possession, but failed to capitalize and did not create any real chances.
They were punished 13 minutes from the end when De Jong scored after a Theo Janssen corner.
Worse was to come for Kazan as another Janssen corner with just two minutes remaining was again sent goalwards by De Jong.
Although goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis managed to save, the ball came to Wisgerhof, who made no mistake to give Twente a huge advantage ahead of the return leg.
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