Paris (AFP)

Still very disappointing on his turf against the Belgian club Gantoise (0-0), Saint-Etienne, last chance French, was eliminated in the group stage of the Europa League, after a marked 5th day by Arsenal's home defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt (1-2) on Thursday.

In London, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang opened the scoring for Arsenal just before the break (45 + 1), but Eintracht tipped the game in nine minutes with a double of his Japanese midfielder Daichi Kamada (55, 64 ).

While a draw would have been enough, the formation of the Spaniard Unai Emery (1st, 10 pts), whose situation is complicated, remains however still in favorable bouncing since it will welcome the Standard of Liege (3rd, 7 pts) during the last day. And to qualify, the Belgian club, beaten 4-0 in London in the first leg, will have to win at least 5-0!

Thursday night, Standard went draw (1-1) on the field of Vitoria Guimaraes (4th).

For his part Saint-Etienne, with a record of four draws and one defeat (4 pts), will no longer be able to return to Wolfsburg (2nd, 8 pts) who won 1-0 in Ukraine against Oleksandriïa and will play Round of 16 with La Gantoise (1st, 9 pts).

The 16th, which will not take part any French club since the second representative of Ligue 1, Stade Rennais, is eliminated since the previous day.

This time Julien Stephan's team was beaten 3-1 at Celtic Glasgow, who qualified before the match, as well as Basel, Espanyol Barcelona, ​​Manchester United and Sevilla.

Manchester United lost 2-1 to Astana, the last of a group in L, where AZ Alkmaar also secured the qualification despite a draw at home against Partizan Belgrade (2 -2), eliminated.

In Group D, Sporting Portugal and Linz also qualified in the evening. Sporting punishing PSV Eindhoven 4-0 in Lisbon, and Linz going to win 2-1 at Rosenborg.

In Group J, AS Roma made an excellent move that allowed them all hopes by winning 3-0 in Turkey against Basaksehir. The Romans are tied on points (8) with Mönchengladbach (1st) who also won away, 1-0 in Austria in Wolfsberg. The last day will be decisive in this group since Basaksehir follows a length.

In group K, Sporting Braga and Wolverhampton drew 3-3 in Portugal but both qualified for the 16th.

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