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GOAL! Sunderland 0-2 Dinamo ‌Zagreb (Beljo, 39)

Another desperate night for the Black Cats and Beljo produces a delicate finish to double the lead.

Getafe 0-0 Brighton: Hadjam wants a penalty after a tangle of legs in the box. It looks like he is going down before the contact is made and VAR does not overturn the referee’s original rejection.

GOALS! Zeneli has equalised for Union Saint-Gilloise in Vigo. Juventus are winning at AZ Alkmaar thanks to Koopmeiners and Kolo Muani.

Sunderland 0-1 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: Danso is the latest to be cautioned for cynically ending a counterattack.

Getafe 0-0 Brighton: Verbruggen reacts smartly to make a fine save to keep things level.

Sunderland 0-1 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: Xhaka takes a poor touch and then slams into a tackle, resulting in a booking for the Black Cats skipper, after a bit of treatment from the medics.

Sunderland 0-1 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: It should be 2-0 Orsic sees his shot cleared off the line by Meunier.

GOAL! Sunderland 0-1 Dinamo ‌Zagreb (Stojkovic, 23)

The Croatians take the lead with a powerful finish from Stojkovic.

Luka Stojkovic rifles the visitors into the lead! Photograph: Scott Heppell/Reuters

Getafe 0-0 Brighton: Hadjam latches latches onto a ball over the top but fails to get a shot away but he not worry because Yalcouye is there to help. Unfortunately, he messes up his effort but it then lands at Rutter’s feet, only for him to ping a drive wide.

Sunderland 0-0 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: Angulo does well on the right and whips in a cross but Isidor heads the ball up and over.

Getafe 0-0 Brighton: Hinshelwood tries to curl one in from 20 yards - the shot is going harmlessly wide until the goalkeeper decides to turn it behind regardless.

GOALS: Benfica have taken the lead against Lech Poznan through Rafa, while Pablo Duran has netted for Celta Vigo against Union St-Gilloise.

Sunderland 0-0 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: Rigg swings in a very dangerous cross from the right for teammates to attack. It reaches Ahoka but his header is a poor one from close range and the keeper saves. It should do better.

Sunderland 0-0 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: The Black Cats need to defend a corner from the right. It is played short and then out to around 30 yards from goal from where a shot is lashed high into the stands.

Celtic 0-0 Beşiktas: Nygren takes aim from the edge of the box but skews his shot wide.

Getafe 0-0 Brighton: The Spanish side like a cross into the box, the latest concluding with a clash of heads at the back post. Costinha is able to get up and walk off.

Sunderland 0-0 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: Isidor shoots from the edge of the box but he basically falls over and the ball trickles towards the goalkeeper.

Getafe 0-0 Brighton: The hosts want a penalty after one of their players goes to ground in the box after a corner but nothing is doing.

Sunderland 0-0 Dinamo ‌Zagreb: The Croatians start on the front foot and have the first shot of the match but it goes well over the bar from 20 yards.

Kick offs

Peep! Peep! Peep! Whistles go around Europe.

Thanks Simon. Plenty more action to come …

Ready to go in Sunderland… Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters

With the 8pm kick-offs about to get under way I’m going to hand over to Will Unwin. But I have a farewell gift, in the shape of Paul MacInnes’ report on Crystal Palace 1-1 Hoffenheim. Bye!

A late, late strike from Daichi Kamada saved Crystal Palace from embarrassment and another round of navel gazing as they snatched a Europa League draw with Hoffenheim against the odds.

After being outplayed by a side currently in the bottom half of the Bundesliga, and a goal down since the seventh minute, Palace looked to have lost all hope in this fixture after Adam Wharton was dismissed with 13 minutes to go. But after Hoffenheim failed to clear a goalmouth scramble in added time, Kamada fired home under the keeper to generate a rare moment of elation at Selhurst Park this season.

Much more here:

That Midtjylland game is now over, with 6-1 the absolute final score.

The early kick-off full-time scores in full:

Europa League
Anderlecht 2-0 Salzburg
Crystal ⁠Palace 1-1 Hoffenheim
Levski Sofia 1-0 Jagiellonia ​Białystok
Lillestrøm 0-1 Viktoria Plzen
Milan 0-2 Ferencvaros
NEC 3-1 Omonia Nicosia
Real Sociedad 1-1 Lyon
Sparta ‌Prague 1-3 Bournemouth

Conference League
Aarhus 0-0 Braga
Atalanta 1-1 Kairat
KuPS 0-0 Gent
Lincoln Red Imps 1-0 Hajduk Split
Midtjylland 1-6 Ajax*
Mjallby 2-0 Borac
Red Star Belgrade 2-1 Inter D’Escaldes
Thun 3-1 Hearts
Trabzonspor 0-1 Freiburg

*Um, not actually full time

Only one of the early kick-offs is still ongoing, and it’s turned into a goalfest at Midtjylland, where kick-off was delayed by a floodlight failure. It was 1-1 when Kjell Watjen was sent off in the 43rd minute, but as they approach stoppage time Ajax lead 6-1.

Final score: Thun 3-1 Hearts

And that is entirely that in Switzerland, where Hearts have gone down to a second defeat in three winless games in Europe this season.

They’re into stoppage time at Thun, where Hearts are 3-1 down with two bonus minutes to play.

Final score: Sparta Prague 1-3 Bournemouth

And it’s equally all over at Stardion Letna, where a red card brandished within a couple of minutes of Sparta Prague taking the lead in the first half changed the game, and Bournemouth eventually cantered to maximal point-accumulation.

Final score: Crystal Palace 1-1 Hoffenheim

It’s all over at Selhurst Park, where Palace have snaffled a point.

GOAL! Thun 3-1 Hearts (Findlay, 82 mins)

A consolation for Hearts! From a free-kick taken inches outside the penalty area Altena sends a cross to the back post, and Stuart Findlay heads in.

GOAL! Sparta Prague 1-3 Bournemouth (Rayan, 90 mins)

And, in the end, Bournemouth are coasting to victory! Evanilson, scorer of the second, is creator of the third, with Rayan the scorer. And if that reads like I haven’t actually seen the goal, that impression would be accurate.

Rayan jumps for joy after sealing the points for Bournemouth. Photograph: Kieran McManus/Shutterstock

GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-1 Hoffenheim (Kamada, 90+1 mins)

Crystal Palace rescue a point (probably) in stoppage time! A deep cross from the right is headed back across the area to Daichi Kamada, whose first-time shot deflects past Baumann!

Kamada takes his chance – the Eagles are level! Photograph: David Klein/Reuters

How-the-mighty-have-fallen latest: Gibraltar’s Lincoln Red Imps have taken, and enthusiastically celebrated, an 89th-minute lead against Hajduk Split!

Hoffenheim should probably also have gone down to 10 men at Selhurst Park, but the referee failed to spot Andrej Kramaric, already booked, very deliberately use his arm to control the ball.

GOAL! Sparta Prague 1-2 Bournemouth (Evanilson, 81 mins)

Bournemouth have turned it around against 10-man Sparta! It’s good pressing to repeatedly get in the way of Sparta’s attempts to play the ball out and eventually they take control of it and play it to Evanilson, who’s ice-cool finish has minimal force but maximum precision!

Evanilson gives the Cherries the lead in Prague! Photograph: Kieran McManus/Shutterstock

Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA

Crystal Palace go down to 10 men!

Adam Wharton is harshly shown a second yellow card, and Crystal Palace, 1-0 down at home to Hoffenheim, are now also undermanned!

Adam Wharton gets his marching orders! Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters

More team news!

The teams for the three British sides in 8pm action:

Celtic v Besiktas
Celtic: Johnstone, Lotomba, Carter-Vickers, Scales, Tierney, Baur, McGregor, Forrest, Nygren, Tounekti, Hogh. Subs: Sinisalo, Doohan, McCowan, Duran, Sorensen, Osmand, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Hassan, McArdle, Murray, Donovan, Ralston.
Besiktas: Nubel, Murillo, Agbadou, Topcu, Ouattara, Olaitan, Salih Ozcan, Cerny, Trossard, Poku, Oh. Subs: Alemdar, Ndidi, Kartal Yilmaz, Kokcu, Bulut, Vlahovic, Fakili, Ridvan Yilmaz, Djalo, Yasin Ozcan, Bircan, Kilicsoy.
Referee: Sascha Stegemann (Niederkassel).

Sunderland v Dinamo Zagreb
Sunderland: Roefs, Meunier, Danso, Alderete, Methalie, Xhaka, Ahoka, Nilson Angulo, Rigg, Fofana, Isidor. Subs: Moore, Talbi, Brobbey, O’Nien, Mandava, Sadiki, Le Fee, Hume, Whittaker, Jones, Tutierov, Proctor.
Dinamo Zagreb: Kotarski, Valincic, Galesic, Dominguez, Goda, Lisica, Misic, Stojkovic, Kacavenda, Beljo, Orsic. Subs: Zagorac, Filipovic, Radeljic, Rodriguez, Zajc, Hoxha, Prevljak, Ivanusec, Vinlof, Almena, Sunta, Mikic.
Referee: Andrea Colombo (Italy)

And in the Conference League:

Getafe v Brighton
Getafe: Soria, Femenia, Boselli, Djene, Mojica, Mangala, Gudelj, Garcia, Satriano, Terrats, Azon. Subs: Letacek, Ferrer, Davinchi, Sazonov, Abqar, Martin, Borja Mayoral, Serrano, Unal, Valou, Risco.
Brighton: Verbruggen, Costinha, Svoboda, Dunk, Hadjam, Gross, Boscagli, Ayari, Yalcouye, Rutter, Hinshelwood. Subs: Steele, McGill, Osman, Kostoulas, Gomez, De Cuyper, Vuskovic, O’Riley, Nti, Ibrahim.
Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia).

Not a good night so far for Italian sides: Zachariassen squares to give Lenny Joseph a tap-in, and Milan are 0-2 down at home to Ferencvaros.

On commentary, Glenn Hoddle gushes that Crystal Palace “have footballed their way back into this game”. Which sounds super, though there is still the small matter of the scoreline still to deal with.

The crowd microphones at Thun are picking up some very extreme displeasure from visiting supporters, of the kind that really shouldn’t be broadcast at this hour.

GOAL! Thun 3-0 Hearts (Dursun, 56 mins)

Surely it’s all over now! It’s not a great cross from the left but Dursun flings out a leg, gets a big toe on the ball from the edge of the six-yard box, and Beau Reus can’t react as it flies inside the near post!

GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 Sparta Prague (Adams, 57)

Bournemouth equalise against 10-man Sparta! And poor Mbe Soh gives the ball away twice in a few seconds to set it up! The first comes as Sparta pass the ball around the defence and he finds someone in the wrong shirt entirely. He gets back in time to prevent a shot but in doing so sends the ball rolling to Tyler Adams, a half-time substitute, who slams it into the bottom corner!

Tyler Adams equalises for the Cherries! Photograph: Kieran McManus/Shutterstock

At Stadion Rajko Mitic Inter d’Escaldes’ Domi Berlanga has made it 10-10 by also getting sent off, for a second yellow card, matching Red Star’s Aleksandar Katai, who received a straight red way back in the 35th minute. More importantly, it’s 0-0 in goals.

For every upstart-success story in this game, there’s a how-the-mighty-have-fallen tale. Talking of which, Marc Gual has romped through a rag-bag defence to put Kairat Almaty 1-0 up at Atalanta.

Hoffenheim remain 1-0 up at Palace, in search of their first ever victory over an English side. “Hoffenheim is quite an interesting team,” writes Rebecca Voss. “They’re not popular in Germany because their rise to the Bundesliga shouldn’t have been possible. Hoffenheim town has only three thousand people, give or take, and the club was playing in the eighth league in the 90s. However, a software mogul named Dietmar Hopp was born and raised in Hoffenheim and decided to use some of his money to help his boyhood team. He bought them in 2000, by which time Hoffenheim were in the fifth tier, and immediately Hoffenheim started to become pretty good. They were promoted to the Bundesliga in 2008 after Hopp brought in Ralf Ragnick as manager and some experienced Bundesliga players to lead the team, and they’ve been there ever since. Because of this, German media likes to claim that the club doesn’t have much of a culture or a fanbase. Hoffenheim are currently 12th in the Bundesliga and many Germans are praying for their downfall.”

For more about the genesis of this Hoffenheim side see these articles, 18 and 10 years old respectively:

Having spent an hour or so wondering why the Midtjylland v Ajax game was running so late, I have used my investigative journalist skills to locate an answer.

General view as the stadium floodlights cut out as the Midtjylland and Ajax players warm up before the match. Photograph: Mikkel Berg Pedersen/Reuters

Back under way, then, it at least some of these games. At Crystal Palace the home side have already won a corner!

The half-time scores in full:

Europa League
Anderlecht 1-0 Salzburg
Crystal ⁠Palace 0-1 Hoffenheim
Levski Sofia 0-0 Jagiellonia ​Białystok
Lillestrøm 0-1 Viktoria Plzen
Milan 0-0 Ferencvaros
NEC 0-1 Omonia Nicosia
Real Sociedad 1-0 Lyon
Sparta ‌Prague 1-0 Bournemouth

Conference League
Aarhus 0-0 Braga
Atalanta 0-0 Kairat
KuPS 0-0 Gent
Lincoln Red Imps 0-0 Hajduk Split
Midtjylland 1-1 Ajax
Mjallby 0-0 Borac
Red Star Belgrade 0-0 Inter D’Escaldes
Thun 2-0 Hearts
Trabzonspor 0-1 Freiburg

It’s half-time now at Thun, where the firework smoke that forced the game to be paused for a few minutes seems to have settled between the ears of the Hearts defenders. 2-0 to the home team there.