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The Belgian club put one foot in the next round by hitting Kent Nielsen's men 3-1 in northern Denmark last week and it wasted no time confirming its superiority in the second leg.

FT: Club plaatst zich makkelijk voor de volgende ronde na een vlotte zege tegen Aalborg.3-0 #CluAal #Wearebruges #UEL pic.twitter.com/hsiZBPnKUV — Club Brugge KV (@ClubBrugge) February 26, 2015

Victor Vazquez ensured the reigning Superliga champion had everything to do with an early opener and second-half goals from Obbi Oulare and Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo rubber-stamped a comprehensive 3-0 win on the night.

Aalborg was always going to be up against it having conceded three away goals in Denmark and its chances of progressing grew even slimmer within 11 minutes of play at the Jan Breydel Stadion.

The Belgian side worked its way down the left side of the park before Lior Rafaelov slotted the ball across the box for Vazquez to turn home from six yards out.

Brugge pushed for a quickfire second, with Ruud Vormer smashing a shot just wide, but Aalborg soon sprang into life and dominated the rest of the half.

Thomas Enevoldsen was unlucky to miss the mark with an effort on the stroke of 30 minutes and Andreas Bruhn certainly gave Brugge goalkeeper Ryan food for thought with his swerving drive.

The Australian got a rare feel of the ball when play resumed as Enevoldsen came knocking but Brugge soon resumed turning the screw with Oulare and Thomas Meunier both going close.

In the 64th minute the former put the Belgian team out of sight.

Vormer provided the assist from the left that Oulare steered into the bottom corner with his right boot.

Aalborg's heads dropped and it only took its host 10 more minutes to make it 3-0 as Vormer found more joy down the left flank to pick out Bolingoli-Mbombo for a regulation tap-in.

Young Boys was again unable to cope with Romelu Lukaku on Thursday (Friday AEDT) as the Belgian scored twice in Everton's 3-1 win at Goodison Park to help ensure a last-16 place in the UEFA Europa League.

Lukaku scored a hat-trick in the 4-1 first-leg victory at the Stade de Suisse, and added two more at Goodison Park to fend off an early fightback from the Swiss side and seal progression.

Young Boys reduced the three-goal deficit with Sekou Sanogo's 13th-minute opener but a two-goal salvo from Romelu Lukaku inside half an hour took any glimmer of hope away from the Swiss side.

Kevin Mirallas added a third before the interval - before Lukaku was given a breather early in the second half ahead of this weekend's Premier League clash with Arsenal.

Even without Lukaku to deal with, Uli Forte's side was unable to make any headway as it is left to focus on its Swiss Super League title challenge after a convincing defeat over the two legs.

Roberto Martinez and Everton will look forward to its first European last-16 tie since 2008, having progressed shortly after rival Liverpool were sent out of the same competition on penalties against Besiktas.

Roma progressed to the last 16 of the Europa League with victory over Feyenoord but the match was overshadowed by crowd trouble in Rotterdam, including an apparent incident of racism.

Goals from Adem Ljajic and Gervinho helped Roma seal a 3-2 aggregate win following the 1-1 first-leg draw, but it was more ugly scenes off the field which will dominate the headlines.

The first leg in Rome was also marred by trouble involving visiting fans and there were reports of unrest before Thursday's (Friday AEDT) return meeting as well, with police said to have detained 17 people.

The second leg was then played amid a hostile and intimidating atmosphere at De Kuip.

French referee Clement Turpin spoke to both managers towards the end of a volatile first half after Roma's Cote d'Ivoire forward Gervinho seemingly had an inflatable banana thrown in his direction from a section of the stadium housing Feyenoord fans.

The match was then suspended for around 15 minutes at the start of the second half when Turpin took the players off the pitch.

It was not immediately clear why the match had been halted but it came moments after Turpin had shown Feyenoord substitute Mitchell Te Vrede a straight red card for a challenge on Kostas Manolas.

Te Vrede, who looked astonished to be dismissed, was on the pitch because the man he replaced, Colin Kazim-Richards, had gone off. Kazim-Richards had earlier been hit in the face by Daniele De Rossi's arm.

De Rossi, who escaped punishment for that incident, had been attempting to block his opponent from challenging Roma keeper Lukasz Skorupski following a through-ball.

When the players eventually came back out after the suspension, there was more drama as Feyenoord scored almost immediately after the match restarting to level up the scores once again when Elvis Manu - who had replaced Khalid Boulahrouz following Te Vrede's red card - broke through to slide a shot past Lukasz Skorupski.

As the home side celebrated that goal, Feyenoord reserve goalkeeper Erwin Mulder was also shown a red card following a touchline incident.

Feyenoord's joy at equalising was short-lived, though, as Roma netted what would prove to be the decisive goal just three minutes later as Gervinho slotted past Kenneth Vermeer to make it 3-2 on aggregate.

With tensions remaining high in a match which saw objects regularly being thrown onto the pitch, Feyenoord pushed for a goal that would even things up again on the night, but it could find no way past Skorupski.

Feyenoord's exit from the competition is unlikely to be the end of the matter for the Dutch side, though, with UEFA expected to launch an investigation into the incidents.

Elsewhere, Dnipro booked its place in the last 16 of the Europa League with a 2-2 draw at 10-man Olympiacos.

Dnipro had the cushion of a 2-0 home win heading into the match at Karaiskakis Stadium and twice came from behind to ensure parity in the return leg.

First-half goals from Kostas Mitroglou and Artem Fedetskiy cancelled each other out and, after Luka Milivojevic's 51st-minute red card, both sides scored again at the death.

Wolfsburg repelled a string of Sporting Lisbon attacks to reach the last 16 of the competiton with a goalless draw in Portugal.

With a 2-0 aggregate lead from the first leg, Wolfsburg focused its efforts on keeping Sporting at bay and could thank goalkeeper Diego Benaglio for making a string of saves to frustrate the host side.

Napoli cruised to a routine victory over Trabzonspor and confirmed its last-16 place in the Europa League in the process on Thursday (Friday AEDT).

Having won last week's first leg 4-0, Rafael Benitez's men had the one task of avoiding capitulation to complete.

They did just that, with Jonathan de Guzman's goal earning the Italian side a 1-0 win on the night and a 5-0 one on aggregate.

Torino got the better of a ding-dong battle in torrential rain to eliminate Athletic Bilbao from the Europa League.

The Serie A side twice saw its lead pegged back but finally prevailed 3-2 on the night to win 5-4 on aggregate and advance to the last 16.

Fabio Quagliarella's penalty, Maxi Lopez's header and Matteo Darmian's eventual winner ensured Andoni Iraola's excellent goal and one from Oscar De Marcos were in vain.