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Europa League round-up: RB Salzburg overcome RB Leipzig, AC Milan narrowly win

Salzburg beat Leipzig in their Europa League opener
Image: Salzburg beat Leipzig in their Europa League opener

Red Bull Salzburg won the 'Red Bull derby' 3-2 at RB Leipzig thanks to an 89th-minute winner from Fredrik Gulbrandsen.

Salzburg took a 2-0 lead through Munas Dabbur and Amadou Haidara before Konrad Laimer and a Yussuf Poulsen header got Leipzig level.

But with a minute of normal time left, Fredrik Gulbrandsen latched onto Hannes Wolf's flick-on to hand the Austrian champions a late winner.

AC Milan only had a Gonzalo Higuain goal to show for their trip to Luxembourg, running out narrow 1-0 winners against F91 Dudelange. Group F rivals Olympiakos and Real Betis drew 0-0.

Ever Banega and Wissam Ben Yedder scored two apiece as Sevilla racked up a thumping 5-1 win over Standard Liege. The Spaniards top Group J from Krasnodar after the Russian side downed Turkey's Akhisarspor 1-0.

An early Luis Alberto goal and a late Ciro Immobile penalty gave Lazio a 2-1 triumph over Cypriots Apollon Limassol while elsewhere in Group H Marseille were beaten 2-1 by Eintracht Frankfurt.

Dynamo Kiev were held 2-2 by Kazakhstan side FC Astana while an injury-time goal from Hatem Ben Arfa gave Rennes a 2-1 victory at home to Czech outfit FK Jablonec.

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In Group A Bayer Leverkusen had to come from 2-0 down to beat Bulgarian side Ludogorets 3-2 and Zurich won 1-0 at AEK Larnaca of Cyprus.

FC Copenhagen drew 1-1 with Zenit St Petersburg and Slavia Prague beat Bordeaux 1-0 in Group C.

Dinamo Zagreb thumped Fenerbahce 4-1 in Group D with Spartak Trnava of Slovakia sinking Anderlecht 1-0.

Group I saw Besiktas sink Norwegians Sarpsborg 08 3-1 and Genk beat Malmo 2-0.

In Chelsea's group, Belarus side BATE beat Hungarians MOL Vidi 2-0, while Sporting Lisbon secured a 2-0 win over Qarabag of Azerbaijan in Arsenal's group.

The other game in Rangers' group saw Rapid Vienna defeat Spartak Moscow 2-0.

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