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UEL Knockout Phase Play-offs, 1st Leg Wrap: Fenerbahce Thrash Anderlecht; Sociedad, Ajax Register Wins

In the Europa League knockout phase play-offs 1st leg, the likes of Fenerbahce, Real Sociedad and Aja♎x registered victories

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Edin Dzeko was among Fenerbahce's goalscorers
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Fenerbahce have one foot in the last 16 of the Europa League after a dominant 3-0 victory over Anderlecht. (More Football News)

Dusan Tadic opened the scoring 12 minut𓄧es into Thursday's contest, and Jose Mourinho's team never looked back.

Edin Dzeko slid in to add an🤪other 𒅌just before half-time, prior to Youssef En-Nesyri heading home brilliantly in the 57th minute.

Fener finished with 13 shots, two fewer than Anderlecht, but accumulated 1.36 expecte෴d goals to the visitors' 0.63.

In their first-ever meeting with Union Saint-Gilꦯloise, Ajax came away with a ꦅ2-0 win.

Christian Rasmussen slammed in from outside th🉐e area just before the hour, with Jorthy Mo༺kio rifling in Ajax's second soon after.

All the goals were scored in the first half as Real Sociedad claimed a 2-1 away wi🉐n at Midtjylland.

Brais 𒁃Mendez's penalty put La Real ahead in the 11th minuꦅte, and then teed up Takefusa Kubo to make it 2-0 20 minutes later.

𓂃Adam Bu💙ksa pulled Midtjylland back into contention, but the Danish team could not find an equaliser and will head to Spain for the second leg one goal behind.

Elsewhere, Ferencvaros beat Viktꦉoria Plzen 1-0 thanks toไ a 23rd-minute goal from Mohamed Abu Fani.

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