Dominic Calvert-Lewin came off the bench to grab the goal that handed Everton a 1-0 win away to Slovakia’s Ruzomberok on Thursday as they secured their progress to the Europa League play-off round.
Calvert-Lewin, who scored the winner for England in the under-20 World Cup final in June, replaced summer signing Sandro Ramirez in the second half and produced a cool finish with 10 minutes remaining.
That allowed Everton to win the third qualifying round tie 2-0 on aggregate, with progress all that matters for the Premier League side after two performances in which they struggled to convince against the third-placed side in Slovakia last season.
Among the headline winners on Thursday were AC Milan, the seven-time European champions beating Universitatea Craiova 2-0 at San Siro in their second leg to go through 3-0 on aggregate.
Giacomo Bonaventura and teenager Patrick Cutrone scored the hosts’ goals against the Romanian visitors.
Athletic Bilbao, runners-up in 2012, beat Dinamo Bucharest 3-0, with Raul Garcia netting twice, to go through 4-1 on aggregate.
Zenit St Petersburg, Red Star Belgrade, Panathinaikos and Fenerbahce were among the other winners.
Marseille are also into the play-off round after following a 4-2 victory at home to Oostende last week with a 0-0 draw in Belgium in the return.
However, fellow French side Bordeaux were knocked out by the Hungarians of Videoton, the UEFA Cup runners-up of 1985.
Videoton’s 1-0 win secured a 2-2 aggregate score as they went through on away goals.
PSV Eindhoven were also knocked out, the Dutch club losing 1-0 away to Osijek of Croatia to go out 2-0 on aggregate.
And Freiburg of the German Bundesliga took a 1-0 lead to Slovenia for their return against Domzale, only to lose 2-0 on the night and go out.
The draw for the play-offs takes place on Friday, with the losing sides from the Champions League third qualifying round also going into the hat.
FULL RESULTS
AEL Limassol1-2 Austria Vienna (Agg 1-2)
Sion 1-1 Suduva (Agg 1-4)
Dinamo Minsk 1-1 AEK Larnaca (Agg 1-3)
Shkendija 3-0 FK Trakai (Agg 4-2)
Odd 0-0 Dinamo Zagreb (1-2)
Apollon Limassol 2-0 Aberdeen (Agg 3-2)
FC Oleksandria 1-0 Astra Giurgiu (Agg 1-0)
FK Qabala 1-2 Panathinaikos (Agg 1-3)
Sparta Prague 0-1 Crvena Zvezda (Agg 0-3)
Videoton 1-0 Bordeaux (Agg 2-2)
Zenit St Petersburg 0-1 Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv (Agg 2-1)
Fenerbahce 1-1 SK Sturm Graz (Agg 3-2)
Fola Esch 1-2 Ostersunds FK (1-3)
Lyngby BK 1-3 FK Krasnador (Agg 2-5)
Maritimo 2-0 Botev Plovdiv (Agg 2-0)
PAOK Salonika 2-0 FC Olimpik Donetsk (Agg 3-1)
Skenderbeu 2-1 Mlada Boleslav (Agg 3-3)
Lech Poznan 2-2 FC Utrecht (Agg 2-2)
SC Rheindorf Altach 3-1 KAA Gent (Agg 4-2)
FC Midtjylland 2-1 Arka Gdynia (Agg 4-4)
Hadjuk Split 2-0 Brondby IF (Agg 2-0)
Athletic Bilbao 3-0 Dinamo Bucharest (Agg 4-1)
KV Oostende 0-0 Marseille (Agg 2-4)
MFK Ruzomberok 0-1 Everton (Agg 0-2)
AC Milan 2-0 CS Universitatea Craiova (Agg 3-0)
NK Osijek 1-0 PSV Eindhoven (Agg 2-0)
Panionis 0-1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv (Agg 0-2)
Domzale 2-0 SC Freiburg (Agg 2-1)
Sportiing Braga 2-1 AIK (Agg 3-2)
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