(AFP) - Arsenal confirmed its lead in Group A and its direct qualification to the final price of the European League competition ( Europa League ) in football, by defeating its Swiss guest Zurich 1-0 Thursday in London in the last sixth round.
Arsenal owes its victory to its Scottish international defender Kieran Tierney, who scored the only goal in the 17th minute.
It is the fifth victory of the London team in the competition, so it finished the group stage in the lead with 15 points, two points ahead of its pursuer and its only competitor for the direct card, Eindhoven, the Dutch winner, who beat Bodo Glimt of Norway, with two goals to the Icelandic Alphonse Sampsted (36 mistakes in his team’s goal) and the Belgian Johan Bakayoko (52) vs. A goal by Slovenian Nino Zugili (90 + 3).
The Dutch team will play a play-off to qualify for the final price of the second continental competition with one of the third-place finishers in the Champions League.
Italy's Roma survived a disappointing exit by defeating its Bulgarian guest Ludogorets 3-1.
Roma needed a draw to maintain his hopes of continuing his career in the competition and going into the play-off round qualifying for the final price.
Ludogorets was the first to score through Brazilian striker Rick (42), but the capital team responded with a hat-trick in the second half through Lorenzo Pellegrini (56 and 65 from two penalties) and Nicolo Zaniolo (85).
Roma strengthened its position in second place in Group C, with 10 points, compared to 7 for Ludogorets, who will compete in the qualifying playoffs to the Tournament League competition.
Spanish Real Betis, who was the guarantor of its direct qualification, strengthened its lead by defeating its Finnish guest, HJK Helsinki, with three clean goals, which were scored by Aitor Roybal (20 and 41) and French Nabil Fekir (90 + 3).
Manchester United beat its Spanish host, Real Sociedad, 1-0, but it did not accomplish its mission by being satisfied with the fifth place.
The two teams entered the meeting having previously secured one of the first two places, but United were required to win by two goals or more to lead the group after they fell at home 1-0 in the first round against the Basque team.
Sociedad and United finished the group with 15 points each, but the first snatched the lead by goal difference (+8 vs. +7).
The young Argentine Alejandro Garnacho (18 years) scored the only goal of the match from a beautiful game after the Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea raised a ball that the Portuguese Bruno Fernandez rose to in the middle of the field and passed it with his head to his compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo and from him to the young Argentine Bennett towards the left side to the outskirts of the area, he received it He penetrated into it and finished it beautifully with his left hand at the top of the goal (17), scoring his first goal with the team.
Ronaldo had a golden opportunity to double the score after defender John Pacheco lost the ball in front of his area. The Portuguese snatched it and tried to drop it “Loeb” over the advancing goalkeeper, but it was long and slammed into the top of the net (42).
After that, De Gea, who was not called by coach Luis Enrique in the preliminary squad for the Qatar World Cup 2022, saved his team from a achieved goal when he first blocked a powerful long shot from outside the area by Andoni Gorosabel, prepared in front of Pablo Marin, who followed it from close range. (43).
The second half did not witness any opportunities despite Dutch coach Eric ten Hag's attempt to score the second goal by throwing Marcus Rashford, knowing that the Brazilian Anthony and the French Anthony Marcial Gaba due to injury and Jaidon Sancho due to illness.
In Group Six, and after the competition was wide open between four teams to reserve the first two places, the Dutch Feyenoord took the lead by defeating its Italian guest Lazio 1-0, while the second place went to the Danish Midtjylland, who defeated its Austrian guest Sturm Graz 2-0, noting that All teams finished with 8 points.
And in the seventh, the German Freiburg, who was the guarantor of the lead, tied with its Azerbaijani host Karabakh 1-1, and French Nantes snatched second place by defeating its Greek host Olympiacos 2-0.
And in the eighth, France’s Monaco qualified for the qualifying play-off for the final price by defeating its guest, Serbian Red Star, 4-1, while Hungarian Ferencváros, who was the guarantor of the group’s top spot, lost to its Turkish host, Trabzonspor, 0-1.
In the second, the Turkish Fenerbahçe booked its direct card by defeating its Ukrainian host, Dynamo Kiev, with two clean goals scored by Arda Guler (23) and the Brazilian Willian Arau (45 + 2).
Fenerbahçe took advantage of the stumbling of his former partner in the lead, French Rennes, with his guest AEK Larnaca of Cyprus, with a goal by Mattis Albin (17) against a goal by Portuguese Rafa Lubis (76).
And in the fourth, Union Berlin, Germany, secured its qualification for the playoffs, by defeating its Belgian host, Saint-Gilloise, with a direct card, with a goal by Sven Mitchell (6).
In the same group, Portugal's Braga beat Sweden's Malmo 2-1 and secured the qualification for the Conference League.

Turkish clubs Basaksehir, Dutch club AZ Alkmaar, Slovan Bratislava of Slovakia and Nice of France joined the qualifiers for the final price of the Conference League football competition on Thursday, after the final sixth round of the group stage.
The four clubs joined Post Ham United of England (Group B), Villarreal of Spain (Third), Djurgarden of Sweden (Sixth), and Sivasspor of Turkey (Seventh).
Istanbul Basaksehir qualified for the final price by defeating its Scottish guest, Hearts, 3-1, to secure top spot in Group A with 13 points, on goal difference, against Italian Fiorentina, who beat RFS Latvia 3-0.
Fiorentina is in the play-offs that qualify for the final price with one of the third-placed players in the European League competition, according to the competition system.
Alkmaar booked its ticket by defeating its guest and direct chaser Dnipro, Ukraine, 2-1, to secure the lead with 15 points, five points ahead of the latter.
Slovan Bratislava secured its qualification by defeating its Lithuanian host Vilnius 2-1, to confirm its lead in Group H with 11 points and a goal difference against Basel, the Swiss, who defeated its Armenian host, Pyunik, with the same result.
France's Nice achieved the most important draw with its German host Cologne 2-2, leading Group D, with a difference in the two direct confrontations, against the Serbian Partizan Belgrade, which tied with its Czech guest Slovatsko 1-1.