Stoke, Lokomotiv Moscow advance in Europa

London: Stoke City and Lokomotiv Moscow advanced to the last 32 in the Europa League, while FC Twente defeated Fulham 1-0 to win their group in the continent's second-tier football competition.

Stoke qualified with a 1-1 home draw against Dynamo Kiev on Thursday as Kenwyne Jones headed in a cross from Jermain Pennant with nine minutes remaining after a Matthew Upson own goal put the visitors ahead in the first half.

"What we've done is fantastic," Stoke manager Tony Pulis told reporters. "We've qualified from the hardest group we could have been put in, not only because of the quality of the opposition but because of the travelling."

The top two teams from each of the 12 groups go through to the next round, where they're joined by the eight third-place finishers from the elite Champions League.

Stoke has 11 points in Group E, two more than Besiktas, which is three points ahead of Kiev. Two goals from Ricardo Quaresma and another from Ebrahim Toraman gave Besiktas a 3-2 win against Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel.

Maicon scored for Lokomotiv in the 62nd minute to break a scoreless Group L match in Moscow. Florian Kainz tied the game a minute later and the hosts sealed the win with a Dmitri Sychev penalty kick and a late goal by Denis Glushakov. In the other match in the group, Anderlecht got past AEK Athens 2-1 in Greece. In the Netherlands, Marc Janko scored in the 89th minute to keep Twente at the top of Group K.

Also in the group, Wisla Krakow beat last-place Odense 2-1. The victory puts Krakow a point behind Fulham with one game to play. Fulham had striker Andy Johnson red-carded for a second bookable offence in added time at the end of the game, ruling him out of the final match against Odense.

"That was not what you want," Fulham coach Martin Jol said. "We need all of our players and Andy Johnson is scoring goals."

Sporting Lisbon will finish atop Group D after a 2-0 victory over FC Zurich. Lazio and Vaslui are tied on six points after they drew 0-0 in Romania.