The troubled English club Aston Villa’s woes continued as they were dumped out of the Europa League with Scottish hopes also suffering a triple wipeout.

Villa, who saw Martin O’Neill quit as coach on the eve of the Premier League kick-off and James Milner sold to Manchester City, were beaten 3-2 by Rapid Vienna in their play-off second leg.

That gave the Austrians a 4-3 aggregate win to follow up their victory over the Midlanders in last season’s tournament.

Villa twice led on Thursday and also missed a penalty as they joined the Scottish trio of Celtic, Dundee United and Motherwell in being forced to write off their European hopes for another season.

Liverpool and Manchester City were left as Britain’s only representatives in Friday’s draw for the group stages of Europe’s second tier tournament.

Roy Hodgson’s Liverpool overcame a disastrous start to score twice in the last seven minutes to defeat Trabzonspor 2-1 for a 3-1 aggregate victory while City saw off Timisoara of Romania 2-0 at home for a 3-0 triumph. At Villa Park, Gabriel Agbonlahor gave Villa an early lead but Vienna hit back through Atdhe Nuhiu.

Emile Heskey then restored Villa’s lead with 13 minutes remaining after Stiliyan Petrov had missed a penalty.

But Mario Sonnleitner headed Vienna level a minute later before substitute Rene Gartler put the visitors through in the 81st minute.

Playing without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, Liverpool saw their 1-0 first leg advantage last just four minutes in Turkey when Colombian international Teofilo Gutierrez put the home side in front.

He had been set up by Gustavo Colman who had pounced when Dirk Kuyt had given the ball away.

But Hodgson’s side regained the initiative in the 83rd minute when Trabzonspor’s Giray Kacar diverted a Glen Johnson cross into his own net.

Kuyt then added the second on the night for Liverpool in the 88th minute after goalkeeper Onur Kivrak could only parry Joe Cole’s shot into the Dutchman’s path.

“A lot of people have said a lot of things about my future, but for me it is at Liverpool. I like it here at the club and I want to stay here and win things,” said Kuyt.

Shaun Wright-Phillips scored his first goal of the season to help Manchester City overcome Timisoara at Eastlands.

The England winger produced a calm finish in the 43rd minute to open the scoring for Roberto Mancini’s side as the brave resistance of the Romanian minnows was eventually broken.

Dedryck Boyata made it 2-0 in the second half with a close range header to score the first goal of his professional career.

Celtic, who had already been knocked out of the Champions League qualifiers, surrendered a 2-0 first leg lead to go down 4-0 in Utrecht in Holland.

Ricky van Wolfswinkel scored a hat-trick for the Dutch side with Barry Maguire adding a fourth as Celtic’s dismal away record in Europe continued, with just one win in 28 games on the road.

Motherwell lost 1-0 at nine-man Odense, who won the first leg 2-1, at Fir Park last week. Peter Utaka claimed the only goal in the 28th minute.

Dundee United drew 1-1 against AEK Athens but went out 2-1 on aggregate in a match where the venue had to be moved several times.

Elsewhere, Juventus made sure of their place in the next round when Alessandro Del Pierro netted a 53rd-minute winner against Sturm Graz of Austria for a 3-1 aggregate victory.

RESULTS

Porto (Portugal) 4 Racing Genk (Belgium) 2
Porto win 7-2 on aggregate.

Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 2 Gyor ETO (Hungary) 1
Dinamo Zagreb win 4-1 on aggregate.

Fenerbahce (Turkey) 1 PAOK Salonika (Greece) 1
PAOK Salonika win 2-1 on aggregate.

Aston Villa (England) 2 Rapid Vienna (Austria) 3
Rapid Vienna win 4-3 on aggregate.

Elfsborg Boras (Sweden) 0 Napoli (Italy) 2
Napoli win 3-0 on aggregate.

Juventus (Italy) 1 Sturm Graz (Austria) 0
Juventus win 3-1 on aggregate.

Lille (France) 2 Vaslui (Romania) 0
Lille win 2-0 on aggregate.

Manchester City (England) 2 FC Timisoara (Romania) 0
Manchester City win 3-0 on aggregate.

Motherwell (Scotland) 0 OB Odense (Denmark) 1
OB Odense win 3-1 on aggregate.

Maribor (Slovenia) 3 Palermo (Italy) 2
Palermo win 5-3 on aggregate.

Karpaty Lviv (Ukraine) 1 Galatasaray (Turkey) 1
Karpaty Lviv win on away goals after 3-3 on aggregate.

The New Saints (Wales) 2 CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) 2
CSKA Sofia win 5-2 on aggregate.

Grasshoppers (Switzerland) 1 Steaua Bucharest (Romania) 0
Steaua Bucharest win 4-3 on penalties after 1-1 on aggregate.

Utrecht (Netherlands) 4 Celtic (Scotland) 0
Utrecht win 4-2 on aggregate.

Lech Poznan (Poland) 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) 0
Lech Poznan win 1-0 on aggregate.

APOEL Nicosia (Cyprus) 1 Getafe (Spain) 1
Getafe win 2-1 on aggregate.

Ghent (Belgium) 2 Feyenoord (Netherlands) 0
Ghent win 2-1 on aggregate.

AEK Athens (Greece) 1 Dundee United (Scotland) 1
AEK Athens win 2-1 on aggregate.

Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) 4 Paris St Germain (France) 3
Paris St Germain win 5-4 on aggregate.

Tavria Simferopol (Ukraine) 1 Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) 3
Bayer Leverkusen win 6-1 on aggregate.

VfB Stuttgart (Germany) 2 Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) 2
VfB Stuttgart win 3-2 on aggregate.

Levski Sofia (Bulgaria) 2 AIK Stockholm (Sweden) 1
Levski Sofia win 2-1 on aggregate.

Litex Lovech (Bulgaria) 1 Debrecen (Hungary) 2
Debrecen win 4-1 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 5 Sibir Novosibirsk (Russia) 0
PSV Eindhoven win 5-1 on aggregate.

Trabzonspor (Turkey) 1 Liverpool (England) 2
Liverpool win 3-1 on aggregate.

Unirea Urziceni (Romania) 1 Hajduk Split (Croatia) 1
Hajduk Split win 5-2 on aggregate.

Austria Vienna (Austria) 1 Aris Salonika (Greece) 1
Aris Salonika win 2-1 on aggregate.

Brondby (Denmark) 0 Sporting (Portugal) 3
Sporting win 3-2 on aggregate.

Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine) 2 Omonia Nicosia (Cyprus) 2
Metalist Kharkiv win 3-2 on aggregate.

HJK Helsinki (Finland) 0 Besiktas (Turkey) 4
Besiktas win 6-0 on aggregate.

Aktobe Lento (Kazakhstan) 2 AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands) 1
AZ Alkmaar win 3-2 on aggregate.

Maritimo (Portugal) 1 BATE Borisov (Belarus) 2
BATE Borisov win 5-1 on aggregate.

Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) 2 Club Bruges (Belgium) 3
Club Bruges win 5-3 on aggregate.

Dnepr Mogilev (Belarus) 1 Villarreal (Spain) 2
Villarreal win 7-1 on aggregate.

Garabagh Agdam (Azerbaijan) 0 Borussia Dortmund (Germany) 1
Borussia Dortmund win 5-0 on aggregate.

Lokomotiv Moscow (Russia) 1 FC Lausanne-Sport (Switzerland) (II) 1
FC Lausanne-Sport win 4-3 on penalties after 2-2 on aggregate

Played on Tuesday
Anorthosis Famagusta (Cyprus) 1 CSKA Moscow (Russia) 2
CSKA Moscow win 6-1 on aggregate.

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