That’s all for tonight’s blog – thanks for your company, goodnight! Match report: Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens Ed Aarons was at the Amex Stadium to watch AEK Athens ruin Brighton’s big night. Match report: West Ham 3-1 TSC Backa Topola These are the final scores, including the early games. Sixteen games, 52 goals: the Europa League’s back! Group A Olympiakos 2-3 Freiburg, West Ham 3-1 Backa Topola Group B Ajax 3-3 Marseille, Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens Group C Rangers 1-0 Real Betis, Sparta Prague 3-2 Aris Limassol Group D Atalanta 2-0 Rakow Czestochowa, Sturm Graz 1-2 Sporting Group E Lask 1-3 Liverpool, Union Saint-Gilloise 1-1 Toulouse Group F Panathinaikos 2-0 Villarreal, Rennes 3-0 Maccabi Haifa Group G Servette 0-2 Slavia Prague, Sheriff Tiraspol 1-2 Roma Group H Bayer Leverkusen 4-0 Hacken, Qarabag 1-0 Molde The AEK Athens players are dancing in front of the away support. They’re being assaulted by the rain, and they quite rightly could not care less. Full time: Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens Peep peep! Brighton’s big European night ends in frustration. They played well at times, nervously at others, and were picked off by a purposeful, determined if slightly lucky AEK Athens. Brighton will be better for the experience. Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens Mohammadi, who should have been sent off earlier in the half for a shocking tackle on Tariq Lamptey, is now given a yellow card for a cynical foul. Given the referee’s performance, Roberto De Zerbi’s interview could be interesting. Full time: Olympiacos 2-3 Freiburg The home side equalised twice but Maximilian Philipp’s late goal settled matters. Full time: Ajax 3-3 Marseille A humdinger in Amsterdam. Marseille came from 2-0 and 3-2 down to get a point, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang equalising twice. Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens Still five minutes of added time remaining at Brighton. Simon Adingra has been superb since coming on as substitute. Full time: West Ham 3-1 Backa Topola Mohammad Kudus scored on his full debut as West Ham came from behind to win comfortably. Full times: Atalanta 2-0 Rakow Czestochowa, Sparta Prague 3-2 Aris Limassol Full time: Rangers 1-0 Real Betis I’d be lying if I said I’d seen a kick, but that sounds like a terrific win for Rangers against good opposition. Abdallah Sima got the only goal after 68 minutes. Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens It feels like it’s not going to happen for Brighton. Gross’s long-range stinger is punched away by Stankovic, and Welbeck can only head to rebound onto the roof of the net. He did well to get it anywhere near goal, in truth, as it flew towards him at an awkward height. Full time: Sturm Graz 1-2 Sporting Sporting come from behind to win in Austria. Coventry alumnus Viktor Gyokeres got their first goal. Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens The substitute Simon Adingra, who looks full of intent – they’ve bloody found another one haven’t they – whips a lovely curling shot that is brilliantly tipped over by Stankovic. Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens We’re into 13 minutes of added time at Brighton. GOAL! Olympiakos 2-3 Freiburg (Philipp 86) Just the 30 goals in eight games so far. That’s all. West Ham 3-1 Backa Topola West Ham had a scare at the start of the second half, but overall it’s been a handsome victory. They’ve had 74 per cent possession and 21 shots, which can’t have happened too often under … well, any manager. Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens “You could just about see that coming, Rob,” writes Chris Paraskevas. “Game was just opening up a little bit, even though AEK can’t / don’t want to hold the ball. The commentator just mentioned AEK’s famous 3-2 win over Derby County and my old man - who watched that game - is watching this with me now, hoping for another historic result!” The latest scores Olympiacos and Sporting has just scored, hence the bold type. I NEED MORE FINGERS. Group A Olympiakos 2-2 Freiburg, West Ham 3-1 Backa Topola Group B Ajax 3-3 Marseille, Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens Group C Rangers 1-0 Real Betis, Sparta Prague 3-1 Aris Limassol Group D Atalanta 2-0 Rakow Czestochowa, Sturm Graz 1-2 Sporting Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens The interesting thing about that goal – apart from the deflection, which I think is the second inadvertent goal for AEK tonight after Gacinovic in the first half – is that when Ponce won the first header, he knocked Lamptey over in his follow through. That meant the last man Van Hecke had to come across to challenge Eliasson, which left Ponce unmarked in the middle. It probably wasn’t a foul by Ponce, just a natural collision, but it certainly influenced the goal. GOAL! West Ham 3-1 Backa Topola (Soucek 84) West Ham should be safe now. Another left-wing corner, another header, another goal. GOAL! Brighton 2-3 AEK Athens (Ponce 84) Brighton have been stung on the break! Amrabat’s crossfield ball was headed on Ponce to Eliasson. He crossed low, back to Ponce in the area. His first shot was well saved by Steele but the ball seemed to rebound off Ponce and into the net. GOAL! Ajax 3-3 Marseille (Aubameyang 78) Yeah, this group is going to be fun. We’ve already had 10 goals and the first two games haven’t even finished. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has equalised for Marseille for the second time tonight. Hang on, make that 11 goals… Brighton 2-2 AEK Athens There are nine minutes of normal time remaining, though we should get at least double that because of the injury to Hajsafi. Danny Welbeck has just come to replace Joao Pedro, which is a little surprising – he has been much better than Ansu Fati tonight. Roberto knows. Ajax 3-2 Marseille “This game is a cracker,” writes Amar Breckenridge. “I remember watching this fixture in the now defunct Cup Winners’ Cup in 1988. Ajax ran riot 3-0 at the Velodrome, the third goal scored by a very young sub they’d just brought on, one Dennis Bergkamp.” The memory on you! Some cracking players on both teams in that game: Papin, Pele, Giresse, Domergue, Allofs, Menzo, Blind, Wouters, Muhren, Bosman, Bergkamp. Brighton 2-2 AEK Athens It’s all Brighton now. Joao Pedro, on a hat-trick, is put through on goal by an excellent pass from Jan-Paul Van Hecke and drives a low shot that is kicked behind by Stankovic. That’s a really good save. There have been a few other goals in the Europa League. Frankly I don’t have enough fingers, but you can get all the details on our live scores page. And these are the latest scores. Group A Olympiakos 1-2 Freiburg, West Ham 2-1 Backa Topola Group B Ajax 3-2 Marseille, Brighton 2-2 AEK Athens Group C Rangers 1-0 Real Betis, Sparta Prague 3-1 Aris Limassol Group D Atalanta 2-0 Rakow Czestochowa, Sturm Graz 1-1 Sporting GOAL! West Ham 2-1 Backa Topola (Kudus 70) This is definitely Mohammad Kudus’s goal! He met James Ward-Prowse’s inswinging corner six yards out and guided a good header into the corner. GOAL! Rangers 1-0 Real Betis (Sima 68) While all that was going on, Abdallah Sima gave Rangers the lead at Ibrox! Brighton 2-2 AEK Athens This referee is having a stinker. Mohammadi has just committed an awful tackle on the substitute Tariq Lamptey, studs into the side of the leg at full speed, and the referee didn’t even give a free-kick. I’m surprised VAR didn’t get involved because that was a potential red card, never mind yellow. The only person booked is Roberto De Zerbi for impolitely enquiring what the eff is going on. The more you see the tackle, the worse it gets. GOAL! West Ham 1-1 Backa Topola (Petrovic og 66) West Ham are level at last. I think it might be an own goal, though Kudus was involved as well. Benrahma sat a defender down and curled a glorious dipping cross to the far post. Kudus challenged Nemanja Petrovic, who inadvertently turned it into his own net. Yep, that’s definitely an own goal. Brighton 2-2 AEK Athens “In a bar in Kefalonia - problem is the TV showing AEK v Brighton freezes but the West Ham fans are having to chat among themselves as Olympiakos on the other screen, haha,” writes my colleague Steph Fincham. “We are brilliant so will pull this back second half …” GOAL! Brighton 2-2 AEK Athens (Joao Pedro 67 pen) Beautifully done. Joao Pedro goes to the right this time, again sending Stankovic the wrong way, and Brighton are level. He’s doing this all on his own: he’s won two penalties, scored two penalties and now he’s whipping up the crowd as he runs back to the centre circle. Penalty to Brighton! Joao Pedro robbed Damian Szymanski, who tried to kick the ball and instead booted him in the shin. At least the referee didn’t book Joao Pedro for diving this time. Brighton 1-2 AEK Athens Joao Pedro has another big penalty appeal turned down after nicking a loose ball in the area – and again I reckon this will be overturned. It’s a clear penalty, in fact. Rangers 0-0 Real Betis This is now the only goalless Europa League game of the night. There aren’t enough screens in the MBM bunker but the stats suggest it’s pretty close. West Ham 0-1 TSC Backa Topola West Ham continue to be outMoyesed at the London Stadium, where Michail Antonio is about to come on. “If anyone wants an explainer of the weirdness (and to a large extent awfulness) of the team currently embarrassing West Ham,” writes our own Nick Ames, “it’s here.” Brighton 1-2 AEK Athens After a delay of around eight minutes, Hajsafi is replaced by Milad Mohammadi. GOAL! Sturm Graz 1-0 Sporting (Boving 58) William Boving has put Sturm Graz ahead in Austria. Brighton 1-2 AEK Athens There’s been a long delay at the Amex, where Ehsan Hajsafi is being stretchered off after a clash of heads with Jan-Paul Van Hecke. It’s clearly serious, though the body language of the players doesn’t suggest it is life-threatening. As I type, the AEK fans have started doing the Poznan. The latest scores Group A Olympiakos 1-2 Freiburg, West Ham 0-1 Backa Topola Group B Ajax 3-2 Marseille, Brighton 1-2 AEK Athens Group C Rangers 0-0 Real Betis, Sparta Prague 2-1 Aris Limassol Group D Atalanta 1-0 Rakow Czestochowa, Sturm Graz 0-0 Sporting GOAL! Ajax 3-2 Marseille (Taylor 52) Kenneth Taylor has restored Ajax’s lead in Amsterdam, sliding a first-time shot through the keeper Pau Lopez from Carlos Borges’s low cross. Atalanta 1-0 Rakow Czestochowa Atalanta’s goal, meanwhile, was a flicked near-post header by Charles De Ketelaere after a good cross from Davide Zappacosta. GOAL! West Ham 0-1 Backa Topola (Stanic 48) A nightmare for the West Ham captain Angelo Ogbonna. He mistook himself for Franz Beckenbauer and was robbed by Petar Stanic 45 yards from goal. Stanic ran through on goal, composed himself and finished emphatically.