Kuopio Palloseura defeated their opponents from Luxembourg at home with goals 5–0.
Kuopio Palloseura’s 18-year-old top promise Otto Ruoppi finished with two goals as KuPS advanced to the second qualifying round of the Conference League after defeating Luxembourg’s Una Strassen 5-0 on aggregate.
The team from Kuopio, who played a 0-0 draw in Luxembourg last week, went to the second leg played on their home field on Thursday hungry.
The copper of the match was broken in the 18th minute, when Ruoppi gave KuPS a 1-0 lead Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumban input.
– I got a good pass in the first hit and was able to move the ball into a virtually empty goal, Ruoppi commented in an interview with Urheilu.
The lead shot had time to expire only two minutes later, when the midfielder hit for the second time, once again from the foreplay provided by Luyeye-Lutumba.
In the second half of the match Axel Vidjeskog, Ousmane Diawara and Arttu Heinonen were further embellished by the crushing 5-0 final score.
In the second qualifying round of the conference league, KuPS will face Tromsö IL from Norway.
Ruoppi said that the team has no prior information about the Norwegian opponent.
– Certainly a tough gang against us and we want to continue in the European games.
VPS in loss
VPS, which is sixth in the Veikkausliiga, started its own struggle in the Conference League qualifiers.
VPS lost to Lithuanian Zalgiris 1–0. Vaasa’s road in the Conference League ended and Zalgiris continues to the second round.
Story edited at 21.42. Ruop’s comments added.