Champions League Results 2015: Leg 2 Play-off Scores from Tuesday

A 2-1 defeat at Monaco wasn't enough to prevent Valencia from booking their place in this season's Champions League group stage on Tuesday evening, while Celtic tumbled out following a 2-0 defeat at Malmo.

Shakhtar Donetsk did enough to hold off Rapid Vienna and earn a 3-2 aggregate win that propelled them into the group stage along with Dinamo Zagreb and Maccabi Tel Aviv, who overcame Skenderbeu and Basel, respectively.

Valencia moved past Monaco with a 4-3 aggregate victory following last week's confident 3-1 win at home and head back to the Champions League for the first time since the 2012-13 season.

Read on for a breakdown of Tuesday's Champions League play-off results as the group stages took one step closer to completing their make-up.

Home	Score (Aggregate)	Away
Monaco	2-1 (3-4)	Valencia
Malmo	2-0 (4-3)	Celtic
Shakhtar Donetsk	2-2 (3-2)	Rapid Vienna
Maccabi Tel Aviv	1-1 (3-3, Maccabi win on away goals)	Basel
Dinamo Zagreb	4-1 (6-2)	Skenderbeu

Recap

Valencia made their way to the French Riviera on Tuesday knowing even a one-goal defeat would still see them through to the Champions League group stage, but Nuno Espirito Santo's side weren't looking to take many risks.

Pressure was eased from their shoulders, however, when Alvaro Negredo cut down the left side of the box to score a sumptuous lob in the fourth minute. David Cartlidge of beIN Sports praised his selection as being well-placed:

Monaco hit back through Andrea Raggi in the 18th minute and set up a frantic end when Guido Marcelo Carrillo and Elderson Echiejile bundled a goal in the 75th minute to make the scoreline 4-3 on aggregate.

Dermot Corrigan of ESPN FC was adamant the goal shouldn't have stood under suspicions of offside, but it wouldn't matter in the end as Valencia held out to lose 2-1 on the night but prevail over both legs:

Celtic's trip to Malmo was somewhat more precarious after glancing a 3-2 win in Glasgow's first leg, and the Swedish hosts showed their pedigree with a 2-0 victory on Tuesday to turn the tie and advance in the competition.

Former Manchester City defender Dedryck Boyata scored a second-half own goal to build on Markus Rosenberg's 23rd-minute opener for the hosts, but Bleacher Report's Graham Ruthven felt Celtic were denied a crucial goal of their own:

Ronny Deila's side put up a fight to regain their lead in the fixture, but their efforts were in vain on a night where they were soundly bested in foreign territory.

Deila pulled no punches in his assessment of Celtic's performance. Per Martin Dalziel of the club's official website, he said:

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We were not even close to the level we can be. We looked very uncomfortable on the ball and we didn’t want the ball.

We looked frightened and scared. That’s disappointing and we did that as a team. It wasn’t one player here or there. It was a team performance that was not at the level we expect in these games...

We have to learn from this and we knew if we were at our best we had a chance to go through, but we weren’t even close to the performance we wanted and Malmo deserved to go through.

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There was a similar scare for Ukrainian champions Shakhtar, who drew 2-2 at home to Rapid Vienna thanks to goals from Marlos and Olexsandr Gladkiy.

They make their way into the Champions League for the seventh year in succession after beating their Austrian foes 3-2 on aggregate, with Infostrada Sports confirming their record achievement:

European staples Basel also drew in their trip to Israel on Tuesday, but a 1-1 draw wasn't enough to match Maccabi Tel Aviv's 2-2 draw in the first leg, with the latter moving ahead on away goals.

FourFourTwo's Charles Ducksbury applauded manager Slavisa Jokanovic for leading Maccabi through after being axed at Watford earlier this year, with Eran Zahavi equalising Luca Zuffi's opener to tie 3-3 on aggregate:

It was a small surprise to see the 10 men of Dinamo Zagreb produce Tuesday's most entertaining tie, beating Skenderbeu 6-2 over the two legs and moving into the contest with a spring in their step.

The play-off excitement doesn't end, though, as the likes of Manchester United, Lazio, Bayer Leverkusen and Sporting Lisbon take to the turf on Wednesday in the hopes of securing their Champions League futures.

United head into their match with a 3-1 lead over Club Brugge. The Belgian side's away goal has the potential to make it a tricky night for the Red Devils, but the one area United have convinced in this season is at the back, so the two-goal lead should be enough to see them through.

Lazio take a far more dangerous 1-0 scoreline to Leverkusen, so expect a tense, hard-fought contest in Germany with Lars Bender driving his team on from midfield.