Europa League review:Aston Villa crashed out of the Europa League at the final qualifying hurdle as they lost 3-2 on the night and 4-3 on aggregate against Rapid Vienna despite twice being in front.
It was a big financial blow for the club and also weakened caretaker boss Kevin MacDonald's chances of being given the job on a permanent basis.
Gabriel Agbonlahor and Emile Heskey netted for Villa but Rapid refused to buckle and goals from Atdhe Nuhiu, Mario Sonnleitner and Rene Gartler stunned the near 30,000 crowd as Villa's Stiliyan Petrov saw a penalty saved.
Manchester Citycoasted into the group stages with a comfortable 2-0 victory against Timisoaraat Eastlands.
Holding a 1-0 lead from the play-off first leg, Shaun Wright-Phillips extended their advantage after a glorious through-ball from Patrick Vieira.
City sewed the tie up with Dedryck Boyata's first goal for the club - a thumping header following David Silva's free-kick.
It was also a tough night for the other two Scottish sides.
Motherwellsquandered a host of chances as their Europa League dreams evaporated with a 1-0 defeat against nine-man Odense, who won the first leg 2-1, at Fir Park.
Peter Utaka claimed the only goal in the 28th minute with the Danish side's only real opportunity of the second leg but Motherwell's failing came at the other end as they missed a hatful of chances.
John Sutton and Chris Humphrey missed clear opportunities to put Motherwell in command in the opening six minutes and the best of numerous second-half opportunities came when Jamie Murphy missed a late penalty after Espen Ruud and Anders Moller Christensen had been sent off.
Dundee Unitedclaimed a creditable 1-1 draw against AEK Athensbut slipped out of Europe after a 2-1 aggregate loss.
After a week of farce which saw the venue for the match switched several times, the contest finally went ahead at the Karaiskaki Stadium - home of AEK's deadly rivals Olympiakos - but with only United supporters present because of security fears.
Debutant Papa Bouba Diop scored the opening goal and it looked as if United's hopes were over, but substitute Jon Daly came off the bench to net a goal which gave them hope of progressing. Despite their endeavour, though, it was not to be.
Welsh minnows TNSfought valiantly to secure a 2-2 draw against CSKA Sofiain the second leg of their play-off.
TNS had suffered a comprehensive 3-0 defeat in the first leg in Bulgaria and had little realistic hope of overturning the deficit on home turf.
However, they did lead at one point at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground.
Giuseppe Aquaro gave CSKA a 10th minute lead but forward Matthew Williams levelled three minutes later.
Captain Steve Evans then put TNS in front to get the home fans dreaming, but Christian Tiboni scored 11 minutes from time to take the gloss off for the Welsh outfit.