Partizan crush Oleksandriya as Jovan Milosevic scores hat-trick

BELGRADE - Serbian runner-up football champions Partizan Belgrade are through to the UEFA Conference League third qualifying round after a 4-0 home win over Ukrainian side Oleksandriya on Thursday evening.

Partizan won 6-0 on aggregate, having won the first leg 2-0.

In front of 27,757 supporters at the Partizan Stadium, Jovan Milosevic scored a hat-trick for the hosts (11, 23, 45 min) and Milan Vukotic made it 4-0 in the 63rd minute.

Oleksandriya were a man down from the 11th minute, when Jocelin Behiratche was sent off for a foul on Milosevic, and two men down from the 57th minute, when Theo Ndicka Matam picked up a second yellow card.

Partizan finished the game with ten men after Arandjel Stojkovic was sent off in the 60th minute for a second yellow card.

Partizan will next play Scottish side Hibernian.

In the same competition, Radnicki Kragujevac lost 1-0 away to Faroe Islands side KI Klaksvik after drawing 0-0 in the first leg.

Pall Andrasson Klettskard scored the winner for the hosts in the 39th minute, sending his team to the next qualifying round.

Novi Pazar are also out of the Conference League qualifiers after a 3-1 away defeat to Polish outfit Jagiellonia Bialystok.

Afimico Pululu (50 min, 73 min pen) and Taras Romanczuk (90+4 min) provided the goals for the hosts, while Abdulsamed Abdullahi scored the only goal for Novi Pazar in the 85th minute.

Jagiellonia won the first leg 2-1.