(GSM) – Bordeaux advanced to the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday with a 2-1, red card-marred victory over Olympiakos. The French champions won the tie 3-1 on aggregate.
Bordeaux extended their 1-0 first-leg lead after just five minutes when Yoann Gourcuff blazed a free kick over the wall and into the net of Antonis Nikopolidis, but matters quieted down for a while after that.
That changed on the hour mark when Olympiakos’ Matt Derbyshire was sent off for a second bookable offense, but Olympiakos pulled a goal back in the 65th minute when Kostas Mitroglou found a way past Cédric Carrasso.
It seemed all to play for in the 68th minute when Alou Diarra’s tackle on Raúl Bravo earned him a second yellow card, reducing Bordeaux to 10 men.
But Marouane Chamakh’s late goal in the 88th minute secured a nervous passage for the French side into the last eight.
Olympiakos then finished the game with nine men late when frustrated defender Olof Mellberg earned a red card.
