Kenyan international Joseph Okumu watched his side KAA Gent beat Azerbaijan’s Qarabag FK 5-3 on post-match penalties in the UEFA Conference League play-off held on Thursday evening at the Ghelamco Arena.Gent,had to seal a ticket to the round of sixteen from the post-match penalties as the 1-0 win garnered inside regular time was not enough to knock Qarabag out.The Belgian outfit lost the first leg 1-0 and went into last evening’s encounter aware that unfavorable result will spell doom to their bid to advance to later stages of the tournament.##NAJAVA_MECA_7042048##Qarabag,frustrated Gent to barren draw in the first half but Gift Orban gave them the much-needed breakthrough as he netted in the 74th minute to give his side the hope of fighting for the ticket to the next round.Okumu who has been a mainstay in the Gent defence watched the entire game from the substitutes bench.Head and shoulders above the competition! Harambee Star’s brace puts Al-Duhail into the AFC Champions League semisGent scored all their penalties through Orban, Cederick Van Daele, Julien De Sart, Hugo Cuypers and Sulayman Marreh.Richard, Adama Diakhaby, Toral Bayramov converted for Qarabag with Yassine Benzia missing.Gent will know the opponent they will come up against in the round of sixteen on Friday when the draw will be conducted at the House of European Football at UEFA’s headquarters in Switzerland.I am a proud dad says Noah Abich in wake of his son’s elevation at TuskerThe eight Europa Conference League group-stage winners will be seeded. The winners of the knockout-round play-off winners will be unseeded.Seeded teams (Qualified teams as group winners)• Nice• AZ• West Ham• Slovan Bratislava• Sivasspor• Villarreal• Djurgardens IF• Istanbul BasaksehirUnseeded teams (Europa Conference League play-off winners)• Gent• Lazio• Basel• Fiorentina• Lech Poznan• Anderlecht• AEK Larnaca• Sheriff Tiraspol
