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Jeonbuk, Shanghai SIPG into Asian Champions League quarters

JEONJU, South Korea (AP) - Leonardo scored twice as 2006 winner Jeonbuk Motors secured the first spot in the Asian Champions League quarterfinals with a 2-1 win over Melbourne Victory, and Wu Lei's stoppage-time winner against FC Tokyo helped Shanghai SIPG sneak into the last eight on the away goals rule.

Tokyo took a 2-1 lead to Shanghai from the first leg and was on the verge of advancing with the score locked at 0-0 until added time, when unmarked Wu swooped on Elkeson's blocked shot and fired in from close range to give SIPG a 1-0 win and 2-2 draw on aggregate - securing the quarterfinal spot courtesy of the away goal that Wu scored last week.

Jeobuk advanced 3-2 on aggregate, defending frantically as Melbourne pushed for a late equalizer and another away goal that would have given the Australian club a spot in the quarterfinals.

"The players performed well in front of our fans. We gave the ball away a little too often early in the game, but that can happen," Jeonbuk coach Choi Kang-hee said.

Leonardo curled a free kick from an acute angle inside the far post in the 29th minute and doubled the lead with a finish from in front in the 71st.

Besart Berisha kept Melbourne's chances alive when he tapped in Jai Ingham's cross in the 84th minute, but the Australian club was unable to score the equalizer that would have allowed them to advance.

Victory coach Kevin Muscat said he was "bitterly disappointed" to miss out.

"We had our opportunities early on ... two good chances at 0-0 which would have made the game fairly different," he said.

At Tabriz, Iran, Al Nasr scraped into its first quarterfinal despite a 3-1 second-leg defeat to Tractorasazi, giving the United Arab Emirates side a 5-4 aggregate win.

After a comprehensive 4-1 victory in the first leg in Dubai last week, Al Nasr held off the home side after Farzad Hatami's second goal of the match in the 73rd minute pulled the Iranian team to within a goal of sending it to extra time.

Lokomotiv survived a late scare at Tashkent, Uzbekistan to also advance to the quarterfinals for the first time after goals from Islom Tukhtakhujaev and Sherzod Fayziev secured a 2-1 victory over Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal. Mohammed Al Shalhoub's penalty in the last minute was the only Al Hilal goal over the two legs after the teams played to a scoreless draw last week in Riyadh.

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