Kairat Almaty will face Celtic in their shoot-out for the £40million Champions League jackpot after seeing off Slovan Bratislava. ‌

And it leaves Brendan Rodgers preparing his side for a mammoth trip across the globe to secure a spot in Europe's elite competition. ‌

The Kazakhstan league leaders took a 1-0 advantage into the second leg in Slovakia after Dastan Satpaev stepped up to bag the winner from 12 yards after Kairat were awarded a penalty kick in the final seconds of the showdown. ‌

However, Slovan would cancel that out on the night after Robert Mak opened the scoring.

An even contest would go all the way to penalties with Alen Mustafic and Tigran Barseghyan being denied for Slovan to allow Jorginho to send Kairat into the playoff showdown for riches of Europe's elit

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