Alvaro Negredo's early goal helped Valencia advance at the expense of Monaco.Monaco won 2-1 in the home leg but came up one goal short as Valencia went through 4-3 on aggregate.
Alvaro Negredo pounced on an awful Monaco pass back toward their goal and chipped keeper Danijel Subasic to provide the opener in the fourth minute.
With Monaco now needing three goals to force extra time, Andrea Raggi got one back in the 17th minute, and Uwa Echiejile's 75th-minute goal made for a dramatic conclusion, but the Ligue 1 side could not find the last goal they needed.
In Sweden, Malmo defeated Celtic 2-0 to turn around a first-leg defeat and advance 4-3 on aggregate.
Markus Rosenberg scored the opener for the hosts in the 23rd minute, meaning Celtic needed to find a goal to avoid going out on goal difference.
The Scottish champions thought they had it just before half-time when a corner struck a Malmo defender in a hand raised above his head. The ball fell for Celtic to score, but the officials had already ruled the play dead, thinking the ball had hit a Celtic player's hand.
A Dedryck Boyata own goal early in the second half allowed Malmo to see out a comfortable end to the match.
In other games on Tuesday, Maccabi Tel Aviv held Basel to a 1-1 draw to go through 3-3 on the away goals rule.
Shakhtar Donetsk drew 2-2 with Rapid Vienna to advance 3-2 on aggregate.
Dinamo Zagreb went through 6-2 on aggregate after a 4-1 victory at home over Skenderbeu.
The winners will learn their group-stage opponents in a draw on Thursday, while the losing sides will enter the Europa League group stage
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