INNSBRUCK, Austria, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the Champions League by beating Tirol Innsbruck on aggregate despite losing the replayed second leg of their Third Qualifying round tie on Saturday.

The Austrians won an ill-tempered game 1-0 thanks to a goal by Jerzy Brzeczek in the 30th minute after a successful appeal over a mistaken booking in the second leg proper. But Lokomotiv, who won the first leg 3-1 in Russia on August 7, advanced to the group stage with a 3-2 aggregate victory.

Tirol finished the game with 10 men after midfielder Alfred Hoertnagl was sent off for diving in the 64th minute.

The game was a replay ordered by European body UEFA of the August 22 match in Vienna which the Russians won 1-0 for an aggregate 4-1 victory.

The Austrian champions lodged an appeal with UEFA after the game, claiming that Dutch referee Mario van der Ende had booked the wrong player.

Tirol successfully argued that the referee mistakenly showed the yellow card to Lokomotiv's Vladimir Maminov instead of Ruslan Pimenov, who had committed the foul and should have been sent off for what was his second bookable offence.

The Austrians said the mistake allowed Lokomotiv to play the final stages of the match with 11 men instead of 10.

Lokomotiv filed a counter-appeal but UEFA's disciplinary committee dismissed it on the grounds that since the referee had booked the wrong man, the last 18 minutes of the match were irregular.

TEMPERS FLARE

With the visitors feeling they were robbed of victory and the hosts eager to take advantage of their second chance before a capacity crowd at the Tivoli Stadium, the match was emotionally-charged.

Russia's Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper on Saturday offered £3,400 to the Lokomotiv player who scored the first goal. But Tirol took control from the start and gained the upper hand when Brzeczek mastered a cross from Roland Kirchler and fired it past Lokomotiv's Russian international keeper Ruslan Nigmatullin.

Tirol tightened their stranglehold in the second half with numerous attacks, but the razor-sharp reactions of Nigmatullin thwarted any hopes of further home goals.

'I don't think one could have played much better. We certainly deserved victory with a two to three goal difference, but it wasn't meant to be,' said Tirol captain Michael Baur. 'Nigmatullin again pulled off a fantastic performance and I congratulate the Russians - they did a good job and I wish them all the best.'

Tirol were also fortunate to survive some spirited attacks on their goal. Lokomotiv had one of their best chances in the first half when Marat Ismailov battled his way through only to have his shot deflected by Marc Ziegler, who had come well out of his goal to intercept.