I think they could have - unless they have changed some of the qualifying rules from malagasorry to say Entity couldn't actually have gone through with the win having looked at the table
Top 16 teams went through then - so top 2 from each group, plus 4 more
1 match point with a decent points difference could have been enough to go through as one of the addtional 4 into the final 16
7eme Compagne Nancy finished 3rd in their group with a score of 1/-2 and got through into the last 16 in malaga as an example
It was possible (unless there has been a change from malaga)