Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Second Qualifying Round Series-Openers

Seven games were played on Tuesday as the second round of qualifying for the 2007-08 UEFA Champions League commenced:

At Glasgow:

David Weir and Lee McCulloch provided the second-half goals to propel Rangers to a 2-0 home win over FK Zeta in the opening match of the two clubs' two-game home-and-away series.

At Copenhagen, Denmark:

Marcus Allback's early goal paced FC Copenhagen to a 1-0 home win over Beitar Jerusalem in game one of their two-game series.

At Tampere, Finland:

Tomi Petrescu scored the lone goal (16') of Tampere United's series-opening 1-0 home win over Levski Sofia.

At Yerevan, Armenia:

Oleksandr Gladkiy and Brandao each scored once for Skakhtar Donetsk as the visiting club from Ukraine registered a 2-0 series-opening road win over Pyunik.

At Debrecen, Hungary:

Daniel Mobaeck's goal at 64 minutes provided visiting Elfsborg with the opening game's only goal as the Swedish club held off Debrecen 1-0.

At Lubin, Poland:

Dorin Goian's second-half tally lifted Steaua Bucharest to a 1-0 series-opening road win over Zaglebie Lubin.

At Genk, Belgium:

Thanks to Veldin Muharemovic's late goal, FK Sarajevo will be heading back to Bosnia after their 2-1 road win over KRC Genk.


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