First Half of Third Qualifying Round Concludes

Twelve games were played on Wednesday as the third round of qualifying for the 2007 UEFA Champions League:

All were opening games to two-game total-goals series, all of which will conclude in two weeks.

At Seville, Spain:

Luis Fabiano and Frederic Kanoute delivered the second-half goals that lifted Sevilla (winners of the last two UEFA Cups) to a 2-0 home win over AEK Athens.

At Toulouse, France:

Andriy Voronin's goal at 43 minutes lifted Liverpool to a 1-0 road win over Toulouse.

At Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Maksim Shatskikh sent Dynamo Kiev back home to Ukraine with a one-goal advantage after his goal lifted the visitors to a 1-0 road win over FK Sarajevo.

At Istanbul, Turkey:

Alex scored the lone goal just after the first half-hour expired, lifting Fenerbahce SK to a 1-0 home win over RSC Anderlecht.

At Prague, Czech Republic:

Second-half goals courtesy of Cesc Fabregas and Aleksander Hleb powered Arsenal to a 2-0 road shutout of Sparta Prague.

At Zurich, Switzerland:

FC Zurich salvaged a 1-1 home draw with Besiktas JK, thanks to a late second-half goal from Alexandre Alphonse. Matias Delgado scored the lone Besiktas goal.

At Borisov, Belarus:

FC BATE Borisov came from behind to gain a 2-2 home deadlock with Steaua Bucharest. Gennadi Biznyuk scored the equalizer three minutes into second-half stoppage time.

At Tampere, Finland:

Rosenborg appears ready to punch their ticket to the group stage as they head back to Norway following their 3-0 road fistbeating of Tampere United. Mikka Koppinen (once) and Yssouf Kone (twice) put the visitors in the driver's seat.

At Moscow:

Celtic FC and hosts Spartak Moscow battled to a 1-1 stalemate. Paul Hartley put the Bhoys in front, only to see Spartak's Roman Pavlyuchenko square things for the hosts.

At Bremen, Germany:

Werder Bremen defeated visiting Dinamo Zagreb 2-1. Bosko Balaban scored in the first half to give the visitors a 1-0 halftime lead, before Hugo Almeida and sub Daniel Jensen pulled it out in the second half for the hosts.

At Salzburg, Austria:

A successful tenth-minute penalty kick from Alexander Zickler propelled FC Red Bull Salzburg to a 1-0 home win over Shakhtar Donetsk.

At Amsterdam:

David Kalidova's 74th-minute penalty kick was the lone score of Slavia Prague's 1-0 road win over Ajax Amsterdam.