More Action From Champions League Second Qualifying Round

The opening matches from the 12 remaining two-game series in the second qualifying round for the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League were played on Wednesday.

At Ventspils, Latvia:

Goals from Andrejs Butriks (79'), Deniss Kacanovs (86'), and Vits Rimkus (87') enabled FK Ventspils to bust open what had a scoreless stalemate and register a 3-0 home win in game one of their two-match series with F91 Dudelange.

At Turku, Finland:

Alexandru Suvorov's penalty kick (42') was the only goal of the match as FC Sheriff took game one on the road at Inter Turku's expense 1-0.

At Tblisi, Georgia:

FC WIT Georgia and visiting NK Maribor battled to a game-one 0-0 deadlock.

At Sofia, Bulgaria:

Georgi Hristov's double (64', 72') was part of a second half offensive barage as PFC Levski Sofia blasted nine-man UE Sant Julia at home 4-0 in the series opener for both clubs.

At Haifa, Israel:

Vladimer Dvalishvili scored twice (57', 81') as Maccabi Haifa FC mauled visiting Glantoran FC in game one 6-0.

At Debrecen, Hungary:

Powered by goals from Jozsef Varga (73') and Zoltan Kiss (86') enabled Debrecen VSC to blank visiting Kalmar FF 2-0 in game one.

At Tirana, Albania:

Devis Mujak's goal at 50 minutes enabled KF Tirana to salvage a game-one 1-1 home draw with Stabaek IF. The Norwegian club, though, did get what could be a critical away goal from Daigo Kobayashi at 34 mintes.

At Copenhagen, Denmark:

Dame Ndoye tallied twice (69', 74') as FC Copenhagen all but locked up a berth in the third qualifying round. The Lions brassknuckled visiting Mogren 6-0 in game one.

At Salzburg, Austria:

Joseph Ndo's equalizer at 60 minutes gained a series-opening 1-1 road draw for Bohemian FC against FC Red Bull Salzburg, whose lone score in the opening match came at 25 minutes from Milan Dudic.

At Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina:

Kresimir Kordic scored the opening game's lone goal at 48 minutes as NK Zrinjski topped visiting SK Slovan Bratislava 1-0.

At Sosnowiec, Poland:

Piotr Cwielong's very late equalizer (90'+3) enabled Wisla Krakow to salvage a game one 1-1 home draw with FC Levadia Tallinn. The Estonian visitors gained what might be a precious road goal from Nikita Andreev at 41 minutes.

At Hafnarfjordur, Iceland:

Konstantin Golovskoy's second-half brace (57', 85') helped FK Aktobe bury FH Hafnarfjordur on the road , 4-0, in game one.