First Qualifying Round- First Leg Results

By: Dan | July 2nd, 2009

Competitive football returns: in gamecast form for me, visually for luckier individuals.

Sutjeska Niksic 1 – MTZ RIPO 1
Lahti 4 - Dinamo Tirana 1
Grevenmacher 0 – Vetra 3
NSI Runavik 0 – Rosenborg 3
Szombathelyi Haladas 1 – Irtysh 0
Sligo Rovers 1 – Vllaznia 2
Olimpi Rustavi 2 - B36 Torshavn 0
Anorthosis 5 – Kaerjeng 0
Slaven Koprivnica 1 - Birkirkara 0
Zimbru Chisinau 1 – Okzhetpes 2
Lisburn Distillery 1 – Zestaponi 5
Helsingborg 3 – MIKA 1
Valletta 3 – Keflavik 0
Dinaburg 2 - JK Nomme Kalju 1
Buducnost 0 – Polonia Warsaw 2
Narva Trans 0 – Rudar Velenje 3
Motherwell 0 – Llanelli 1
Banants 0 – Siroki Brijeg 2
Spartak Trnava 2 – Inter Baku 1
Dinamo Minsk 2 – Renova 1
Randers 4 - Linfield 0
Simurq Zaqatala 0 – Bnei Yehuda 1
Fram 2 – The New Saints 1

Motherwell losing at home to their Welsh opponents Llanelli will probably be considered the surprise result of the day. Sligo Rovers home loss to Albania’s Vllaznia is another candidate for that category. Sligo’s Alan Keane had a particularly bad day, scoring a 75th minute own goal, and missing a penalty.

The battle of Baltic former Soviet republics featured two injury time goals as Dinaburg of Latvia defeated Nomme Kalju of Estonia. Another, more famous, ex-Soviet club, Dinamo Minsk, struggled a bit against their Macedonian opposition, Renova; Dinamo required a late comeback to take a 2-1 advantage into the second leg.

Two of the the most decisive results of the day were bad news for Northern Ireland as Randers comprehensively defeated Linfield and Georgia’s Zestaponi will have five away goals to work with, after a 5-1 victory over Lisburn Distillery.

Overall, the day’s matches were fairly evenly split between the closely contested and the one sided.