goals reign in krakow published: wednesday 30 july 2003, 22.00cet wisla kraków 5-2 omonia ac polish champions win, but late penalties give cypriot visitors hope.
wisla kraków made full use of home advantage as they gained a 5-2 victory against cypriot title-holders omonia ac in the first leg of their uefa champions league second qualifying round tie.
late penalties however, two late penalties from german-born cypriot international striker rainer rauffmann gave the visitors hope of turning the tie round in next wednesday's return in nicosia - despite having trailed by five goals at one stage.
perfect start it was 3-0 to the polish champions at the break, their perfect start secured by maciej zurawski with an eleventh-minute goal. tomasz frankowski scored the second eight minutes later and marcin baszczynski increased the lead on the stroke of half-time.
lead increased zurawski began the second half as he did the first with an early goal - this time four minutes in - and daniel dubicki made it five in the 70th minute to further delight the home supporters.
rauffmann takes advantage however, the prolific 36-year-old rauffmann took advantage of spot-kick chances on 74 and 85 minutes to give omonia hope of earning a third qualifying round tie against either rsc anderlecht or afc rapid bucuresti, who drew 0-0 tonight.
