Liverpool cruise, historic win for Anorthosis
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-27 11:26

It was the first match between teams from the two countries in more than three decades, with some 1,500 Turkish Cypriot fans segregated from the rest of the crowd, cordoned off with reels of barbed wire and police.

Liverpool (red) play FBK Kaunas in their Champions League soccer match at the S.Darius and S.Girenas Stadium in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 26, 2005. [Reuters]

Cyprus's ethnic Greek and Turkish Cypriots have lived on separate sides of the island since the invasion in 1974 which followed a brief Greek Cypriot coup.

Late goals from Nicos Froussos and Klimenti Tsitaishvili handed Cypriot champions Anorthosis a two-goal cushion to take into next week's return. Turkish runners-up Trabzon played the second half with 10 men following Ibrahim Yattara's dismissal.

Bart Goor scored one goal and set up another as Anderlecht cruised past Neftchi Baku of Azerbaijan 5-0, while Brondby will take a healthy lead back to Denmark after a 2-0 victory over Dinamo Tbilisi.

The Georgian champions had defender Aleksandr Amisulashvili sent off just before halftime and the Copenhagen side capitalised with second-half goals from Morten Skoubo and Swedish international Johan Elmander.

Seasoned Champions League campaigners Dynamo Kiev were left with work to do in the second leg after Switzerland's FC Thun twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw in Ukraine.

Thun, surprise runners-up in the Swiss league last season, operate on a budget of just 5 million Swiss francs, vastly inferior to Swiss champions Basel and miniscule compared to Europe's top clubs.

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