By beating Beitar Jerusalem 5-0 at home, Polish champions Wisła Kraków qualified yesterday for the third round qualifying match against Barcelona. The winner of the tie will enter the Champions League group stage. First leg next Wednesday in Barcelona (10 pm), return game two weeks later in Poland.
This is the report at the Uefa website:
Wisła Kraków brilliantly overturned a UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first-leg deficit against Beitar Jerusalem and their reward is a tie against FC Barcelona.
The Israeli side led 2-1 ahead of their trip to Poland but by half-time in the decider had conceded to Mauro Cantoro, Cléber and Paweł Brożek. Beitar could have won through with two second-half goals but instead Junior Díaz and Andrzej Niedzielan increased Wisła's advantage and next week they will play at Camp Nou.
It took just nine minutes for Wisła to strike and lead the tie on away goals thanks to Cantoro's free-kick. Cléber put Wisła ahead on aggregate in the 25th-minute and before the break Brożek gave them a commanding advantage. Any hope of a Beitar comeback was effectively ended in the 57th minute by Díaz and substitute Niedzielan made it 5-0 on the night late on. Wisła will now aim to reverse the result of their 2001/02 third qualifying round tie against Barcelona when they lost 4-3 at home – having led three times – and 1-0 away.
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