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Dynamo Kiev were runners-up in Ukraine last season

Dynamo Kiev are favourites to face Rangers in the Champions League's third qualifying round after the Ukrainian side fired six goals past Partizan Belgrade in their first-leg tie.

Brazilian striker Matheus Saldanha gave the Serbian visitors a 23rd-minute lead from the penalty spot in the Arena Lublin, Poland, where Dynamo play their home games because of the Russian hostilities in their homeland.

But Mykola Shaparenko, fellow midfielder Volodymyr Brazhko and right-back Oleksandr Karavaev scored in a three-goal, four-minute burst on the stroke of half time.

Striker Vladyslav Kabayev extended the lead 11 minutes after the break and, although Saldanha's second briefly reduced the arrears, goals from centre-back Denys Popov six minutes from time and midfielder Oleksandr Pikhalyonok in stoppage time ensured an emphatic victory for the hosts.

Philippe Clement's Rangers side will launch their campaign in the away leg on 6-7 August, with the return scheduled for 13 August.

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