By Mikhail Volobuyev
Reuters
Tuesday, September 11, 2001; 6:05 PM

_____Champions League_____ Draws/Tables/Fixtures: • First Phase _____Results_____ Matchday 1 • Group A Loko. Moscow 1, Anderlecht 1 Roma 1, Real Madrid 2 • Group B Dynamo Kiev 2, Bo. Dortmund 2 Liverpool 1, Boavista 1 • Group C Real Mallorca 1, Arsenal 0 Schalke 0, Panathinaikos 2 • Group D Galatasaray 1, Lazio 0 Nantes 4, PSV Eindhoven 1

KIEV, Sept 11 – Dynamo Kiev squandered a two-goal lead and were forced to settle for 2-2 draw in their group B Champions League match against battling Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian side opened the scoring in the 15th minute when Olexander Melashchenko made his way around a Dortmund defender and beat keeper Jens Lehmann with a low drive.

The home side increased their advantage a minute before the break when Lucky Idakhor poked the ball home from close range amid a goalmouth melee.

But German side Borussia dominated the second half, with Jan Koller taking a pass from Marcio Amoroso in the 56th minute and flicking it into the net from the right of the area.

Koller set up the equaliser in the 77th minute, sending a pass to Tomas Rosicky whose drive from 18 metres out was stopped by Dynamo goalkeeper Olexander Filimonov, but Amoroso fired home the rebound.

"We played two different halves. Unfortunately we could not solve our problems on the eve of the match, with many players coming from various national sides in unbalanced form," Dynamo coach Alexei Mikhailichenko said.

"This had an effect in the second half when fatigue took over. We have a young team and many of our young players were lacking in experience and skills."

Dortmund coach Matthias Sammer praised his players for recovering from a shaky start which he blamed in part on nerves following the terror attacks in the United States.

"In the second half we managed to find our game and Dynamo was very tired," he said. "Morally, it was very important not to fall apart after we got behind."

Both sides missed scoring opportunities on a rainsoaked pitch.

Dynamo almost scored three minutes into the match when Olexander Khatskevich headed just wide from eight metres out after taking a perfect pass from Valentin Belkevich.

Lehmann performed heroics in the 36th minute to clear a goalbound back pass.

Dynamo were forced to play with 10 men for five minutes in the first half after Olexander Holovko was injured in a collision with Koller.

He was eventually replaced by Serhiy Fyodorov after coaches decided to take him out of the game. Mikhailichenko said he had suffered an eye injury.

The 60,000 fans stood in silence to honour the victims of the U.S. attacks at the start of the match and then the players symbolically halted the action immediately after the kick-off to pay their respects.