Djurgardens 1-1 Cork City

Damien Richardson's side are now in a good position for second leg

Cork grabbed a valuable away goal as they held Djurgarden to a draw in the opening leg of their Uefa Cup second qualifying round clash in Stockholm.

The Irish made a flying start at the Rasunda Stadium with former Tottenham striker Neale Fenn giving his side a surprise lead after just eight minutes.

But the Swedes came back strong late in the game with substitute Patrick Amoah's scoring in the 80th minute.

Earlier keeper Michael Devine denied Kari Arnason with a brilliant save.

There was a sparse 5,000 crowd which was stunned into silence within 10 minutes Fenn's speculative shot which somehow found its way past Dembo Touray in the Djurgarden goal.

It took 35 minutes for the home side to recover from the shock, but Mattias Jonson eventually brought his side to life with a header which skimmed the Cork bar.

Minutes later, Cork came close to causing a further upset with Touray forced to make a finger-tip save from Liam Kearney's close-range effort.

A half-time grilling from coach Kjell Jonevret appeared to have had little effect on Djurgarden's players, who were still struggling to find their rhythm against a stubborn Cork defence.

But, with the Irish visitors beginning to tire, Djurgarden finally found the breakthrough when Amoah tried his luck with a shot which first took a deflection off a Cork defender before also touching Devine and rolling into the net.

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Djurgardens IF: Tourray, Concha, Kuivasto, Johannesson, Stenman, Arneng, Barsom (Arnason 71), Hysen, Jonson (Ba 46), Kusi Asare, Sjolund (Amoah 67). Subs not used: Wahlstrom, Ottesen, Bergtoft, Rasck.

Goals: Amoah 80.

Cork: Devine, Daniel Murphy, Bennett, O'Halloran, Dan Murray, Fenn (O'Brien 81), John O'Flynn, O'Donovan (Bruton 86), Gamble, Horgan, Kearney. Subs not used: McNulty, Coughlan, Woods, Behan, Kevin Murray.

Booked: Devine.

Goals: Fenn 8.

Att: 4,854.

Ref: Oleh Oriekhov (Ukraine).