Barcelona, Liverpool lose in Champions League

LONDON, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Barcelona suffered a shock 2-1 defeat at home to Russian newcomers Rubin Kazan and Liverpool lost by the same score to visiting Lyon in the European Champions League on Tuesday.

Rubin Kazan, which are making debut at the Champions League, twice led at Camp Nou to beat a star-studded team containing Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Andres Iniesta.

Adding to the high drama on the Matchday 3 in the group stage of the Champions League, Cesar Fabian Delgado scored in injury time at Anfield to hand Liverpool a fourth straight loss for the first time in 22 years.

Inter Milan trailed twice at home but the Italian champions salvaged a 2-2 draw with Dynamo Kiev through equalizers by Dejan Stankovic and Walter Samuel.

But Inter is now last in Group F after stretching its winless streak in Europe to six matches.

Elsewhere, Fiorentina won 4-3 at Debreceni and Arsenal drew 1-1at AZ Alkmaar.

Aleksandr Ryazantsev put Russian champions Rubin Kazan ahead after just 75 seconds by running onto a loose ball and smashing a shot beyond goalkeeper Victor Valdes.

Iniesta and Messi each had an appeal for a penalty turned down before Zlatan Ibrahimovic equalized for the Spanish champions three minutes after halftime.

But Alejandro Dominguez put Gokdeniz Karadeniz through into the area 25 minutes later and the latter one silenced the home crowd with an angled shot.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic came close to a second equalizer when he hit the crossbar with 11 minutes left and midfielder Yaya Toure hit the post with a header in the fourth minute of injury time.

Rubin, Barcelona and Dynamo Kiev all have four points from three games in Group F. Inter has three points.

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