Arsenal kept their Champions League knock out stages hopes alive with a huge win while Lionel Messi produced a masterclass as Barca tormented AS Roma.
Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring agaiinst AS Roma (Photo credit LLUIS GENE/AFP/Getty Images)
Bayern Munich’s impressive home form continued while Dynamo Kiev won at Porto to open up top spot at group G. Willian scored another freekick as Chelsea finally won two consecutive games this season.
BATE Borisov 1 – 1 Bayer Leverkusen: In one of the earlier kick-off games, BATE stunned Leverkusen to score through Mikhail Gordeychuk those Mehmedi scored in his fourth consecutive Champions League game to help share the spoils.
Kevin Kampl of Leverkusen in action with Mikhail Gordeichuk (R) of BATE (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Bongarts/Getty Images)
Barcelona 6 – 1 Roma: A total masterclass by Suarez (two goals) and the returning Lionel Messi (two goals) ensure Barca inflicted the heaviest defeat by a Spanish team to an Italian team in the Champions league. Gerard Pique and Adriano also scored for Barca while Neymar missed a penalty.
Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his teams fifth goal with Luis Suarez and Neymar (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Messi celebrates after scoring (Photo credit should read LLUIS GENE/AFP/Getty Images)
After Barca were done scoring their six goals, Dzeko missed a penalty though he would atone for that by scoring a late consolation for Roma.
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Arsenal 3 – 0 Dinamo Zagreb: Lost to Zagreb and Arsenal miss out on a last 16 champions league place for the first time since 1999. Ozil (one goal) and Sanchez (two goals) however had other ideas and kept the Gunners hopes alive thanks in small part to Bayern Munich’s victory over Olympiakos. The mission is to defeat Olympiakos in the last group game to be played in Greece.
Aaron Ramsey of Arsenal holds off Ante Coric of Dinamo Zagreb (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
Alexis Sanchez of Arsenal (L) celebrates scoring his side’s third goal with Joel Campbell and Nacho Monreal (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
Bayern Munich 4 – 0 Olympiakos: Bayern Munich’s impressive home record in the Champions League continued. Douglas Costa, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller and Kingsley Koman were amongst the goals. Even Holger Badstuber’s red card couldn’t stop the German machines.
FC Bayern Munchen v Olympiacos FC – UEFA Champions League
FC Porto 0 – 2 Dynamo Kyiv: Dynamo Kiev did Chelsea a whole lot of favor by defeating FC Porto away. Andriy Yormolenko (penalty) and Derlis Gonzalez ensure three points for the Ukranians. The mission for Chelsea now will be to defeat Porto in the last group game to ensure top spot in group G.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv 0 – 4 Chelsea: Willian scored another freekick (he is really good at those) as Chelsea recorded a routine and morale boosting win over bottom of the group Maccabi. Chelsea were sometimes too good and fans would wonder why they cannot produce this sort of performance week in, week out. Jose Mourinho looked a relieved man on the touchlines by the way.
Chelsea’s Brazilian midfielder Willian (C) celebrates with his teammates after scoring a freekick (Photo credit JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Kurt Zouma of Chelsea celebrates scoring his teams fourth goal with Gary Cahill (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images)
Zenit St. Petersburg 2 – 0 Valencia: Zenit’s 100% record in the Champions league group stage this season was maintained through goals from Oleg Shatov and Artem Dyzuba.
Santi Mina of Valencia in action with Aleksandr Ryazantsev (R) of Zenit during their UEFA Champions League group stage match (Photo credit OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images)
Zenit will top the top come end of match day six while Valencia need a huge win in their next match to qualify for the knock out stages.
Lyon 1 – 2 Gent: Lyon are out of the champions league this season. Jordan Ferri got Lyon to a flyer but goals from Danijel Milicevic and Kalifa Coulibaly dumped Lyon out of the Champions league.
Laurent Depoitre of Gent in action with Corentin Tolisso (R) of Lyon during their UEFA Champions League group stage match
Gent meanwhile move up to second position on the table but just one point above Valencia who are in third and occupying the Europa League spot.
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Champions League: Ozil, Sanchez Strike To Keep Arsenal’s Knock Out Stages Hopes Alive
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