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szdaily -> Sports
Bayern cruises, Chelsea slumps again
     2015-October-1  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    ARSENAL and Chelsea crashed at the UEFA Champions League Tuesday night as a Robert Lewandowski hat trick helped Bayern Munich crush Dinamo Zagreb.

    And champion Barcelona, with injured icon Lionel Messi watching from the stands, followed up its opening Group E draw at Roma with a stirring come-from-behind 2-1 win against Bayer Leverkusen.

    The Germans appeared to have the three points in the bag after Kyriakos Papadopoulos’s header before the break.

    But Luis Suarez turned the game around in the final 10 minutes as Sergi Roberto tapped home the rebound after the Uruguayan’s initial effort had been saved.

    And the former Liverpool striker thumped home a stunning effort to hand Barca a hard-fought three points, two minutes later.

    Jose Mourinho’s return to Porto, the team that the Portuguese guided to the 2004 title, proved an unhappy affair.

    Andre Andre’s opener for Porto late in the first half was quickly cancelled out by a superb Willian free-kick, but Maicon’s 52nd-minute header proved to be the difference in this Group G clash played at a rip-roaring pace.

    Dynamo Kiev, a 2-0 winner over Maccabi Tel Aviv, topped the table on goal difference with Chelsea in third.

    Arguably the most stunning result of the evening emerged from the Emirates Stadium, where Greek champion Olympiakos shocked Arsenal 3-2 to leave the Gunners stone last in Group F.

    The Greeks, ending a 12-match losing run in England, left pointless Arsenal and coach Arsene Wenger ashen-faced, and the team’s fans jeering at the final whistle.

    After falling behind to Felipe Pardo’s deflected opener, Arsenal equalized through Theo Walcott.

    But then a horrendous mistake from goalkeeper David Ospina, selected over regular first choice Petr Cech, allowed a Kostas Fortounis corner to slip through his grasp for an embarrassing own goal.

    Alexis Sanchez dragged Arsenal back into it with a second half equalizer, but incredibly the north Londoners imploded again with more slack defending gifting Iceland striker Alfred Finnbogason the winner.

    “It is still possible to qualify but it is difficult to swallow losing a game like that,” Wenger said.

    To compound their plight free-shooting Bayern Munich await, the German giants flexing their muscles in Zagreb.

    Bayern topped the table, Pep Guardiola’s side cruising towards the knockout stages after Lewandowski’s treble, and goals from Douglas Costa and Mario Goetze steamrollered Dinamo Zagreb 5-0.

    “We played in a very concentrated fashion from the start and when you take your goal chances, the game was over after 30 minutes,” said Bayern captain Philipp Lahm.

    Poland hot-shot Lewandowski has now scored 10 goals in his last three games after netting five in just nine spectacular minutes of Bayern’s 5-1 hammering of Wolfsburg last Tuesday before claiming two more in Saturday’s 3-0 win at Mainz.

    “He’s had an unbelievable week behind him,” admitted Lahm.(SD-Agencies)

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