28 September 2011
VALENCIA 1 (Soldado 87 Pen)
CHELSEA 1 (Lampard 56)
Lampard fired home a Malouda centre. Kalou pissed away 3 points when he punched out a cross.
Attendance : 23,593
Assists : Malouda, n/a
LEVERKUSEN 2 (Bender 30, Ballack 91)
GENK 0
Kiessling was tackled as he was about to shoot, the ball broke to Bender and he drilled a low shot past Koteles. Ballack scored a late second via two deflections.
Attendance : 25,000
Assists : n/a, n/a
ARSENAL 2 (Oxlade-Chamberlain 8, Santos 20)
OLYMPIAKOS 1 (Fuster 27)
Oxlade-Chamberlain, the next Arsenal player that will be sold to a bigger club, took a Song pass on his chest, danced around the Olympiakos defence and slotted into the bottom corner. Santos ran through a feeble Marcano challenge en route to scoring his first Arsenal goal. Fuster bounced a header, from a brilliant Ibagaza cross, past Szczesny.
Attendance : 59,676
Assists : Song, Ibagaza
MARSEILLE 3 (Ayew 20, Remy 62, Ayew 69 Pen)
DORTMUND 0
Dortmund's rude awakening continues. Remy spun onto a pass, his marked slipped and Ayew angled his centre into the bottom right corner. Hummels headed a longball to Remy, he took one touch on his chest before slamming a half volley wide of Weidenfeller - excellent finish. Remy went down under a challenge from Kehl to win the penalty.
Marseille should take 4 points off Arsenal.
Attendance : 28,724
Assists : Remy, n/a, Remy (won pen)
ZENIT ST PETERSBURG 3 (Shirokov 20, Shirokov 63, Danny 72)
PORTO 1 (Rodriguez 10)
Rodriguez hammered in a Hulk center to give the UEFA Cup holders an early lead but Spalletti's side were level 10 minutes later thanks to another blunder from Porto's comedy goalkeeper Helton. Shirokov, who has an excellent goalscoring record for a DM, controlled a Fayzulin free kick before lashing the ball into the roof of the net. Danny tapped in Zenit's 3rd at the back post following a tremendous run by Kerzhakov then celebrated by pretending to piss on the corner flag.
Attendance : 20,156
Assists : Hulk, n/a, Fayzulin (fk), n/a
SHAKHTAR DONETSK 1 (Jadson 64)
APOEL 1 (Trickovski 61)
Trickovski played a one-two with Charalambides, ran into the box and beat Rybka with a precise shot into the corner. Jadson blasted in a loose ball after the Apoel defence failed to clear a Willian center.
Attendance : 40,736
Assists : Charalambides, n/a
BATE BORISOV 0
BARCELONA 5 (Volodko 19 og, Pedro 22, Messi 38, Messi 56, Villa 90)
Volodko turned in a Dani Alves cross. Pedro headed in the second from a lovely Villa pass. Bate goalkeeper Hutor, who was partly at fault for Barca's second, caught an Alicantara cross, bounced the ball into the turf and Messi headed over him into an empty net. Messi rifled in the 4th with a great left foot shot. Bate tried to play the ball out from a free kick on the edge of their penalty area, Villa intercepted, exchanged a pass with Maxwell then tapped in the fifth.
Attendance : 5,013
Assists : n/a, Villa, n/a, Alves, Maxwell
MILAN 2 (Ibrahimovic 53 Pen, Cassano 66)
PLZEN
Ibrahimovic made a welcome return to give Milan the lead from the penalty spot after his pass was handled in the box. With his back to goal Ibrahimovic pulled down a long ball then laid it off to Cassano who lobbed over the Plzen 'keeper to score a landmark goal - the 2000th of the Berlusconi era.
Attendance : 66,859
Assists : n/a, Ibrahimovic