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Football, Oversea's Football Leagues, Sports
September 15, 2015

Zagreb stun Arsenal as Roma hold Barca to draw

European minnows Dinamo Zagreb shocked 10-man Arsenal 2-1 on Wednesday to win for the first time in 16 Champions League matches.

Reigning champions Barcelona were held to a 1-1 draw at Roma while Chelsea thumped Maccabi Tel-Aviv 4-0.

An Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain own goal and a header from Junior

Fernandes gave Dinamo three points as France forward Olivier Giroud was

dismissed for two first-half bookings for Arsenal.

“It is not the way we wanted to begin the competition,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told BT Sport.

“We have enough games to come back. We focus to win our next home game and I’m sure we can beat Zagreb at home.”

Zagreb took the lead from virtually their first attack of the game as

Leonardo Sigali slipped in Josip Pivaric whose shot was saved by David

Ospina, only to rebound off Oxlade-Chamberlain and go in.

By that time Giroud had already hit the post and been booked for

dissent, and five minutes before the break he was late and high in a

tackle and received his second booking.

Dinamo capitalised on 58 minutes as Fernandes headed home a Paulo

Machado corner at the near post as Arsenal’s defence went walkabout. 

Theo Walcott gave the Gunners hope 11 minutes from time with a cool,

low finish from Alexis Sanchez’s pass, but it was too little too late as

Dinamo earnt their first ever win over an English side.

In Rome, Barcelona opened the scoring on 21 minutes as Uruguay

forward Luis Suarez headed home at the back post from a yard out after

he was found by Ivan Rakitic.

But 10 minutes later, full-back Alessandro Florenzi spotted

Marc-Andre ter Stegen off his line and lobbed him from more than 40

yards out and wide on the right.

“We played well, I think we deserved to win,” said Barca coach Luis Enrique.

“It’s Florenzi’s exceptional goal that got Roma back into the match.”

Chelsea finally kick-started their season as Jose Mourinho’s outfit cruised to victory.

The Blues could even manage to miss a first half penalty through Edin

Hazard before Brazilians Willian and Oscar, and Spaniards Diego Costa

and Cesc Fabregas earnt the Londoners three Group G points.

“The same way I was not in hell with bad results, I am not in heaven when we won a game,” said Mourinho defiantly.

The Israelis’ goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic sent Willian tumbling in

the box but Hazard blazed the sixth-minute penalty over the bar.

Rajkovic was having a terrible game and on the quarter-hour mark he

allowed a Willian in-swinging free-kick, which was missed by everyone,

to creep inside his far post.

On the stroke of half-time, a pair of Maccabi defenders combined to

fell Spain forward Costa in the box and Oscar placed the spot-kick low

to Rajkovic’s right.

Costa scored a stunning over the shoulder volley into the top corner

from Fabregas’s pinpoint cross and the latter than got his name on the

scoresheet, tapping home the rebound after Rajkovic saved Loic Remy’s

shot.

Thomas Mueller was a somewhat fortunate match-winner as Bayern Munich

began their Group F campaign with a 3-0 success at Olympiakos in a

match that was marred by crowd-trouble before kick-off.

At least one Bayern fan was taken to hospital after Greek police

attacked away supporters with batons in response to German taunts

directed at the Olympiakos faithful.

Mueller, though, was a lucky goalscorer when his wildly mishit cross

from the right looped over goalkeeper Roberto Gago and into the top

corner.

“I don’t know if I had a pact with the Greek goddess of luck, but it

was certainly lucky that it slipped in the net,” Mueller told ZDF.

Late on Mario Goetze scored a second from a tight angle and Mueller

rounded off the scoring in injury time from the penalty spot.

Brazilian Hulk was the star as Zenit St Petersburg came away from Valencia with a 3-2 win.

Hulk put Zenit two goals in front before Joao Cancelo pulled one back

and Andre Gomes levelled only for Axel Witsel to crack home the winner

for the Russians on 76 minutes.

Bayer Leverkusen started their Group E campaign with a fine 4-1 victory over BATE Borisov with Haka Calhanoglu scoring a brace.

Javier Hernandez and Admir Mehmedi also found the net for the Germans while Nemanja Milunovic scored for the Belarussians.

In Ukraine, Dynamo Kiev drew 2-2 with Porto.

Debutants Gent had goalkeeper Matz Sels to thank for saving a

last-gasp Alexandre Lacazette penalty as the Belgians earnt a 1-1 draw

at home to Lyon.

Christophe Jallet opened the scoring in the Group H encounter before

Danijel Milicevic equalised for Gent, who finished with nine men after

the dismissals of Brecht Dejaegere and Thomas Foket.

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