Liverpool's Djibril Cisse (left), celebrates with John Arne Riise after scoring a goal against Anderlecht in their Champions League Group G match at the Constant Vanden Stock stadium in Brussels yesterday. - REUTERS
LONDON, (Reuters);
HOLDERS LIVERPOOL, Chelsea and Olympique Lyon set a course for the Champions League knockout stage, but there was an early scare for Real Madrid yesterday.
Lyon, who opened their Group F campaign with a 3-0 drubbing of Real, look certain to qualify after making it nine points from three games with a 2-1 win over Olympiakos Piraeus.
Real moved up to second place on six points but were trailing 1-0 to Norwegian outsiders Rosenborg Trondheim at the start of the second half before running out 4-1 winners.
ENGLISH DEFENDER WOODGATE
English defender Jonathan Woodgate, scorer of two own goals this season, headed the equaliser, Raul extended his European Cup scoring record to 51 and further strikes from Ivan Helguera and David Beckham turned victory into a rout.
Premier League rivals Chelsea and Liverpool, on seven points apiece, are favourites to go through from Group G after the English champions crushed Real Betis 4-0 at Stamford Bridge and the European champions edged Anderlecht 1-0 in Brussels.
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR MILAN
Inter Milan's search for a third consecutive win ended in disappointment as they went down 2-0 to 2004 champions Porto but they still lead Group H after Rangers could only draw 0-0 at home to Artmedia Bratislava.
Last season's losing finalist AC Milan had to settle for a 0-0 draw with PSV Eindhoven in a re-run of their semi-final with the Dutch side earlier this year.
They lead Group E by a point after a six-goal thriller ended 3-3 between Fenerbahce and Schalke 04.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Group E: Fenerbahce (Turkey) 3 Schalke (Germany) 3, AC Milan (Italy) 0 PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 0.
Group F: Real Madrid (Spain) 4 Rosenborg (Norway) 1, Lyon (France) 2 Olympiakos (Greece) 1.
Group G: Anderlecht (Belgium) 0 Liverpool (England) 1, Chelsea (England) 4 Real Betis (Spain) 0.
Group H: FC Porto (Portugal) 2 Inter Milan (Italy) 0, Rangers (Scotland) 0 Artmedia Bratislava (Slovakia) 0.
