Arsenal's Thierry Henry (left) kicks the ball into the net past CSKA's goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev (right), but the goal was disallowed during their Champions League Group G match at the Lokomotiv Stadium in Moscow, yesterday. - Reuters

LONDON (AP):

MANCHESTER UNITED and Lyon stayed perfect yesterday in the Cham-pions League, each winning their third straight matches to close in on qualifying for the second round.

AC Milan also won, beating Anderlecht 1-0 despite playing without defender Daniele Bonera for almost the entire second half after he was sent off in the 47th minute with a second yellow card.

Man United beat FC Copen-hagen 3-0 at Old Trafford with goals from Paul Scholes, John O'Shea and Kieran Richardson. Lyon also won 3-0, downing Dynamo Kiev with the goals coming from Juninho, Kim Kallstrom and Florent Malouda.

Milan, who lead Group H with seven points, got their goal from Kaka in the 58th. The Brazil midfielder shot from 24 metres and beat Anderlecht goalkeeper Daniel Zitka to the upper right corner.

Perfect organisation

"It is typical Milan," Anderlecht coach Frank Vercauteren said. "They had a few chances, finished off one and the rest was perfect organisation."

In the other group game, Lille beat AEK Athens 3-1 to stay in second place with five points. Mathieu Robail, Daniel Gygax and Jean Makoun scored for Lille.

Anderlecht are third with two points, while AEK have one.

Also, it was: Real Madrid 4 Steaua Bucharest 1 in Group E; Celtic 3 Benfica 0 in Group F; CSKA Moscow 1 Arsenal 0 and FC Porto 4 Hamburger SV 1 in Group G.

Scholes scored in the 39th minute for Man United, driving the ball from the edge of box past diving Copenhagen goalkeeper Jesper Christiansen.

O'Shea scored from Cristiano Ronaldo's corner in the 46th, with the ball bouncing off his leg into the goal and Richardson added United's third in the 83rd with help from a stumble by Christiansen.

Wayne Rooney was named captain of Manchester United for the first time after defender Rio Ferdinand pulled out with a neck injury during the warm-up and winger Ryan Giggs felt too ill to play.

"We got three goals and three points and it was an important win tonight," Rooney said. "I think I'm more or less back to my best and my performances are OK."

Kenny Miller scored two goals in 11 minutes for Celtic.

The Scotland striker first scored in the 56th when a cross by Lee Naylor was mis-hit by Shunsuke Nakamura, allowing Miller to side-foot in. He added the other in the 66th with a right-footed shot from inside Benfica's box.

Substitute Stephen Pearson made it 3-0 in the 90th.

Man United lead Group F with nine points, followed by Celtic with six. Benfica and Copenhagen have one point each.

In Moscow, Daniel Carvalho scored a first-half goal to give CSKA Moscow a 1-0 victory over Arsenal.

Hard shot

Sergei Ignashevich rolled the ball from a free kick to the Brazilian midfielder, who sent a hard shot past Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann in the 24th.

"It was a tough match," CSKA coach Valery Gazzayev said. "I take my hat off to my players - they played perfectly and selflessly."

Today it's: Chelsea vs. FC Barcelona, and Werder Bremen vs. Levski Sofia in Group A; Inter Milan vs. Spartak Moscow, and Sporting Lisbon vs. Bayern Munich in Group B; Bordeaux vs. Liverpool, and Galatasaray vs. PSV Eindhoven in Group C; and Olympiakos vs. AS Roma, and Valencia vs. Shakhtar Donetsk in Group D.