Dortmund stops Arsenal, Chelsea cruises
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Arsenal’s 100 percent record disappeared with a 2-1 home defeat to Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday in the Champions League while Chelsea claimed the performance of the night by crushing Schalke 3-0.
Atletico Madrid made it three wins from three thanks to a double from in-form striker Diego Costa in a 3-0 victory at Austria Vienna, leaving the Spanish side on the brink of the last 16.
Chelsea striker Fernando Torres also scored twice to put the 2012 champions top of Group E. Eden Hazard completed an unexpectedly easy win against Schalke, which led the group at kickoff.
“If you do garbage, then you have to clean it up and we cleaned it up,” said Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, referring to his team’s home defeat to Basel on the opening matchday. “We’ve got two matches at home so now we are in good condition to qualify and we’ll try to finish top.”
Chelsea is ahead of Schalke on goal difference, with Basel two points back after conceding a late goal by Leandro Tatu to draw at Steaua, which claimed a first point in group play.
Robert Lewandowski grabbed an 82nd-minute winner for Dortmund, last season’s beaten finalist, at Arsenal in Group F to bring the English team down to earth after a flying start to the English Premier League and in Europe.
“We were not as good as we can be offensively and some of the players tonight were not as fresh as recently,” Wenger said after the game. “If you can’t win games you mustn’t lose them.”
Dortmund and Arsenal are in a three-way tie on six points with Napoli, which won 2-1 at Marseille to condemn the French side to a third straight loss.
Arsenal’s first loss since mid-August, on the night of manager Arsene Wenger’s 64th birthday, was sealed by Lewandowsi’s unforgiving finish eight minutes from time at Emirates Stadium.
Dortmund went ahead through Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the 16th only for Olivier Giroud to level near the break.
Jose Callejon and substitute Duvan Zapata scored for Napoli at the Stade Velodrome, with Andre Ayew netting for Marseille four minutes from time.
Atletico is the only team in the four groups who played on Tuesday to have three straight wins after Costa added to the opener scored by Raul Garcia in the Austrian capital.
Diego Simeone’s side is five points clear of Zenit, which beat FC Porto 1-0 thanks to Aleksandr Kerzhakov’s goal five minutes from time.
Porto had done well to nearly hold out for a draw after seeing Hector Herrera sent off for two yellow cards after just six minutes.
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