Del Piero Stars to Put Juve Through

Juventus secured their passage to the knockout stage of the Champions League after seeing off Group H rivals Real Madrid 2-0 at the Bernabeu.

After setting Juve on their way with the opening goal in their 2-1 win over Madrid last time out in the competition, Alessandro Del Piero was again the hero with goals after 17 and 67 minutes to seal the win.

The hosts had chances to get back into the game, but were left to rue a number of mistakes as they fell four points adrift of their Italian rivals.

Zenit St Petersburg have second-placed Real in their sights after claiming their first win in the group, a 2-0 success at BATE Borisov.

Goals in each half from Pavel Pogrebniak and Miguel Danny were enough to lift Zenit off the foot of the standings, even though they played the last 17 minutes with one man fewer following the dismissal of Sebastien Puygrenier.

Lyon moved to within touching distance of the last 16 thanks to goals by Juninho and Anthony Reveillere in their 2-0 victory against Steaua Bucharest.

Dead-ball doyen Juninho crashed home a trademark free-kick a minute before the interval and right-back Reveillere thundered in the second in the 89th minute to earn Les Gones a deserved Group F victory at the Stade Gerland.

The win lifts the French champions up to eight points and they are now neck and neck with Bayern Munich, who earned a late 1-1 draw at Fiorentina.

The Germans had to come from behind at the Stadio Artemio Franchi with Tim Borowski's 78th-minute effort cancelling out Adrian Mutu's early opener.

In Group E, Villarreal were frustrated in their attempts to claim a place in the last 16 as they were held 2-2 by a battling AaB side.

Despite twice taking the lead through Giuseppe Rossi and Guillermo Franco, the visitors were pegged back by replies from Jeppe Curth and Anders Due which earned the Danes only their second point of the campaign.

Villarreal are level on eight points with Manchester United, with the two teams set to meet in Spain on November 25.

Arsenal remain at the top of Group G but Porto closed the gap on the leaders to two points though with a 2-1 win at Dynamo Kiev.

Lucho Gonzalez scored a stoppage-time winner before being sent off as the Portuguese champions came from behind.

Hosts Kiev put themselves in the driving seat in the 21st minute when Artem Milevskiy finished off a great passing move with a cool finish.

But Porto fought back with second-half goals from Rolando and then Lucho to win the game.

All Action
Celtic 1 Manchester U 1
Arsenal 0 Fenerbahce 0
Aalborg 2 Villarreal 2
Fiorentina 1 Bayern Munich 1
Lyon 2 Steaua Bucharest 0
Dynamo Kiev 1 Porto 2
BATE Borisov 0 Zenit 2
Real Madrid 0 Juventus 2
(sportinglife.com)