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In London, Arsenal continued their march into the knockout stage of the competition, with their third victory in as many games in Group H, beating Slavia Prague 7-0.

 Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott each scored a brace for the Gunners, with Alexander Hleb, Nicklas Bendtner and an own goal from David Hubacek giving the home side their convincing win.

 In the other group game Sevilla seemed to be in total control after Frederic Kanoute and Luis Fabiano gave the home side an early two-goal lead against Steaua Bucharest.

 But the La Liga team failed to capitalize on their dominance and had to hold on for their 2-1 victory after Steaua pulled one back on the hour through Ovidiu Petre.

 Arsenal top the group on nine points, three more than Sevilla, while Slavia Prague have three. Steaua still have to open their account.

 The other Premiership side in action on Tuesday, Manchester United, also scored a convincing victory - winning 4-2 at Dynamo Kiev in their Group F game.

  Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney put United two goals ahead by the 18th minute before Diogo Rincon pulled one back for Kiev in the 34th minute.

 Cristiano Ronaldo scored with a header four minutes from the break to give United a two-goal lead at half time. The Portuguese international added a second in the 68th minute, before Ismael Bangoura scored a second for the home side.

 United scorer Rooney, who is turning 22 on Wednesday, said that even though the score made it look easy, the game was not. "Away games are always difficult and it was certainly not the easiest of matches.

 "I am scoring a lot of goals and I am enjoying my game and enjoying playing with Carlos Tevez upfront. At the beginning of the season we could not score, now we cant stop scoring."

   United lead the group on nine points from their three games, while AS Roma, who beat Sporting Lisbon 2-1 in Italy have six points. The Italian side missed a penalty in the 48th minute.

 The defeat leaves Lisbon on three points, while Kiev have none.

 In Group E, Germany's Champions League woes continued as VfB Stuttgart crashed to a 2-0 defeat at home to Olympique Lyon - a result that leaves them rooted to the bottom of the group without a point.

 Stuttgart's coach Armin Veh, who has seen his side slump to seven defeats in their last eight games, said that they deserved to lose the match.

 "We did not do enough. Lyon did not even play that well, but things did not go right for us. We simply did not play well.

 "At the moment all we can do is just look forward to the next game and hope that we have a little bit of luck. What we need is a result that will boost our confidence."

   In Glasgow Rangers held Barcelona to a goalless draw to take both teams to seven points. Lyon have three points.

 Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor said that he was pleased that he had not conceded a goal. "The team must take the credit. Barcelona had a lot of possession, but we kept them away from our goal for most of the time.

 "Everybody worked very hard and we will take a lot of confidence from the match. We now know that we can go through from this group.

 "I can't believe what is happening. At the start of the season, nobody gave us a chance to advance from this group, but now we are at the top of the group with Barcelona. That is just unbelievable."

   Coach Walter Smith said that he was delighted to get the point. "We worked extremely hard and even though we did not create many chances upfront, we were very good defensively and deserved the draw.

 "I think Barcelona will realise that we will be no push-overs in Spain in two weeks. We will play very similarly there."

   In the earlier game played Tuesday former European champions Inter Milan came from behind to win 2-1 at CSKA Moscow in a Group G game played in the Russian capital.

 The home side took the lead in the 32nd minute after a neat combination between CSKA's two Brazilians, with Daniel Carvalho playing the ball to Jo, who curled it into the corner from inside the corner, beating compatriot Julio Cesar in the Inter goal.

 It took the visitors just seven minutes into the second half to equalize through Argentina's Hernan Crespo who latched onto a header from Esteban Cambiasso.

 Walter Samuel scored the winner for the Serie A side with ten minutes to go and even though CSKA threw caution to the wind in search of an equalizer in the final minutes, it was a case of too little too late.

 The result leaves CSKA still waiting for their victory in the Champions League, while Inter move to the top with six points, one more than Fenerbahce who played to a goalless draw in Eindhoven against PSV, even though they had Deivid sent off in the 65th minute.