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Champions League: Wining start for Man Utd, Chelsea and Real Madrid

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Manchester United and Chelsea got off to slender but winning starts on Tuesday in their opening Champions League group matches. United edged Besiktas 1-0 in the fiery cauldron of the Turkish side's stadium in Istanbul, thanks to a second-half goal by veteran Paul Scholes. Chelsea also won 1-0, a Nicolas Anelka goal enough to gain them the three points, at home to 2004 champions FC Porto. AC Milan gained a slightly fortunate 2-1 victory away in Marseille. Juventus were held 1-1 in Turin by French champions Bordeaux. German duo VfL Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich got their campaigns off on a victorious note with the former relying on a hat-trick from Grafite in their 3-1 victory over CSKA Moscow while Bayern won 3-0 in Israel over Maccabi Haifa. The two Madrid clubs enjoyed differing fortunes as the expensively-assembled Real eased into a 3-0 lead over FC Zurich only to take their foot off the pedal and see the lead reduced to 3-2 before Cristiano Ronaldo added his second of the match to make it 4-2 and Guti added another for good measure to see them win 5-2. City rivals Atletico were totally toothless and were held 0-0 at home by unheralded Cypriot club Apoel Nicosia.
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