UEFA Champions League results- Barca Slaughter Shakhtar, Chelsea lose at the Bridge

Lionel Messi's through ball deflected into the path of iniesta, and he opened the scoring in the 2nd minute.Then Luiz Adriano missed few good chances to put Shakhtar level on the night.He was constantly troubling the Barca defense with his pace.In the 34th minute,Andres Iniesta had many team-mates besides him to make a pass, but he went for the "Imagination" option waiting for Dani Alves to run past Razvan Rat, and providing him glorious curving ball,which led to 2nd for Barca.

In the 2nd half,during a corner, Pique ran across the penalty spot,loosing his marker Luiz Adriano, and his low shot took deflection of Rakitskiy before finding the net making 3-0.

Shakhtar got one back through Rakitskiy converted from Captain Srna's free kick and suddenly match became alive for them.But just 57 seconds later Messi provided well guided ball for Keita's thunderbolt making it 4-1 on the night.Then Xavi completed the rout with shot from 3 yards out assisted by Dani Alves.They had only themselves to blame,as they were not clinical in front of the goal in 1st as well as 2nd half,specially Luiz Adriano.Yes,Barca are lucky but they make their luck.

In the all English battle at the Bridge, Reds came out on top against Chelsea through lone strike from in form Wayne Rooney.In the 18th minute Van Der Sar pulled off a great save to deny Drogba.Superb diagonal pass by Michael Carrick found Ryan Giggs who skipped pass Bosingwa before providing ball to Rooney and he beat petr Cech to his left making in 1-0 for the reds in the 24th minute.Torres Back heel hit the post and subsequent Lampard rebound was brilliantly cleared off the line by Patrice Evra.

In th 2nd half, Rafael was carried of the stretcher, Valencia played as emergency right back and Nani entered on right wing.Chelsea were continuously frustrated as United back four stayed strong,surely Man of the match should go to Rio Ferdinand for his brilliant defensive performance,making his first appearance since February.Drogba and Zhirkov were replaced by Anelka and Malouda.As game was coming to close stage,Chelsea began to throw players forward and it almost paid off when Ramires was clearly stopped by Evra in the box and was very lucky not to concede a late penalty.It was complete team effort from the reds.

It looks like Ancelotti is losing Drogba and Anelka mentally,in his desperation to play misfiring Fernando Torres because of his 50 million price tag.