Messi leads Barcelona to 2-1 win vs Slavia Prague; Inter beat Dortmund 2-0 for 1st CL win this season

● OxladeChamberlain scores twice as Liverpool beat Genk 4-1 ● Batshsuayi's late goal gives Chelsea 1-0 win over Ajax ● Leipzig beat Zenit 2-1 to get back on track ● Mertens moves ahead of Maradona in Napoli win over Salzburg

Lionel Messi scored early and set up the winning goal as Barcelona beat Slavia Prague 2-1 for its second straight win in Group F of the Champions League on Wednesday.

Messi floated a free kick in the 57th to Luis Suárez at the far post and his shot was deflected in by Slavia forward Peter Olayinka for Barcelona's winner.

Earlier, Messi finished off a fast move he had started in the third minute, capitalizing on a defensive blunder to score with a left-footed low shot.

Defender Jan Boril equalized for Slavia early in the second half.

Barcelona tops the standings with seven points from three games.

Inter beats Dortmund 2-0 for 1st CL win this season

In-form forward Lautaro Martinez scored a goal but also had a penalty saved as Inter Milan beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 on Wednesday to record its first victory in this season's Champions League.

Martinez put Inter in front in the 22nd minute with his fifth goal in his past four matches for Inter.

The Argentina international could have doubled his tally late on but his spot kick was parried by Roman Bürki.

The penalty was won by 17-yearold Sebastiano Esposito, who had troubled the Dortmund defense since coming off the bench and was brought down by Mats Hummels.

As Dortmund pushed for the equalizer it left space at the back, and Antonio Candreva capitalized on that to seal the result for Inter with a minute remaining.Inter broke the deadlock when Stefan de Vrij floated a great ball over the top for Martinez to spring the offside trap and fire into the back of the net.

There was a brief check with the video assistant referee before confirmation that Nico Schulz had played Martinez onside.

The majority of the stadium erupted into cheers, briefly quieting the Dortmund fans, who had been a noisy sea of yellow up in

the third tier of San Siro.

It was the first goal the German side had conceded in this season's Champions League.

Dortmund almost levelled with the last kick of the first half but Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic pulled off a great save to deny Jadon Sancho.

Candreva could have doubled Inter's lead almost immediately after the break but he fired narrowly over from inside the penalty area. He did get his goal with a minute remaining, and shortly after Martinez's missed penalty, when Inter went on a swift counter and Candreva was sent clear by Marcelo Brozovic.

Oxlade-Chamberlain scores twice as Liverpool beats Genk 4-1

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain made the most of a rare start to score twice as Liverpool beat Genk 4-1 Genk on Wednesday, a result which ended the Reds' four-game losing streak away from home in the group phase of the Champions League.

Klopp made five changes to the team that was held 1-1 by Manchester United in Premier League over the weekend, including the fit again Mohammed Salah, who returned from an injury.

It was Oxlade-Chamberlain's first double since he scored twice for Arsenal in a 2-0 League Cup win over Reading nearly three years ago.

Sadio Mane made it 3-0 with a chipped ball over 'keeper Gaetan Coucke in the 77th minute and Salah completed the rout 10 minutes later after using quick footwork to create space inside the area.

The hosts were caught cold early after giving the ball away in their own half. Liverpool put together a string of passes and Fabinho delivered a precise assist for OxladeChamberlain, who scored in the second minute with a low shot from outside the box on his first Champions League appearance in more than a year.

Oxlade-Chamberlain doubled his tally in the 57th minute from Roberto Firmino's pass when he fired a superb curling shot with the outside of his right foot just under the crossbar.

Stephen Odey pulled one back for Genk with two minutes left.

Batshsuayi's late goal gives Chelsea 1-0 win over Ajax

Substitute Michy Batshuayi scored a late winner Wednesday as Chelsea rode its luck to beat Ajax 1-0 in the Champions League and throw Group H wide open.

The Belgium striker fired in off the underside of the bar from close range in the 86th, 15 minutes after coming on as a replacement for Tammy Abraham. Another of coach Frank Lampard's subs, Christian Pulisic, provided the cross.

Ajax had come close to taking the lead earlier, but Quincy Promes had a goal disallowed for offside after a VAR review and Edson Alvarez hit the post with a diving header as the Dutch team failed to score after recording 3-0 wins in its first two Group H matches.

Before Batshuayi's late strike, Mason Mount had the only serious chance for Chelsea with a low shot in the 14th minute that forced a good save from Andre Onana at his near post.

But it was Ajax that had the ball in the net first, when Promes slid home a cross by Hakim Ziyech in the 35th minute only to have the effort ruled narrowly offside by the video assistant referee.

Promes was onside five minutes later when he took the ball at the end of a flowing Ajax move from right to left, but this time he was denied by a strong sliding block by Cesar Azpilicueta.

Alvarez came close to giving Ajax the lead after the break, but his diving header from a corner flashed across the face of the goal and deflected to safety off the far post.

Lampard brought on Batshuayi for the largely ineffective Abraham and Pulisic replaced Willian giving Chelsea fresh impetus in attack. Batshuayi spurned one great chance by firing over the bar before the two substitutes combined for the winner.

Pulisic dribbled past Dest, his United States teammate, before delivering a low cross into the box that Batshuayi coverted with his left foot, with the ball going in off the underside of the crossbar.

Mertens moves ahead of Maradona in Napoli win over Salzburg

Dries Mertens scored a brace to move ahead of Diego Maradona on Napoli's all-time scoring list in a 3-2 victory over Salzburg in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Salzburg's 19-year-old forward Erling Haaland also scored twice, giving him six goals in three matches to make him only the second teenager in Champions League history to score in each of his first three appearances in the competition, after Karim Benzema achieved the feat with Lyon.

Lorenzo Insigne scored the winner for Napoli.

Haaland, who has 20 goals in all competitions this season, also had a score disallowed early on by VAR for offside.

Mertens then ran onto a headed pass from Jose Callejon and completed a counterattack by scoring from a sharp angle.

Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret produced a series of stunning saves before Salzburg Kevin Malcuit was whistled for taking down Hwang Hee-chan to set up a penalty for Haaland — the first goal Napoli conceded in this season's competition.

Mertens' second came from the center of the area after a deflected cross came his way. The Belgium international now needs only six more goals to break Marek Hamsik's club record of 121.

Maradona scored 115 goals for Napoli in all competitions, and led the club to two Serie A titles and the 1989 UEFA Cup trophy — three decades later still the team's only major championships.

Amid a span of three goals in 10 minutes, Haaland made it 2-2 by taking advantage of his 6-foot-4 (1.94 meter) frame for a precise header.

Insigne then was set up by Mertens for a deflected shot that looped in.

After scoring, Insigne immediately ran over and embraced Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti amid reports of a rift between the pair since Insigne was left in the tribune for a 0-0 draw with Genk.

Red Star Belgrade fans at Tottenham game despite racism ban

Red Star Belgrade coach Vladan Milojevic thanked the club's fans for finding a way to circumvent a ban from attending the Champions League match at Tottenham as part of a sanction for racist chanting from UEFA.

Hundreds of Red Star fans found a way to get tickets to seat in a home section behind one of the goals at the north London stadium and were singing from early in the game. Stadium security and police eventually surrounded the fans but they stayed throughout their team's 5-0 loss on Tuesday but officials determined the group was too large to eject.

Tottenham will investigate how the tickets were obtained and planned to take action against fans found to have sold them to Red Star fans. Milojevic said he was "not surprised" to hear from Red Star fans in the Group B game.

But it could lead to a new disciplinary case from UEFA, which declined comment.