Champions League hopes fade for Chelsea, Arsenal

MOSCOW — Jose Mourinho’s season took another turn for the worse on a night of surprises in the Champions League.

With Chelsea floundering in 14th in the English Premier League, a win Tuesday would have been a muchneeded boost, but instead Porto posted a 2-1 win on goals by Yacine Brahimi and Maicon.

Arsenal fared no better than its London rival, losing 3-2 at home to Olympiakos. That leaves Arsenal at the bottom of Group F. Another surprise was in store in Belarus, where BATE Borisov upset Roma 3-2.

Barcelona, however, pulled off a dramatic escape to avoid defeat against Bayer Leverkusen, scoring in the 80th and 82nd minutes to turn defeat into a 2-1 home victory.

Here is a look at Champions League matches from Tuesday:

Group E

Barcelona’s dramatic comeback was achieved without Lionel Messi, who will miss two months with a torn knee ligament.

Sergi Roberto poked in the rebound of a strike by Munir El Haddadi to equalize in the 80th and two minutes later, El Haddadi passed for Luis Suarez to drive in the winner to send Barcelona to the top of the group.

Kyriakos Papadopoulos scored the opener, but Leverkusen faded late.

Meanwhile, BATE Borisov was widely expected to be a serial loser, but two goals by left back Filip Mladenovic powered the Belarusian team to a surprise victory. Roma staged a second-half comeback with goals by Gervinho and Vasilis Torosidis.

Group F

A goalkeeping blunder by David Ospina helped Olympiakos beat Arsenal 3-2, leaving the Gunners in real danger of its first group-stage exit in 16 years.

Ospina fumbled a corner over his line to give the visitors a 2-1 first-half lead and Alfred Finnbogason scored the winner in the 66th minute — almost immediately after Alexis Sanchez had tied it 2-2 for Arsenal.

Bayern beat Dinamo Zagreb 5-0 to take a tight grip on first place in the group. Bayern was up by four goals after 28 minutes in a comfortable win in which Robert Lewandowski netted a hat trick and Douglas Costa and Mario Gotze added one.

Group G

Chelsea lost top spot in Group G with a 2-1 defeat at FC Porto.

Jose Mourinho’s former club went ahead in the 39th when Yacine Brahimi beat Branislav Ivanovic and Gary Cahill on the left, with goalkeeper Asmir Begovic pushing away Brahimi’s shot only as far as Andre Andre, who fired a first-time volley into the net.

Willian levelled with a curling freekick in first-half added time.

Maicon sealed it in the 52nd, putting the Portuguese club level with group leader Dynamo Kyiv on four points, one ahead of Chelsea.

In Israel, Dynamo cruised to a 2-0 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv, which is yet to score a goal in this season’s group stage. Andriy Yarmolenko put the Ukrainian team ahead in the fourth minute, before Junior Moraes struck five minutes into the second half.