Chelsea shockingly lost to Shakhtar, Barca and MU won with difficulty

The third round of the Champions League group stage last night witnessed a big shock when defending champion Chelsea fell on the field of Shakhtar Donestk with a score of 1-2, making the situation in Group E become dramatic, because after 3 rounds, the Ukrainian team is leading with 7 points, above both Chelsea and Juventus.

Meanwhile, in groups E to H, only two teams continued to maintain their winning streak, Barcelona and Manchester United. However, these two giants also had to go through an extremely difficult night, in which MU even fell behind 2-0.

The joy of Shakhtar Donestk players.

Chelsea were forced to endure defeat at the Donbass Arena against a Shakhtar side that has a good record against English teams. In the first 45 minutes, the home team had 12 shots on goal, while the return of John Terry as captain, along with Frank Lampard celebrating his 100th European game, could not prevent the Blues from losing, ending their 8-match unbeaten run in the competition.

The home side opened the scoring in the third minute after Alex Teixeira's low shot. After that, goalkeeper Petr Cech made a series of excellent saves, before succumbing once again to a low shot from Fernandinho, which originated from Edin Hazard's loss of possession in midfield.

Oscar then pulled one back for the visitors from Ivanovic's pass, but it was not enough to save the reigning champions from defeat.

The result has seen Shaktar surprisingly climb to the top of Group E with seven points, three ahead of Chelsea and four ahead of Juventus. Juventus failed to capitalise on Chelsea's stumble to move ahead as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Nordsjaelland, their third consecutive draw. They were even behind before Vucinic saved the Serie A champions from embarrassment. Mikkel Beckmann's goal for the Danish side was also Nordsjaelland's first in the Champions League.

Meanwhile, at the Nou Camp, Celtic seemed to be writing a fairy tale when they unexpectedly took the lead after an own goal from Javier Mascherano for Barcelona. However, Barca showed their class when Andres Iniesta made a beautiful shot at the end of the first half. And in the 4th minute of injury time, Jordi Alba scored the decisive goal to bring Barca their 100th victory in the Champions League.

Jordi Alba scored in the 90+4 minute to help Barca beat Celtic 2-1

This achievement also helped Tito Vilanova's army break the record for unbeaten streak at home with 18 games without losing at home in the Champions League, since losing to Rubin Kazan in October 2009.

In the remaining match of Group G, Spartak Moscow won their first victory after two consecutive losses when they defeated Benfica. And so, the second ticket will be considered a three-way race between Celtic, Spartak and Benfica, while Barca is considered to have secured the right to continue.

Similar to Barca, MU also has 9 full points after 3 rounds to take a big step towards the knockout round. But to get that achievement, they have to say thank you to Javier Hernandez, who was surprisingly placed in the starting lineup by Sir Alex Fersugon.

Rio Ferdinand's absence (punished for disobeying his coach?) weakened MU's defense and as a result they were 2-0 down in the first 20 minutes after Alan's shots for Braga.

Before the end of the first half, Chicharito rekindled hope for the home team at Old Trafford with a 1-2 equalizer, before he and Johnny Evans scored two more goals to help MU become the second team in history to successfully come back from a 2-goal deficit (the previous team was Arsenal).

Chicharito had a brilliant day

In Group F, Bayern Munich recovered from the shock at BATE in the previous round with a 1-0 win at Lille. Meanwhile, home ground was no longer sacred for BATE Borisov when they were defeated 0-3 by Valencia. After 3 rounds, Bayern, Valencia and BATE all have 6 points, only Lille has no points and is almost eliminated./.

According to (Vietnam+) - DT