Bayern cruise past Olympiacos to go through as group winners

Of those goals, 14 were scored in Munich, nine of them in the first half, with Bayern getting their first no later than the 13th minute as they put Dinamo Zagreb, Arsenal and Olympiacos out of sight within the opening half hour.

Yet despite the numerical disadvantage, Bayern added a fourth goal through Kingsley Coman, taking their tally in this season’s competition to 17 goals in five matches.

Following a 5-1 hammering of Arsenal last time out, Bayern needed a frankly absurd set of results to go against them in order to fail to march on from the group phase.

It could have been a lot worse for the Greek visitors, who will now turn their attention towards a crunch clash with Arsenal to decide which of the two will progress to the last-16 along with Bayern.

The situation appears rather more straightforward for Chelsea, who cruised to a 4-0 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel with Gary Cahill, Willian, Oscar and Kurt Zouma on target.

The Greeks are pinning qualification hopes on their final group match against Arsenal at home on December 9, and coach Marco Silva has told his players to enjoy their trip to the Allianz Arena.

“We don’t want to take any risks, but as I said, this is a final for us, so we want him to play”.

The other game in Group G saw Dynamo Kiev win 2-0 at Porto with Andriy Yarmolenko netting a first-half penalty before Derlis Gonzalez wrapped up the points.

Andriy Yarmolenko and Derlis Gonzalez netted to inflict Porto’s first defeat of the season.

That win also took them ahead of local rivals Cologne, who were held to a 0-0 draw at home by Mainz, while Wolfsburg were Saturday’s biggest winners with a 6-0 triumph over Werder Bremen.

Gent are second after coming from behind to win 2-1 at Lyon as Kalifa Coulibaly got a last-gasp goal.

The home side continued to play on the counter with Sane and Meyer, not that they had any chance as Bayern played on the front foot.

Dzyuba’s 74th-minute goal, his fifth of the group stage, was a simple finish after a lay-off from Hulk.

That was the warning shot, and one Schalke couldn’t respond to, conceding a second around 10 minutes later.

The Belgian side equalized in the 32nd minute through Danijel Milicevic’s cleverly-worked free-kick.

With France under a state of emergency and Brussels staying on high alert over serious terror threat, no Gent fans were allowed in Lyon.