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Arsenal Won, Chelsea Pegged Back

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A brave Arsenal team held its lead-time to record a 2-1 win over Olympiakos in the meeting of the Champions League Group F on Wednesday.

Young Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, making his debut in the competition,

Eighth minute put the Gunners ahead witty and Ready Arsenal doubled leading twentieth minute, while the summer signing of Andre Santos netted from close range.

Olympiacos hit back in 28 minutes through David Fuster, when he rose unmarked to acquiesce at home, but Arsene Wenger's men were held for three precious points.

Chelsea has no luck at Mestalla against Valencia in Group E after the impact of the second half of Frank Lampard was called off three minutes from the site by Roberto Soldado.

Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona supports their second consecutive 5-0 victory and three points in Group H after outperforming hosts BATE Borisov in Minsk.

Costs hit a hat-trick in his team's victory by the same score Liga Atletico Madrid on Saturday, Messi blasted home the 38th and 56 Minutes put the game out of sight.

Own goal after 19 minutes Aliaksandr Volodko was set to defend the Champions League on the way and Pedro added a second two minutes later. David Villa has been completed the score in the last minute.

Also in Group H AC Milan had to work hard to send Viktoria Plzen at the San Siro until 53 minutes until finally Zlatan Ibrahimovic opened the scoring from the penalty spot.

Massimiliano Allegri men who have struggled to impress the series up to now five points in four games, put the points beyond doubt, when Antonio Cassano netted 66 / 2 minutes.

In Group F, Bayer Leverkusen proved too strong for Genk. Lars Bender opened the scoring at the half and the former Chelsea man, Michael Ballack wrapped up a 2-0 win in overtime.

Meanwhile, Marseille announced their intentions Champions League with a 3-0 victory against Borussia Dortmund with two goals and one for Andre Ayew Loïc Rémy. Marseille sent substitute Jordan Ayew in overtime.

Zenit St. Petersburg took the 45th Minute of Jorge Fucile farewell to beat Porto 3-1 in Group G Roman Shirokov offset strike James Rodriguez advance the effort in the second half by Danny Shirokov and sealed the points.

Also in Group G, shared the points with Shakhtar Donetsk APOEL Nicosia in a 1-1 draw in Ukraine. Ivan Trickovski put the visitors in front Jadson struck an 64th minute equalizer.
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Rugby World Cup costs us millions and must change, says New Zealand

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The future of the Rugby World Cup will come under threat unless fundamental changes ensure leading nations do not lose millions in revenue at the 2015 tournament in England, according to the head of the New Zealand Rugby Union.
Steve Tew, the NZRU chief executive, has warned that competing at the World Cup has cost his union more than NZ$13m (£7m), a loss it could ill afford at a time when player costs were rising and the world economy was stagnating. Incoming tours are halted in a World Cup year and competing nations are not allowed to have any association with their sponsors for the duration of the tournament.
The International Rugby Board will by next May complete a review of how the World Cup is run. Tew said that unless changes were agreed, he feared his union, which is hosting this year's tournament, would not be able to afford to take part in the 2015 event.
"We think we are at a really important juncture," he said. "We want a couple of things taken very seriously around the IRB table. One is the money that flows through and out of Rugby World Cup. It is well publicised that the major unions lose a significant amount of money net by participating in the tournament and that makes absolutely no sense.
"We lose NZ$13.2m [£6.7m] worth of revenue after income from Rugby World Cup and costs are adjusted. It cannot carry on. We said at the last board conference that we needed a full review of the IRB's financial model, Rugby World Cup commercial rules and RWC money flows. We are waiting with some anxiety what the IRB are going to do about it.
"The IRB did put an extra £1m on the table for the major unions six months ago which helped and which was appreciated, but frankly the prospects of us going to England in 2015 under the current model are very slim. We cannot continue to sign on for an event that costs us so much money.
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