Champions League
Chelsea emerged from the Adrian Mutu drugs controversy to virtually assure their place in the next round of the Champions League on Wednesday while London rivals Arsenal saw their calamity-prone goalkeeper Jens Lehmann cost them a point.
Jose Mourinho's Chelsea earned their third win in three Group H games with a 2-0 dismissal of CSKA Moscow at Stamford Bridge.
In Athens, however, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal were twice pegged back and were held to a 2-2 draw by Panathinaikos after Lehmann was twice at fault for the Greek champions' equalisers.
The point also meant that the Gunners lost top spot in Group E to PSV Eindhoven who defeated Rosenborg 2-1.
Elsewhere, Celtic slumped to a 3-0 defeat and headed for the Champions League exit door losing 3-0 to Shakhtar Donetsk while Italy showed off their credentials with Inter Milan crushing Valencia 5-1 and AC Milan edging Barcelona 1-0.
Defending champions Porto went down 2-0 to Paris St Germain to slip to the foot of Group H.
At Stamford Bridge, an early corner allowed John Terry to head home his third goal of the season and Eidur Gudjohnsen repeated the trick from Damien Duff's free-kick right on the stroke of half-time.
It was only the second goal of the season for the Icelandic striker but that will still have come as a relief for Mourinho, who has Didier Drogba out injured, Mutu facing a ban for cocaine use and Mateja Kezman still struggling to adapt to English football.
"It is more important for us than for Eidur because we won the game with that goal," Mourinho said.
"But of course for a striker it is good to score. He had a great chance against Man City [on Saturday] and didn't score, so this will be good for his confidence."
In Athens, Lehmann's Champions League curse returned to haunt Arsenal.
Freddie Ljungberg had put Arsenal ahead in the first half before Lehmann's latest howler handed the Greeks a deserved equaliser.
A goal 16 minutes from time by stand-in skipper Thierry Henry seemed to have given Arsenal the three points, but in the 82nd minute, Polish international Emmanuel Olisadebe, a second-half substitute, rose unopposed to head in a second equaliser with Lehmann again caught napping.
"It's difficult to make judgements just after the game but I will speak to Jens" said Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger.
"We will see what happened but if you make mistakes at the back, you will get punished."
Arsenal went in front in the 18th minute. Jose Antonio Reyes threaded a sweet left foot pass through a wall of defenders where Ljungberg was on hand to chip over the onrushing goalkeeper Konstantinos Chalkias.
Then in the 65th minute Lehmann came rushing out of his penalty area to head a long, hopeful ball clear which fell to Gonzalez who scored with a sensational lob from an acute angle from just inside the touchline with the German desperately back-pedalling.
But Lehmann will also have the fingers pointed at him for the second goal when Olisadebe rose unopposed to head in a corner with the German marooned in no-man's land eight minutes from time.
It was the third European match in which Lehmann had blundered.
Last season, he tried to dribble the ball out of his area against Dynamo Kiev, lost possession and handed the Ukrainians a 2-1 win.
Just weeks earlier, the big German blamed himself for two of the goals in a 3-0 defeat by Inter Milan.
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