Football: Bayern upset Barcelona
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Your support makes all the difference.BARCELONA WERE thwarted on their own turf last night when Bayern Munich came from behind to register a 2-1 win in the Nou Camp in a vital Group D Champions' League game.
Trailing 1-0 to a first-half penalty from Giovanni, Bayern stunned the Catalan team, levelling through Alexander Zickler three minutes after the interval and then grabbing a late winner through Hasan Salihamidzic.
It takes the German team, who entertain Brondby in their next game, to within a point of Manchester United at the top of the table, with Barcelona trailing United by four points.
In Arsenal's section, Group E, Panathinaikos recorded a 1-0 victory over Lens in Greece. The all-important winner came from Leonidas Vokolos after 53 minutes and could be vital in the tightest of all the groups, with just a single point separating all four sides.
A last-gasp header from the combative Argentinian international Diego Simeone earned Internazionale a share of the spoils from their tricky Group C trip to Spartak Moscow. With three teams level on six points after three matches, Simeone's strike could prove vital in steering the Italian Serie A side into the quarter-finals.
Spartak had taken the lead in front of a partisan 78,000 crowd when the striker Andrei Tikhonov drove his 68th-minute shot against a post and Inter's goalkeeper, Gianluca Pagliuca, deflected the rebound into his own net.
Real Madrid's visit to the bottom club in Group C, Austria's Sturm Graz, was delayed by 24 hours because of a waterlogged pitch. The Spanish side will regain the group leadership if they take maximum points at the Arnold Schwarzenegger stadium tonight.
Benfica, coached by Graeme Souness, suffered the embarrassment of a 2- 2 draw with HJK Helsinki in the Stadium of Light - and it could have been worse. The Finns led at half-time, courtesy of a third minute own-goal from the former Chelsea defender, Scott Minto.
Benfica battled back and grabbed two goals in five minutes, through Nuno Gomes and Jose Calado before Luis Antonio equalised for the Finns with just four minutes left.
However, Benfica's point may be in vain as the German champions, Kaiserslauten, went within two points of clinching the Group F title with a 3-1 win over Bobby Robson's PSV Eindhoven, giving them a five-point advantage over their nearest challengers, HJK.
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