Makaay hits hat-trick to sink Bayern
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Your support makes all the difference.Roy Makaay scored a hat-trick yesterday as Deportivo La Coruña opened their Champions' League campaign in Group E with a 3-2 victory away to the 2001 champions, Bayern Munich.
The Dutchman put Deportivo into a 2-0 half-time lead but Bayern fought back after the break with the Bosnian Hasim Salihamidzic putting them back in the match 12 minutes into the second half. The Brazilian Giovane Elber brought them level in the 64th, but Makaay wrapped things up for the Spaniards with his third 13 minutes from time.
It was an even worse night for another German side, last May's finalists Bayer Leverkusen, who are in Manchester United's group. They were thrashed 6-2 in Greece by Olympiakos, for whom Predrag Djordjevic scored a hat-trick. Leverkusen had been given a flying start when Dimitris Eleftheropoulos put through his own goal after 22 minutes.
Thomas Kleine returned the generosity five minutes later and Stelios Giannakopoulos put the Greeks in front before Djordjevic began his scoring spree just before half-time. By the 73rd minute he had completed his hat-trick and, even though Leverkusen's Bernd Schneider pulled one back, Par Zetterberg had the last word for Olympiakos.
Turkey's Galatasaray beat a Russian club for the first time when they secured a 2-0 victory over Lokomotiv in Moscow. Galatasaray's Senegalese defender, Adama Sarr, headed the first, Arif Erdem scored the second.
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