Champions League: Wednesday's action - in pictures

Fernando Torres looks pensive ahead of Chelsea's away game in Valencia. Maybe he's seen what our readers make of his time at Chelsea Photograph: Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/Getty Images

Whereas John Terry looks pouty rathern than pensive Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Frank Lampard is back in Chelsea's starting line-up and it seems like a good decision by André Villas Boas as the midfielder opens the scoring in the 56th minute Photograph: Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images

Petr Cech is down smartly to make a save Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Former Valencia player Juan Mata is closed down by Miguel Brito. Mata received a warm reception from the Valencia fans Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Chelsea are denied a victory 3 minutes from the end because of the foolishness of Salomon Kalou. When a corner comes across he goes up with his arm to dink the ball away from a Valencia head. The referee points to the spot. Soldado steps up and sends Petr Cech the wrong way Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Pep Guardiola looks a bit worried before Barcelona's game against Bate Borisov Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Lionel Messi demonstrates one of his famous jinking runs to. He also showed Bate how to score when he notched 2 goals in Barca's 5-0 victory. His first was scored with his head which was only his second headed Champions League goal, the first being in the final 2 years ago against Manchester United Photograph: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images

AC Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic uses a long leg to control the ball against Viktoria Plzen. The Swedish striker returned after a two week absence and was the difference between the two teams. He gave the home side the lead from the penalty spot early in the second half after a debated handball. Thirteen minutes later he played the ball through to Cassano who chipped the Pizen keeper. The 2-0 victory puts the Italian side top of group H, ahead of Barca on goal difference Photograph: Marco Luzzani/Getty Images

Dortmund fans are in good voice ahead of their match in Marseille Photograph: Claude Paris/AP

Marseille forward Andre Ayew seems to be enjoying himself. He has good reason to as he scored twice in Marseille's 3-0 victory which puts them top of Group F with a perfect 6 points from their two games Photograph: Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images

Which means that at the end of the game it was the Marseille fans who had reason to cheer Photograph: Christof Koepsel/Bongarts/Getty Images

Bayer Leverkusen's Lars Bender celebrates opening the scoring against Genk Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters

Michael Ballack came off the bench to score from the edge of the box during injury time and cement 3 points for Leverkusen. The 2-0 win was their first Champions League victory since their last appearance in 2005, and also ended a run of 3 successive defeats Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

Roman Shirokov rues a missed chance for Zenit St Petersburg against Porto. He subsequently found his shooting boots to score twice Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters

Danny makes it 3-1 to Zenit in the 72nd minute and that's how it stays. The Russian side are now second in Group G Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters

The Zenit fans react with delight at the victory Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters

Apoel Nicosia goalkeeper Dionisios Chiotis seems to think it's funny that Shakhtar Donetsk's Jadson has equalised in their 1-1 draw. Though he did have the last laugh as the draw meant that Apoel Nicosia went to the top of Group G Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images