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Joaquin makes amends: Malaga winger notches winner against AC Milan after penalty miss

GROUP C: Champions League debutants Malaga stunned seven-times winners AC Milan when Joaquin made up for missing a penalty with…

Thu Oct 25 2012 - 01:00

GROUP C:Champions League debutants Malaga stunned seven-times winners AC Milan when Joaquin made up for missing a penalty with the winner in a memorable 1-0 victory.

After Kevin Constant had brought down Jesus Gamez on the edge of the area, former Spain winger Joaquin drove his 44th-minute spot kick high towards goal but it skimmed the top of the crossbar and flew off into the crowd.

However, the 31-year-old crowd favourite made no mistake in the 64th minute when played through by Manuel Iturra and his low shot beat Milan goalkeeper Marco Amelia and went in off the post to give Malaga an impressive three wins out of three in the group.

With three of six matches played, Malaga have nine points, with Milan on four. Zenit St Petersburg have three after their 1-0 win at home to Anderlecht, with the Belgian side on one.

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Alexander Kerzhakov calmly converted the 72nd-minute spot kick for his 200th career goal as Zenit withstood late pressure from the Belgian champions to record their first victory.

GROUP A: Two goals from Colombia striker Jackson Martinez handed Porto a hard-fought 3-2 win over Dynamo Kiev and allowed them to stay on top of the group, with maximum points from three games

Silvestre Varela put Porto ahead after 15 minutes when he received the ball in the box from Argentine playmaker Lucho Gonzalez, gently cushioned it and then blasted the ball straight into the top right corner.

The Ukrainians replied swiftly and five minutes later Oleh Gusyev headed in an inswinging corner with Porto keeper Helton slow to react.

The home side went back on top 10 minutes before half-time through Martinez but in the second half were caught napping by the visitors and Nigerian Ideye Brown levelled again. Martinez crowned his man-of-the match performance with a tap-in after 78 minutes

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 12th goal of the season for club and country to give Paris St Germain the lead at Dinamo Zagreb after 32 minutes and France international Jeremy Menez made sure of the points nine minutes later, to earn PSG a 2-0 lead and cement second place in the group, on six points.