European round-up:  Liverpool produced a superb professional display to reach the Champions League knockout stages after a 4-0 win over Marseille at the Stade Velodrome. Chelsea warmed up for Sunday's crucial Barclays Premier League showdown with Arsenal by toiling to a laboured scoreless draw against Valencia.

Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel were all on target as the Reds finished second in Group A behind Porto - a tremendous achievement considering they took only one point from the opening three games in the group.

The visitors made a dream start and were two goals to the good inside the opening 11 minutes.

They opened the scoring with four minutes on the clock when skipper Gerrard went down under the challenge of Gael Givet in the box after latching on to Kuyt's pass - and although his initial penalty was saved by Steve Mandanda the England midfielder was on hand to smack home the rebound from six yards.

It was 2-0 seven minutes later when Harry Kewell played in Torres and the Spaniard skipped past the challenge of Julien Rodriguez before coolly slotting the ball past Mandanda from 12 yards.

Mathieu Valbuena squandered a good chance to pull a goal back for the home side in the 24th minute, while at the other end a long distance Gerrard free-kick curled just wide and Kewell volleyed over with the goal at his mercy.

Rafael Benitez's men flew out of the traps at the start of the second period and made it 3-0 in the 48th minute when Kewell picked up a loose clearance from Mandanda and crossed for an unmarked Kuyt to produce a clinical finish from 12 yards.

Former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse saw a header deflected inches wide in a rare attack from Marseille before substitute Babel wrapped up an emphatic victory for the Reds in stoppage time.

Chelsea warmed up for Sunday's crucial Barclays Premier League showdown with Arsenal by toiling to a laboured scoreless draw against Valencia.

The Blues had already qualified for the Champions League knockout stages as Group B winners, regardless of tonight's result at Stamford Bridge, and for long spells they looked like a team with nothing to play for.

Avram Grant had acknowledged the group finale against Valencia was little more than a distraction with the Arsenal clash looming and his side were reading from the same script.

Aside from a bright opening and a productive final half hour that coincided with Joe Cole's arrival from the bench, they looked in second gear.

For their part Valencia seemed equally disinterested with the feint hope of securing a place in the Uefa Cup providing little inspiration.

The Spanish club started with reported Chelsea target David Villa and Fernando Morientes up front but the celebrated duo rarely threatened.

Grant was expected to rest key players such as Frank Lampard and John Terry but only made six changes, among them recalling Petr Cech who had recovered a calf injury.

Peru striker Claudio Pizarro started and probably played his way out of contention for a place against Arsenal after proving the most wasteful of Chelsea's players.

Salomon Kalou and Cole both struck the woodwork in a dominant last 30 minutes, but sloppy finishing and the heroics of Valencia goalkeeper Santiago Canizares also contributed to the stalemate.

Uefa Champions League
Chelsea 0-0 Valencia
FC Porto 2-0 Besiktas
Marseille 0-4 Liverpool
Olympiakos 3-0 Werder Bremen
Real Madrid 3-1 Lazio
Schalke 04 3-1 Rosenborg