AC Milan, Chelsea advance to second round in Champions League

Defending champion AC Milan moved into the second round of the European Champion League with a 1-1 tie at Benfica on Wednesday night, and Chelsea advanced with a 4-0 victory at Rosenborg.

Two other qualifying groups are wide open, however, and half of the 16-team field for the second round won't be decided until the final games.

Liverpool eased some of the pressure on coach Rafa Benitez with a 4-1 victory over Porto, and nine-time champion Real Madrid hurt its chances with a 3-2 loss at Werder Bremen.

Arsenal, Barcelona, Internazionale of Milan, Manchester United, AS Roma and Sevilla also have clinched berths.

Andrea Pirlo's long-range shot put Milan ahead in the 15th minute in Lisbon, but Maxi Pereira tied the score in the 20th. Milan still went through because Celtic scored a last-minute goal to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 in Glasgow.

Brandao gave Shakhtar the lead in the fourth minute, but Jiri Jarosik leveled for Celtic a minute before halftime and Massimo Donati scored the winning goal in the first minute of injury time.

Milan (3-1-1) leads the group with 10 points and next faces Celtic (3-2), which has nine. Shakhtar (2-3) has six points and hosts Benfica (1-1-3), which already has been eliminated.

Didier Drogba scored the first two of Chelsea's goals at Rosenborg, giving the Blues (3-0-2) 11 points. Rosenborg (2-2-1) remained second with seven points because Schalke and Valencia tied 0-0

Schalke (1-2-2), which hosts Rosenborg (2-2-1) next week, has five points and Valencia (1-3-1), which visits Chelsea, has four.

Madrid trailed 3-1 at Werder Bremen after goals by Markus Rosenberg, Boubacar Sanogo and Aaron Hunt. Robinho replied for the Spanish champions in the 14th and Ruud van Nistelrooy added a second in the 72nd.

Madrid and Olympiakos (both 2-1-2) have eight points, with the Greek team winning 2-1 at Lazio (1-2-2), which has five. Goran Pandev put Lazio ahead, although the ball appeared to have gone out before the preceding cross. Luciano Galletti and Darko Kovacevic then scored for the visitors.

Fernando Torres scored twice for Liverpool at Anfield, where Reds fans staged a march to support Benitez, who appears to be pressuring owners George Gillett Jr. and Tom Hicks to increase funding for player transfers.

After going winless in its first three Group A games, Liverpool (2-2-1) has seven points, equal with Olympique Marseille and one point behind Porto (2-1-2). Besiktas (2-3), which beat Marseille 2-1, has six.

Marseille hosts Liverpool in two weeks, and Porto is at home against Besiktas.