DaMARCUS BEASLEY went the full 90 for PSV Eindhoven in its 1-0 European Champions League win over Schalke 04 and set up the Jan Vennegoor's headed goal with an in-swinging corner kick.
LYON, winner of the last four French league titles, routed nine-time European Cup winner Real Madrid, 3-0, in their Group F Champions League opener. Last season, Lyon led the tournament in goals at the group stage with 17 before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by PSV Eindhoven in a penalty kick tiebreaker.
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D.C. UNITED could muster only a 1-1 tie, thanks to a late Jamil Walker goal, in its home leg against Universidad Catolica in their Copa Sudamericana, round-of-16 game Tuesday. Catolica hosts the second leg, Sept. 22.
In the English second tier, LEEDS, with American midfielder Eddie Lewis, dropped to 10th place after losing, 1-0, Tuesday to Sheffield Wednesday, which had been winless in its first six games of the season. American Frank Simek, a 21-year-old defender, made his seventh start of the season for Sheffield Wednesday.