Xavi seals the deal for Barca and Valencia rack up seven

A round-up,of the other matches tonight

A round-up,of the other matches tonight

Valencia 7 Racing Genk 0

Roberto Soldado netted a blistering first-half treble to lift Valencia to a crushing win over Genk that improved their chances of reaching the last 16.

Jonas opened the scoring when he headed home in the 10th minute at the Mestalla and the Brazilian forward sent Soldado clear three minutes later to make it 2-0 with a low shot past Genk goalkeeper Laszlo Koteles.

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The pair combined again in the 36th minute when Soldado raced away from his markers and struck a powerful shot high into the net.

The striker completed his hat-trick in the 39th with a tap-in at the far post from a Pablo Hernandez centre.

Pablo, curled in a fifth in the 68th minute, Aduriz muscled his way through to make it 6-0 two minutes later and Tino Costa added the seventh in the 81st.

Victory took Valencia up to eight points, level with Chelsea,

Valencia’s visit to Chelsea will decide the second qualifying spot with Leverkusen already through.

Group F

Marseille 0 Olympiakos 1

Marseille were made to wait for a place in the last 16 when they were beaten 1-0 at home by Olympiakos. They lie second in the group on seven points with one game remaining after substitute Giannis Fetfatzidis’s 82nd-minute strike.

Group G

Zenit St P’burg 0 Apoel Nicosia 0

Shakhtar Donetsk 0 FC Porto 0

Apoel Nicosia became the first team from Cyprus to reach the Champions League knockout stage after holding Zenit St Petersburg to a 0-0 draw.

Apoel, who have beaten Zenit and Porto in a dream campaign, remain the only unbeaten team in the group and now have nine points.

Even if they were to lose their final game at home to Shakhtar Donetsk they are still guaranteed a top-two spot because of their superior head to head record against Zenit and Porto.

Group H

AC Milan 2 Barcelona 3

BATE Borisov 0 Viktoria Plzen 1

Xavi scored a typical Barcelona goal to seal the champions’ win over in a group match which was enthralling but mattered little.

Milan twice came from behind as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who scored against his former club, and Kevin-Prince Boateng replied to a Mark van Bommel own goal and a twice-taken Lionel Messi penalty.

Both teams had already qualified for the last 16. Barcelona’s win put them five points clear at the top and ensured they won the group.

With the qualifying spots for the Champions League already decided in the group, Viktoria Plzen put themselves in pole position for a Europa League berth with a deserved win at BATE Borisov.

Marek Bakos struck from six yards on 42 minutes after a well-worked move in the fog to lift the Czechs above the Belarussians into the Europa League spot.