Arsenal over Mars after taking Nantes apart

Nigel Winterburn blasted the second — his first goal in two years — in the 82nd minute and Dennis Bergkamp notched one of his specials in the final minute of the first leg tie.

Juventus won 3-1 in Athens against Olympiakos of Greece, one of the sides dumped out of the more glamorous Champions League in the opening group phase.

Carlo Ancelotti’s Serie A giants had to come from behind as Stylianos Giannakopoulos put the Greeks ahead on 15 minutes.

The Turin club stormed back with goals from Croatian defender Igor Tudor before second half efforts from Yugoslav Darko Kovacevic andFilippo “Super Pippo” Inzaghi.

Newcastle failed in their quest to make it an English double — but they made AS Roma work hard for a 1-0 win at the Olympic Stadium as the Italians took the slenderest of leads to Tyneside in the UEFA Cup third round.

Roma failed to repeat their performance in last weekend’s 4-1 Derby victory over Lazio, lacking any real control in midfield and looking too short of ideas when moving forward against a well-organsised Newcastle defence.

The turning point came in the 51st minute, when Francesco Totti played the ball over the top of the visitors’ back four, finding Marco del Vecchio.

The striker steered it into the box and went down under Frenchman Laurent Charvet’s challenge and French referee Claude Colombo pointed to the spot.

Totti drove the ball low to keeper Steve Harper’s right for what proved the only goal.

England’s third remaining side in the event, Leeds United, saw their match at Spartak Moscow frozen out by sub-zero temperatures. The first leg is now setto be staged on December 2 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

The third Italian win came from Parma — but again only just — as Marco di Vaio and Croatian Mario Stanic secured a 2-1 win over Austria’s Sturm Graz. Markus Schropp scored for the Austrians.

Glasgow Rangers scored a superb 2-0 win at Ibrox over former European champions Borussia Dortmund with a Jurgen Kohler own-goal in the 18th minute and Rod Wallace scoring the second on the stroke of half time.

Rangers will travel to Dortmund with high hopes of reaching the quarter-finals and making up for Champions league exits after defeats by Bayern Munich and Valencia.

Ajax, like Dortmund, are not the force they were and fell to a Diego Tristan goal at home to Spain’s Real Mallorca.

It was a great night for Spain as they registered three wins with Celta Vigo handing Benfica a memorable 7-0 pasting.

Valery Karpin, Mario Turdo, Juan Fran and Claude Makelele all scored twice with Alex Mostovoi bagging the other.

Deportivo La Coruna, who are levelon top of the Spanish league with Vigo, beat Panathinaikos 4-2, a result which should be just enough to advance.

Other games saw Kaiserslautern of Germany win 2-1 at French side Lens. The Germans quickly found their feet to go two goals clear through an Eric Sikora own goal and Martin Wagner. An own goal by Danish defender Michael Schjonberg gave Lens some consolation.

In another Franco-German clash, French league leaders Lyon fared much better then Lens as they trounced Werder Bremen 3-0 at the Stade Gerland.

Livewire Brazilian striker Sonny Anderson showed why Lyon paid Barcelona some $15 million for his services as he finished a brilliant one-two with Vikash Dhorasoo to open the scoring on 13 minutes and side footed a second after a Tony Vairelles cross on the stroke of half time.

Vairelles smacked home a cross shot for the third after Anderson did the spadework.