BAYERN MUNICH cruised past Russain side FK Rostov in a 5-0 victory at the Allianz Arena.
Robert Lewandowski opened from the spot in the 26th minute after Aleksandru Gatcan fouled the Polish striker in the area.
Thomas Muller guided the ball into the right bottom corner seconds before the break when he caught up with a David Alaba pass.
Joshua Kimmich scored his third consecutive goal when he simply tapped in a low cross from Douglas Costa, before heading a fourth on the hour mark.
Bayern’s fifth came in injury time when Juan Bernat diverted a Franck Ribery cross from the left.
Atletico Madrid grabbed a narrow 1-0 win in Holland as PSV Eindhoven missed a first-half penalty.
Atletico took the lead just before half-time when defensive midfielder Saul Ñíguez drove the ball in the net with a magnificent finish from inside the box.
PSV were lucky the referee blew for a penalty right before half-time but it was superbly saved by Jan Oblak.
France star Antoine Griezmann made a surprise anonymous performance, which cost the Spaniards to struggle.
Besiktas snatched a point at Benfica thanks to an injury-time free-kick from Anderson Talisca.
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Besiktas’ Ricardo Quaresma almost equalised before half-time from a 25-yard free-kick when keeper Santana Ederson Moraes had to make a panic save to push it into safety.
But Talisca was on target when he curled a late free-kick from just outside the box.
Dynamo Kiev wasted a one-goal lead to give Napoli all three points in their first group stage game.
Denys Garmash fired Dynamo in the lead with a 26-minute strike from range.
But Napoli equalised 10 minutes before the break with Arkadiusz Milik heading home a Faouzi Ghoulam cross to level the scoreline.
And Milik produced an all important winner to send Napoli into the lead on the edge of half-time.
Dynamo made life more difficult for them when Serhiy Sydorchuk was sent off in the 68 minutes.
In Switzerland, Basel rescued a point as Renato Steffen scored a late winner on his first European experience against Ludogorets.
Jonathan Barbosa opened in the 45th minute after Marcelinho fast broke on a counter attack to help his team take the lead at the interval.
However, Renato Steffen fired home an 80-minute volley after goalkeeper Vladislav Stoyanov made a poor clearance.
The teams faced each other four times in the past four seasons.
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