Marseille avenged their heavy Ligue 1 defeat at the weekend with a superb 5-1 victory over AEL Limassol at Stade Velodrome.

Surprisingly, it was the Cypriot minnows who scored first, with Edwin Ouon providing the finish after some lax defending from a corner. Joey Barton’s home debut saw the Englishman’s corner helped on by debutant Lucas Mendes, with Rod Fanni heading in to make it 1-1.

The hosts then were in the ascendancy, with Mendes notching a debut goal with a fine header, before Loic Remy made it 3-1 midway through the second half.

Substitute Andre-Pierre Gignac made it 4-1, with Remy completing the rout just seconds later – both in the 90th minute to hand Elie Baup’s men top spot in Group A.

Fenerbahce turned on the style to demolish Borussia Monchengladbach 4-2 during an intriguing encounter at Borussia Park.

It would be Lucien Favre’s side who took the lead early on, as Havard Nordveit’s pin-point delivery was headed in by Luuk de Jong, as the Turkish giants failed to adequately impose their authority early on.

However, it would be all Fenerbahce from there, as the visitors replied. Firstly, a brilliant free-kick from Cristian deceived Marc-Andre ter Stegen for the equaliser, before Raul Meireles latched onto a delivery by Canet Erkin, to smash home a low shot to turn the match around.

Dirk Kuyt made it 3-1 in the second half, turning in from Erkin’s cross after a surging run from the midfielder, though, Ivan de Camargo reduced the deficit to 3-2 from Juan Arango’s delivery.

Nonetheless, it would be Fener’s night as Cristian struck his second to complete the 4-2 scoreline late on, to hand Aykut Kocaman’s side a huge win.

Brendan Rodgers has called for his Liverpool players to improve their levels of concentration after his side relinquished a lead to lose 3-2 to Udinese in the Europa League on Thursday night.

The Reds’ boss was disappointed at giving away three “poor” goals at the beginning of the second half, after initially going into the break with a 1-0 advantage.

And Rodgers admitted that he has grown frustrated by his team’s inability to see out a game when on top of their opponents so far this season.

“I thought we were very, very good in the first half, and the problems that we have in the first 15-20 minutes in the second have been with us from the beginning of the season,” he told ITV.

“We lose concentration and become lazy, and all of a sudden we find ourselves 3-1 down.

“We injected energy and quality into the game in the last 20 minutes, and that’s the level the players have been at recently.

“So we’re disappointed after such a good first half, controlling and dominating the game – but to then give away such poor goals at the beginning of the second, and then obviously we’re chasing the game at 3-1.”

Rodgers believes his side’s defensive errors this term puts more pressure on his forward players to perform, something which they must eradicate immediately.

“We can’t have to score three, four or five goals to win games,” he continued.

“That’s the end we have to work hard on. Some of our quality and domination of the ball is very good, we just concede goals too early and that’s something we need to improve on.”

Liverpool sit third in Group A, one point behind joint leaders Udinese and Anzhi Makhachkala, but the Ulsterman has not given up hope of qualification to the next round.

He added: “We looked like we were going to win it, then get a point and we ended up with nothing. There are quality teams in this group. It’s qualification that we aim for.”

Olympique de Marseille avenged their heavy Ligue 1 defeat at the weekend with a superb 5-1 victory over AEL Limassol at Stade Velodrome.

Surprisingly, it was the Cypriot minnows who scored first, with Edwin Ouon providing the finish after some lax defending from a corner. Joey Barton’s home debut saw the Englishman’s corner helped on by debutant Lucas Mendes, with Rod Fanni heading in to make it 1-1.

The hosts then were in the ascendancy, with Mendes notching a debut goal with a fine header, before Loic Remy made it 3-1 midway through the second half.

Substitute Andre-Pierre Gignac made it 4-1, with Remy completing the rout just seconds later – both in the 90th minute to hand Elie Baup’s men top spot in Group A.

Fenerbahce turned on the style to demolish Borussia Monchengladbach 4-2 during an intriguing encounter at Borussia-Park.

It would be Lucien Favre’s side who took the lead early on, as Havard Nordveit’s pin-point delivery was headed in by Luuk de Jong, as the Turkish giants failed to adequately impose their authority early on.

However, it would be all Fenerbahce from there, as the visitors replied. Firstly, a brilliant free-kick from Cristian deceived Marc-Andre ter Stegen for the equaliser, before Raul Meireles latched onto a delivery by Canet Erkin, to smash home a low shot to turn the match around.

Dirk Kuyt made it 3-1 in the second half, turning in from Erkin’s cross after a surging run from the midfielder, though Ivan de Camargo reduced the deficit back to 3-2 from Juan Arango’s delivery.

Nonetheless, it would be Fener’s night as Cristian struck his second to complete the 4-2 scoreline late on, to hand Aykut Kocaman’s side a huge win.