But last season's runners-up Bayern Munich are facing a real struggle to qualify to the next round of premier football tournament for European clubs after a 2-1 defeat in Holland to PSV Eindhoven while Chelsea and AC Milan's 1-1 draw means they will dispute the two Group H slots with Germany's Hertha Berlin, who lost 4-1 at home to Turkey's Galatasaray.

In Milan, meanwhile, Chelsea dominated the first half but failed to make a breakthrough. And it was all looking pear-shaped for the Londoners when German striker Oliver Bierhoff put the six-times winners 1-0 ahead with just 16 minutes left, beating French World Cup winner Frank Leboeuf to the ball and heading past Ed De Goey.

Three minutes later, one of Chelsea's few English players Dennis Wise grabbed the goal that could prove golden forGianluca Vialli's side.

With Valencia beating Rangers 2-1, they are top of the pool and are guaranteed to progress with Spanish rivals Real and Barcelona as either Bayern or Rangers, who must play each other in Munich, will be eliminated next week.

Rangers went into yesterday's home match with Valencia on top of Pool F and hoping to clinch their ticket to next round.

But the team that has dominated Scottish football for a decade -- 10 titles in 11 years -- will need to be on top of their game in Munich if they are finally to prove they can make the grade at continental level.

First-half goals from Gaizka Mendieta and Claudio Lopez put the Spaniards well in control on the night and on top of the pool.

Mendieta stunned the home crowd by putting Valencia ahead after 34 minutes with a superb finish, taking the ball on his chest before rifling an unstoppable volley beyond Rangers 'keeper Stefan Klos.

And the Spanish side made it 2-0 in first half stoppage time when Argentinian Claudio Lopez tiedLorenzo Amoruso in knots and found the corner with a stunning individual goal.

But Australian Craig Moore reduced the arrears by making the score 2-1 just before the hour mark.

In Eindhoven PSV, despite a disappointing European campaign, showed in the first half why they are top of the Dutch first division.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy side-footed the hosts ahead against Bayern after Belgian Luc Nilis drew 'keeper Stefan Wessels and slid the ball to Van Nistelrooy who could hardly miss.

But Paraguayan striker Roque Santa Cruz -- the world's most expensive teenager -- squared the match for the German champions six minutes after interval from close range.

Nilis struck the winner for PSV, European champions in 1988, after 57 minutes with a rising left-foot shot that went in off the underside of the bar.

In Group E, though, it is all over bar the shouting. FC Porto and Real Madrid have qualified at the expense of Greece's Olympiakos and Norway's Molde.

In Madrid, it was the tried and trusted home grown duoof Fernando Morientes and Raul that saw the seven-times winners book their passage with a 3-0 victory.

Morientes did all the work setting up Raul for an easy chance. That settled the nerves of the crowd at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium and especially those of Welsh coach John Toshack who knows that qualification may buy him more time to turn around the ailing giants.