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Chelsea cruise to opening Champions win

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  • England midfielders Frank Lampard and Joe Cole both on target for Chelsea
  • The pair score first-half headers as Chelsea defeat Bordeaux 4-0 in Group A
  • Romanian side CFR Cluj shock Roma with 2-1 victory at the Olympic Stadium
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(CNN) -- First-half headers from Frank Lampard and Joe Cole set last season's runners-up Chelsea on their way, as they cruised past Bordeaux 4-0 to earn manager Luiz Felipe Scolari his first Champions League win in their Group A opener.

Chelsea players celebrate another goal on their way to a comfortable 4-0 victory over Bordeaux.

Lampard opened the scoring in the 14th minute with his third goal of the season, nodding Jose Bosingwa's right-wing cross into the corner of the Bordeaux net.

The second goal came on the half-hour mark through Cole, with the England midfielder beating the French club's center-backs Fernando and Franck Jurietti at the near post to nod home Lampard's corner.

French international Florent Malouda added the third against his compatriots after a run from John Obi Mikel that took him around three defenders. He passed to Lampard, whose backheel invited Malouda to fire into the far corner.

Ricardo Carvalho hit the crossbar with a header before Nicolas Anelka tapped in the fourth after Juliano Belletti's powerful long-range had also hit the crossbar.

Meanwhile, Champions League debutants CFR Cluj stunned Roma 2-1 in the other group match at the Olympic Stadium.

The Romanians thoroughly deserved their victory with Argentine Juan Culio scoring twice in response to Cristian Panucci's opener for the Italians.

Roma took the lead on 17 minutes when Daniele De Rossi dispossessed a dawdling Culio near the corner flag and crossed for Panucci who stooped to head home at the near post.

But that seemed to spur on the visitors who responded in style and exposed Roma's makeshift center-half pairing of Panucci and Marco Cassetti.

Argentines Sebastian Dubarbier and Culio, as well as Uruguayan Alvaro Pereira all had chances on the counter before the Romanians levelled on 27 minutes.

Left winger Culio made up for his earlier mistake by shrugging off Rodrigo Taddei, playing a one-two with Eugen Trica and taking the return -- a back-heeled flick -- in his stride before firing home low past goalkeeper Doni.

Whatever coach Luciano Spalletti told his side during the half-time interval had no effect -- as Culio grabbed his second with a left-foot volley after Cassetti only partially cleared Trica's chip into the box.

The visitors remained the more dangerous and Argentine substitute Sixto Peralta was unlucky to see his 71st minute header crash back off the bar.

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