Champions League - Spartak Moscow 0 Bayern Munich 3

Bayern Munich overcame freezing temperatures and a difficult playing surface to beat Spartak Moscow 3-0.

The temperatures during the day in the Russian capital rarely rose above -8 - and they were -20 for Bayern's training session last night - but the game was not in danger after volunteers helped to prepare a playing surface that still unnerved the Bayern stars when they trained on it last night.

They put such problems behind them and ran out convincing winners after two goals from Mehmet Scholl.

Elber scored the winner when these two sides met in Munich last week and he set up the first goal in the 17th minute when his pass reached an unmarked Mehmet Scholl and he scored from close range.

Spartak then fought hard to keep their Champions League hopes alive and Yegor Titov, Maxim Kalinichenko and Igor Mitrevsky all came close with low shots across the icy surface before captain Titov encouraged Bayern by pulling a shot wide after a neat run.

The second goal was the killer for the Bundesliga leaders.

Hasan Salihamidzic was felled in the area by a tackle from Dmitry Ananko and Scholl scored with a low drive.

Paulo Sergio took advantage three minutes from the end as Spartak were caught pushing up to score from close range.