LONDON, 23 October 2003 — Inter Milan began the post-Hector Cuper era with a humiliating 3-0 defeat at Lokomotiv Moscow while Italian champions Juventus underlined their Champions League credentials with a 4-2 win over Real Sociedad on Tuesday.

Deportivo Coruna ended Monaco’s 100 percent start with a 1-0 win, 10-men Anderlecht defeated Celtic 1-0 while Dynamo Kiev’s 2-1 victory over Arsenal left the English Premier League club struggling to qualify for the knockout stages.

Inter, who sacked Argentine coach Cuper on Sunday and replaced him with former AC Milan boss Alberto Zaccheroni after a poor run in Serie A, had their 100 percent record in this season’s competition ended abruptly in the Russian capital.

Assistant coach Corrado Verdelli took temporary charge on Tuesday but Inter were a pale shadow of the side that were so impressive in humiliating Arsenal 3-0 at Highbury in their opening Group B fixture last month. Lokomotiv had not scored in their six previous Champions League games but took just two minutes to go ahead on a freezing night in Moscow, skipper Dmitry Loskov converting from close range after two minutes. Georgia striker Mikheil Ashvetia and Russian international Dmitry Khokhlov, with an imperious header, completed the rout with two goals seven minutes apart shortly after the interval.

Last season’s beaten finalists Juve made it three wins from three in Group D as Sociedad, who had also made a perfect start to their first appearance in Europe’s premier club competition for 21 seasons, suffered a rude awakening at the Delle Alpi.

Juventus flew into a two-goal lead after just seven minutes. France striker David Trezeguet sprang the offside trap for the first on three minutes, then Marco Di Vaio gathered Pavel Nedved’s superb crossfield pass before cutting inside and curling home a shot from 25 meters past Sander Westerveld. Di Vaio headed a third goal from Gianluca Zambrotta’s cross in first-half injury time. Trezeguet made it 4-0 on 63 minutes before an own goal from Igor Tudor and a Francisco de Pedro strike gave the scoreline some respectability. Brazilian striker Giovane Elber failed to find the net for Olympique Lyon against his former club Bayern Munich, but a goal two minutes from time by Peguy Luyindula rescued a 1-1 draw for the French champions to leave Group A evenly poised.

Unbeaten Deportivo Coruna leapfrogged Monaco at the top of Group C, a late goal from striker Diego Tristan handing Deportivo a narrow victory at the Riazor.

PSV Eindhoven picked up their first win and points after an error from AEK Athens keeper Christostomos Michailidis, whose poor throw let in Theo Lucius on 37 minutes. Galatasaray’s 1-0 win at home to Olympiakos in Group D left the Greek side as the only team so far without a point in the competition.