Associated Press

London, March 9:

Chelsea, AC Milan and Lyon reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Tuesday.

John Terry’s 76th-minute header lifted English leader Chelsea to a 4-2 victory over FC Barcelona, the Spanish league leader. Chelsea advanced 5-4 on aggregate despite losing to Barcelona 2-1 in Spain two weeks ago. AC Milan ousted Manchester United 1-0, advancing 2-0 on aggregate. Argentina forward Hernan Crespo scored the winning goal in both games.

Three-time defending French champion Lyon demolished Werder Bremen 7-2, advancing 10-2. Sylvain Wiltord scored a hat-trick, Michael Essien added two more goals and Florent Malouda and Jeremy Berthod added one each to complete the rout.

The Champions League quarter-finals are on April 5-6 and April 12-13. The semi-finals are on April 26-27 and May 3-4, and the final is set for May 25 in Istanbul, Turkey.

At London, Chelsea took a 3-0 lead after only 19 minutes on goals by Eidur Gudjohnsen, Frank Lampard and Damien Duff.

But Ronaldinho rallied Barcelona with two goals — the second being enough to advance Barcelona on the away-goals rule at the time. That set the stage for Terry’s deciding header from about 12 yards.

Ronaldinho made it 3-1 on a penalty in the 27th after Paulo Ferreira was called for a hand ball in the box by referee Pierluigi Collina. Ronaldinho made it 3-2 in the 38th, scoring on an 18-yard drive that caught goalkeeper Peter Cech flatfooted.

Chelsea has already won the English League Cup and leads the Premier League by eight points over Manchester United in manager Jose Mourinho’s quest to win three major titles for billionaire Russian owner Roman Abramovich.

At Milan, Crespo headed in a second-half goal in AC Milan’s 1-0 victory at San Siro. The six-time European champions also won 1-0 two weeks ago at Old Trafford on Crespo’s goal. Crespo, who is on loan from Chelsea, scored in the 61st, taking a cross from Cafu and sending the ball behind United goalkeeper Tim Howard.

At Lyon, France, coach Paul Le Guen’s team became the top scorer in the Champions League with 27 goals in eight matches. The score was tied for the second highest in the history of the Champions League.

Monaco holds the record with an 8-3 thrashing of Deportivo La Coruna last season. In the 2000-01 season, Paris Saint-Germain beat Rosenborg 7-2 at Parc des Princes.

Lyon needed only four minutes to put the match beyond Bremen’s reach when Wiltord scored with a composed finish after running onto a pass from Malouda. After than, it was no contest.

French players Johan Micoud and Valerien Ismael scored consolation goals for the German champions.