Last season's finalists Manchester United take on CSKA Moscow, Besiktas and Wolfsburg in Group B.
Olympiakos have also signed playmaker Alexandro Silva de Sousa -- also known as Dudu -- from CSKA Moscow.
Just when it seemed CSKA had weathered Sporting's opening barrage the Portuguese side went ahead with a wonderful goal.
In the other Group E tie, Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia were held 1-1 at home by England's Fulham.
Gaps began to appear in the Sporting defence and CSKA substitute Milos Krasic sent in shots after breaking down the right.
With Sporting's dominating possession, CSKA found it difficult in the first half to get to the ball to Brazilians Carvalho and Love.
The result sees Fulham progress from Group E alongside Roma, who won 3-0 at CSKA Sofia to finish top of the pool.
Whichever team progresses to the last four will face a semifinal against either Italian champions Inter Milan or Russia's CSKA Moscow .
Soon after CSKA drew level when Alexei Berezutsky's downward header eluded Ricardo.
Paris-born Kamara has started just five league games for Fulham this season, scoring once, and struck against CSKA Sofia in the Europa League.
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Jose Mourinho's Inter team hold a slender 1-0 lead going into the second leg on Tuesday, which will be played on CSKA's artificial pitch.
Locations which tested positive included the Millennium Hotel, the Abracadabra lap-dancing club and the Emirates football stadium, where Mr Lugovoi had watched Arsenal play CSKA Moscow.
The result left Roma in third place on four points, while Swiss side Basel went top on six following a 2-0 victory away to CSKA Sofia.
But Jose Mourinho's men may yet rue not having added to Diego Milito's well-placed strike from the edge of the CSKA area at the San Siro.
The preservation of the first of these records, against a disciplined but ultimately inferior CSKA side, ensures the Portuguese has every chance of extending his own personal landmark.
They will have to raise their game for the trips to CSKA Moscow in the Champions League on Wednesday and then Liverpool in the league four days later.
"Welliton and Vagner Love have obtained some fans' choice awards and they are really popular among people, " added Sorokin, referring to the Spartak Moscow striker and CSKA Moscow forward.
The result saw Fulham relinquish their place at the top of Group E to Basle, who beat CSKA Sofia 2-0, although Roy Hodgson's side remain unbeaten in the competition.
Shortly before Euro 2008, Zenit St Petersburg clinched the Uefa Cup, three years after CSKA Moscow had claimed the country's first European club trophy with victory in the same competition.
As the half wore on the home side took control but were held to the break by CSKA, who faded as an attacking threat, but remained resolute at the back.
They were incensed by what they thought was a blatant attempt to win an early penalty after the CSKA Moscow player went down in the Socceroos area as he tussled with Carl Valeri.
CSKA, seeking to become the first Russian team to reach the semifinals of Europe's premier club competition since Moscow rivals Spartak in 1991, will be without the services of suspended midfielders Evgeni Aldonin and Milos Krasic.
The 32-year-old, who played for Russain club CSKA Moscow earlier in his career, broke the deadlock with a header from captain Server Djeparov's free-kick and then stole in at the near post to convert a low cross.
The Tamworth-born midfielder made his first team debut in a Uefa Cup tie against CSKA Moscow in February 2009, a game that saw then manager Martin O'Neill controversially leave the majority of his senior players at home.
Roma coach Claudio Ranieri got the result he was after from his players after they ended a run of disappointing results with a 2-0 victory over CSKA Sofia to register their first points in Group E .
Liverpool will not be asked to pre-qualify, partly because that process clashes with Uefa's showpiece date for the Super Cup match between the Champions League winners and the Uefa victors, CSKA Moscow, in Monaco on 26 August.
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Ignashevich stepped up when Russia were awarded a free-kick on the edge of the Wales area and the CSKA Moscow defender kept his shot low, the ball streaking under the leaping Gabbidon to beat the diving Hennessey's outstretched right hand.
O'Neill made eight changes to the side that that was knocked out of the Uefa Cup by CSKA Moscow in midweek, with the likes of Gareth Barry, Ashley Young, Gabriel Agbonlahor and Emile Heskey all returning to the starting line-up.
Konstantin Zyrianov added a second in stoppage time to make sure Zenit emulated the achievement of 2005 winners CSKA Moscow and condemned the tens of thousands of Rangers supporters who had descended on Manchester to a miserable journey back to Scotland.
But the newly promoted Tangerines, who make their Premier League bow at Wigan on Saturday, announced on Wednesday the capture of Manchester United's Craig Cathcart, Elliot Grandin from CSKA Sofia, Monaco's Malaury Martin and and Ludovic Sylvestre from Czech side Mlada Boleslav.
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