The 33-year-old was replaced by Ignazio Abate 28 minutes into the 1-1 draw at the San Siro last Wednesday, which left Milan two points behind group leaders Real Madrid ahead of the final match away to Swiss side Zurich on December 8.
Jurgen Klopp's team sits fourth in the German top flight and is being heavily tipped for European success after excelling in a Champions League group containing Real Madrid, Manchester City and Ajax, with the Spanish club's manager Jose Mourinho viewing them as candidates to win the tournament.
Klopp has led Dortmund to back-to-back German titles and guided the 1997 Champions League winners to the top of a group which contained Real Madrid, Manchester City and Ajax after failing to reach the knockout stages last season.
Kagame of Rwanda, whom he thanked for accepting to co-chair the High-Level Advocacy Group on the Millennium Development Goals, saying he looked forward to the first meeting of the Group, to be held in Madrid in mid-July.
Big-spending Real Madrid have been drawn in Group C, along with AC Milan, Marseille and Zurich.
Liverpool now face a fight with Atletico Madrid to finish top of group D, with an away game at PSV Eindhoven to come.
However, the win still lifted Madrid to the top of Group C and they are now two points clear of AC Milan and three clear of Marseille, who Manuel Pellegrini's side play in their final match.
Liverpool pipped Atletico Madrid for top spot in the group after the Spaniards were held to a goalless draw with Marseille, and have now gone eight group matches unbeaten.
Group G is likely to be billed this season's 'Group of Death' with AC Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax drawn alongside each other.
The win helped Neil Lennon's side move on to five points in Group I, two behind joint-leaders Atletico Madrid and Udinese, while Rennes, who had Yann M'Vila sent-off towards the end, are bottom with two points.
Furthermore, reports suggest the group has established ties to the Moroccan terrorists responsible for the 2004 Madrid bombings.
Chelsea, the 2007 finalists and bidding for a first title under Carlo Ancelotti, are seeded in Group D where they meet two-time champions Porto, Atletico Madrid and Cypriots APOEL Nicosia.
Born in Madrid to a wealthy family and the owner of a group of businesses, Mr Rato, who is 55, speaks excellent English thanks to his time studying at the University of California in the 1970s.
And with one game for the Blues remaining in the group stages - at home to Apoel Nicosia on 8 December - Atletico Madrid remain the only club to have scored against them in this year's competition.
Holders Atletico Madrid defeated Fulham in last season's final and are in Group B, along with Bayer Leverkusen, Rosenburg and Aris Thessaloniki.
Nine-times winners Real Madrid will have to face seven-times champions AC Milan in Group C, meaning an early return to the San Siro for Brazilian playmaker Kaka.
The system was jointly designed and developed by the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group and the Systems Intelligence Laboratory - both based at Carlos III University in Madrid (UC3M).
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However, if Shakhtar Donetsk avoid defeat, Arsenal would only be able to finish second at best and would face a group winner if they qualify - and so could face the likes of Real Madrid or Barcelona.
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Atletico Madrid and PSV Eindhoven, a club Gerets has also coached, complete Group D.
Eriksson may decide to rest Real Madrid star Beckham just to make sure his most influential player can take part in the group decider in Istanbul.
The Abu Dhabi United Group have already made their intentions clear, claiming they intend to make City "bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United".
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