It saw an increase in the number of business champions last year from 11.2% to 13.1% - an increase of 190 companies to 10, 032.
Gerardo Martino's South Americans will now face the runners-up of Group E, while Slovakia, who stunned world champions Italy 3-2 will face the winners of that group.
Wenger's side, fresh from Sunday's Carling Cup final defeat by Birmingham, lead Spanish champions Barcelona 2-1 after the first leg of their last 16 Champions League tie.
The diagnosis of hypertension came only a week after he took over the Dynamo Kiev job after resigning from the Ukraine national team post and two days after his new team beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 on match-day 2 of the UEFA Champions League.
Reigning World Cup champions Italy stayed top of Group 8 with a 2-0 win in Georgia.
The Baggies were promoted as champions of the Championship after beating Queens Park Rangers 2-0 and Mowbray said they had deserved the success.
Needing just a draw to be crowned world champions in the final game of the tournament, Brazil lost 2-1 to Uruguay and missed out on a first World Cup triumph -- an event referred to by playwright Nelson Rodrigues as "our Hiroshima".
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In that span of time, 9 champions have been the No. 1 seed, 2 winners were No. 2 seeds, and another 2 victors were No. 3 seeds.
Celtic and Manchester United met in the group stage of the tournament in 2006, with the Scottish champions losing 3-2 at Old Trafford and winning 1-0 on home soil.
Meanwhile, Sevilla's hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League suffered another blow with a 2-1 defeat at relegation-threatened Valladolid on Tuesday night.
On that occasion, it was the first leg of a Champions League third-round qualifier and Chelsea beat the Slovakian side 2-0 before going on to win 5-0 on aggregate.
The draw at Ewood Park completed a miserable week for United, who crashed out of the Champions League to Bayern Munich on away goals after a 3-2 victory over the Germans in the second leg at Old Trafford proved insufficient.
Mazembe had already made history by becoming the first African team to reach the final after a 2-0 upset win over Copa Libertadores champions Internacional of Brazil in the semi-finals, the biggest surprise in the 10-year history of the event.
Meanwhile, Barcelona confirmed it has lodged a formal complaint with UEFA following the performance of German referee Wolfgang Stark during Tuesday's 2-2 Champions League draw at Paris Saint-Germain.
Iniesta had only just returned to Josep Guardiola's team last week as a substitute for the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal against Arsenal, and then also came on in the 2-0 win at Real Madrid, but has suffered another injury blow in training after tearing a calf muscle.
He also refused to play in Wisla's 5-2 victory over Omonia Nicosia in the first leg of their Champions League second round qualifier on Wednesday.
Earlier, reigning champions Borussia Dortmund consolidated second-place in the table with a 2-1 win away to Stuttgart ahead of their upcoming Champions League clash against Malaga.
In 2005, Swedish referee Anders Frisk was heavily criticised by then Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho after Drogba was controversially sent off in the first leg of a last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona, which the Spanish side won 2-1.
It remained 13 points ahead of Real Madrid after the defending champions continued their dominance over Atletico Madrid by rallying for a 2-1 win.
On Saturday night, after seeing his team get beaten by Bayern Munich 2-1 in the Champions League final, he served up more of the same.
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In the other game in Group A, reigning champions TP Mazembe fought back from 1-0 down to beat visiting Esperance of Tunisia 2-1 in Lubumbashi.
Roberto Di Matteo is fired by Chelsea after a 3-0 away loss to Juventus in Champions League on the back of another away loss in the Premier League to West Brom 2-1.
They did lose to Charlton on penalties in a Carling Cup match in October 2005 and suffered a 2-1 reverse to Barcelona in the first leg of a Champions League last-16 tie in February 2006.
Meanwhile, Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova gave Fed Cup champions the Czech Republic a 2-0 lead over Australia after the first day of their World Group tie in Ostrava on Saturday.
But two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova overcame Jankovic's fellow former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 6-2 2-6 6-4 to give the four-time champions hope of a rematch of last year's final.
There was a 3-2 loss to Blackburn in December 2011, a 2-2 draw at home to Benfica in the Champions League, and, the worst of the bunch, a 6-1 loss to City in October 2011.
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In many ways, it was a brave choice, because the match was sandwiched between the two legs of the UEFA Champions League semifinals Real hosts Bayern Munich on Wednesday, needing to overcome a 2-1 deficit so the temptation to rotate and give some guys a breather was undoubtedly there.
Muluzi made his bold announcement following Bullets' 2-1 victory against SC Villa of Uganda in the first leg of the Champions League preliminary round matches.
Liverpool are still licking their wounds after a home 2-1 defeat to Lyon in the Champions League which has seriously hampered their hopes of making the knockout stages.
In Germany, Stuttgart set up a German Cup final with Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich after beating Freiburg 2-1 while Paris Sanit-Germain were knocked out of the French Cup by Evian .
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