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After a promising start to the tournament in Germany, Spain were defeated 3-1 to eventual finalists France in the first knockout round.
BBC: SPORT | Football | Internationals | Oubina in Spain squad for Windsor
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Easy wins over Jamaica and Japan in the group phase meant a meeting with Romania, winners of England's group, in the first knockout round.
BBC: Croatia's rise from obscurity
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In the first knockout round, Roy Hodgson's men will avoid fellow English clubs Liverpool and Everton but could face the likes of Juventus, Marseille, Ajax, or Benfica.
BBC: FC Basle 2-3 Fulham
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He strung together 18 lopsided victories before colliding with a crushing left hook from Columbian Breidis Prescott in 2008 and suffering a first-round knockout.
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With France, Senegal and Uruguay up against them in the first round this summer, a place in the knockout stages is there for the taking.
BBC: Will it be third time lucky?
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The first is a raw accounting of how many of the eight potential knockout round participants were correctly identified by each model or pundit.
FORBES: Quantifying the Under and Over Performing Teams in the Men's Olympic Soccer Tournament
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It was the first time since 1987 that Barcelona lost both legs in a European knockout round Dundee United was the last team to inflict that indignity, according to Opta Sports.
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Briggs won the WBO title with a 12th-round knockout of Sergei Liakhovich in November 2006 but lost the title in his first defence against Sultan Ibragimov eight months later.
BBC: Vitali Klitschko (left) and Shannon Briggs
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England survived some nervous moments on either side of Devic's disallowed shot, but held on to reach the knockout round with something to spare as Seb Larsson's late goal condemned France to its first defeat in 23 games.
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