England must beat Slovenia in their final group match on Wednesday to reach the knockout stage of the tournament.
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Arsenal needed a point to secure qualification for the knockout stage but they conceded two late goals in Portugal.
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The visitors went into an early lead, but the Blues' sixth Pool Six win ensured they are top seeds for the knockout stage.
First-half goals from Samir Nasri and Denilson set the Gunners on their way to the knockout stage for a 10th campaign in succession.
Qatar, seeking to reach the knockout stage for only the second time, will face Middle Eastern rivals Kuwait at the same venue on Sunday.
Ribery's four assists in the knockout stage is tops in the tournament, while Robben has four goals in five games since the group phase.
The youthful Russians outpaced the experienced Swedes to qualify for the knockout stage for the first time since the break up of the Soviet Union.
"The next match is very critical for our team to go for the knockout stage but we will try our best, " Korea coach Jo Tong-sop said.
On Tuesday, McLeish became the first manager of a Scottish club to reach the knockout stage of the Champions League after the 1-1 draw at Ibrox with Inter Milan.
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It left the score at 25-10 and although Trevor Leota hit back with a late try, it was not enough for the Londoners who must now travel away in the Cup's knockout stage.
No team has overcome a three-goal deficit from the first leg in a Champions League knockout stage matchup since Deportivo La Coruna beat AC Milan 4-0 in the 2003-04 quarterfinals for a 5-4 aggregate win.
Perez is seeking to rebuild a team which finished second in the Primera Liga last season, nine points behind Barcelona, and again failed to progress past the first knockout stage of Europe's premier club competition.
Vicente Del Bosque's Spain team have yet to fire on all cylinders at the tournament, losing to Switzerland in the opening match and then winning all three knockout stage matches 1-0 -- including the semifinal against Germany.
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Russia coach Guus Hiddink, who has maintained his record of reaching the knockout stage in every international tournament he has coached at, will now take on his home country having led them to the semifinals of the 1998 World Cup.
Despite the threat of sanctions looming over the club, Malaga have performed superbly this season under coach Manuel Pellegrini, winning Group C of the Champions League with a game to spare and earning a tie against Porto in the knockout stage.
Qatar, ranked 105th in the world, had reached the knockout stage for just the second time in seven appearances and looked capable of going one better than 2000's last-eight showing when substitute Fabio Cesar made it 2-1 straight after Maya Yoshida's 62nd-minute dismissal.
That argument is perhaps backed up by the fact that Spain has now not conceded a knockout-stage goal in any tournament since the 2006 World Cup, a run of nine matches and a remarkable 900 minutes of action.
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On Day Two of the game, Blue decided to show force by launching more surveillance and communications satellites, making it harder for Red to stage an early knockout attack that is, a successful Pearl Harbor.
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Result: Both have thrived in the group stage and reached the knockout round.
For all its tortuous history, that's nothing compared to the competition's head-wrecking format, which welcomes teams at various points from June to February and features four qualifying rounds, a group stage, four more knockout rounds, then a final played in neutral territory.
No sporting event has greater popularity or higher stakes than soccer's World Cup, and they manage to sort that whole clambake out in about a month with a round-robin group stage that shifts to a single-elimination knockout round.
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