This season the Second Group Phase has been abolished in favor of a two-legged knockout round.

本赛季，原先的第二阶段小组赛改为两回合的淘汰赛。

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Arsene Wenger expects the first knockout round of the Champions League to provide a few answers.

温格预计欧冠第一轮淘汰赛将提供一些答案。

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With the local region enjoying its annual carnival celebrations, PSV Eindhoven hope to maintain the festive mood by inflicting a first defeat of 2007 on first knockout round visitors Arsenal FC.

伴随着本地区一年一度的嘉年华庆典，PS V埃茵霍温更希望在首回合较量中击败来访的阿森纳，以2007年首场欧战的胜利来保持节日的欢乐气氛。

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Thaxton won the title with a third-round knockout of Juan-Carlos Diaz Melero at the Showground in October and Hennessy believes that his punching power would stand up to the world's best.

BBC: Thaxton deserves world title shot

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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He held on to the belts for just two years before Kelly Pavlik defeated him with a seventh-round knockout.

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