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The best player in the world can not be written off even if his Portugal side fail to reach the knockout stages at France Euro 2016.

The best player in the world can not be written off even if his Portugal side fail to reach the knockout stages at

Dynamo Kiev captain Olexandr Shovkovskiy is confident of securing the point required to reach the Europa League knockout stages at the expense of Thursday's opponents Rapid Vienna.

It went to the semifinals at the 2006 World Cup, the quarterfinals at Euro 2008 and back to the knockout stages at the 2010 World Cup before reaching the semifinals this month in Poland / Ukraine.

Brazilian - born striker Eder's late strike broke the deadlock in Toulouse as Italy qualified for the knockout stage at the expense of Sweden.

If Al Sadd gets wins in the two opening games then the knockout stage at minimum looks to be a real possibility.

Not exact matches

The 60 year wait for the Champions League title continues as Arsenal exited at the first knockout stage slaughtered 10 - 2.

But after we conceded that penalty and Lionel Messi converted it to give the Spanish champions a two goal cushion, the Frenchman had to accept that everything points to another European exit at the first knockout stage.

And those goals all came in four of the games, as we failed to score against Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.

Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players begin their latest Champions League campaign next week and everyone connected with the club is hoping that this season sees the Gunners go at least one better than recent years which have seen us finish second in the group and then exit the competition at the first knockout stage.

I doubt if we will be able to win it, but it would be a real boost for the players, fans and manager if we could at least go further than the first knockout stage.

Because of Colombia's struggles at the other end though, Ospina and his team mates only just crept through to the knockout stage as a third placed side and will now play Argentina and that will probably be that for arguably thye unluckiest man in football right now.

Offensively, however, his lineup is far from weak — includes WC winner and best finisher in the EPL, Little Mozart Czech team captain, standout from WC knockout stage Costa Rica, Ox who is proven already at club and country, and Diaby who has shown he can play with anyone as long as he is healthy.

The Chilean is now forced to remain at the Emirates with his contract expiring at the end of the season, but the fact is that if Man City go through to the knockout stages of the Champions League, then Alexis will still be able to play for them as Arsenal are not in the competition, giving Pep Guardiola even more reason to push for the sale.

He shone for the national side at last summer's World Cup, scoring a late winner in the group stages against Russia to help the Belgians progress into the knockout stages.

Tottenham Hotspur are through to the knockout stages of this season's Europa League after a narrow 1 - 0 victory against Serbian champions Partizan Belgrade at White Hart Lane in a match that was briefly suspended due to three individual pitch invaders causing havoc in the first half.

Euro 2016 was a perfect example of that as they were dumped out by Iceland, but it seems some haven't learnt their lesson with a few comments below looking at who England could face deep into the knockout stages.

At the end of the group stage, the top four teams will advance to the knockout stage.

It is not really going too far to say that Arsenal v Galatasaray on Wednesday night is a must win game for the Gunners, at least if we are to keep our hopes alive of actually winning our UCL group this time and avoiding the likes of Bayern Munich and Barcelona in the first knockout stage.

Having added countless top young players to essentially start a new cycle at the club, Guardiola and his players have built an early eight - point lead in the Premier League title race while they've comfortably qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League.

Although it is pretty hard to take the fact that along with Arsenal being knocked out of the Champions League at the first knockout stage yet again, making it seven years in a row, we did so with a record breaking aggregate scoreline of 10 - 2, it has not been all doom and gloom for the Gunners this week.

Mitroglou has put himself in the shop window this season with his electric performances in the Champions League that have given the Greek side a great chance at being able to progress through to the knockout stages of the competition.

Following a dramatic and exciting last day of group games at Euro 2016, we all have a few days without football before the serious business of the knockout stage begins, so I thought it might be worth a look back over the tournament so far, with a firm eye on how the various Arsenal players have done so far.

Many teams still in UCL will look at him as an option to bolsterbefore knockout stage start.

And beat Bayern Munich tomorrow night at the Allianz Arena in the first leg of the two legged encounters of the Ucl knockout stage match between them and us.

The solitary signing of an already injured Kim Kallstrom when we already had massive injury problems sent a lot of fans into meltdown and once we were put out of the Champions League at the first knockout stage yet again, the only thing left was the FA cup and the Wenger trophy.

Arsenal, I believe will beat Zagreb at the Emirates Stadium and beat Olympiakos at away to qualify for the knockout stages and top the group on 12 points.

If Cavani had brought his shooting boots to the game a couple of weeks ago our Champions League group would be looking a lot worse and we would be on course for the same old, same old, finishing second and getting knocked out at the first knockout stage.

Zenit St. Petersburg are through to the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League, thanks to a 0 - 0 draw at Estadio do Dragao against FC Porto.

It was always going to be a disappointment for Arsenal to exit the Champions League at the first knockout stage once again and the fact that our opponents Monaco were a team that most people expected us to beat made that all the harder to take this time.

Arsenal secured a crucial 2 - 0 win over Bayern Munich at the Emirates on Tuesday night to keep their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League alive.

Having failed miserably as Mexico coach and then had all manner of problems at Notts County he know finds himself taking Ivory Coast to the World Cup where he will have to negotiate the competition's group of death if he is to take the African nation to the knockout stages.

For that we need to have the same sort of lure as clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid and to be able to do that we need to be winning things like the Premier League and looking capable of winning the Champions League, rather than getting put out at the first knockout stage every year.

And that is so important, as we have seen in recent years when the Gunners went out at the first knockout stage after drawing one of the very best clubs in Europe.

Chelsea and Valencia are likely battling for one place in the UEFA Champions League knockout stages when they clash at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday

However, they've made a real statement of intent early on this season so far, as they've opened up an eight - point lead over their Premier League rivals at the top of the table and have secured their spot in the knockout stage of the Champions League.

Arsenal lost away at Olympiakos who join the north London side in the knockout stages of the Champions League.

It doesn't seem as though the Spanish tactician needs too much given his side are currently enjoying an eight - point lead at the top of the Premier League table while they've sealed their place in the knockout stage of the Champions League already.

Yet again the Gunners exit the Champions League at the first knockout stage, with the manner and size of our defeat hard to stomach.

Who does the blame go to when you have 2 rich London clubs that pay top wages, yet one is a favorite for the league and a good bet for the CL final and the other is at best considered 3rd place and knockout stages?

also great shout at getting past first CL knockout stage.

Let's just rant at Wenger and show him no respect and while we are at it let's ignore the fact that we won the FA cup last season and are in the knockout stages of the Champions League yet again, something that most clubs can not manage with no injury problems and lots of money to spend.

In the aftermath of the goal the Impact's «keeper Evan Bush — one of their best performers throughout the tournament — naively kicked the ball at an America player from point blank range and picked up his second yellow card of the knockout stages.

On an emotionally charged night at Anfield, Liverpool required a two - goal victory to seal their progress to the knockout stage of the Champions League

Olympiacos eventually prevailed with a 3 - 2 victory in an enthralling encounter at Emirates Stadium and the Greek side will now be hopeful that they can progress to the knockout stages of the competition.

Xhaka, an unknown quantity to a large proportion of fans this summer, is sure to be the player most essential to success for the young crop of Swiss players hoping to at least reach the knockout stage.

Totally surprised indeed to see Sango who has not played this season at all for Arsenal got included in the Arsenal's Ucl knockout stage A list.

Vidal will be desperate to help the Italian outfit qualify for the Champions League knockout stages, however Vidal believes they face difficulty after defeat at the Bernabeu.

Though there was immense disappointment at crashing out before the knockout stages, Atlético are regarded as overall favorites to win this year's Europa League and are rated as virtual shoo - ins against their Danish opposition.

Nevertheless, Xhaka - an unknown quantity to a large proportion of fans this summer - is sure to be the player most essential to success for the young crop of Swiss players hoping to at least reach the knockout stage.