The group stage is over and knockout round begins today.
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In the first knockout round, Porto came up against Manchester United.
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But Spot the Ball has survived the World Cup knockout round!
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A run to the knockout round should be the minimum expected.
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Instead, Belgium staged the biggest knockout-round comeback in 52 years.
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"I guarantee we will be in the knockout round," he said.
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Saudi Arabia&aposs route to the knockout round is much more difficult.
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Seed the knockout round based on total goals scored in group play.
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The four group winners advance to the knockout round semifinals in June 2020.
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In Sochi in 2014, they battled into the knockout round and finished seventh.
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What will it take for each team to advance to the knockout round?
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Here's what it will take for each team to reach the knockout round.
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Iceland now get to take on another European power, England, in the knockout round.
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This was the first to feature a group stage, but there was no knockout round.
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Luka Modric curled in a long-range shot, sealing Croatia's place in the knockout round.
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They have also qualified for the knockout round of the continent's less lucrative Europa League.
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The U.S. only needs a draw on Saturday against Paraguay to qualify for the knockout round.
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The Americans cruised through their first match of the tournament's knockout round, defeating Spain 2-1.
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It departs the tournament in its first knockout-round game for the seventh straight World Cup.
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It was, of course, the knockout round, so Messi and his team would get no second chance.
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All three of those Group B teams have a chance to go through to the knockout round.
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In the knockout round, England beat Colombia, in a hard-fought nail-biter, 4-3 on penalties.
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There remain matchups offering genuine novelty and intrigue in the Champions League's first knockout round, of course.
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You'd be lucky to get into one of the knockout round matches for less than a Benjamin.
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In the 11 Copas since, Brazil has made 113 knockout-round appearances and won the event five times.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. men's team earned $8 million for losing in the first knockout round game in 2014.
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With two losses in two games here, they have virtually no chance of advancing to the knockout round.
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Simply being there is a good start, but Cúper will be targeting a spot in the knockout round.
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Fourth seeded Houston Dynamo host Sporting Kansas City on Thursday in the final match of the Knockout Round.
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An overview of the scenarios describing how teams can advance to the knockout round of the Euro 2016 tournament.
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They were playing on only three days of rest after beating D.C. United, 258-2, in the knockout round.
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The other will fall into the wild-card game, the knockout round that viewers love and baseball executives hate.
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Sports' real "it" team is Iceland's soccer team, which shocked the world by getting to Euro 2016's knockout round.
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If they can replicate that success and make it back to the knockout round, it would be a successful trip.
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Sidibé did start the third group match against Denmark after France already had clinched a spot in the knockout round.
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Roma beat Qarabag, 23-21, to top Group C ahead of Chelsea, which had already clinched a knockout-round berth.
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The win will help put the country into the tournament's knockout round for the first time since the Soviet years.
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In the current format for the tournament, group winners would move into a knockout round that culminates in a final.
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PARIS — The knockout round is back at the Women's World Cup, and so is the specter of a penalty shootout.
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Bayern ousted Arsenal in back-to-back seasons in the first knockout round in 216 and 220, and also in 217.
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Africa No one expected an African winner, but surely one or two of its five entrants would make the knockout round.
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While the United States has already qualified for the knockout round, it must draw or defeat Panama to win its group.
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That leaves only Sampaoli and Argentina and Pékerman's Colombia with any hope at all of making it to the knockout round.
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Toronto defeated Philadelphia in the knockout round and then thrashed New York City F.C. over two legs in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
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The win, combined with Croatia's defeat of Iceland, sent Messi and Argentina through to the knockout round, where they will face France.
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The English have qualified for the knockout round from their group, as has undefeated Belgium, whom they will play Thursday in Kaliningrad.
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All the teams in Group A, which consists of the United States, Canada, Finland and Russia, will advance to the knockout round.
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The songs performed in the knockout round allows the judges to decide who will give a live performance in the final round.
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On home soil, with so much financial and political capital invested in the tournament, the team has to make the knockout round.
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It only reached the first knockout round in 1994, and that has apparently been deemed success enough to warrant commemoration two decades on.
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Even if Germany advances to the knockout round, it's hard to imagine it going much further given how weak its attack has been.
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The remaining 32 second- and third-place teams play each other in an initial knockout round to advance to the Round of 32.
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With the group stage done and dusted, we now know exactly how the first knockout round of Euro 2016 is going to shape up.
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In the knockout round, Los Angeles will host Real Salt Lake on Wednesday, and the Seattle Sounders will host Sporting Kansas City on Thursday.
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On home soil, with so much financial and political capital invested in the tournament, a place in the knockout round is the bare minimum.
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Serbia (2-3), playing in the final pool game, thumped winless China 94-60 to finish fourth and grab a spot in the knockout round.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the number of Copa America tournaments there have been since Brazil last missed the knockout round, in 1987.
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France, which has already clinched a spot in the knockout round, beat South Korea 4-0 in the opener, and Norway beat Nigeria 3-0.
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Simply making the knockout round would be something of a triumph; no World Cup host has ever started a tournament lower in the FIFA rankings.
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Frederic Brillant scored early for United, which was also knocked out in the 2016 knockout round by Montreal — their last playoff appearance before this season.
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But the group winner goes into what most consider a far stronger side of the knockout round bracket — alongside France, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
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It was not universal, not by any means — many Russian fans applauded their team, quite aware that reaching the knockout round counts as surpassing expectations.
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Our Spot the Ball feature heads into the knockout round: Try your luck here, and keep up with all of our live World Cup coverage.
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This year, the team is looking to prove that their spot in the tournament is no fluke, and possibly earn a place in the knockout round.
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Denis Cheryshev scored the game-winning goal for Russia against Egypt, all but guaranteeing Russia a trip to the knockout round and Egypt a trip home.
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The Red Bulls, 2-1 winners at D.C. United, will play at Chicago — and their former captain Dax McCarty — in another knockout round game on Wednesday.
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After drawing their first two games of the group stage, the Americans needed a win over Algeria in order to move on to the knockout round.
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Seeding the knockout round purely on total goals scored would be unfair, however: Teams losing, 4-3, would be better off than teams winning, 1-0.
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With the victory Canada sails into the knockout round with a perfect 3-0 mark sitting top of Group A followed by the U.S. at 2-1.
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Also on Wednesday, UEFA, the governing body of European soccer, announced that two Europa League knockout-round matches involving Italian teams and Spanish opponents — Inter Milan vs.
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And by December, the Union of European Football Associations was announcing that it was fast-tracking the system to be used in the Champions League knockout round.
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Germany's loss on Wednesday meant Mexico would advance to the knockout round and get another chance at the final, despite having lost its own match to Sweden.
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The loss meant that Mexico could not reach the knockout round and will not be a part of the field at next year's World Cup in France.
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This was England's first knockout-round win at a major tournament since 2006, when it beat Ecuador at the World Cup before falling to Portugal on penalties.
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Its side of the knockout round includes Spain and Croatia, but it would not see either of them until the semifinals — if the English advance that far.
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Madrid had secured its spot in the knockout round in advance, thanks to Club Brugge's 1-1 draw at Galatasaray earlier Tuesday in the other group game.
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In India, he was deployed as a left winger and became the first American male to register a hat-trick in a knockout-round at a World Cup.
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Its scoreless match against Denmark in the final group game left its public particularly underwhelmed, even though France had already had secured a place in the knockout round.
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Iceland has its eyes on the knockout round after a strong first match against Argentina, in which it stymied Lionel Messi's attacks with a tenacious and organized defense.
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Among the incentives being discussed are financial bonuses for players and coaches and, perhaps more crucially, draft compensation for the team that wins the eight-team knockout round.
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The Belgium clash will be Brazil's first in a World Cup knockout round against a strong European opponent since that meltdown against Germany, which left the host nation stunned.
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Brazilian great Marta Vieira da Silva scored on a second-half penalty to secure a 20-22019 victory over Italy and guarantee Brazil a spot in the knockout round.
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That was it for Iran but because it won its first match, against Morocco, it can still reach the knockout round by defeating Portugal in its final group game.
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Their 0-0 draw, combined with Peru's 2-286 win over Australia, sent France through to the knockout round as the group winner, with Denmark as the runner-up.
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The organizers later made it clear that they had gotten the message, moving up starting times by half an hour for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday knockout-round matches.
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Brazil was last eliminated in the group stage of the Copa in 1987, when only four teams made the knockout round and Brazil was second in a three-team group.
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Match Day 15 at the World Cup in Russia features the final matches in Group G and Group H, the last ones before the knockout round which begins on Saturday.
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And since then, Barcelona have won almost every single game: the club leads La Liga by a comfortable margin and qualified easily for the knockout round of the Champions League.
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Infantino has suggested that 32 sides would participate in a preliminary knockout round ahead of the main event, before the remaining teams would join 16 seeded countries in the groups.
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The pivotal moment came in the first knockout round, last week, when England won a penalty shootout for the first time in its World Cup history last week, beating Colombia.
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There is not as much at stake anymore, of course, even with the wild-card winner sentenced to a one-game knockout round instead of a five-game division series.
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Mexico has advanced out of the group stage in six straight World Cups, but stamina has not been a hallmark: It has lost in the first knockout round each time.
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The team departs the tournament in its first knockout-round game for the seventh straight World Cup — a stunning run of bad losses, bad matchups and just plain bad luck.
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In one plan, Europe's top 32 teams would be divided into four groups of eight teams, with the top four each season advancing to a knockout round to determine the winner.
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Belgium faced a heart-stopping moment of uncertainty in the first knockout round against Japan, when Martinez's decision to rest players in their final group match against England almost backfired spectacularly.
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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia – Don&apost look for any political overtones or distractions when Switzerland goes after a place in the knockout round of the World Cup in a match against Costa Rica.
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Carli Lloyd scored twice to help the United States defeat Chile 13-0 at Parc de Princes in Paris on Sunday to advance to the knockout round of the Women's World Cup.
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In the team's 2-1 loss against Belgium in the knockout round, it took a superhuman performance from Tim Howard, recording a World Cup–record 193 saves, to keep the game close.
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The end product of that was the towering header Pogba scored in the quarterfinals against Iceland, a team that overpowered England in aerial duels when they met in the first knockout round.
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And after the 2014 collapse of Spain, the 2010 World Cup winner — the defending champions won only one match and failed to advance to the knockout round — del Bosque offered his resignation.
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The winners from the knockout round will host the first game of the conference semifinals on Sunday, with the second legs scheduled for Red Bull Arena and Yankee Stadium on Nov. 6.
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Last season, Toronto ended the league's longest playoff drought, even if its postseason experience came and went in just over 90 minutes as it was shut out in a knockout-round game.
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France has already qualified for the knockout round but has yet to secure first place in Group A, which would keep them on track to face the United States in the quarterfinals.
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Atlanta, which could have snatched the second spot with a victory in front of an M.L.S.-record crowd of 71,33, instead will play host to Columbus in the knockout round on Thursday.
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The Italian side will have their work cut out for them, needing to either best one of Australia or Brazil, or find enough points to qualify for the knockout round from third place.
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But through its first two World Cup matches, Russia has outscored its opponents by 8-1, leaving Salah as its most prominent victim and all but ensuring a berth in the knockout round.
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The proposed 2020 tournament would again include all 10 South American teams, plus six from Concacaf, and would most likely feature a group stage and then a knockout round to determine a champion.
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Germany's shocking defeat was celebrated by Mexico fans, as it meant that previous World Cup champions Germany would not be advancing to the knockout round, but that Mexico, which was defeated by Sweden, would.
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One idea is an extra knockout round to whittle 32 teams down to 16 before the pool stage, whilst creating two groups of eight with each qualifier playing 14 games before the semi-finals.
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Playing in their first Euros tournament, the country of less than 350,000 scraped their way out of the group stage and, in a stunning turn, took down England 2-1 in the knockout round.
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Assuming 12 groups of 4 with 24 teams advancing as either first or second in their group: You could reward the eight best teams from pool play with a bye in the knockout round.
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If it's one team from each group, then the number of overall games in the tournament won't change; we'd go straight to a 323-team knockout round after the group stage as we currently do.
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The teenager — who is quickly establishing himself as one of the club's most valuable assets — scored a hat-trick and assisted another to all but secure Madrid's place in the knockout round of the competition.
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But Brazil will be the team going deeper in this World Cup after qualifying for the knockout round later on Wednesday, and some Brazilians were in no mood to deprive themselves of a little schadenfreude.
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Drawn into one of the most difficult first-round groups in Brazil, the United States beat Ghana, tied Portugal and lost to the eventual champion, Germany, but advanced to the knockout round on goal difference.
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Macquarie retail analyst Andreas Inderst says the main goal for a brand is visibility and sponsorship, having a team in a knockout round, semi-final or the final undoubtedly gives a boost to any brand.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Canada secured the top seeding in the knockout round of the women's Olympic Ice Hockey tournament on Thursday, taking down the U.S. 2-1 and pushing the Americans into second place.
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Then in June, Germany, the defending champion, endured the worst performance in its modern World Cup history — sent home from the tournament in Russia before 16 other teams advanced to the knockout round of play.
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The Australian coach Eddie Jones has been charged with rebuilding England, which became the first World Cup host to fail to make it to the knockout round after it finished third in its five-team group.
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In the previous three editions of the event, first held in 211, Team USA's performances were stunningly disappointing: one semifinal appearance, two exits before the knockout round and a total won-lost record of 22017-22021.
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With its victory, Belgium won its third game at the World Cup but advanced to what most consider the tougher side of the knockout-round bracket, one that includes Brazil, Mexico, France, Argentina, Uruguay and Portugal.
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Columbus Crew forward Ola Kamara (11) is stopped by Atlanta United goalkeeper Brad Guzan (1) behind defender Leandro Gonzalez (5) during the second half during a Eastern Conference knockout round soccer game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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Amid that distraction, Columbus defeated Atlanta United on the road in the knockout round, winning on penalty kicks after a scoreless match and sending most of the crowd of 23,221 fans — an M.L.S. postseason record — home unhappy.
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Even a loss by their second-stringers against Belgium in the final group game had a silver lining: finishing second in the group placed England in what is clearly the easier half of the knockout-round bracket.
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Hannah Brandt scored with 7 minutes 35 seconds remaining in the third period, and the United States held off Finland, 5-3, to secure the top seed for the knockout round of the women's hockey world championship.
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Trading volume in major world stock indexes during the "knockout round" of the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil fell dramatically compared to the same period a year earlier when there were no games, according to Thomson Reuters.
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The remarkable season means Toronto will await the lowest-seeded Eastern Conference team that advances from this week's single-elimination Knockout Round while second-seeded New York City FC will face the highest-seeded East team that advances.
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Giorgio Chiellini cleaned up a rebound off a free kick in the 33rd minute to give Italy a 1-0 lead, and they outplayed Spain the rest of the way to advance in the knockout round of Euro 2016.
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"It is simple," the Iceland defender Ragnar Sigurdsson said after he had scored, and later saved a near-certain goal with a superbly timed interception, in his team's upset 13-1 victory over England in the first knockout round.
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By beating Colombia in a penalty shootout in the first knockout round, England laid to rest the demons of defeat in penalty shootouts in 1990 against West Germany (semifinal), 1998 against Argentina (last 16) and 2006 against Portugal (quarterfinal).
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A dead rubber is a soccer match that is of no real consequence to the teams involved, and this was the happy sort, since both England and Belgium had already qualified for the knockout round of the World Cup.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron are set to make it through to the presidential election's knockout round in May, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday, with Macron comfortably winning the runoff.
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All 32 clubs get almost 13 million euros ($15.2 million) for entering, bonuses for wins and draws in group-stage games, fees for reaching each knockout round, and a share of their national broadcasting deal (known as "market pool" money).
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The burden of hooliganism could grow larger still if Russia were to draw Poland, Ukraine or, especially, Turkey in the knockout round (Russo-Turkish relations have deteriorated spectacularly since Turkey shot down a Russian jet on the Syrian border last year).
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But then again, playing against Germany in the teams' final group stage game of the European Championships — with goal difference most likely serving as the tiebreaker in determining spots in the knockout round — is not exactly a normal situation, either.
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At the 2012 London Games, four women's doubles teams — two from South Korea and one each from China and Indonesia — were sent home for trying to lose matches in an effort to get a more advantageous opponent in the knockout round.
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While there were questions asked after a far-from-inspiring start, which included a controversial win over Australia and narrowly beating Peru, France still expectedly secured a knockout round spot early from a first round group where they were heavy favorites.
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But there was no second-guessing his reflexes as he extended his left leg high and somehow deflected the down-the-middle shot to secure victory over Spain and one of the biggest knockout-round upsets in World Cup history.
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Four years ago Japan beat South Africa in the biggest upset in rugby history but then became the first team to fail to reach the knockout round after winning three pool games, being edged out on bonus points by Scotland.
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That should not overshadow his generally positive performance, however, as the five-times champions beat an otherwise stubborn Mexico, whose World Cup began with such promise with a victory over champions Germany, but ended in familiar fashion in the first knockout round.
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One would think the demand for a knockout round in an international tournament would have more demand than a World Cup qualifier, but the attendances were basically the same (to say nothing of the growth of soccer's popularity over the last three years).
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REIMS, France — United States midfielder Rose Lavelle shimmied a bit in her seat and jokingly cupped her hand to her ear as she sat beside her coach, Jill Ellis, at a news conference in advance of Monday's knockout round game against Spain.
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After beating heavyweights like Ireland and Scotland to advance to the knockout round, Japan wants to beat the Springboks again to show that their upset four years ago — perhaps the greatest in the history of the Rugby World Cup — was no accident.
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In group play, goalkeepers could have received two yellow cards for such penalty-kick violations and been expelled, but Collina said FIFA had received temporary dispensation to eliminate yellow-card cautioning of goalkeepers who leave their line too early during knockout-round shootouts.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Argentina may not win gold in Olympic men's basketball but gave their fans the next best thing, beating bitter rivals Brazil 111-107 in double overtime on Saturday, to all but end the host's hopes of reaching the knockout round.
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Nearly a dozen teams entered their third group game tied with a rival in the standings, and contemplating the possibility that a tiebreaker will come into play — to decide who wins a group, or potentially who makes the knockout round and who goes home.
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But beginning in 2026 — in a tournament for which the bidding to host has not begun — 6403 teams will be placed into 16 three-team groups for the first stage, with the top two teams from each group advancing to a 32-team knockout round.
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World ranking: No. 8 Chances of advancing to the knockout stage: 93% Odds to win World Cup: 14/1 One thing to know: The Netherlands played it the Women's World Cup for the first time four years ago, impressing with an appearance in the knockout round.
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A training exercise in April in Saint-Etienne, a Euro 2016 city in southeast France, imagined that a drone carrying chemical agents had plunged into crowds at the Geoffroy Guichard Stadium, which will host three group matches in June and one game in the knockout round.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Argentina may not win gold in Olympic men's basketball but gave their fans the next best thing beating bitter rivals Brazil 111-107 in double overtime on Saturday, to all but end the host's hopes of reaching the knockout round.
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It is something of a blow that finishing as the runner-up in the group might mean a meeting with Brazil in the first knockout round, but it is hardly unthinkable that Germany might yet win the group or, failing that, beat Brazil, should it be required.
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But as another knockout round begins, the leaders of soccer, a sport that has international appeal in large part because of its simplicity, have to ask themselves if they really want to keep depending less on the human eye and more on the eye in the sky?
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"It'll give us huge belief," Kane said of the victory in a knockout round at the World Cup after two wins out of three in the group stage, and of coming through the shootout 4-3 after Colombia failed twice from the spot and England only once.
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The top two teams in each group, as well as the four best third-place teams, will advance to the round of 20143, making every match vital in the complicated math that will determine the four lucky also-rans who will get thrown a lifeline for the knockout round.
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Those who emailed FIFA — including one who said her separated seats were for a knockout round game in Rennes, contrary to FIFA's contention that the issue was limited to the semifinals or final — received an automated response that suggested the seat assignments had been made by a computer algorithm.
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A tumultuous group stage in which Brazil started slowly, France went through the motions and Argentina flirted with elimination — a fate that the defending champion, Germany, did not avoid — has produced a knockout round in which one side of the bracket would appear to be demonstrably tougher than the other.
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Mexico's victory over South Korea positions them to advance through to the knockout round tonight for the seventh straight World Cup, but it also makes the stakes very clear here: a Germany loss to Sweden and the Germans, the defending World Cup champions, are OUT after only two games in Russia.
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The Red Bulls and New York City F.C. will play the winners of two midweek knockout-round games — Toronto F.C. against Philadelphia on Wednesday, and D.C. United against Montreal on Thursday — in the conference semifinals, with the Red Bulls playing the lowest seed remaining, and New York City F.C. playing the other.
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The team did manage to advance to the knockout round of 16 nonetheless after a scoreless draw against Spain on Monday, but the greatest cause for celebration here in China was the fact that the team's third-place finish in Group B meant it would not have to face the United States next.
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But Sunday was the beginning of the knockout round for France, and this narrow, emotional victory — in which Brazil threatened to score at the end of regulation and again in the first extra-time period — was the sort of breakthrough that can settle a struggling team and bring its players closer together.
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Behind three goals from captain Harry Kane, England obliterated Panama, 13-1, on a steamy afternoon here, qualifying for the knockout round with a win that may have said more about how poor an opponent the Three Lions faced rather than how formidable they might actually be as this tournament rolls on.
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World ranking: No. 14 Chances of advancing to the knockout stage: 63% Odds to win World Cup: 125/1 One thing to know: South Korea was one of the surprising teams to reach the knockout round at the 2015 Women's World Cup, and will need some impressive play to match that result this year.
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To clarify a muddy situation, the final round of matches in the World Cup's group stages saw a lot of complex permutations involving which teams would qualify for the knockout round, which position they would finish in their group and who they might end up facing once things progressed to the round of 16.
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Crew 2, D.C. United 2 | Columbus advances, 3-2, on shootout Federico Higuaín scored twice and Zack Steffen made two saves in a penalty-kick shootout as the visiting Columbus Crew advanced past D.C. United in the knockout round of the M.L.S. playoffs following a 213-2 draw on Thursday night at Audi Field.
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Consider the fate of the established international power centers of the past half century, the countries that make up something like football's G-7: Italy and the Netherlands failed to qualify; Germany fell (to Mexico!) during the group stage; Argentina and Spain were sent home in the knockout round, while Brazil lost to Belgium in the quarterfinals.
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But Southgate also knew it had been more than a decade since England's last knockout-round win at a big event, and so he was sure to savor this one — for himself, because of his history with the team, but also because he thinks this England can paint a brighter future than its recent self-flagellating past.
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There, they mingled amiably, though Italy's fans, perhaps more than any other team's, might have rued their draw in this tournament: Italy finished first in its group only to end up facing Spain and Germany in the first two knockout-round games while the second-place team in Group E, Belgium, played Hungary in the round of 16 and Wales in the quarterfinals.
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He pitched them on creating something different from the typical 72-hole stroke-play event — an elite eight-man field modeled after the ATP Tour Finals, in which the players are divided into two groups of four and compete in a round-robin match-play format with the players with the two best records in each bracket advancing to the semifinals for a knockout round.
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On June 27, as the debate raged over whether White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders should have been asked to leave a little restaurant in Virginia, I was preoccupied by Germany's loss to South Korea, which in a wild turn of events simultaneously sent the defending champions home before the knockout round and put Mexico into knockouts despite having been routed by Sweden.
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KALININGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - One of sport's old adages is "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" but not for Belgium coach Roberto Martinez, at least not when his team take on England in their final World Cup round-robin match to decide top spot in Group G. Normally a battle between European neighbors for first place at a World Cup would bring out the win-at-all-cost cliches but with Belgium already assured a spot in the last 16 along with England, Martinez was looking ahead for bigger scalps in the knockout round.
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