Champions League round-up: Schalke send Basel into the Europa League and Milan's draw with Ajax is enough to progress
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Schalke 2 Basel 0
Basel failed to gain the point they needed against Schalke to qualify for the Champions League knockout stages.
Second half strikes from German international Julian Draxler and Joel Matip saw them progress along with Chelsea to the last 16 of the competition. Ivan Ivanov was sent off for the Swiss side on 30 minutes.
The most controversial moment of the night came in the XX minute when Matip made it 2-0, but replays showed he and four team-mates were standing in offside positions in the build-up to the goal.
Key man: Schalke's Julian Draxler (right) in action against Basel's Taulant Xhaka (left)
Bright star: Schalke's Julian Draxler celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal against FC Basel
Crowd go wild: Schalke's scorer Julian Draxler celebrates his side's opening goal in front of Schalke's supporters
Injured: Schalke's Julian Draxler holds his groin
Get me off: Draxler asks to be substituted after picking up an injury
Must be stopped: Marco Streller (right) of Basel is rugby tackled by Benedikt Howedes (left) of Schalke
Marching orders: Basel's Ivan Ivanov (right)
puts his hands on his face after he received a red card for a foul on
Schalke's Adam Szalai
Offside? Matip fires home, but he and a number of team-mates were clearly in beyond the last defender (below)
Schalke's Jefferson Farfan (right), and Basel goalkeeper Yann Sommer (left) go for the ball
Europa League next up: Basel players react after the Champions League defeat at Schalke.
Atletico Madrid 2 FC Porto 0
Atletico Madrid proved too strong a challenge for Porto who faced one of the most difficult challenges in European football to have any chance of reaching the last 16 of the Champions League.
Goals from Raul Garcia and Diego Costa were enough to see of the challenge of the former champions.
Class act: Atletico Madrid's Brazilian forward Diego da Silva Costa (left) scores past Porto's Brazilian goalkeeper Helton
Remembering a legend: Atletico Madrid and FC
Porto line up with the match officials and mascots behind a sign paying
tribute to Nelson Mandela
Skills: Porto's Brazilian midfielder Fernando Reges (left) vies with Atletico Madrid's forward David Villa (right)
Crowded out: Porto's Jackson Martinez (centre) tries to beat three Atletico Madrid players
Hard to stop: Diego Costa of Atletico Madrid will represent Spain at the World Cup despite being born in Brazil
Heads up: Javier Manquillo of Atletico Madrid (right) wins the header before Luis Carlos Pereira alias Lica of FC Porto
Battle: Jackson Martinez (left) of FC Porto competes for the ball with Turkish star Arda Turan (right) of Atletico Madrid
That hurt! David Villa holds his left leg after being on the end of a late tackle
FK Austria Vienna 4 Zenit St Petersburg 1
Despite a heavy defeat in Vienna, Zenit St Petersburg qualified for the knockout stages as Porto failed to get the result they needed at Atletico Madrid.
Vienna finished bottom of the group with five points but put four goals past the Russians who are through to the knock-out stages for only the second time.
Aleksandr Kerzhakov opened the scoring for Zenit on 35 minutes but a double from Philipp Hosiner either side of half time and further second half strikes from Tomas Jun and Roman Kienast saw the home side run out worthy winners.
Two goal hero: Austria Vienna's Philipp Hosiner (right) celebrates after scoring against Zenit St Petersburg
Taking a tumble: Hulk (left) of Zenit St Petersburg attempts to stop James Holland (right)
Balancing act: Viktor Fayzulin (left) of Zenit
attempts to get back on his feet as Kaja Roguij of Vienna does his best
to stay on his
Having their say: Greenpeace activists demonstrate prior to kick off in Vienna
United: Players of Zenit and Austria Vienna pose
with a banner to commemorate the late former South African President
Nelson Mandela
Philipp Hosiner scored his first goal after an error from Zenit St Petersburg.
Trouble ahead: Austrian police clear the tribune
after Zenit St Petersburg's fans threw fireworks during the Champions
League soccer match against Austria Vienna
Zenit fans: Russian fans riot during the UEFA Champions League game between Austria Vienna and Zenit St Petersburg
Flying the flag: Zenit fans fly the club flag as trouble erupted in the stands
Milan 0 Ajax 0
AC Milan got the point they needed at home to Ajax to progress to progress to the knockout stages
of the Champions League.
The
home sides chances of gaining a win were greatly reduced when Riccardo
Montolivo was sent off by Howard Webb after just 20 minutes.
Ajax will now battle it out in the Europa League.
Focused: Kaka of AC Milan brings the ball down in style
Party: AC Milan fans celebrate their teams progress in the Champions league
Action man: Mario Balotelli was in the thick of the action throughout the goalless draw
Painful: Mario Balotelli of AC Milan (right) and Stefano Denswil of Ajax compete for the ball during
You're off son: Riccardo Montolivo of AC Milan (right) leaves the pitch after being shown a red card by Howard Webb
Go away! British referee Howard Webb gestures to
AC Milan forward Mario Balotelli (left) (Kaka) during a Champions
League, Group H, match between AC Milan and Ajax at the San Siro stadium
Gutted: Danny Hoesen (left) and Viktor Fisher (right) react after Ajax failed to get the win they needed in Milan
Trouble: Italian Police were out in force after AC Milan and Ajax fans clashed outside the stadium prior to kick off
Crowd management: Italian Police were out in big numbers outside the San Siro stadium
Caught: An Ajax fan is escorted away by two Italian Police officers
More to follow...
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