Barca and Atletico sail into last 16

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London: Barcelona and Atletico Madrid headed a Spanish Armada into the Champions League keep going 16 with home wins on Wednesday and in-structure Aaron Ramsey steadied Arsenal's vessel with a doing combating win against rough Borussia Dortmund. Barca met seven-times champs Ac Milan at the Nou Camp yet the supply of the floundering Italians has fallen so much that even a normal showcase from the hosts fixed a 3-1 triumph in Group H, Lionel Messi scoring a punishment
and a nervy third. La Liga rivals Atletico put on an improved presentation in their 4-0 voyage past Group G whipping young men Austria Vienna to float into the knockout organizes after four wins from four with two matches to extra. Miranda got Atletico's opener 11 minutes later before Raul Garcia climbed physically to head home the second, with Filipe Luis making it three for this term's potential shock bundles on halftime. Diego Costa missed a punishment yet included a fourth objective 82 minutes as Diego Simeone's men determined top spot and equalled their most amazing Champions League win in arriving at the knockout arranges despite anything that might have happened before since 2008/09. "We knew it was exceptionally significant to win today on account of the outcome between Zenit and Porto. The group was incredible today and we merited to achieve the round of 16," the forward told news people. Zenit St Petersburg stayed as favourites to take second spot and qualify after Hulk scored the equaliser additionally missed a spot break in a 1-1 home draw with his previous side Porto. Arms stockpile snatched quick vindicate for a month ago home misfortune to Dortmund by grabbing a 1-0 win finally term's runners-up, Ramsey's 62nd-moment header the most recent in his purple fix of objectives to leave Juergen Klopp's third-set side abruptly worrying. Wales midfielder Ramsey, censured by numerous Arsenal fans keep going season for an arrangement of toothless presentations, netted his eleventh objective of the season when he nodded in after exceptional work by Mesut Ozil and Olivier Giroud. Arms stockpile are top of Group F however level on focuses with Napoli, who overcame Olympique Marseille 3-2 at the San Paolo because of Gonzalo Higuain's twofold. Added to a wafer from Gokhan Inler, who chested down a freedom on the edge of the territory and volleyed home, Higuain's objectives implied the pointless French side are out of last-16 conflict. Completely unmarked Chelsea's first objective in a 3-0 home win over Schalke 04 was barely a standard conversely, with attendant Timo Hildebrand impacting his leeway against Samuel Eto'o and the ball flying in. The Cameroonian opened in a cool second after the break and Demba Ba additionally scored to put the Group E guides on the borderline of capability, with the Germans second and Basel third after a late equaliser in a 1-1 home draw with Steaua Bucharest. Jose Mourinho, who left out Eden Hazard without expounding why, said he had advised Eto'o to close down the attendant. "I know the manager from Portugal and Spain on the grounds that he was there and we know Schalke likes to play back passes and play from the once again with the attendant so Samuel was astute in the way he shut him down," the Chelsea mentor said. Barca took the lead on the half hour after Ignazio Abate blunderingly pulled back Neymar and Messi did the rest from the spot. Sergio Busquets then headed in Xavi's free kick and in spite of the fact that there was an indication of offside, he was left completely unmarked by a woeful Milan defence which extremely could not hope to compare to the extraordinary back lines marshalled by Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi. Milan are eleventh in Serie An and the weight on mentor Massimiliano Allegri will now just escalate, in spite of the fact that Gerard Pique's own objective from Kaka's cross and several sniffs for substitute Mario Balotelli gave them trust. Planet Player of the Year Messi snuffed them out when the Argentine went through on 83 and completed with a deft chip. In spite of the Nou Camp rout, Milan remained second in Group H after Ajax Amsterdam beat Celtic 1-0. Eight cops required clinic medicine and more than 15 fans were captured taking after vicious crashes in front of the match in the Netherlands. European champions Bayern Munich and Manchester City, despite any precedent to the contrary, fit the bill for the keep going 16 on