LONDON – In its first season in the Champions League, Tottenham is moving on to the quarterfinals.
Following a victory in Italy in the first leg three weeks ago, Spurs held seven-time champion AC Milan to a 0-0 tie Wednesday night and won the total-goals series on 1-0 aggregate.
"It's a great achievement for this club to be in the last eight," Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp said. "It's amazing what the players have done."
In the day's other game, Schalke rallied to beat Valencia 3-1 and advanced on 4-2 aggregate.
Tottenham is in Europe's top competition for the first time since the 1961-62 Champions Clubs' Cup, when Spurs lost to Benfica in the semifinals.
"It's a huge night for us," said Tottenham forward Peter Crouch, who scored in the first leg. "We defended magnificently. We had to dig in and defend from the front, and I think we deserved it over the two legs."
AC Milan, owned by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, has failed to reach the quarterfinals for four straight seasons since winning the title in 2007.
"This year something should have changed because I think we have played some good football apart from the first half of the first leg," Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said through a translator. "I feel bitter. I have regrets for myself, the players and the club."
Milan, which started four players 33 or older, outshot the hosts 16-7 but couldn't score. The Rossoneri had their best chance in the 25th minute when Alexandre Pato rounded goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes and crossed to Robinho, whose shot glanced off Benoit Assou-Ekotto and was cleared off the goal line by William Gallas.
Since winning the trophy in 2007, AC Milan has been eliminated in the second round by Premier League teams in three of four seasons. Inter Milan is Italy's last remaining team in the competition.
In Germany, Ricardo Costa put Valencia ahead in the 17th minute, but Jefferson Farfan tied the score with a free kick in the 40th, Mario Gavranovic made it 2-1 in the 52nd and Farfan added a goal in stoppage time.
Schalke reached the quarterfinals for only the second time. In 2008, it defeated Porto in the second round and then was knocked out by Barcelona.
Schalke coach Felix Magath called reports he will be terminated at the end of the season "noise from the sidelines." His contract runs through the 2012-13 season.
"It doesn't interest us, and it shouldn't interest us. The truth was plain to see on the field," Magath said after the game. "I plan to continue my work until 2013."
A night earlier, Barcelona and Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk advanced.
"They're the team you don't want to play at the moment," Redknapp said of the Spanish champions.
On Tuesday, Real Madrid is home against Lyon following a 1-1 tie in France and Chelsea hosts Copenhagen with a 2-0 lead. On Wednesday, Manchester United is home against Marseille after a 0-0 tie in France and Bayern Munich hosts defending champion Inter Milan in a rematch of last year's final. The German club won the first leg 1-0.
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Birmingham moved out of the Premier League relegation zone with a 1-1 tie at Everton.
Birmingham went ahead when Jean Beausejour's 17th-minute header beat American goalkeeper Tim Howard, who got a hand on the ball. John Heitinga tied it in the 35th.
Birmingham (6-9-13) has 31 points and is 17th, ahead of West Ham on goal difference. Everton (8-8-13) is ninth with 37 points.
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