PARIS, Sept 18 — Manchester City begin their defence of the Champions League on Tuesday when the group stage kicks off in the last season in its current format as Europe’s...
PARIS, Sept 18 — Manchester City begin their defence of the Champions League on Tuesday when the group stage kicks off in the last season in its current format as Europe’s elite club competition gets ready for a radical change.
This is therefore the last campaign, after two decades, in which the Champions League will begin with a group stage featuring eight sections of four teams, with the top two in each advancing to the last 16. In terms of symmetry and simplicity it cannot be bettered, with half the teams advancing from the group stage to the last 16.
Even at this elite level, there are plenty of teams who are doing little more than make up the numbers, albeit while being handsomely rewarded. That success saw City finally win the competition they had been chasing since the Abu Dhabi-led takeover of 2008 that transformed the club.
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