Shaka Hyslop
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The format is you draw a number of teams and you play home and away, not in the set.
Each team plays one of three teams home and away.
The format is different.
The numbers also are different.
What I'm saying is, if the numbers were the same, you have that jeopardy that you're talking about.
If I may, because there's other people that would say and sit here, and I've heard Stevie make this argument, that well, look, the group stage, when it was a group stage in previous
editions of the Champions League, well, you kind of knew what teams were going to qualify out of that group.
You got your first, you got your second, and then those elite teams are probably going to make it, and then the third team would go to Europa League, and we sort of knew what the outcome was going to be.
Look, I want to talk about Barcelona, because Hansi Flick is talking about how much he loves this format.
Right, but they have an opportunity to make it into the top eight.
If you look at their schedule as to who they have played this year in Champions League, people talk about elite matchups and how they love this forum because it allows for elite matchups.
Well, which ones are the elite matches that Barcelona has had?
PSG, okay, I'll take that.
Chelsea, maybe, historically relevant, but maybe, right?
So, this is just an extended version of what we had before.
September 18th, September, what you mean?
Well, we're just going to skip over September 18th?
Okay, I'm talking about elite teams, Shaq.
And so, this is just an extended version of what we had before.