What a f*cking easy group for Manchester City with all these teams who City can beat them very easily as they come from much lower quality leagues like Young Boys from Swiss Super League and C.Zvedza from Serbian Premier League,these surely won't put up any difficulty or fight against Manchester City.They also have Leipzig again which they beat and eliminated last year so also this team does not pose any threat for them.Also most other groups are easy for the big teams like for Real and Napoli which will most likely get past group stages very easy.Also for the other teams like Bayern,Manchester,Arsenal and Barcelona which should come out easily of the group stages.Only the group of Newcastle will be very competitive and the most interesting I think.
It's a common pattern for every season - those who seeded from the first and second pot 90% of the time have no problem to qualify. Therefore, the group stage is in fact garbage and the games here are quite difficult to predict - the approximate distribution of places is clear in advance and the top clubs, without straining, allow themselves to lose one or two games. I don't like this stage of the tournament.