I don't really understand why the favorite teams in the Champions League did not do very well in this first stage of the group match. Talking about Manchester City, we understand that they had some inconsistency issues this season in the English Premier League which also spanned to the Champions League. But I am also considering if the new format of the Champions League is one of the problems of most of these favorite teams.
As for the meeting with the PSG side, I believe Manchester City knows how important that match is and they will not joke with it. They have not been joking all this while, rather it is football that happened to them. So, same football can happen to them again.
We saw several inconsistency this season from most top teams. City just happened to be one of them. That of City escalated because their decline in performance didn't just affect their position in the CL table but also reflected in their standing in the premier league. I am not sure this devine in performance have to do with format but if that be true a team like Madrid , ATM and Bayern shouldn't be in the playoffs.
To me I see this as a breeze of season because all the clubs in the top 8 worked their way through the first stage of the competition navigating all the difficult opponents that came their way. A team like Aston villa caught my attention how they managed to navigate to top 5