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To be honest, I actually hope that if every team in the round of 16 does not meet each other with a team from the same league, because that it feels like watching an ordinary match that has happened in the league so far, the Madrid derby may be tight because of the strength of the two teams that look balanced this season, but we cannot deny that the mentality and experience that Madrid has both in the league and UCL will make them continue the dominance of victory over Atletico Madrid later, compared from the Madrid derby, the PSG vs Liverpool match will be more interesting to me, although PSG does not have a good mentality in the UCL but the match between the two big teams of course will be very tight later, especially this season will be last season for enrique in coaching PSG and I think he will try everything to win UCL trophies.

True the shuffling would have been done better than this. Having derby matches in a knockout stage of the champions league is similar to watching this matches in their respective leagues. There are 16 teams and a good shuffle can rearrange this teams such that no two teams from the same league plays against themselves.

But on another taught what if a particular league has all four teams registered in the champions league for that season make it to the knockout stage the shuffling won't work out well. I just feel the organisers of the champions league are just doing the best the can to pair the team up and this is always done through balloting.

The change in the format of the UCL that occurred this season did give us a lot of surprises, although also before the change of format occurred it was possible for teams from the same league to meet in the knockout stages, but I think it is not as fast like happened this season where they must to destroy each other as in the league, With the current round of 16 scheme, It seems that UEFA is trying to ensure that greater excitement occurs with teams from different countries being able to meet each other in the semifinal and final, because previously the final that brought together two teams from a same league like Chelsea vs Manchester City in the 2020/21 season, was not as exciting and tight as what happened when two teams from different leagues met in the UCL final.

the novelties of this new Champions League have been many and I think that so far the show has been there and even enough, initially it seemed easy to get among the top 8 in the standings, but as we have seen until the last round few were sure of getting among the top 8, but even being among the top 24 was not easy, just to give an example to go to the playoffs you needed at least 11 points in the standings, instead with the old format you could go to the round of 16 even with only 4-5 points. substantial differences, and even the playoffs were full of surprises, like the big match Real Madrid vs Manchester city. I am satisfied with this new Champions League, we will see in the years to come if it will still keep everyone's morale high and fun