Porto had one of the worst seasons in the last 10 years, and their performance in this tournament was proof of that.

Despite the financial benefits, most European clubs (especially the very big ones) were not very happy with this tournament. But this reaction is also usually caused by it being something new and at the end of a very long epoch. If the tournament really does return in this format, things could be different.

European clubs are complaining that there are too many games per season. In my opinion, the problem is that they want to play every game with the same players. The squads need to get bigger and give more players opportunities. If they really start rotating more players in games, there won't be this generalized fatigue.

the thing here is that the teams from south Americans, north Americans, Asia and Africa takes this tournament  as a very big tournament but the teams from Europe doesn't sees it as such, and if am not mistaken, if they have the choice to turn this competition down without no punishment, most of this European football team that are in the tournament would have done it because their football calendar is just too busy for them to be adding more, after coming from a long and higher level of competitive league campaign, so most of this Europeans football clubs sees this tournament as an added stress to their already busy schedule.

I feel no sorry for Porto actually because they were not good enough to qualify to the next round of the competition, out of three games they only got two, which shows that they weren't good enough for the next round, it was atletico madrid that I feel pity for, because they tried, but they were just unlucky to be knockout on goal difference.

Actually you're right, I made a mistake with the calculations.
The separate classification is used in this case
PSG atletico Madrid 4-0
Atletico Madrid - botafogo 1-0
PSG - botafogo 0-1
3 points each in the head-to-head clashes, but in goal difference PSG is first with +3 goals, Botafogo is second with 0 goals difference and Atletico Madrid is third with -3 goals
Unfortunately I was looking at the general classification and I was wrong, thanks for the correction

I think Chelsea vs Esperance, Chelsea will win.

What about Inter v River Plate? the odds River Plate to win is juicy, @4.35, I think Inter might not qualify.

Are you sure they only need one goal to advance? if they won with 2 goals, it should be a tie because they will have a same point with Botafogo RJ.

I agree Atletico Madrid do give what their best to win, they always use their main lineup no matter who they met. It's a fair competition, so we now know if Brazilian teams have a similar quality like top European teams.