The Champions League has undergone a major change this year, doing away with the group stage format and replacing it with a “league phase” — functioning, truly, as a mini-league where the top teams qualify for a play-off tournament.
It’s more games and less stakes in the initial Champions League draw. And Bayern Munich exec and former CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is all for it.
“The old group stage was boring because after the fourth matchday things were decided,” Rummenigge said in […]
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