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The five English teams compactly qualify from the group phase into the last 16 of the Champions League. >quoteWill they remain compact forward hand in hand to the last eight?
Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur qualify from the group phase. Only Chelsea are not compact qualify with the status of group winners.
The existence of five English teams in the last 16 of the Champions League has become a separate record in terms of the number of representatives of one country in that phase, which made possible since the change of format in 2015/2016.
The five teams are now both already undergoing the first leg party round of 16 each, also compact did not lose; City and Liverpool win, while Manchester United, Chelsea, and Spurs achieve a draw.
Now his fifth compactness will be tested in the second leg series, which will start rolling in the middle of next week. Will they be able to achieve the results that are necessary to advance to the quarterfinals?
If the cohesiveness is maintained then, as it does in the last 16, there will be another new record in the Champions League in terms of the number of teams from one country in the last eight.
Prior to this, England also held the record of the most number of representatives in the quarterfinals with four teams in the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 seasons, through the presence of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and MU.
Following UEFA's record of the number of teams from one country after the last 16 of the Champions League:
2016/2017: 3, Spain (Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Real Madrid)
2015/2016: 3, Spain (Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Real Madrid)
2014/2015: 3, Spain (Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Real Madrid)
2013/2014: 3, Spain (Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Real Madrid)
2012/2013: 3, Spain (Barcelona, Malaga, Real Madrid)
2011/2012: 2, Spain (Barcelona, Real Madrid)
2010/2011: 3, England (Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur)
2009/2010: 2, England (Arsenal, Manchester United), France (Bordeaux, Lyon)
2008/2009: 4, England (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United)
2007/2008: 4, England (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United)
2006/2007: 3, England (Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United)
2005/2006: 3, Italy (AC Milan, Inter Milano, Juventus)
2004/2005: 3, Italy (AC Milan, Inter Milano, Juventus)
2003/2004: 2, England (Arsenal, Chelsea), France (Lyon, Monaco), Spain (Deportivo La Coruña, Real Madrid)
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