the Triple for Bayern in 2013, was incomparable. In 2020, it would be even more than that: unrepeatable. The duration, the circumstances, the requirements by means of the Corona break and the late continuation of the Champions League only because of the history and probably also in the future, the most important club competition in football.

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As the First Bayern will have to complete a Marathon and at the 8. August to bring the longest of all the eighth-finals at the end. Almost a year and a half after the 3:0 in the first leg at Chelsea FC this easily solvable-looking task is not without its pitfalls. Finally, the Bavaria, to be swept from the holiday home, then four weeks since the Cup final against Leverkusen, not a game more played – while Chelsea can keep in this time, with five games in League and Cup rhythm.

After the Marathon, the more distance to the track is a permanent print, Yes a increase run. In the quarter-finals, the FC Barcelona could wait in the semi-final Manchester City – and the unique Lionel Messi, and then the excellent Kevin De Bruyne. And then, the Finale came first.

Each of the big competition, has a momentum of its own. How will this time look, there is no precedent. Plays the great appointment improvisation of the extended season should be more of those in the cards, pause for months and be fresh, like Paris St-Germain? Or those can stay since June and in the rhythm, such as Juventus, which completes the SerieA until the beginning of August? Or maybe even Real Madrid, is not quite out of the race? Or the March route of the Germans, who First began the League operation and now, once again air can get before the final tournament in Lisbon, the Golden middle ground be?

Different than usual, since, at the latest, in the semifinals of the Big are, could this time beat the time of the outsider, of those Teams for most of the opponents are Unknown, such as Bergamo or RB Leipzig. More than ever, the Champions League is similar, in this unique form of tournament with no re – matches of a world Cup or the European championship, with their surprising twists and turns, which is just a pure knock-out System.