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It adds spice!
The UBB manager, Christophe Urios, summed up in one sentence the general state of mind before the unprecedented format of the knockout stages of the Champions Cup - the big European Cup -, played this weekend.
To find traces of these back and forth confrontations that make up the continental daily life of football clubs, you have to go back to the fire of the Challenge Yves du Manoir (disappeared in 1996 due to an overloaded calendar).
And again, the principle of two rounds only applied during the first rounds of what could be described as the Coupe de France…
So there is bound to be curiosity.
How to approach this new scenario?
Will we witness completely crazy return matches if one of the two protagonists has widened the gap in the first leg?
How far will the suspense go, knowing that the regulations of the EPCR, the organization which manages the competition, has provided, in the event of a cumulative equality of the two scores, to go through an extension, then, if the parity persists, to decide between the two teams at…
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