Champions League: How English teams are dominating Europe

This is the first Champions League season to feature six clubs from one country, and history will be made if all six of England’s representatives qualify.

In 2017, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham all qualified, making England the first country to have five teams in the competition’s knockout stages.

However, only two of those teams – Liverpool and Manchester City – managed to progress past the round of 16, while the Reds reached the final after eliminating City in the quarter-finals.

In the final, Liverpool lost to Real Madrid.

According to Opta’s forecast, Arsenal has a 99.8% chance of qualifying for the knockout stages, compared to 97.4% for Manchester City and 95.5% for Liverpool.

However, the forecast model is slightly less confident about automatic progress for the other three sides, with Newcastle on 82%, Chelsea on 80.8% and Tottenham on 72%.

Former Liverpool midfielder Stephen Warnock told BBC Sport: “I would say at the moment it is [significant what English teams are doing]But it doesn’t matter what happens at the moment because we saw what happened last year, when Liverpool were dominating and finished top of the league – and then they were suddenly eliminated by PSG who had been rubbish until then.

He added: “So I don’t see at the moment, what the impact of this will be unless you are eliminated from the tournament, and this does not mean that the English teams will pass the knockout stages, because it all depends on the draw, and how to prepare you later in the competition.”