Champions League’s late-stage drama is a feature, not a bug. Let’s hope no one messes that up

This is, now, what the knockout stages of the Champions League do. It has been that way for at least five years: Barcelona’s 6-1 defeat of PSG in 2017 is as viable a candidate as any for the era’s starting point. After that, the caution and the fear that had characterised this competition for most of the first decade of this century was jettisoned.

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