owentn

To the ignorant Italian who felt the need to comment, you got a couple things wrong. First, when someone says "a club in Italy like Juventus", they mean a club at the top of the football table, not any Serie A team. Saying a team like Juventus joins in the round of 16 is correct. Second, it is mathematically incorrect to say that this format allows more chance for lower ranked teams to make the later rounds of the competition, since lower league teams play for fewer slots.