Football fans from around the world will soon enough be rejoicing as one of the most electrifying, and prestigious tournaments in football history will be taking place shortly, the UEFA Champions League. For those of you short of notice, Champions League combines the world's finest football clubs, and more importantly the current best clubs in the world, as they battle through a single elimination playoff-bracket in hopes to be claimed Champion. With the current format and qualifying teams, this should be one of the most challenging and exciting tournaments we’ve seen in some time, with some very big names, along with some of the most popular teams in the world competing. Either February among us, and Valentine’s Day on the rise, there’s no better time to find your love for the game than as of right now. Let’s take a look at what this year’s Champions League has to offer, and who should walk away victorious in the coming weeks!

UCL Playoffs Preview and Analysis
Manchester City is one of the many teams in the playoff-bracket, and they’ll look to defend their title against the best in the world. Claiming victorious last year in a 1-0 victory over Inter Milan, Manchester City will start their campaign against FC Copenhagen. Currently, in second place in the English Premier League, Manchester City has looked just as good as they did last year, all while being led by one of the world’s best players, Haaland Erling. While they surely are the favourites to find themselves back in the final, they’ll have a tricky task in the later rounds as some of their finest rivals may appear.

Real Madrid and Barcelona from the Spanish league have once again qualified, and it comes as no surprise as both have previously won this prestigious award, and have both been on pace for one of their best seasons respectively. With the rumours of Mbappé joining Real Madrid in the coming weeks, if things were to fall through it could be one of the biggest transfers in recent time, and one that could find Real Madrid in the right place at the right time. With this said, Barcelona has bigger plans to spoil, as both rivals can meet in the closer ends of the draw. With these two powerhouses in the mix, it could leave for some exciting upsets, or even worse, an early finish if they don’t bring their best.

PSG, Bayern Munich, and Arsenal are the last three teams we’ll mention here, as all three are very capable of winning this tournament. With Bayern being the most recent of the bunch, all three of these teams respectfully are the best in their leagues, and each host some of the best players in the world. Unfortunately, with how the draw plays out, two will have to face off head-to-head against one another sooner than later, which will really open the draw on one end of the bracket. With this said, whoever comes out on top, could have a path to me either Manchester City or Bayern in the final, which would make for one of the most exciting finals in quite some time.

All of these teams mentioned above could win this tournament, as most are having some of the best seasons in quite some time, along with leading their leagues. Of course, teams like Dortmund, Atl. Madrid, RB Leipzig, Lazio and FC Porto could play upset, it’s hard to see them actually making a far push. In the end, it should be Manchester City’s tournament to lose as they’re the defending champions, and haven’t lost their touch all year. Until we start to see them become vulnerable, give me the team with arguably the best player in the world as of right now.

Prediction: Manchester City