2) Leicester City can reach the knockout stages
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Don’t even bother looking at the odds on Leicester City winning the Champions League. Winning the Premier League with 5000/1 odds last season was a miracle but it had a lot to do with the other big teams simply falling behind.
That will not be the case in the Champions League. And having lost their influential midfielder N’Golo Kante to Chelsea, Claudio Ranieri’s side have not exactly had the best start to a league title defence since... Chelsea last season.
The Foxes look a shadow of the side that lost only three games last season. But it would not be wise to rule them out of qualifying for the Round of 16. The club may have never played in the Champions League but Ranieri has managed six clubs in the competition.
Leicester were lucky to avoid the heavyweights in the draw and Porto represent their biggest threat in the group stage. Club Brugge may have won the Belgian league last season but they, too, have had a terrible start to their season (7 points from 6 games) and look far from playing like champions. FC Copenhagen are a wildcard too and have only just returned to the Champions League after missing out in the last two seasons.
