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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Will Unwin

Drama all over the shop amid a wild night of knockout football

Rangers players after losing to Dynamo Kyiv
Oh Rangers! Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

KNOCKOUT ACTION

As we all know, Big Cup is going to be utter rubbish after the suits at Uefa decided to shake things up and play more games for reasons that are not immediately cl€ar. It will become a random league system with each team playing eight matches – four home and four away – against different opposition. Everyone will become bored of it before Real Madrid beat Feyenoord 4-0 in mid-January. This means we have to hold on to the glorious notion of knockout football, which was served up in spades during the third qualifying round.

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