Champions League: How English sides are dominating in Europe

This is the first Champions League season to feature six clubs from one country and history will be made if all six representatives from England qualify.

In 2017, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham progressed, making England the first country in the competition to have five teams qualifying.

However, only two of these teams (Liverpool and Manchester City) went beyond the last 16, while the Reds advanced to the final by eliminating City in the quarter-finals.

In the final, Liverpool lost to Real Madrid.

According to Opta’s predictions, Arsenal have a 99.8% chance of qualifying, Manchester City has a 97.4% and Liverpool has a 95.5% chance.

However, the prediction model is slightly less confident of automatic progression for the other three teams, with Newcastle on 82%, Chelsea on 80.8% and Tottenham on 72%.

Former Liverpool midfielder Stephen Warnock told BBC Sport: “I would say it is at the moment. [significant what English teams are doing]But it doesn’t matter what happens now because we saw what happened last year when Liverpool won and finished the league stage on top, and then they were suddenly knocked out by PSG, who had done a ridiculous job up until then.

“So at the moment I don’t see what impact it will have unless you get eliminated and it doesn’t mean English teams will get through the knockout stages because it all depends on the draw and how you prepare for the later stages of the competition.”