BREAKING: UWCL in a SHAMBLES!

Whether Chelsea will gain or lose players to the injury roster in the coming weeks remains to be seen, but there's no doubt the team will need to revisit their overall strategy. Something most teams wish they could also do is increase the competitiveness in their respective groups, a core complaint of many so far into the Champions League.

What most might notice when analyzing this year's Women's Champions League is how single-team dominated nearly every group has become. Instead of multiple teams fighting for a coveted slot into the quarterfinals and beyond, only a select few have mathematically managed to position themselves for such shots. If indeed we could identify such an absence of competition as perhaps being one of the biggest threats to continued success of the Champions League format in the future.

In the much larger context, more than half of the participating teams find themselves in a precarious situation - zero jeopardy. Many eliminated teams face quite literally nothing in the form of dramatic loss on their horizon, especially once those quarterfinal teams take form.

That said, one thing is almost certain - when some of these games kick off and ultimately seal the opposing team's UWCL fate in the coming weeks, football fans from all across the globe will once again witness breathtaking fireworks that'll inevitably result in plenty of goals in aggregate totals game-over-game.