Quote Originally Posted by french_og
NO - both Liverpool and Chelsea are already through regardless of the result tonight.

I seen that Morinhio interview and he just basically said over a 38 game season the best side always wins but in the knockout stages anything can happen which is true.
It's a different measure of a teams quality, the league is about consistency, whereas in the CL ypu play bigger games and tougher oppositon, albeit luck does play a bigger part, certainly. Chelsea have strength in depth, but their first team isn't half as impressive as their squad overall, so there's a greater chance they'll come unstuck in the CL, against some of the tougher teams, whereas there's hardly any teams who can beat them in the prem, so their squad is the telling factor.