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It's a combination of factors why English teams aren't doing as well as they did in the past. United and Chelsea certainly aren't as good as they were when they dominated a few years ago but remember also that one of the worst Chelsea teams won it with Roberto Di Matteo and a poor City side made it to the semis this season. We've produced better teams than the one that made it to the final in 2006. I think Real, Barca and Bayern will always feature heavily in the closing stages because of the long running monopoly they hold in their leagues and the fact that overall the local competition is a little bit easier. I still find it strange how Real have emerged as eventual winners but it's the luck of the draw.
I just want to say that things with PL competition and CL happend before and that English teams could cope with that.For example United won CL in 2008 and they had to fight until last day of the season for PL trophy.Chelsea just didn't have chance to win PL in 2012 and to go to CL place and they put everything in CL.Same with Arsenal in 2006.And in that domination other teams didn't do so well.Real were knocked in round 16 about 6 times in a row,Ateltico wasn't near this level.Bayern was also worse than now.And CL is like that.The winner and finalist aren't the best teams in Europe at the moment.Remember Porto in 2004,Liverpool 2005,we weren't so good in that 2006,even Inter in 2010.