The extra rounds of playoffs — a new fourth layer this year will have two wild -
card teams in each league squaring off in
knockout games on Friday — have created a tournament flavor in which the hot team trumps the better team.
«The plan is for him to be with us at the Club World Cup, and we'll see if he can play the first
game,» he said, adding that the club would appeal against the decision taken by UEFA to give defender Dani Carvajal a
game's suspension for deliberately time wasting in order to force a yellow
card away to APOEL Nicosia with the aim of going into the
knockout stage of the Champions League free of
cards.