Summary: Joining in for a Champions League supershow to help us kick-off our official start of the 2013-14 European season is none other than ESPN and One World Sports commentator Janusz Michallik to take a look at many of the key matchups and results, what they may indicate longer term while establishing a number of important trends which have already begun to reveal themselves. We begin nowhere else but the finalists from last season Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund who experienced a very different opening day as the defending champions were rampant and Napoli was smart to seize the initiative after a bit of an explosion by Jurgen Klopp in the San Paolo cauldron as Rafa Benitez and his upstart, next-generation Napoli have seized the upper hand. We examine the clubs working above the clouds in Real Madrid and PSG, the early slip by Jose Mourinho and Chelsea which opens a Pandoras Box of implications and questions, the surprising double barrel statements by first season Manchester managers in advance of their Sunday derby and we also take a deeper examination of two more Serie A clubs in Juventus and AC Milan who both found very unexpected results given their form, injury status and expectations heading into midweek action. We also spend particular time looking at the tremendous opening round for Arsenal and then round out this first of many supershows with a first look at Barcelona under Tata Martino to examine whether a new trend is developing beneath the surface for the defending Spanish champion.
