article_snippet.sent: It is a simplification, of course, but perhaps a useful way of understanding why, as we survey the Champions League quarter finals, there are no the Champions League quarter-final clubs troubling the scorers.
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article_snippet.sent: For Chelsea fans pointing to the 2012 triumph, that it was indeed a victory of rare courage amidst adversity but the decline of English clubs had already begun and that win is effectively an outlier, bucking the established trend.
article_snippet.sent: Between 2005-2009 the Premier League provided 12 out of the potential 20 semi finalists for the Champions League; between 2010 to 2015 the Champions League has provided three out of 24.
article_snippet.sent: Only Liverpool and Manchester United actually achieved that in the five-year period of English ascendancy, though, of course, Chelsea did so improbably in 2012.
article_snippet.sent: Manchester United won the Premier League in 2008 when English clubs were dominating the latter stages .
article_snippet.sent: Chelsea were an exception to the rule in 2012 when Chelsea won the tournament against all the odds .
article_snippet.sent: At the zenith of the Premier League dominance, the 2008 Moscow final, ten English players started the game.
article_snippet.sent: Manchester City were eliminated in the last 16 this season at the hands of Barcelona .
article_snippet.sent: Chelsea exited at the same stage as England have no representatives in the quarter-finals .
article_snippet.sent: Clubs such as Barca, Bayern, Dortmund have retained Clubs such as Barca, Bayern, Dortmund technical superiority over English clubs but Clubs such as Barca, Bayern, Dortmund are now likely to out-run Clubs such as Barca, Bayern, Dortmund and out-press Clubs such as Barca, Bayern, Dortmund.
highlights_snippet.sent: From 2005-2009 England had 12 out of 20 Champions League semi-finalists .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: In last five years only three semi-finalists have been from the Champions League quarter-final .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: the Champions League quarter-final clubs have struggled to cope with that intensity in Europe .