Why we need Leicester to shake up the Champions League too

One of the things Uefa did get right was making sure the champions of the leading seven leagues were top seeds for the first time in this year’s draw.

That meant Leicester were rewarded for their unreal season by being drawn in a favourable group with Club Brugge, FC Copenhagen and FC Porto.

The concern before this campaign started was that the Foxes would struggle to cope with being in Europe because they can no longer pick the same 11 players every week like they did last season.

But I commented at the time that they were able to do that because their backroom staff were obviously monitoring their players really well – always looking ahead and being pro-active in preventing injuries rather than reacting to them when they were happened.

The Leicester coaches will have to modify their approach to deal with the demands of Champions League football – looking at factors such as where they are travelling, how far, plus when and how they train.

But I would imagine they just see this as another challenge, and have the same aim of giving Ranieri a squad of fully-fit players as often as possible again.

Whatever happens with that, they will definitely retain a big part of what made them such a phenomenal team, which is their mental strength and togetherness.

Ranieri has been saying all week that his side have no chance of winning the Champions League but they have a great chance of getting out of their group. What happens after that will depend on the draw they get.

As Leicester have already proved, nothing is impossible – or at least not until Uefa can restructure things to rule it out.

Former England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis was speaking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.