Chelsea and Arsenal played poorly in the home leg of their respective round of 16 ties and lost for that reason; it's not that they weren't good enough to win, it's that they didn't play as well as they can do. Obviously Manchester City were beaten by a superior team, but although both Barcelona and Real are currently far better than any English team at the moment, the Premier League is still far more competitive and has more strength in depth than La Liga.
I also think that recent poor results in Europe are just a blip. Chelsea won the Europa League as recently as 2013, remember?! And Manchester United were extremely unlucky to get knocked out by Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League that year. Chelsea were also unlucky to come up against an exceptional Atletico side in 2014.
It hasn't helped that English clubs don't alway seem to take the Europa League too seriously. I'd really like Everton to go all the way this year and show the likes of Spurs and Villa how it's done
And I'm sure that English clubs will do extremely well in Europe next season.
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