To reach the final this season, of course no one knows who will be able to achieve it. However, for now it is true that the strongest candidates are still owned by 4 team such as Inter milan, Bayern munich, Real madrid and Manchester city. If there are no big surprise from other team, it is possible that these four team can go further in the Champions League this season.
Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Madrid, Inter, Man City, PSG and Barcelona all remain the strongest possible choices that we will continue to look at after the preliminaries. Even the presence of Barcelona, provided that Lewandowski and De Jong recover quickly, might be more promising to perform optimally in the UCL.
Everything is pretty much easy for Bayern Munich and they can be easily thinking about the next games after the staging group because this team is in a group with weak teams.
But regarding Dortmund and Newcastle I think Dortmund can have more chance and Newcastle is not stable enough to say they can be in the next stage of the Champions League.