When some events prohibit calls to involve their experience correctly, the new Champions League format was taken by the image of Aston Villa and Club Bruge players. Barcelona and Zagreb have made the top 8 and playoffs, respectively.
Wednesdays at Villa Park and Etihad Stadium have a moist attraction for them. A modern twist of transistor radio was fixed with one ear, and the game state passed with the word mouth, followed by a toast, curse, progress or removal. This was presented as a novelty of welcome that was not in the group stage where the league stage was replaced. All of the league stages!
A wide range of positive receptions to the new formula reminded me of the immortal lines of the third person’s Harry Lime. “In Switzerland, there was brother love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what is it? Cuckoo clock. ” Lime is probably known that the new Champions League format is known, so it would not have been so unpleasant if you knew about the Swiss model.
But in addition to delivering more money to the club, they only got more games and more profits from broadcasters. Was the UEFA inspection work?
In the league stage, there was a great story with excessive performance of Manchester City’s unexpected psycho drama in Lille and Best. For example, Lille lost Milano coach Paulo Ponseca in the summer and sold the best young player Leny Yoro to Manchester United. They had to go through two preliminary rounds, where they removed the Fenerbahce of Jose Mourinho to create a league stage.
When Ruben Amorim’s sports beat them in the opening night of the Swiss model, most people would have tilted Lisbon, not Lille, not Gatecrashhers. But no. Reel protrudes to defeat the champion Real Madrid. They drew it with Juventus and touched them in Liverpool after going down to 10 men.
Remy Cabella congratulations on Wednesday with Ngal’Ayel Mukau with LILLE Thump Feyenoid 6-1 (Rico Brouwer/Soccrates/Getty Images)
However, it is difficult to think of a new format because there was no shortage of stories like reel on the past version of Champions League.
Breasts benefited from eight games and eight other opponents instead of eight games and eight other opponents, as in the previous season. I have been feeling for a long time, but the momentum of qualification for the upcoming play -off round comes from a light introduction of European elite club competition.
Neutously, their fixtures have won a buyer levercusen before overcoming the champion league and the Austrian Bundesliga or Middeta Cup for several months, winning Sturm Graz and Rb Salzburg. Breast’s Cinderella story was similar to giving Cinders a date app with the best algorithm.
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They were second in the Champions League for the second time. The other was the last night’s buzzword.
As the competition collided with the spear for the first time before the competition, danger It was rounded with the best new signature of the Champions League and exaggerated with the view of more attention than the general star. But do not make a mistake. Many smoke and mirrors were used here.
Some of JEOPARDY is in the top 8.
Atalanta and Milan fell on Wednesday. Their punishment? There are two more games in the playoffs. Is that a penalty? Fans of the club tend to act as much as possible in the Champions League, so there are not many penalty. On the contrary, it can be interpreted as a bonus of a player who needs to consider more effort, preparation and settlement congestion except coaches.
Yunus Musah looked at the Red on Zagreb and blamed Milan to beat and play two more games (Marko Lukunic/PixSell/MB Media/Getty Images)
At one end of the rankings, Liverpool was able to send children to PSV in Eindhoven. On the other hand, nine teams have already been removed before the final GameWeek. Most of the rest were convinced or almost convinced, which means that the risk was so high that it was on the table where the midfield felt as if it were watching the indie 500.
As a viewer, it was difficult to keep and keep tracking.
The actual drama comes from the random unity of the introduction of a new form with a season in his 17 -year coaching career. In the end, however, eight big clubs in six games and eight games allowed a big club like City, and he left the last minute compared to Paris Saint -Germain and Real Madrid, and enough to get out of the problem. tether.
In the past, 10 or 11 points were the benchmarks for the qualifications of 6 game groups. In 2013, Naples were not enough for 12 points. In this round, in the city league phase, City, Sporting and Club Brugge reached the playoffs with 11 points in two additional games. Somehow, the little more showed progress.
MITY took out as a disaster, left late and still reached the playoffs (James Gill -Daneehouse/Getty Images)
Thai breakers were also dissatisfied.
Dinamo Zagreb won the Maksimir for a while for Brugge’s defeat in Manchester. They won Milan, but they missed the playoffs on the target difference. In the case of DINAMO, is the target difference when playing a set of fixtures with City, Sporting and Brugge?
Since it is not far from all teams’ house, the goal far away will not show a perfect solution.
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By playing eight other teams, they are more diverse, curious and less identical. But the new form threw another mystery. When is the league a league? If you don’t play everyone, the club’s fixtures can feel abstract, and abstraction is like lifting the lid in the box of Pandora. If it is not far from home, is it important where this game plays? Can you open the doors of the UEFA Champions League match in New York and Riyadd?
We should not forget that the original sin of this form change is a challenge raised by the UEFA by the Super League. The Swiss model is an open model. The position does not close. But some people can’t think of new competitions, but they create more profits in the club, and the 16 -team playoffs work like a safety net that maintains poor elites in competition. Send less favorable and tired Europa leagues as in the previous year.
Therefore, as with Jeopardy’s fantasy, the other deception (actually compromise) is a super league that approximates format in UEFA branding.
“Aren’t you happy?”
I will bleed by the Super League rebels and throw the image of Aleksander Ceferin into the Colosseum gravel.
Is your thumb, thumb, or is your fist still uncertain in the air?
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