I think 1-8 go straight through, 9-24 playoff36 teams and each team will play 8 (possibly 10, not sure) group games. I guess the top 16 then go into the knockouts. I assume teams will be seeded so you cannot get an uneven set of matches.
Worth noting that England could easily get a 5th team into that group if say a team with a high coefficient came 5th in the Prem (eg Man Utd, Spurs, Chelsea).
Makes sense, you'd obviously want as many pointless games as possible.I think 1-8 go straight through, 9-24 playoff
It's the two leagues with the highest co-efficient ranking which get an extra spot. As of Wednesday lunchtime when I was looking at this, that was Germany and Italy who'd be getting a 5th team (in fact this is still the case after Wednesday and Thursday's games.)Worth noting that England could easily get a 5th team into that group if say a team with a high coefficient came 5th in the Prem (eg Man Utd, Spurs, Chelsea).
I know you're being facetious but I am actually genuinely surprised there hasn't been more of a move around Europe to reduce the amount of league games played.Surprised I’ve not heard any of these prem ****s complain about extra games. God forbid a cup replay in January where they wouldn’t play their first eleven anyway though
Why would any club want that?I know you're being facetious but I am actually genuinely surprised there hasn't been more of a move around Europe to reduce the amount of league games played.
It's hard to know who to root for lessThe CJEU giving FIFA and UEFA a huge "get ****ed" over their attempts to block the European Super League this morning.
Yep. Kinda want football, at least at this level, to kill itself or **** off and play in the desert somewhere in front of a bunch of billionaire sheikhs. Then Klopp really will have something to moan about when it comes to crowd atmosphere.Well my personal preference is for the ESL to die. But at the same time I don't really disagree with much of what the CJEU has said (i.e., that what FIFA and UEFA have essentially tried to do is massively restrict freedom of trade for the sake of protecting their own monopoly).
If suicide was a football strategy….Fluminese's brand of playing out from the back is either the bravest stuff I've seen, or they're going to lose 5-0 with 3 goals being the result of the keeper being tackled on his own goal line.
Yeah, I didn't remember us entering it in those days. Maybe it owed something to the horrible matches that Celtic and Man. Utd had experienced against Argentine opponents only ten years previously. And Trevor Cherry's experience playing for England in Argentina in 1977 wouldn't have convinced anyone that things had changed very much.It's one of those little footy trivia tidbits I love that, despite Albion's domination of the (as was) European Cup in the late 70s/early 80s (7 in 8 years between 77 & 84), no English team won the Intercontinental Cup (the forerunner comp) until ManUre in 99.
That said, looking up the comp on Wiki, I'm not sure how seriously we treated it. In 77 and 79 Borussia Monchengladbach and Malmo competed instead of yer Scousers and Forest respectively because neither CBF and it wasn't held at all in 1978.