New CL Format Thoughts

Overall really happy with Prime's CL coverage. Seedorf & Rooney give it a fresh feel and just glad Micah and Spitty aren't at the game and all over my feed later on.
 
LevyBee76 said:
Prime's football coverage in general is superb, the ability to turn off commentary and just have stadium sound is the best thing they've ever done
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Sky used to have the stadium option years ago and sadly stopped the option
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
prime was a breath of fresh air!

Crazy seeing Inter Milan in the final after they jointly stunk out the place at our ground in game week 1
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Apart from Seedorf, I think everybody else involved is on either the BBC or Sky every other week.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
This season was hard to judge, essentially because we were awful, and were then paired with Real Madrid (who had also been awful) and proceeded to shoot ourselves in the foot.

However, what nobody saw coming was how the new Format (with nobody dropping into the EL at the end of the Group Stage) has seriously weakened UEFA's secondary European Tournament.

No more City thrashing Seville 4-0 and then eleven months later playing them in the Super Cup Final.

It will probably result in six English clubs playing in the CL next season, but perhaps that was always the intention
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They should've just made the Top 16 qualify for the knockouts, and the next 8 in the Europa League. Saves one round as well.
 
vmsuhail said:
They should've just made the Top 16 qualify for the knockouts, and the next 8 in the Europa League. Saves one round as well.
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That makes sense but the extra round is worth a lot to UEFA. Also, there were a couple of UEFA's favourites looking like missing out on top 16 after 6 games.
 
Coljj said:
Overall really happy with Prime's CL coverage. Seedorf & Rooney give it a fresh feel and just glad Micah and Spitty aren't at the game and all over my feed later on.
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Never watched a game on prime as I wouldn't listen to Rooney if I was paid
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
This season was hard to judge, essentially because we were awful, and were then paired with Real Madrid (who had also been awful) and proceeded to shoot ourselves in the foot.

However, what nobody saw coming was how the new Format (with nobody dropping into the EL at the end of the Group Stage) has seriously weakened UEFA's secondary European Tournament.

No more City thrashing Seville 4-0 and then eleven months later playing them in the Super Cup Final.

It will probably result in six English clubs playing in the CL next season, but perhaps that was always the intention
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Yep premier teams dropping into the Europa have a better chance of getting champs league than getting it in the league it looks a lot easier now
 
East Level 2 said:
That makes sense but the extra round is worth a lot to UEFA. Also, there were a couple of UEFA's favourites looking like missing out on top 16 after 6 games.
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Yes, PSG finished 15th after winning the final group match. They're probably going to win it now.
 
I dislike the new format and to be honest I never liked the champs league. I only go, cos I can’t get my head around being sat at home when City are playing ha ha :)
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
prime was a breath of fresh air!

Crazy seeing Inter Milan in the final after they jointly stunk out the place at our ground in game week 1
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You didn’t watch the same Inter I did. They played some lovely football and had a really fluid formation. One minute Acerbi was a centre half and the next minute he was a winger and then a striker. Their players rotated position throughout the pitch. They pressed really well. They made our set up look drab and low energy in comparison and so it turned out. They were much the better team. I’d love to see Inzaghi as Pep’s replacement in 5 years.
 
richardtheref said:
Rio going on about last night's game showing how great the new format is. Funny, I thought the old format had a knock out stage and semi finals as well.
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Yep. The new bit was garbage. Had no idea who we were playing, or what it really meant in the scheme of things.
 
TheGhost said:
You didn’t watch the same Inter I did. They played some lovely football and had a really fluid formation. One minute Acerbi was a centre half and the next minute he was a winger and then a striker. Their players rotated position throughout the pitch. They pressed really well. They made our set up look drab and low energy in comparison and so it turned out. They were much the better team. I’d love to see Inzaghi as Pep’s replacement in 5 years.
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I put most of the drabness of that game to the fact it was the first of 8 is an unknown league format and everyone involved knew that fixture would have virtually no bearing on whether a team went through or not. Inter were a very good footballing side with an astute defensive set up I thought.

We were just poor and so was the kit
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
prime was a breath of fresh air!

Crazy seeing Inter Milan in the final after they jointly stunk out the place at our ground in game week 1
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Weird how we all see things differently. I've been saying since September that Inter are one of the best sides in Europe and a dark horse to win the whole thing. I hope a few of the lads I've been saying it to remember.
 
New teams entering the champs league from premier can get an easier draw like Villa did unlike how we entered it with a group where they'd be 2 top quality teams!
 
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