Champions League Last 16 Draw | City v Sporting Clube de Portugal

[jrb]

Why do UEFA have to make something so easy, so complicated?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I'm even more confused now lol

They had the eight runners up in one pot, which they drew from first. Once they'd done that, they knew which group winners they could and couldn't be drawn against (so anyone not in their qualifying group or from the same country).

They then take a ball out of each of the pots for the eligible group winners, put those in an empty pot and draw from those.

 

[Sir peace frog]

It was the old blokes fault, he said villa real could draw any of the 7 teams, so arseshavings and his mate did it, you could tell he knew he fucked up and what was the chances of united being drawn out, haha, listen properly and you can hear a little trump when united get drawn haha

 

[Blue Llama]

Why do UEFA have to make something so easy, so complicated?

Gives them more air time to get adverts in.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

If they repeat the whole draw they will piss off even more clubs than those affected at present. It will just compound the situation. PSG will be happy playing the Rags in any event as they will murder them. Would United have a better chance against Atleti...probably not. They will have to suck it up.

 

[Cotontoquinn]

Definitely watching the Europa League draw - could be comedy gold.

 

[youngbob]

But that's not what they care about. If they drew Salzburg they wouldn't give a shit that they made a mistake. They want a redraw at the chance to miss both.

To be fair it's not just United who've been affected by this. Bayern, Atleti, PSG, Villarreal and United have all been affected by the mistake. It's definitely grounds enough for the draw to be appealed and re-done.

 

[Sir peace frog]

United are that shit uefa forgot they were still in the competition haha

 

[waspish]

Snookered……or am I getting confused?

There is a pot where they pick the balls out and all the other pots are individually marked with the football teams!

So the other bloke who ain’t drawing picks the balls out of the “football teams bowl” and place them in the drawn bowl!

 

[chaddblue]

They had the eight runners up in one pot, which they drew from first. Once they'd done that, they knew which group winners they could and couldn't be drawn against (so anyone not in their qualifying group or from the same country).

They then take a ball out of each of the pots for the eligible group winners, put those in an empty pot and draw from those.

Ok, so after they've put them in an empty pot and done the first match, they then move onto the second match and certain teams won't be able to be drawn. But by now they're all in the same bowl so how do they know which ones to remove?

Probably me missing something obvious