New CL Format | Thoughts after 2 games (pg13)

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Fuck this, celtic went from 2nd to 20th after 1 game....

Still shit,not sold fuck off those who pushed this thru

Celtic beat Bratislava 5-1 and then get thrashed 7-1 by Dortmund!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I don't understand how Bratislava have played Celtic but we don't play Celtic. Not looked into this champs league format at all, so it might be obvious

32 teams.
Everyone plays 8 games against 8 different teams
4 home and 4 away
Top 8 automatically go through to last 16.
Teams 9th to 24th in a play off game. The 8 winners join the other 8 in the last 16.
Play off games are
9th v 24th
10th v 23rd
11th v 22nd
Etc

 

[TinFoilHat]

The only positive for me is playing 7 different teams rather than having the obligatory boring 2 games with the usual suspects.

I still have doubts over how the computer draws the teams and the algorithm involved.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Fuck this, celtic went from 2nd to 20th after 1 game....

Still shit,not sold fuck off those who pushed this thru

Well they did get absolutely twatted, so they deserve to have dropped like that.

They are 20th out of 36… it’s the same as being 11th in the PL. If you won your first PL game and then got thrashed, you’d expect to be midtable after two games would you not?

 

[simmo]

Only 2 matches in but already in position required of top 8 and on 4pts.

Can’t really see the new format having much change to the outcome of expected qualifiers.

 

[Coljj]

Both Real and Bayern lost.

Will be interesting.

People like to moan a bit too much these days.

The fact it's now a one off fixture means these wins really count for something in the overall scheme of things.

They wont just be cancelled out in a return fixture like they nearly always used to be, with Bayern & Real ending the group stages ahead via superior head-to-head dominance.