New CL Format Thoughts | After GW2 (pg13) | GW3 (pg33)

[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.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

It is more chaotic.. but I don't think the good teams are going to get knocked out because of 1 bad game which could have happened in the previous format.

You have to be consistently bad to be #25 - 36.

Overall I think I like it. Like it a lot more than the Carabao Cup format which forced us to play on 1 days rest.

 

[jimharri]

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.

8.

 

[Gray]

Apparently, after GW2, we're in 8th place (the final automatic qualifying place) in the table. Reading some of the comments on here after the game last night, you'd swear we were rock bottom.

We have some hard matches coming up, our set of games are not the easiest.

 

[Gray]

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

36 teams?