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

Alexia_Ko said:
ATM it’s not about form, It’s about injuries. More games means more injuries. It would definitely be costly for us to play an extra round of games.
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The worry about more matches meaning more chance of injuries started around the Winter World Cup in 2022. Now we’re well past that being an issue because the injuries have happened and many of our players have missed a lot of games so aren’t match fit and they can only get match fit by playing matches.

Plus there are players who’ve not had a single injury who are very much out of form. The form of the whole squad as a collective is all over the shop, the only way to rectify that is by playing matches.

For once, more games for us is a positive. Will do our whole squad some good.

Might as well finish 25th and not have to play any extra games at all that way if we’re worried about too many games at this point.
 
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I'm probably in the minority that I quite like the new format. More different teams to play for one thing.

One problem with it is it seems the difficulty of opponents is so variable. Fair play to Brest but have they played anyone good? Same for Celtic. Don't we get some kind of seeding as being a top team or is that gone now?
 
hcblue95 said:
One problem with it is it seems the difficulty of opponents is so variable. Fair play to Brest but have they played anyone good? Same for Celtic. Don't we get some kind of seeding as being a top team or is that gone now?
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We were seeded at the start of the competition.
 
hcblue95 said:
I'm probably in the minority that I quite like the new format. More different teams to play for one thing.

One problem with it is it seems the difficulty of opponents is so variable. Fair play to Brest but have they played anyone good? Same for Celtic. Don't we get some kind of seeding as being a top team or is that gone now?
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I looked at the matches played by Brest so far:

They played Sturm Graz, Leverkusen, and PSV at home and Salzburg, Sparta Prague, and Barcelona away.

They still have Shakhtar at home and Real Madrid away.

For an unseeded team that looks a very easy run of fixtures to me.
 
JGL07 said:
I looked at the matches played by Brest so far:

They played Sturm Graz, Leverkusen, and PSV at home and Salzburg, Sparta Prague, and Barcelona away.

They still have Shakhtar at home and Real Madrid away.

For an unseeded team that looks a very easy run of fixtures to me.
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To be fair to UEFA. this was one of the major drivers of the new format.

Under the old group phase the average coefficient spread was historically wide (last season was 52 points, for example). For this season's "group" (league) stage, the average spread is down to around a 19 points.

The new format was geared to reducing the spread to, in theory, make it more competitive from the off. I think that's been somewhat demonstrated by the results so far, aside from Liverpool.
 
I'm still really impressed with the new format. It's been great so far.

Leipzig got eliminated last night. They would have been dark horses for the top 8 at the start of the campaign.
 
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