New CL Format Thoughts

Psychedelic Casual said:
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Inter 4th
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Paris 15th
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Feyenoord 19th
Juve 20th
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City 22nd
Sporting 23rd
Brugge 24th
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Praha 31st
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Bratislava 35th
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Hardly the most difficult set of teams.
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I don't think you can judge it were the teams we played in a lop sided league finished. I think it was an awful draw, but like I said we haven't helped ourselves.
 
we had very easy draw.

look at PSG's draw if we had that draw, we are now probably on 31st, 32nd place with the cannon fodders of the league stage.

fucking Juventus who gave us no chance was turned over by mighty PSV in the playoff...

next season I guarantee we will have a harder draw than this season's 8 opponents. but hopefully we learnt our lesson of finishing in top8 in league stage.

well get to CL first of course and avoid any points deduction with the 115 case.
 
On the plus side, despite us going out, it was a good round of games for England’s chances of getting five places next season. With all three Italian teams in the play off going out.

Not quite nailed on yet but looking highly probable.

That last home game of the season V Bournemouth might not be a complete dead rubber after all.
 
Stephen230 said:
On the plus side, despite us going out, it was a good round of games for England’s chances of getting five places next season. With all three Italian teams in the play off going out.

Not quite nailed on yet but looking highly probable.

That last home game of the season V Bournemouth might not be a complete dead rubber after all.
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What is the criteria for the Prem getting a 5th spot? I had assumed it would depend on us getting into the next round.
 
spacecadet said:
Still don't think Inter with Juve and PSG away is easy. Aston Villa draw was scandalous. Any toughish game was at home.
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I mentioned this in a previous post.

One of the driving factors (other than more games & money, of course) for the new format, was trying to reduce the average co-efficient spread of the fixtures.

Last season, for example, the spread was 52 points and it's been historically wide. This season it was down to about 19 points (even smaller using Opta's ratings).

The logic is, no-one gets an "easy" set of fixtures, but equally no-one gets an unreasonably "hard" set of fixtures.

The wildcard to all this, of course, is the home/away element. It's only possible to assign this after the initial draw is made.
 
faulknr said:
I mentioned this in a previous post.

One of the driving factors (other than more games & money, of course) for the new format, was trying to reduce the average co-efficient spread of the fixtures.

Last season, for example, the spread was 52 points and it's been historically wide. This season it was down to about 19 points (even smaller using Opta's ratings).

The logic is, no-one gets an "easy" set of fixtures, but equally no-one gets an unreasonably "hard" set of fixtures.

The wildcard to all this, of course, is the home/away element. It's only possible to assign this after the initial draw is made.
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Interesting post, cheers.
 
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