So I'm starting this early for a couple of reasons. To talk about the teams who qualify and to talk about the new format as it finalizes Here are the teams who have qualified so far Argentina Lanus Godoy Cruz San Lorenzo Estudiantes Copa Argentina possible winners: River Plate, Union Santa Fe, Gimnasia La Plata, Boca Juniors, Belgrano, Rosario Central Bolivia Sport Boys Warnes The Strongest Jorge Wilstermann Brazil None qualified but Palmeiras and Flamengo are very likely to qualify Chile U. Catolica Colombia Atletico Nacional Independiente Medellin Ecuador Barcelona Mexico Chivas Peru None qualified but most likely only 1 of Municipal, Universitario, Cristal and Melgar will miss out. Paraguay Libertad Likely Olimpia looking at the table Venezuela Zamora Carabobo
Hopefully La U qualifies for this years Libertadores. If we do I'll probably go to all our home games and 1 away depending on the locations.
We can forget about Chivas, Pumas, Club America, Pachuca, or any other Liga MX team playing this year.
Yep, heard that. I wonder which countries will get the remaining spots. Knowing CONMEBOL, Brazil will get them
So I guess this is provisional since they don't have a team right now ( ), but Chapecoense have qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by virtue of being awarded the 2016 Copa Sudamericana. I see that the Copa Libertadores have adopted the UEFA CL policy of sending teams that finish in third-place of their groups to the Copa Sudamericana.
Peru, Venezuela, Equador, Bolívia, Paraguai e Uruguai. These are the countries who are getting those extra spots.
Me cuentan que Fox Deportes perderá Libertadores y Sudamericana. Lo peor es que otros canales no la quieren. #onlyUSA— Mauricio Cárdenas (@mcfinanzas) December 19, 2016 This will suck if it's true.
Emelec is the weakest team from pot 2 (other than Chapecoense which are a ? mark at the moment). DIM isn't the weakest from pot 3, but also wasn't the worst possibility. River has no excuse to not take 1st place in this group.
River aren't as good as you assume them to be right now. Could go either way. Emelec and DIM are both good teams capable of qualifiying. River could go through or maybe not but if all 3 teams play at a high level it will be even.
River has right now the best attacking duo in the continent I would say (Alario and Driussi) and good enough midfield, they need to sort out their defense but they were struggling with injuries there. If they hire some quality cretive MF to replace D'alessandro they are clearly going for the title.
One thing that I don't like about this new Copa format is that they changed the way knockout stages are decided... Instead of the "best" first playing the "worst" second (and so on) as had been occurring, the 2017 Copa will implement a "Champions League-style" draw to decide the Round of 16 matchups. I don't like it because there can always be interests and $$ talking when you're "randomly" picking who faces who... besides that, it takes away the incentive for teams who qualify early in the group stage to still go for the 3 points in their remaining matches, since it will now make literally no difference if they win or lose those games.
I dunno, with the old format you could have teams from the same group play each other again in the round of 16. Also its a bit silly to rank teams when those teams played against completely different opponents. I prefer this system. There is still some incentive to win your group because then theoretically you'll improve your chances for an easier round of 16 draw.
Iquique jugaría en Calama -2.250 metros sobre el nivel del mar- sus partidos de local contra Gremio, Guaraní de Asunción y Zamora, ya que los 2 estadios de Iquique no están en condiciones de ser usados para partidos internacionales. El factor altura podría dificultar las cosas para Gremio, Guaraní y Zamora.
Ok, I haven't seen any advertisements for the Libertadores on Fox. Are they showing it in the US?? It kinda sucked them not showing the Sudamericana but the Libertadores is a huge deal. I'd hate to go back to the bad old days in the 90s when you had to go to bars and restaurants in the middle of the week to watch a damn Libertadores game.
this channel gets worse as the years go by. FOX Sports has the first preliminary phase up on their site http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/scores?competition=28 although it wouldn't surprise me if these people don't show it either, especially now as there are no mexican teams on it.
Do you think FOX will put these games on their streaming channels? I know FOX streaming is not free (unlike ESPN, BeIN, NBC and every other channel I can think of ) but I'd probably be willing to pay a small monthly price for having all the games available.
Well, I was thinking more about streaming from South American sources.... I've been playing with kodi on my firestick (not much luck so far) but my PC Is connected to my other TV and I usually get tolerable streams for events we don't get through TV...