Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

The teams at the bottom of the inside playoff spots are Manchester City, PSV, and GNK Dinamo, each with 8 points. Just outside the playoff spots are PSG and Stuttgart, both with 7 points.

In the upcoming matchday, PSG will face Manchester City, which could push one of these teams closer to elimination ahead of the final matchday. Meanwhile, PSV and Stuttgart, who are vying for a playoff spot, have relatively easier opponents on Match Day 7, allowing them to apply pressure on the loser of the PSG-Man City match. GNK Dinamo will be playing away against Arsenal.

As for the seeded team for the playoff (l9th to 16th spot), the teams on the edge are Benfica and Monaco. Monaco will play against Aston Villa and Inter Milan while Benfica takes on Juventus and Barcelona. The Benfica-Juventus can help us to get inside the top 16 as Juventus is only one point ahead of Benfica. One of them can get knock out of the top 16.

 

I like that we play different teams throughout the entire group stage, rather than the same 3 teams home and away.

 

The super systematic clear identity team loses again...meh

 

Wonder where UEFA got their idea from for this format.....

 

After the playoffs round (1/8 1/4 and 1/2) are the 1-8 teams has the home advantage 2nd leg or after the playoffs it will be decided by draw who host the 2nd leg ?

 

It's not, but I'm sure the detractors would love to say it isn't.

 

You already know the invitation format changed.

Can you now explain the idea of playing different opponents in the group stage not stolen from the Super League?

 

Yes, but damn it sucks to be these two.

 

Florentino fumbled the super league HARD. I don't know if it's because of an echo chamber at the club, or if he was panicking due to the economic impact of covid, but that "presentation" on El Chiringuito was hard to watch. First of all that show does not have the proper format to present something as big as the rival competition to the CL. Second, the design of the studio made it seem even less legit, and Flo looked like a kid in preschool. Third, Flo was not comfortable at all, and maybe a spokesperson should have been employed.

Ultimately, the original format was not attractive from a footballing fan's perspective. It was almost doomed from the start.

I was still behind Flo, thinking there must've been more to the whole story and that he could pull it off, but the more time passed it was obvious that Flo and his people never really had a proper project. It seemed like a hastily put together "FU" to UEFA that never employed the right people to work on it, especially from a PR and marketing perspective.

I guess that'll be an L, and we move on.

The new CL music theme can drop dead tho

 

10 G+A contributions in 7 CL games for Saka

 

Are you sure? Sofascore have him on 6 G+A

 

The different opponents and the level of quality of those opponents seems higher for sure in this format.

I just don’t like that we’re likely going to be playing playoff league phase games prior to the Round of 16 all the way in February. 4 more games than the old format

 

He builds his team to a system and also does not allow much independence. Mikel also sets us up in this manner. Hence why one crucial player being out affects us directly (MØ and Rodri).

But Pep really fumbled in the transfers in the summer. Even at the time Palmer leaving for Doku, a guy whom Hendrix22 vouched for daily, and selling Alvarez were serious mistakes.

 

Man City 7 losses in 10 games. Before that their last 7 losses came over 107 games.

 

I still think ageing midfield and having no DM is crux of their problems. Maybe there's player fatigue too after the intense pressing Pep system for several years.

This happened to Dortmund and Kloop left after a season where they were mid table for a lot and eventually finished 7th.

 

Ive never seen a top manager fumble 7 out of 8 games.

Did Ferguson, Mourinho, Ancelotti AND the likes ever loose 6 out of an 8 gane stretch? Ever? I cant think of a single instance. Anyone saying ITS down to not having rodri is basically just endorsing His BdO win.

 

It's OK to point out haven't seen any top team succeed without a DM. City literally had NONE after Rodri got injured. That might be worse than RM having Graverson and Pablo Garcia from 2004-06 without Makelele. Is it endorsing Makelele should have won BDR for three years straight?

Let's not forget Pep tried to show his genius side playing without any DM in 2021 CL final and became a laughing stock for it 90 mins later.

 

City midfield yesterday was KDB, Gundogan and Silva. Two mid 30 guys on their last legs and Silva who has mostly played mostly RW for them and is no spring chicken either.

If we had that midfield, I'd expect us to lose most La Liga away games even with a GK like Courtois. Nunes, Philips signings didn't work out and they probably should have spent big on a world class CM instead of Grealish.