This new format really takes away the excitement (of both the draw and the actual games)
Disagree - ready to move away from Man City playing the kids in their last two group games because they already qualified…
The draw is difficult to keep up with but the football should be better and once we get to the knockouts it’s the same anywah
They'll still get enough points to qualify early and rest players.
There is incentive to “win” the league and get a seed to avoid other strong teams in the early rounds of the knockouts.
If City play kids in the last game and lose, they hypothetically drop 2nd to 5th & they’ll have to play a top 4 team in the quarter final instead of a semi final.
I don't think teams will care once they know they've got enough points for the top 8.
This new format really takes away the excitement (of both the draw and the actual games)
Disagree - ready to move away from Man City playing the kids in their last two group games because they already qualified…
The draw is difficult to keep up with but the football should be better and once we get to the knockouts it’s the same anywah
They'll still get enough points to qualify early and rest players.
There is incentive to “win” the league and get a seed to avoid other strong teams in the early rounds of the knockouts.
If City play kids in the last game and lose, they hypothetically drop 2nd to 5th & they’ll have to play a top 4 team in the quarter final instead of a semi final.
I don't think teams will care once they know they've got enough points for the top 8.
I can see it for the top 4 but disagree about top 8. I guess we’ll see when we get to the last couple of rounds of games.
I think that the question of incentive is there for mid table teams. Where’s the incentive to finish 10th rather than 20th? They should have the play offs so that the teams in 9th to 16th play at home in a one leg affair.
Here’s all the Pot 1 v Pot 1 games… (ie the extra games that UEFA and the TV broadcasters will love because they wouldn’t have been possible under the old format)
Real Madrid v Dortmund Dortmund v Barcelona Barcelona v Bayern Munich Bayern Munich v PSG PSG v Man City Man City v Inter Inter v Leipzig Leipzig v Liverpool Liverpool v Real Madrid
Here’s all the Pot 1 v Pot 1 games… (ie the extra games that UEFA and the TV broadcasters will love because they wouldn’t have been possible under the old format)
Real Madrid v Dortmund Dortmund v Barcelona Barcelona v Bayern Munich Bayern Munich v PSG PSG v Man City Man City v Inter Inter v Leipzig Leipzig v Liverpool Liverpool v Real Madrid
Arguably getting top spot ot top two could come down to these fixtures. I think Man City have it easier than Real Madrid, don’t they? I don’t have too much of an opinion on the merits of these teams. I’m hoping for that to change now BBC have rights.
Here’s all the Pot 1 v Pot 1 games… (ie the extra games that UEFA and the TV broadcasters will love because they wouldn’t have been possible under the old format)
Real Madrid v Dortmund Dortmund v Barcelona Barcelona v Bayern Munich Bayern Munich v PSG PSG v Man City Man City v Inter Inter v Leipzig Leipzig v Liverpool Liverpool v Real Madrid
Arguably getting top spot ot top two could come down to these fixtures. I think Man City have it easier than Real Madrid, don’t they? I don’t have too much of an opinion on the merits of these teams. I’m hoping for that to change now BBC have rights.
But you only need to be top 8.
There's not much chance that either City or Madrid will fail to get that.
The amount clubs can charge for away tickets in Europe's three men's club competitions will be reduced this season, Uefa has announced.
Champions League games will be capped at 60 euros (£50.55), with 40 euros (£33.70) the maximum for the Europa League and just 20 euros (£16.85) for the Conference League.
Next season the Champions League figure will drop to 50 euros (£42.12) with 35 euros (£29.48) for the Europa League.
These caps only apply to visiting fans, not home supporters.
Juventus v PSV (5:45 kick off) Young Boys v Aston Villa (5:45 kick off) Bayern Munich v Dinamo Zagreb (8:00 kick off) AC Milan v Liverpool (8:00 kick off) Real Madrid v Stuttgart (8:00 kick off) Sporting Lisbon v Lille (8:00 kick off)
Tomorrow and Thurs games:
Bologna v Shakhtar Sparta Prague v Salzburg Celtic v Slovan Bratislava Club Brugge v Dortmund Man City v Inter PSG v Girona
Red Star Belgrade v Benfica Feyenoord v Leverkusen Monaco v Barcelona Atalanta v Arsenal Atletico Madrid v Leipzig Brest v Sturm Graz
Wait there are Champions League games on a Thursday now?
When are Europa and Conference League games, are they not creating a clash and harming their own "minor" competitions?
I think they are doing it in alternating weeks now
UEFA originally wanted the group stage to be 10 games each rather than 8.
They accounted for that in the scheduling originally but now have more weeks than they need. So instead they’re doing a couple of weeks where it’s only Champions League, Europa League or Conference League to say they are “showcasing” the smaller competitions.
Most weeks I am guessing they squeeze the Champions League back to Tue/Wed as per previous seasons.
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to the PSG fixtures:
Seems a bit rough considering PSG were in pot 1 and Arsenal pot 2
Recap of the games involving British teams…
Man City home games: Inter, Brugge, Feyenoord, Sparta Prague
Man City away games: PSG, Juventus, Sporting, Slovan Bratislava
Liverpool home games: Real Madrid, Leverkusen, Lille, Bologna
Liverpool away games: Leipzig, Milan, PSV, Girona
Arsenal home games: PSG, Shakhtar, Dinamo Zagreb, Monaco
Arsenal away games: Inter, Atalanta, Sporting, Girona
Aston Villa home games: Bayern Munich, Juventus, Celtic, Bologna
Aston Villa away games: Leipzig, Brugge, Young Boys, Monaco
Celtic home games: Leipzig, Brugge, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava
Celtic away games: Dortmund, Atalanta, Dinamo Zagreb, Aston Villa
Real Madrid v Dortmund
Dortmund v Barcelona
Barcelona v Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich v PSG
PSG v Man City
Man City v Inter
Inter v Leipzig
Leipzig v Liverpool
Liverpool v Real Madrid
I don’t have too much of an opinion on the merits of these teams. I’m hoping for that to change now BBC have rights.
There's not much chance that either City or Madrid will fail to get that.
Whoops...
UEFA actually doing something good........
The amount clubs can charge for away tickets in Europe's three men's club competitions will be reduced this season, Uefa has announced.
Champions League games will be capped at 60 euros (£50.55), with 40 euros (£33.70) the maximum for the Europa League and just 20 euros (£16.85) for the Conference League.
Next season the Champions League figure will drop to 50 euros (£42.12) with 35 euros (£29.48) for the Europa League.
These caps only apply to visiting fans, not home supporters.
Juventus v PSV (5:45 kick off)
Young Boys v Aston Villa (5:45 kick off)
Bayern Munich v Dinamo Zagreb (8:00 kick off)
AC Milan v Liverpool (8:00 kick off)
Real Madrid v Stuttgart (8:00 kick off)
Sporting Lisbon v Lille (8:00 kick off)
Tomorrow and Thurs games:
Bologna v Shakhtar
Sparta Prague v Salzburg
Celtic v Slovan Bratislava
Club Brugge v Dortmund
Man City v Inter
PSG v Girona
Red Star Belgrade v Benfica
Feyenoord v Leverkusen
Monaco v Barcelona
Atalanta v Arsenal
Atletico Madrid v Leipzig
Brest v Sturm Graz
When are Europa and Conference League games, are they not creating a clash and harming their own "minor" competitions?
Conference League they dont seem to care about lol!
They accounted for that in the scheduling originally but now have more weeks than they need. So instead they’re doing a couple of weeks where it’s only Champions League, Europa League or Conference League to say they are “showcasing” the smaller competitions.
Most weeks I am guessing they squeeze the Champions League back to Tue/Wed as per previous seasons.
UCL round 2: 1/10 & 2/10
UCL round 3: 22/10 & 23/10
UCL round 4: 5/11 & 6/11
UCL round 5: 26/11 & 27/11
UCL round 6: 10/12 & 11/12
UCL round 7: 21/1 & 22/1
UCL round 8: 29/1