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Assuming Liverpool qualify Sunday, would you not prefer their easier run and a final against Real Madrid.
I must admit, I can go to the game and get absolutely smashed not having to worry about the result. I will be honest and I won't miss Wembley one bit. It did it's job but it's just not right.
Makes our achievement so much sweeter knowing that we beat Woolwich and Chelsea to top 4 without having our own ground.
Looking forward to the occasion but won't be shedding a tear like the last home game of last season.
You’re assuming. They are down to the last day and still not sure of qualification.
And the fact is you have to play & beat the best to win the CL at some point. As much as I loathe the dippers, they swept City aside & beat a very competent Roma team. I don’t think that was because they had an easy group.
It makes no sense to talk about teams to face in the Champions League. The league has so many matches so mistakes and great performances go into compensation. You can recover the bad day.
The Champions is like Russian roulette. The groups give you a small margin but then it is fate.
A team you meet in October is not the same as you meet in March. Change your fitness, your fitness, injuries, energy spent in the league, if you have difficult games close together, disqualifications.
When you get to the bottom it seems to be in a video game.
For example, Russian teams are difficult to meet in September (they are ahead in preparation) and easy in February (break or end of season). Then there is the January market. Maybe in December a team is drawn and then in February the matches changed to better or worse.
The only thing is to pass the group, the rest is a roulette in which a free kick, a play can decide the future of the competition: surely, sometimes it is better to look after the peacock. In the Champions League you get to the bottom when you never give up for any reason.
Then if you delete the Besiktas or Barcelona (nice scalp, good!) the important thing is that you are there.
The Champions is like Russian roulette. The groups give you a small margin but then it is fate.
A team you meet in October is not the same as you meet in March. Change your fitness, your fitness, injuries, energy spent in the league, if you have difficult games close together, disqualifications.
When you get to the bottom it seems to be in a video game.
For example, Russian teams are difficult to meet in September (they are ahead in preparation) and easy in February (break or end of season). Then there is the January market. Maybe in December a team is drawn and then in February the matches changed to better or worse.
The only thing is to pass the group, the rest is a roulette in which a free kick, a play can decide the future of the competition: surely, sometimes it is better to look after the peacock. In the Champions League you get to the bottom when you never give up for any reason.
Then if you delete the Besiktas or Barcelona (nice scalp, good!) the important thing is that you are there.
About time we played either Barca and Bayern. Purely due to fact we haven’t drawn them over the past 3 comps.
And I wonder now how the players feel about not winning a domestic cup.
What’s bigger?? that feeling of euphoria you get on the day of being in a final and winning. Walking out at Wembley on a sunny day in May. The big build up to an FA Cup final against the mid season league cup.
Or the 6 guaranteed European nights and then possibly 2-4-6-more games against the best teams and players in Europe?
The chance to compete with Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar...... Paulinho!!!
Walking out at the Bernabau, san Siro, seeing the Yellow Wall, going to Juve’s new stadium.......Those must be great trips as a player.
Each season you miss out on that must hurt once you have tasted it.
Know which Levy and Poch prefer and would choose if they had to, would love to know how the players really feel about it all.
And I wonder now how the players feel about not winning a domestic cup.
What’s bigger?? that feeling of euphoria you get on the day of being in a final and winning. Walking out at Wembley on a sunny day in May. The big build up to an FA Cup final against the mid season league cup.
Or the 6 guaranteed European nights and then possibly 2-4-6-more games against the best teams and players in Europe?
The chance to compete with Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar...... Paulinho!!!
Walking out at the Bernabau, san Siro, seeing the Yellow Wall, going to Juve’s new stadium.......Those must be great trips as a player.
Each season you miss out on that must hurt once you have tasted it.
Know which Levy and Poch prefer and would choose if they had to, would love to know how the players really feel about it all.
Just a little nugget here, a little extra reason to support Real to beat Liverpool...
"Liverpool: If Benfica manages to survive, the next chance for Spurs is for Liverpool to lose the UCL Final, plain and simple. A win by the Reds puts them in Pot 1 instead of Pot 4 if they qualify via the Premier League standings."
If Real win the final, Spurs will be in Pot 2 for next year's group stage draw.
"Liverpool: If Benfica manages to survive, the next chance for Spurs is for Liverpool to lose the UCL Final, plain and simple. A win by the Reds puts them in Pot 1 instead of Pot 4 if they qualify via the Premier League standings."
If Real win the final, Spurs will be in Pot 2 for next year's group stage draw.
LFC to finish 4th and lose then please footballing gods. I've officially changed my mind over who I want to finish 4.
Far cry from the days we were checking to see if we came top of the European fair play league to scrape a place on the UEFA Cup qualifying rounds.
I remember those days! Desperate desperate times!
Then when we finally reached the UEFA cup, that qualifier in prague - amazing scenes!
Dortmund, one of the teams that are above us in coefficient ranking could miss out on CL next season if they lose to Hoffenheim today and Leverkusen win their game against 13th place Hannover with nothing to play for.
German Bundesliga Table - Football - BBC Sport
German Bundesliga Table - Football - BBC Sport
It's looks very unlikely. Hoffenheim have to win by 2 goals margin and Leverkusen by 4 or more
I think our absolute best chance is if Sporting beat Maritimo tomorrow, that gets the job done alone.
How did we manage to find ourselves below the likes of Zenith and Benfica in the ranking:avbfacepalm:
The punishment of disrespecting the Europa league I guess:avbshock:
Benfica are pretty much guaranteed European football every season. If they survive in CL they get to play EL.
Guess it’s just purely down to amount of games they have played?
I don’t know how the co-efficient works tbh, mathematical lunacy involved I’m guessing
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Not sure why being below Benfica is confusing. They've pretty qualified for Europe every year in their history. Got to two finals recently too (and lost both).
Imagine the whining from self pity city if that happens.
"But we've won it 5 timessssssssss..errrr history...errrrrrrrrrr spurssssssssssssss"
ps: assuming that scenario applies only if we hold 3rd place?
UEFA coefficient - WikipediaBenfica are pretty much guaranteed European football every season. If they survive in CL they get to play EL.
Guess it’s just purely down to amount of games they have played?
I don’t know how the co-efficient works tbh, mathematical lunacy involved I’m guessing
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We would have been few places higher had we taken Europa more seriously over the last 5 years.
Beat us in the European Cup semi final 1962. Does that still count?
Way simpler than people think really. 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 1 point per round reached from QFs onwards, 4 points for CL group stage and 5 points for CL knockouts. Then just some consolation points for going out in qualifying for clubs from smaller nations. So the main reason Benfica and Zenit are ahead of us is that they regularly get the bonus points for being in the CL and sometimes get the bonus points for being in the CL knockouts too.Benfica are pretty much guaranteed European football every season. If they survive in CL they get to play EL.
Guess it’s just purely down to amount of games they have played?
I don’t know how the co-efficient works tbh, mathematical lunacy involved I’m guessing
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If you want some mathematical lunacy go check out the revenue distribution algorithms
