Men's Football UEFA European Champions League 2024 - 2025

[hckošice 14,822]

6 minutes ago, Roamingrover86 said:

Wow Slovan Bratislava are through to the Group/league phase of the Champions league @hckošice is that a first for a Slovak club? 

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[copravolley 261]

This is a golden time for Slovak football. Great Euro 2024 and now Slovan Bratislava in the CL.

[copravolley 261]

5 minutes ago, hckošice said:

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Petrzalka was a big sensation. I remember reading an article about them at the time. Even in Bratislava itself it was never a popular club, where Slovan reigns supreme.

[Pavlo 141]

Now Slovan can buy all Slovakian players 😉, congrats. 

[kungshamra71 892]

13 hours ago, hckošice said:

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I remember the Porto defeat to this day, with Artmedia (which everyone would call "Artmerdia", that looks like portuguese word for crap - merda - in order to make fun of Porto fans after the defeat ), that was quite a surprise haha

[Federer91 2,793]

The new draw and format of the CL was interesting, though i feel some teams got an easier draw, than others. 

[heywoodu 15,135]

On 8/29/2024 at 7:50 PM, Federer91 said:

The new draw and format of the CL was interesting, though i feel some teams got an easier draw, than others. 

There's no avoiding that, this system is inherently unfair and presumably designed to be so. You can't seriously make a decent league ranking in which teams don't all play against the same teams, that's just....not possible, at all. It's even worse than the 'best numbers 3' you see in some sports and tournaments.

 

I genuinely wonder how they think this is going to be positive. Well, ok, in some way it will probably bring in more money, otherwise they would of course not have come up with it.

 

Edit: to make matters worse, I see Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are the match days now? Ok, there is the answer for the move to this weird format, but that sucks, goodbye any kind of attention for Europa League and Conference League  

Edited September 1 by heywoodu

[Federer91 2,793]

30 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There's no avoiding that, this system is inherently unfair and presumably designed to be so. You can't seriously make a decent league ranking in which teams don't all play against the same teams, that's just....not possible, at all. It's even worse than the 'best numbers 3' you see in some sports and tournaments.

 

I genuinely wonder how they think this is going to be positive. Well, ok, in some way it will probably bring in more money, otherwise they would of course not have come up with it.

 

Edit: to make matters worse, I see Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are the match days now? Ok, there is the answer for the move to this weird format, but that sucks, goodbye any kind of attention for Europa League and Conference League  

Only matchday 1 has matches on Thursday and we don't have Europa League that night. The start of the EL is the week after.

[heywoodu 15,135]

4 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Only matchday 1 has matches on Thursday and we don't have Europa League that night. The start of the EL is the week after.

Alright, that's good at least, it'd be super weird to have Champions League, Europa League and Conference League all on the same day (and awful for the latter two).

 

The overall format remains godawful though, but let's see how it goes. It's not like we'll go back to regular group stages anymore now that this genie is out of the bottle.

Edited September 1 by heywoodu

[Ted 140]

35 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

There's no avoiding that, this system is inherently unfair and presumably designed to be so. You can't seriously make a decent league ranking in which teams don't all play against the same teams, that's just....not possible, at all. It's even worse than the 'best numbers 3' you see in some sports and tournaments.

 

I genuinely wonder how they think this is going to be positive. Well, ok, in some way it will probably bring in more money, otherwise they would of course not have come up with it.

 

Edit: to make matters worse, I see Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are the match days now? Ok, there is the answer for the move to this weird format, but that sucks, goodbye any kind of attention for Europa League and Conference League  

The main rationale behind the format change is reducing the number of uninteresting/unimportant matches and avoiding "rigging" results and fixing matches, which will obviously never happen.