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[Football] Big clubs playing their B team in Europe



Guinness Boy

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A 4-1 win for Chelsea away, playing mostly reserves and with our ex 14 year old wonder kid on the bench,

Spurs making nine changes including a debut for Mikey Moore.

Don’t remember us doing that last season, or being able to. Did we qualify a season or two too early?
 




HangletonGull

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Guinness Boy said:
A 4-1 win for Chelsea away, playing mostly reserves and with our ex 14 year old wonder kid on the bench,

Spurs making nine changes including a debut for Mikey Moore.

Don’t remember us doing that last season, or being able to. Did we qualify a season or two too early?
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To be fair this year it’s a shambles, this massive league thing is a disgrace
 




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Munkfish

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HangletonGull said:
To be fair this year it’s a shambles, this massive league thing is a disgrace
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I don’t think it is. I was of the same opinion but the group stages always lead to a few dead rubber games. This should have a fair few teams fighting to the end for qualification. I personally think it will make things more exciting. The champions league is as pretty much pointless previously until the knockouts.
 






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BevBHA

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Don’t think it’s relevant to our European campaign. The European clubs pretty much always seem to play their best team in Europe as it’s the be all and end all no matter which of the 3 competitions they’re in.

For Spurs and Chelsea, the Europa league and conference leagues aren’t seen as big of deal as they are to us as anything less than Champions League they probably view as sub par, hence the rotated teams it’s most likely more important to focus on a strong league position, thus hopefully Champions League qualification, than it is focusing on these ‘second rate’ competitions
 










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Shaktarman

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HangletonGull said:
To be fair this year it’s a shambles, this massive league thing is a disgrace
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I was looking at the ‘table’ thing earlier - there’s pretty much guaranteed to be a large number of teams qualifying / missing out due to goal difference which is absolutely silly. Pointless change and just greed - there’s already too many games too.
 


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brighton_tom said:
Spurs resting their star players, so ready for sundays thrashing of crystal palace.
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Palace are going to struggle to rest players when they’re competing in Europe next season, which will hamper their title push
 






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Munkfish said:
I don’t think it is. I was of the same opinion but the group stages always lead to a few dead rubber games. This should have a fair few teams fighting to the end for qualification. I personally think it will make things more exciting. The champions league is as pretty much pointless previously until the knockouts.
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It will mean the opposite.

More games means less chance of jeopardy as well as the majority of teams going through to the next round.
 






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dsr-burnley

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36 teams are playing 144 games to eliminate 12 of them. It's bound to be boring. And teams will only need (per simulations) 9 points to qualify, from 8 games, so the richest clubs could play the reserves for all 8 games and still qualify with something to spare.
 










HangletonGull

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Munkfish said:
I don’t think it is. I was of the same opinion but the group stages always lead to a few dead rubber games. This should have a fair few teams fighting to the end for qualification. I personally think it will make things more exciting. The champions league is as pretty much pointless previously until the knockouts.
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Ok
 


Jim in the West

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dsr-burnley said:
36 teams are playing 144 games to eliminate 12 of them. It's bound to be boring. And teams will only need (per simulations) 9 points to qualify, from 8 games, so the richest clubs could play the reserves for all 8 games and still qualify with something to spare.
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I look at the ridiculous league table, then I think back to our amazing experiences last season - in a league of FOUR teams. Every match counted. The new format is dire. It may get exciting in a month or so, but there will be even more meaningless matches between teams who have both already qualified, so don’t hold your breath.
 


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