[Football] Big clubs playing their B team in Europe

[trueblue]

Seems worse to me. The first 6 rounds of matches are fairly pointless from a neutral perspective. Even Villa beating Bayern. Exciting for them, big shrug for everyone else. Lose and you still have seven lives in hand.

Destined to become a Carabao Cup-alike in this phase.

Imagine we were in the UEL with 8 random games. Probably need to win 3. The spread of clubs means you can target the lower quality fixtures. Almost guaranteed to be 2-3 games that barely matter. I’m not even sure we’d have a full stadium for some home matches under this format, which is crazy for what should be the pinnacle.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

To be fair this year it’s a shambles, this massive league thing is a disgrace

Agree.

First time in living memory my mate, with whom I watch telly football, couldn't be arsed to tune in yesterday. And I couldn't be arsed to listen to the commentary on R5.

Still, I am sure the Palmiera (or whatever pub it is) was packed for the Arsenal game. Which is, apparently, what its all about.

 

[Hotchilidog]

This league stage is passing me by completely, it's nonsense

 

[Munkfish]

I’m not so sure. You might have a few teams fighting out for the top bracket trying to automatically qualify and a few teams trying to get into the next bracket who have a play off game.

It also stops champs league teams dropping to the Europa and so on.

I don’t think it’s perfect. But happy to see it play out before being overally critical that it’s just change for the sake of it and more money.

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.