Ric Flair Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 43 minutes ago, jonthefox said: A 100 million release clause. Pretty insane for a Romanian side. Haha has he? Crazy
StanSP Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 Playoff round draw is today. Third qualifying round takes places next week. Spurs could end up playing Rangers in the playoffs.
purpleronnie Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 32 minutes ago, StanSP said: Playoff round draw is today. Third qualifying round takes places next week. Spurs could end up playing Rangers in the playoffs. Spurs would be thankful it'll be behind closed doors.
Aus Fox Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 11 minutes ago, lanefox said: Can we still get in pot 2? yes, just need a few qualifiers to go in our favour.
RonnieTodger Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 Europa League is great. Absolute basket case tournament. 1
RutlanderFox Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 I think we still have a minute chance of getting into pot 1. There are enough teams ranked above us whose fate is TBD who could in theory lose. Extremely unlikely that enough of them will though. Pot 3 seems the most likely place for us
Popular Post RonnieTodger Posted 18 September 2020 Popular Post Posted 18 September 2020 Celtic avoid Ludogorets and Red Star. Bullet dodged by going to Sarajevo, unlike Archduke Franz Ferdinand lmao 5
CosbehFox Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 5 hours ago, Ric Flair said: Hahaha insane stuff. Dennis Man got a hattrick for Bucharest, a player I'd have liked us to look at but it seems Ünder is pretty much done. Weren’t Norwich all but signed him?
Aus Fox Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 1 hour ago, RutlanderFox said: I think we still have a minute chance of getting into pot 1. There are enough teams ranked above us whose fate is TBD who could in theory lose. Extremely unlikely that enough of them will though. Pot 3 seems the most likely place for us Unfortunately not, there are already 12 teams certain to be ahead of us and fill out pot 1. - Games links Dynamo Kiev vs Gent will have a loser, who will go into the Europa League Group stage, both of whom have a better ranking than us. 1
NewEnglandFox Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 The draw avoided the carnage I had been hyping up. No one above us drew each other. Only Qarabag (21) and Legia Warsaw (17) ran into each other which opens the door for Cluj. On the main path side it sets up Besitkas/Milan, Rangers/Galataseray, Granada/Malmo, AEK/Wolfsburg, FCSB/APOEL. The projection hasn't been updated to say Cluj in/Warsaw out. 1
Ric Flair Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 7 hours ago, Cardiff_Fox said: Weren’t Norwich all but signed him? They wanted him but Bucharest's owner is nuts and demanded 15m euros for him.
NewEnglandFox Posted 18 September 2020 Posted 18 September 2020 Relevant until next thursday's 3rd round qualifier knockouts. The champions League ties are 2 legged so nothing will be certain yet. As I said earlier, the only change that today's draw made was Cluj in/Warsaw out Purple: qualified for Group Stage Green: qualifies through europa main path playoff yellow: qualifies by losing in champions league playoff nothing: qualifies through europa champions path playoff https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedel2020.html 3
Popular Post Manwell Pablo Posted 19 September 2020 Popular Post Posted 19 September 2020 13 hours ago, lanefox said: Can we still get in pot 2? Doesn’t really matter. Outside of pot 1 it’s all just assorted dross anyway. Well, decent European teams but nothing a top half Premier League team should fear any degree more than the other. If we are going to do well It’s a waste of time chewing your finger nails over whether you get Braga or AZ in your group. Theres a few tasty teams in pot 4 as well. Difficulty will be massively determined by luck over seeding. Teams won’t be wanting to see our name drawn against them from pot 3 though should we remain there and that’s the important thing. 4 1
Lambert09 Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 5 hours ago, NewEnglandFox said: Relevant until next thursday's 3rd round qualifier knockouts. The champions League ties are 2 legged so nothing will be certain yet. As I said earlier, the only change that today's draw made was Cluj in/Warsaw out Purple: qualified for Group Stage Green: qualifies through europa main path playoff yellow: qualifies by losing in champions league playoff nothing: qualifies through europa champions path playoff https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedel2020.html Any chance you can explain what the difference between the main path and the champions path is? I want to follow all this but EL is so convoluted
NewEnglandFox Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 7 minutes ago, Lambert09 said: Any chance you can explain what the difference between the main path and the champions path is? I want to follow all this but EL is so convoluted I think Champions Path is exclusively made up of clubs that have already been eliminated from the Champions League. It's like double elimination. Lose once and you're in Europa, lose twice and you're out of European football entirely. 1
PhillippaT Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, NewEnglandFox said: I think Champions Path is exclusively made up of clubs that have already been eliminated from the Champions League. It's like double elimination. Lose once and you're in Europa, lose twice and you're out of European football entirely. You can drop down from the CL to EL in two ways, not just one: 6 Champions League play-off losing teams, and 3 Champions League third qualifying round losing teams One other thing to note: Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will not be introduced for the group phase, as was planned. It will still be used in the knockout stage, with introduction for the group stage in 2021/22. https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/025e-0fac7d3c463c-cd4fe1542272-1000--2020-21-uefa-europa-league-all-you-need-to-know/?iv=true Edited 19 September 2020 by PhillippaT
Webbo Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 What would people prefer, get to the final of this and finish 8th or knocked out early and finish 4th?
Ric Flair Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 1 minute ago, Webbo said: What would people prefer, get to the final of this and finish 8th or knocked out early and finish 4th? 8th and win it as just getting to the final doesn't get us CL.
Webbo Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 Just now, Ric Flair said: 8th and win it as just getting to the final doesn't get us CL. I get that but a final would probably be our last game of the season, we'd have to decide what to prioritise first. For me the chance of winning a European trophy would be worth the gamble. 1
Manwell Pablo Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 8 hours ago, NewEnglandFox said: I think Champions Path is exclusively made up of clubs that have already been eliminated from the Champions League. It's like double elimination. Lose once and you're in Europa, lose twice and you're out of European football entirely. Not quite it’s a bit more complicated. The Qualifers in the CL are split up in to two brackets, ones that are Champions of their leagues and ones who place high in better leagues. Known as “champions route” and “league route” and the two cannot play each other. If you lose a third round qualifier and you are through the “league” route you go straight into the group stage (AZ, Benfica, Rapid Vienna) If you lose your third round qualifier via the “champions” route, then you need to play a final qualifier, but those six teams can only draw each other in the last play off round. Hence why they have been highlighted a different colour. Thats my understanding of it anyway. I can’t guarantee it’s 100% accurate 😂
Popular Post RonnieTodger Posted 19 September 2020 Popular Post Posted 19 September 2020 15 minutes ago, Webbo said: What would people prefer, get to the final of this and finish 8th or knocked out early and finish 4th? Get to the final and finish 8th 100% Leicester in a European final 17
Manwell Pablo Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 15 hours ago, NewEnglandFox said: Relevant until next thursday's 3rd round qualifier knockouts. The champions League ties are 2 legged so nothing will be certain yet. As I said earlier, the only change that today's draw made was Cluj in/Warsaw out Purple: qualified for Group Stage Green: qualifies through europa main path playoff yellow: qualifies by losing in champions league playoff nothing: qualifies through europa champions path playoff https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedel2020.html Swear you are missing numerous potential qualifiers in there, some of which will be above us coefficient wise, where are Olympiacos?
NewEnglandFox Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 1 hour ago, Manwell Pablo said: Swear you are missing numerous potential qualifiers in there, some of which will be above us coefficient wise, where are Olympiacos? Olypiacos are 43 but they have to lose over 2 legs to Omonia to fall into Europa. The tie is represented in the model by Omonia. The 6 champions league playoff ties lose their way to Europa so the model shows the lower coefficient.
Guest Bilo Posted 19 September 2020 Posted 19 September 2020 2 hours ago, Webbo said: I get that but a final would probably be our last game of the season, we'd have to decide what to prioritise first. For me the chance of winning a European trophy would be worth the gamble. If we win the EL, we go into the 21-22 CL as seeds. Absolutely worth the gamble if we get there.
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