Champions League - New Format?

[Mike]

Champions League - New Format?

Now its underway, whats the members take on this seasons new format ?

Seems to be working well from here...

Current standings via

https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/standings/

[Happy Feet]

Personally I think it's a back door route to the very much hated European Champions League, but great if your a Liverpool fan . Just look at the bottom of the league table and the difference is quite alarming, & proves that some of these teams need to be in a division 2 , which would allow for a promotion & relegation system, not a closed shop . But anything would be better than the " Inconvenient Thursday Night League's " Thursday, Sunday etc,etc. You've only got to look at the very poor Premier League positions of past teams involved in it , including relegation to the Championship in a few cases.

As a football fan who watches most football across all Leagues on TV , it's Ok but if Bolton are on Sky sports+ 

 

[Shinehead]

Just more over saturation of football, more games never make anything better usually the opposite, players run in to the ground by club and country, I know they are well paid and molly coddled but they are also performers and entertainers which leads to a poorer spectacle for all concerned in the long run.

Less is better in my opinion and not all these bloated Uefa competitions.

 

 

[Kev Cane]

1 hour ago, Mike said:

Champions League - New Format?

Now its underway, whats the members take on this seasons new format ?

Seems to be working well from here...

Current standings via

https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/standings/

I like it, the traditional group stages were 90% predictable with who was going into the next round, some very sterile games in the making, with this format, you need to win games from the get go to go through to avoid the lottery of a one off 2 legged play off 

Kev

[Chalky]

As Kev says the previous format was far too predictable with far too many games no having to matter. The new format has proved far more exciting for the fans with every game seems to matter.  A lot of goals too. Real used to simply cost through to their group games, they can’t do that now and are only just in the play off positions, PSG are out as it stands. Only three teams not got a point. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Chalky