At a time when some events prohibit phones to ensure the audience properly involve the experience, the new imagined success Champions League The format was taken instead by an image Aston Villa Club BROGGE players gathered around many devices that examine themes in Barcelona and Zagreb to see if they have achieved the first eight and plays, respectively.
Wednesday’s viewer at Villa Park and Al -Ittihad Stadium had a clear charm. Here was a modern development on the transistor radio devices that are kept in one ear, where the countries that are transferred by an oral word followed by chants, curses, progress or disposal are passed. This was presented as a welcome modernity, which was not happening in the group stage that was replaced by the stage. All cold periodic stage!
A large -scale positive reception for the new formula that calls for the mind Harry Lyme immortal line in the third man. “In Switzerland, they had a brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that led? The hour of cucking.” Maybe Lim was not crowded if he knew about the Swiss model, as it is known that the coordination of the new Champions League.
But regardless of the provision of more money to the clubs, more games to broadcasters and more revenues for themselves, did the comprehensive reform of UEFA?
There were some wonderful stories during the league stage, from the excessive night and Brist Manchester CityUndoubted psychological. Lille, for example, lost their coach Paulo Fonseca Milan In the summer and sold the best young player, Liny EuroTo Manchester United. They needed to go through two preliminary rounds, as they canceled Jose Mourinho Vinhurhs, just to make the league stage.
When Robin Amorem was overpowered on the night of the opening of the Swiss style, most people had distributed the side of Lisbon, not a night to be gatecraers in the first eight. However, no. She wore a night to hit the heroes real madridThen the neighbors Atletico. And they directed with them Juventus And only lost to Liverpool After descending to 10 men.
Remy Kabella celebrates with Naglauel Mochaa in the role of the night of Thms Finuord 6-1 on Wednesday (Rico Brooer/Socrax/Getty Pictures)
But previous versions of the Champions League did not lack stories like Lilis, so it is difficult to attribute them to the new coordination.
Brest may have benefited from playing eight games and eight different opponents instead of six other clubs, as was the case in the previous seasons. It was the case long now, but the momentum to qualify them to the upcoming qualifying round came from a light introduction to the elite club competition in Europe.
To the neutral, their equipment felt a lower champions and more of the Austrian Austrian League or the Metroa Cup in the first months, where they won Bayer Leverkusen To a draw before overcoming Sparta in Prague. It was an intimate story, even if the Brest’s Cindereella story was somewhat similar to that Cinders is a dating app with the best possible algorithm to help her find it happy yet.
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Their trumpet was the second best new addition to the Champions League. The other was the tannal word on the last night.
With the competition clash for the first time with the winter transfer window, an idea risk It has been involved in a circular way as the best new signature in the Champions League, a possibility that is able to attract more attention from the usual stars team. However, do not make a mistake, a lot of smoke and mirrors were used here.
Part of the danger came from the loss of the first eight.
Atalanta Milan fell on Wednesday. Punishment for them? Two other matches in their schedule in the matching matches. Is this a punishment? Club fans tend to want to see them as possible, especially in the Champions League, so this does not seem to be a penalty. On the contrary, it can be explained as a reward by anyone regardless of the coach and players who have to factors in more effort, preparation and crowding.
Yunus Moussa sees Al -Ahmar in Zagreb and Milan are beaten – and their condemnation played two other games (Marko Lukunic/PixSell/MB Media/Getty Images)
At one end of the arrangement, Liverpool can send children to play PSV in Einhoven. On the other hand, nine teams were already eliminated before the final Gameweek. The largest part of the rest was sure of qualifying or almost sure of it, which means that the danger was to compete for the center in a large table that he felt as if watching the midfield in Indie 500.
As a viewer, it was difficult to continue and stay on the right track.
The true drama came from the random coordination introduction with one season in the 17 -year -old training of Pep Guardiola when his team swings. In the end, though, the extension of the opening stage of six to eight large clubs such as City, which left it at the last minute compared to Paris Saint -Germain and Real Madrid, allowed enough rope to get themselves out of trouble.
It is used to be 10 or 11 points, the standard to qualify from a group of six games. Despite 2013, it was not 12 points Napoli. This time, in the opening league stage, City, Sporting, and Club BRUGGE reached the match of 11 points from two additional matches. Less than more represents progress in some way.
In the city with a disaster, I left it late, and still reach the matching matches (Danehouse/Getty Images)
The tie sectors were not satisfactory, too.
While Bruges celebrated the defeat in Manchester, Dinamo Zagreb was cut off in Maximir. They overcame Milan, but they made a mistake in the qualifying qualifiers. This question raised: Is the goal teams a fair discrimination when you played a different group of matches, in the Dinamo case, the city, sports and zodiac?
The goals will not be a perfect solution as well, as not each team play at home and dimension.
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By playing eight different teams, there is more diversity, more curiosity and less similar. However, the new coordination cast another mystery: when is the league not a periodic? By not playing everyone, your club’s equipment can feel abstract and this abstraction may be like lifting the cap on the Pandora box. Because if the house is not and far away, does it matter where these games are played? Can it open the door to the UEFA Champions League equipment in New York and Rad?
We should never forget that the original sin of this change was the challenge that was put on the UEFA by the Premier League. The Swiss model is an open model. Not closed to enter. But it provides more revenues in clubs-and if not some as much as some believe that they will make it in a new competition-and operate the upscale round of 16 teams such as the safety network from cancellation that maintains the low elite in the competition instead from sending them to the bottom to less profit And more tired European League As in previous years.
So, as with the illusion of danger, the other trick here – a compromise, really – is that this is an approximate league format under the UEFA brand.
“Are you not fun?”
I will leave you with Aleksander Ceferin’s image, stained with the rebellion in the Premier League, and throw its sword on the cholemium gravel.
Is it a thumb, or thumb, or your fist is still urgently hovering in the air?
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(Upper Image: Michael Reagan – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)
