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It'll be interesting to see what Leeds are like today. Apparently Marsch is an attacking/high pressing coach like Bielsa but he uses the Red Bull zonal pressing system unlike Bielsa's man to man pressing which is a bigger change than some people might be expecting. I think they kind of need to make the change away from Bielsa's man to man system because teams were starting to prey on it but I don't know how effectively Marsch will be able to make the change with not much time to bed it in.

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On 3/3/2022 at 10:29 PM, Consigliere said:

This new CL format is going to further congest and already congested fixture list.

For those who haven't seen the format:

  • 36 teams in total (up from the current 32)
  • group stage replaced by one big league table where each team plays 10 games in the first phase (5 home and 5 away) and all against different teams.
  • the top 8 sides in the league phase qualifies automatically for the last 16
  • the 9th to 24th placed teams will play in a two legged knockout for their place in the last 16.

The new format comes into effect from the 2024/2025 season and adds an additional 100 games to the tournament.

Sounds needlessly convoluted. 

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On 3/3/2022 at 2:29 PM, Consigliere said:

This new CL format is going to further congest and already congested fixture list.

For those who haven't seen the format:

  • 36 teams in total (up from the current 32)
  • group stage replaced by one big league table where each team plays 10 games in the first phase (5 home and 5 away) and all against different teams.
  • the top 8 sides in the league phase qualifies automatically for the last 16
  • the 9th to 24th placed teams will play in a two legged knockout for their place in the last 16.

The new format comes into effect from the 2024/2025 season and adds an additional 100 games to the tournament.

Ridiculous!

For the 10 game series is there a random draw or an established pattern based on rankings and seeding teams?

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34 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said:

Ridiculous!

For the 10 game series is there a random draw or an established pattern based on rankings and seeding teams?

From what ive read the fixtures will be determined by seeding based on UEFA coefficients. It's going to be similar to the 'Swiss model' that's used in chess.

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42 minutes ago, Consigliere said:

From what ive read the fixtures will be determined by seeding based on UEFA coefficients. It's going to be similar to the 'Swiss model' that's used in chess.

?

That doesn't make any sense.

In the Swiss Tournaments teams with similar points get paired to play the next games. WTF is that clusterfuck they've come up with?

Either way, just home from a stadium visit (first time in 2022). 3-1 victory, but boy, I sometimes hate supporting a politically conscious club. The pre-match song collection...

 

Exhibit A

exhibit B

Exhibit C (the horror)

Exhibit D (ok that one is actually ok)

and of course the obligatory Exhibit E

 

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