Considering we have been knocked out by zagreb and gent (who are in the comp) in recent years, I don't share the 80-20 optimism. Teams like Rennes, Union Berlin (who had a great season), Trabzonspor, Feyenoord, Copenhagen, Rubin Kazan will be tough to break.Basically Roma is the only club we wouldn't be considered at least 80-20 favourites against in the whole tournament. This is incredibly winnable...
Basically Roma is the only club we wouldn't be considered at least 80-20 favourites against in the whole tournament. This is incredibly winnable...
So who replaces villerael?
It will go to another country, not sure whichSo who replaces villerael?
You mean this oneAt least the final is being held at a historic stadium
"Each group stage victory (in the ECL) will be worth €500,000, with a draw seeing a club earn €166,000. Finishing top of the group sees a club pocket €650,000, and second place €325,000".
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Considering we have been knocked out by zagreb and gent (who are in the comp) in recent years, I don't share the 80-20 optimism. Teams like Rennes, Union Berlin (who had a great season), Trabzonspor, Feyenoord, Copenhagen, Rubin Kazan will be tough to break.
Have to take this seriously for the sake of our coefficient
Remember reading something recently about how Redknapp not taking the europa league seriously and failing in group stage has implications if we ever qualify for the cl in future under the new model uefa have proposed
Have to take this seriously for the sake of our coefficient
Remember reading something recently about how Redknapp not taking the europa league seriously and failing in group stage has implications if we ever qualify for the cl in future under the new model uefa have proposed
Indeed. At one stage they were talking about using the 10-year coefficient, but they've settled on the 5-year one. So European performances from 2018-2023 or 2019-2024 (not yet clear if it's on a one year delay or not) will be used to determine two places in the CL for the 24-25 season. Does still mean the coefficient is extremely important because of the 5-year long impact - for instance, Arsenal's failure to qualify this year means barring some exceptional performances (multiple runs to finals) they won't be able to qualify through this route until the 21-22 season isn't recent enough to count any more.agree we need to take the conference league seriously for the coefficient and future champions league chance.
fortunately, the coefficient only counts the performance of last 5 seasons, so the damage of Redknapp not taking europa cup seriously was gone already.
Does it matter even if it were? We finished 7th by beating Leicester on the final day that left Chelsea in 4th regardless. We're in the Europa conference league. Let's just do what we can control and that's win our own football matches.Is it true that if Chelsea finished 5th having won CL, then 7th would have been europa league rather than conference?
you are probably right.Is it true that if Chelsea finished 5th having won CL, then 7th would have been europa league rather than conference?
This is my concern. We are more talented than every or nearly every team in the competition. But, we've shown in the Europa League that an organized, hungry, and hard-working team can beat us when we don't care to turn up. Since this competition is even less prestigious than the Europa League, are our players gonna be motivated to actually show up and work to break down a stubborn team? If they do, we should go far; but if they think Gent, Union Berlin, Zagreb, etc. are beneath them, then we'll have an ignominious exit in the early knockout rounds again.