Going to be a helluva lot of fun no matter how it shakes out.PSG & Napoli. Not great but not the worst, no Inter either
Away tie won't be fun but the quality gap is so severe that I don't imagine they'll pose many problemsI can't imagine any team wants to make the trip to Serbia.
I like you. Also, it's unclear whether early pretty boy Ramos or current Degeneration X Ramos' face is more punchable. I think it's the former because he was still a scumbag but had a more innocent look about him, whereas now his dipshit look matches his dipshit dirty play.Fuck Ramos.
In honor of Dempsey's retirement, here's Sergio looking like an idiot.
Fox doesn't have Champions League rights anymore.Now I have the Herd with not colin cowherd on FS1 (after having to watch even without sound Shannon and Skip which made me want to gouge my eyes out.) Am I doing something wrong? Eff it I can't find it and I have to go. Enjoy the draw everyone.
UEFA club rankings are almost entirely based on results over the last five seasons, so it can underrate clubs like Liverpool a bit because they've missed Europe twice in that time frame and overrate clubs whose league opposition makes it easy to qualify for Europe every time like Basel (solid club, not the 18th best in Europe).Average club rankings by group:
A: 39.8 (Three top 30ish teams, plus Brugge)
B: 11.8
C: 32.8 (Three top 10ish teams plus Red Star)
D: 78.3 (Come on, it's gonna be Schalke and Porto here)
E: 64.5
F: 15.5 (All teams in top 30)
G: 29.3
H: 37.8 (Three top 20ish teams plus Young Boys)
Pot 1 contains all champions, so Champions League winner, Europa winner, and winner of top 6 domestic leagues.Out of curiosity, how does Lokomotiv Moscow end up in Pot 1? It’s like UEFA’s version of the Sesame Street “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong."
Pot 1 contains domestic champions. It’s a relatively recent change and imo it has been for the better. The old system of using rolling past x years results created a bunch of weird outcomes where the league champion would be in pot 2 or 3 while others from same league would crowd pot 1. This gives a clear bonus to winning your domestic competition and spreads teams out more evenly so more group permutations are possibleOut of curiosity, how does Lokomotiv Moscow end up in Pot 1? It’s like UEFA’s version of the Sesame Street “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong."
I wonder how average Club Elo Ratings would do at expressing the relative group difficulties.UEFA club rankings are almost entirely based on results over the last five seasons, so it can underrate clubs like Liverpool a bit because they've missed Europe twice in that time frame and overrate clubs whose league opposition makes it easy to qualify for Europe every time like Basel (solid club, not the 18th best in Europe).
Yes, absolutely. With the current format, the Group of Life should be renamed to "Group of Russian Champion"I wonder how average Club Elo Ratings would do at expressing the relative group difficulties.
Any way you slice it, Group D is the Group of Life out of the bunch.