tomav84 Posted May 17 VT Supporter Share Posted May 17 15 hours ago, ferguson1 said: There was talk yesterday on a podcast that some Champions League games will be played on a Thursday as well next year due to the new format? I’m guessing due to TV rights etc, they can’t squeeze them all in over two days? Not sure if that talk has any truth to it though. this is correct, but for only 1 game week Quote The schedule of the competition is as follows.[9] Compared to past seasons, "exclusive week" will be introduced in which Thursday will also be a matchday.[2][10][11] All matches in other weeks will be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the final. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024–25_UEFA_Champions_League#Schedule 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 18 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said: Projected pots. We'd play 2 from each. I'd LOVE Bayern, Barca, Juve, Milan, Sporting, PSV, Monaco and Sturm Graz I think is a slight chance we could go to pot 3 as some of the teams above us have play offs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 25 minutes ago, Zatman said: I think is a slight chance we could go to pot 3 as some of the teams above us have play offs due to the new format it doesn't actually make any difference to us you still play 2 from each pot the difference it makes is to the teams that potentially play us, as in for a team in pot 2 we could be considered a tough team to avoid from pot 4, but regardless we still have to play a team from pot 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted May 17 VT Supporter Share Posted May 17 6 hours ago, Powehi said: Sorry, it was a quote from The Day Today I slept longer than I anticipated 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 those Leicester figures are wild too 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 7 minutes ago, The_Steve said: those Leicester figures are wild too Really shows how Utd and Spurs have underperformed by a very large margin too. Ratcliffe will be thinking how on earth do we do a Villa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaBrum Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 On 14/05/2024 at 22:39, tomav84 said: like, september. long time to wait yet Hope it's the 12th - my Birthday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stephen_Evans Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 5 hours ago, Zatman said: I think is a slight chance we could go to pot 3 as some of the teams above us have play offs You have to laugh that in UEFA-speak Celtic are better than Villa. They wouldn’t finish half way up our league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 5 hours ago, Zatman said: I think is a slight chance we could go to pot 3 as some of the teams above us have play offs The pots are irrelevant really. All teams play 2 teams from each pot. Basically people just don't want to draw us as we're a tough team for pot 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 2 minutes ago, CVByrne said: The pots are irrelevant really. All teams play 2 teams from each pot. Basically people just don't want to draw us as we're a tough team for pot 4 That is my understanding as well. But its left me wondering what the point of the seeding pots is? Do they have any bearing on anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaoDeMings Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 7 minutes ago, villaglint said: That is my understanding as well. But its left me wondering what the point of the seeding pots is? Do they have any bearing on anything? Suppose it just distributes the difficulty of matches. If it was random and unseeded you could theoretically have a top team playing a lot of 'easier' fixtures through a lucky draw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 24 minutes ago, CVByrne said: The pots are irrelevant really. All teams play 2 teams from each pot. Basically people just don't want to draw us as we're a tough team for pot 4 The draw for the first knockout rounds are seeded though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 1 hour ago, villaglint said: That is my understanding as well. But its left me wondering what the point of the seeding pots is? Do they have any bearing on anything? Well yes you play two teams from each pot. That's what they're for. It's not seeding to draw your group. You can still get a tough draw in those and play Madrid instead of Leipzig etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 51 minutes ago, LondonLax said: The draw for the first knockout rounds are seeded though. Based on where you come in the group. Not based on any pre tournament seeding 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 8 hours ago, villaglint said: That is my understanding as well. But its left me wondering what the point of the seeding pots is? Do they have any bearing on anything? Isn't it also the basis for part of the carving up of cash? Higher coefficient, more money. One of the obscured changes aimed at shoring up the established 'elite' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 So how many games we play in this new group format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 9 hours ago, Kingman said: So how many games we play in this new group format? Minimum 8, maximum 17. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 9 hours ago, Kingman said: So how many games we play in this new group format? We should be aiming for making the playoffs and playing 10 games. Basically we need to be better than 25% of the clubs to achieve that. I think we have the strongest squad out of the bottom two pots and better than a few in pot 2 also like Burgge and Shaktar. We also benefit from the fact we can't draw the English sides who are 3 of the toughest teams in Europe. Finally the new format makes it even better for Coefficient FC as anomalies like United and Newcastle exiting Europe before Christmas is less likely. Spurs, Chelsea and Newcastle will also be good teams to have in Europa and Conference, especially Newcastle who will want to win the Conference League 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted May 18 VT Supporter Share Posted May 18 9 hours ago, MaVilla said: Minimum 8, maximum 17. 17? Is that right? If we have to play 17 games we're gonna need to get some players in bigtime. Our existing squad would crumble to dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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