Champions League

[Myles]

Wtf Villarreal?! They're shit!
They beat Juve but Juve are even shittier, so i didn't give them a hope against Bayern Munich.

This season is surreal, everyone is trying to not win the Scudetto and now this!

Da fuck is goin' on?!

[Dels]

I don't know what's going on but Modric's pass last night was the stuff of legends.

[Dels]

You just know every morning Diego Simeone wakes up he chooses violence. Man loves chaos.

[Dels]

I am beyond excited for this match tonight. I think I want Madrid to win but I also want to see a crazy scoreline.

[Dels]

Well, I was not disappointed. Wow.

[Duncan!!]

Really good game yesterday. Today? F Liverpool

[Dels]

The Liverpool game was awful, but then most games would seem awful compared to what was served up the night before.

[Dels]

I really thought Villarreal were going to do something great .

[Duncan!!]

F Liverpool. F the Kop, F the boot room. F Anfield.

[Duncan!!]

Wow!!!! Just wow!!!

[Dels]

God I love football

[Myles]

You'd think by now that surely someone has done their sports or psychology PhD on the difference between champions and chumpions, other than it being one vowel of course.

[Lupo Pazzesco]

F Liverpool. F the Kop, F the boot room. F Anfield.

Well said!

[Liam]

That was a fantastic game, mostly for BT's celebratory commentary with Real Madrid 1-0 down before the comeback.

[Dels]

The commentators tears may have been the best part

[verno]

Always the best part.

[verno]

I really thought Villarreal were going to do something great .

When I saw they were two up I sensed great danger. Gutted that I was right. I had high hopes but the keeper had a total 'mare.

[Dels]

The current format sees teams divided up into eight groups of four, with teams playing each other home and away over six games.

The top two in each group progress to the last 16 when it becomes a knockout tournament, with ties played home and away over two legs, before the final at a neutral venue over one match.

The new format will see the initial phase contain one single league table, which includes all teams.

Each club will play eight league stage games against different opponents, with four home ties and four away.

The top eight will go through to the knockout stage, while those from ninth to 24th will compete in a two-legged play-off to progress.

Uefa added that "similar format changes will also be applied to the Europa League (eight matches in the league stage) and Europa Conference League (six matches in the league stage) and both will also include 36 teams in the league phase".

New format nonsense.
It needs less teams, not more.
At least they're not going through with letting teams in on previous form if they don't qualify.

[Liam]

It's crap, just not as crap as it might have been. They had an expanded competition before in the early 2000s when they introduced a 2nd group stage. They ditched it after about 3 years because there was too many games.

The calendar's packed and all Uefa want to do is introduce more boring group stage games. This is also likely a compromise to the Super League teams, when there should have been no compromise for that idea. I guess the whole Super League thing probably killed off the worst ideas atleast.

As a neutral fan I'm fed up with the Champions League anyway. I've decided not to bother to watch a game at times this season and when I do I'm not anywhere near as interested as I once was.

[Dels]

It does look like there could have been a compromise with the super league teams. Especially when the mighty Barcelona was languishing in the in the Europa League.

Its just designed to keep the status quo really.