UEFA Champions League 2021/22

[gunnar hendershow]

Villarreal was a nice story, and I'm always going to want a club like them reaching this stage. It's fun to have the momentary "but what if?" thought. End of the day Liverpool vs City or Real will be spending. Honestly if it happens Liverpool/City with Liverpool going for the quadruple feels like an absolutely perfectly scripted sports story we'll be talking about decades down the line.

[Szumi]

 

[Twist]

1 hour ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

 

They’ve also won 7 cup games to Everton’s 8 league wins. 9 games if you include penalty wins.

[Matt]

On 27/04/2022 at 22:13, damhausen said:

Villarreal was a nice story, and I'm always going to want a club like them reaching this stage. It's fun to have the momentary "but what if?" thought. End of the day Liverpool vs City or Real will be spending. Honestly if it happens Liverpool/City with Liverpool going for the quadruple feels like an absolutely perfectly scripted sports story Liverpool fans will never shut up about.

FTFY

[Lineker]

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A group representing domestic football leagues is hopeful of killing plans to make Champions League places dependent on historic performance, believing they will find “common ground” with Uefa to stop the controversial proposal.

The European Leagues, which represents domestic competitions from across the continent including the Premier League, said that they believed their support for qualification on “sporting merit” and a lower number of fixtures in a still expanded Champions League would result in a “wise and good” decision by Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.

A plan to award two places in an expanded Champions League to clubs that would otherwise have qualified for the Europa League but have strong recent records in Europe, was proposed in Uefa’s Club Competition Committee (UCCC) and endorsed by the influential European Club Association last month.

Speaking on Friday, however, the president of the European Leagues, Claus Thomsen, reiterated a commitment to the principle of qualifying based on domestic performance. “We believe the principle of sporting merit is the heart of the football model,” he said. “It’s still our firm belief and position that such a thing can’t be introduced into the European club competitions.

“We have had good dialogue with Uefa on this and think we will find common ground with this. Raising these issues are not contrary to Uefa. It is fair to say our expectation is that Uefa also has the position of sporting merit being at the core of European and domestic competitions.”

Jacco Swart, the managing director of the European Leagues, said that Ceferin had committed himself to maintaining football’s tie to sporting merit in the wake of the European Super League. “We have been carefully listening to the president over the last year,” he said, “and we do count on his responsibility and the fact that he will take a wise and good decision in the line with our position.”

The European Leagues are also pushing back on on further detail of Uefa’s proposed reforms to the Champions League in 2024. With a league format set to replace the group stage, the number of guaranteed fixtures played by each qualifier would rise from six to 10 per season, creating a further 100 matches in the competition. The Leagues want a compromise figure of eight “league stage” matches, believing they have the support not only of domestic competitions but broadcasters too.

“An increase of more than 50% of games will hurt the vast majority of clubs and benefit very few,” said Thomsen. “We need to have a lower number of rounds. [Uefa] also have the position that we need to balance matchday calendars for all competitions to have a positive development.”

Both the calendar and qualification are likely to be discussed at a meeting of the UCCC on 10 May, though there is currently no deadline for a final decision to be taken.

 

[Lineker]

lol

[gunnar hendershow]

Given the right players Emery really does deploy some excellent tactics. He's also an amazing cup manager. Really can't be overstated. 

[Baddar]

They have Liverpool on the ropes. If Villarreal just sit back now it'll cost them.

[Benjamin]

Villareal have been so good. We have been so so awful.

[Hobo]

Poor first half. Hopefully Liverpool will be better in the second half.

they only need one goal

[DavidMarrio]

We're clearly doing it for the drama. 

Liverpool don't do things the easy way etc etc.....hopefully.....

[gunnar hendershow]

 

[Lineker]

36 minutes ago, DavidMarrio said:

We're clearly doing it for the drama. 

Liverpool don't do things the easy way etc etc.....hopefully.....

Walk in the park!

[Hobo]

That goalkeeper has been a liability in both legs

[DavidMarrio]

1 minute ago, Lineker said:

Walk in the park!

Never in doubt  

Just now, Hobo said:

That goalkeeper has been a liability in both legs

Said this to my mate I've gone the pub with. He flapped so much first leg, kept trying to punch things instead of catch, seemed erratic. Literally be a different game if they had someone else in goal.

 

[Szumi]

We've been amazing this second half, but I do wonder what the score would be if Villarreal had even a semi competent keeper.

[Hobo]

3 minutes ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

We've been amazing this second half, but I do wonder what the score would be if Villarreal had even a semi competent keeper.

The way he's been flying out in the second half theyre lucky its not 5-2 on the night

[Hobo]

Konate still hasn't lost a game he's started in

[gunnar hendershow]

When's the match supposed to start tonight?

[Lineker]

This is going to be a spicy ending.