I agree. Teams that don't qualify in round 1 will even have more qualifying matches then now (10 or 12 in Platini's plan, 8 or 10 now) and still have the chance to be drawn against top countries.Lusankya wrote:I fail to see how Platini's plan is in any way unfair to any country.
Top countries will have only 6 matches (if they qualify in round 1), and can then arrange some interesting friendly matches if they want.
And there will be more important matches as there are 2 stages with only 3 or 4 teams, while with the current system you would have 1 stage with 5 or 6 teams, resulting in a lot of uninteresting matches near the end because a lot of countries will already have qualified or eliminated.
That might even result in teams fielding a lesser team to test new players and that can be to the disadvantage of a team who did play the full strength squad of that top team earlier in the group. With the new system it is far less likely that will happen, and it will at least happen in much less games.