2023-2024 UEFA Champions League Preliminary Round

[OlliWender]

I found a good quality stream for Atletic Escaldes - Buducnost with Montenegrin commentary. Strims.top has this match in the schedule. Game will kick off at 15.00 CET.

Great quality stream. Thanks!

First "parade", or more like contact, and you can already tell the Montenegrian keeper is a liability.

[dyermcryan]

twitch.tv / futbolconkarma has the match with Spanish/Catalan commentary (I'm not sure which, apologies!)

Mods please delete if not allowed

[NederPAOKtzis]

And Sekulic (Buducnost) with the first goal (a penalty) of this season.

[OlliWender]

Incredible efficiency. 0-2 with a header after freekick cross. And it was Atletic who seemed to dominate possession in the first 10 min.

[mspm89]

Do you think the Andorran team will make it interesting at least for a while?

[Juliusz]

Atlètic had a fantastic chance to come back to this game, but their striker didn't even touch the ball properly just in front of goal.

They were also unlucky with a deflection that led to the second goal for Budućnost.

[krdel]

Without Simić, Terzić, Petrović, Lucero, Knežević etc. and with no proper preparation this is much weaker team than usually, but it is still enough for 2:0 so far...

[Juliusz]

No third goal for Budućnost after a VAR review - slightly offside.

[krdel]

There is VAR here? Blah...

[Juliusz]

Next goal wasn't cancelled though and Budućnost have a convincing 3-0 lead.

[matt]

The final time of this CLPR. This round will be remembered as one of the most pointless things ever invented

It was good just for the country ranking of some countries in trouble over the years.

[OlliWender]

The final time of this CLPR. This round will be remembered as one of the most pointless things ever invented

It was good just for the country ranking of some countries in trouble over the years.

Agree. The main incentive must've been to gift these associations an extra 0.333 and 0.666 to guarantee a bit of fluctuation at the bottom of the rankings.

[mspm89]

The final time of this CLPR. This round will be remembered as one of the most pointless things ever invented

It was good just for the country ranking of some countries in trouble over the years.

Yep. I don't know why some folks here liked it. Just a byproduct of UEFA's inability to come up with a better redistribution for their endless gifting of direct places to top leagues and extension of preliminary rounds. Making some lower-ranked champions play twice in June before everyone else starts even the EL or ECL Q1. Theoretically making them actually play 6 preliminary rounds for a CL GS spot. Not even the FA Cup has that much.

[Lorric]

The final time of this CLPR. This round will be remembered as one of the most pointless things ever invented

It was good just for the country ranking of some countries in trouble over the years.

Yep. I don't know why some folks here liked it. Just a byproduct of UEFA's inability to come up with a better redistribution for their endless gifting of direct places to top leagues and extension of preliminary rounds. Making some lower-ranked champions play twice in June before everyone else starts even the EL or ECL Q1. Theoretically making them actually play 6 preliminary rounds for a CL GS spot. Not even the FA Cup has that much.

People like to see the lowest teams playing each other, but I never liked it. Oh I have watched some of the matches before, but I think they should have all been in at Q1.

Actually, it does at the extreme end of the scale! Extra Preliminary, Preliminary, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 before Round 1 of the FA Cup.

[mspm89]

People like to see the lowest teams playing each other, but I never liked it. Oh I have watched some of the matches before, but I think they should have all been in at Q1.

Actually, it does at the extreme end of the scale! Extra Preliminary, Preliminary, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 before Round 1 of the FA Cup.

Hey, you're right. I just didn't remember how many they totaled before Round 1 Proper. At least in the FA Cup they actually have to accomodate hundreds of teams, not 4.