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Atalanta is in very good shape, they are running like rabbits with 4 wins in a row which is rare in Serie A, they have a good chance to win EL. Does this mean that Italy will play with 6 clubs in the CL? Is the Croatian representative Rijeka sure to start in the second round of EL qualifications? :u...

Here is the current Clubelo league rating, and the biggest winners and losers of the last 10 months, that is, this season. 1.ENG 1744 (-45) 2.ITA 1721 (+20) 3.GER 1714 (+22) 4.ESP 1694 (-6) 5.FRA 1660 (+30) 6.BEL 1520 (+19) 7.POR 1501 (-15) 8.DEN 1486 (+44) 9.NET 1484 (-31) 10.RUS 1467 11.TUR 1437 (...

The problem with the Elo rating is that it does not recognize the decline in quality and form, or the growth in quality and form of clubs. :D Elo DOES recognize decline or growth in quality of clubs, it only takes more than a few match results pointing in the same direction to express such a change...

The only one who can seek justification for bad luck from English clubs in the CL is Manchester City, they were unlucky, they were relegated on penalties. Arsenal were very lucky to reach the Round of 8 on penalties, and Porto and Copenhagen were certainly the easiest opponents in the Round of 16. :...

Opta is not realistic, they constantly exaggerated England's chances and underestimated Germany, and especially France. It was already seen in GS that English clubs are limping this season and have a lot of problems, despite that Opta favored them. :mol: Opta is not underestimating French clubs at ...

The Greek league is very strong this season, certainly the Greeks deserve the Top 15, according to this year's Coefficient ranking they are in the Top 10 of the strongest leagues. We have to say that the Greeks had a very difficult draw in GS, otherwise they would have already been convincingly in t...

Opta is not realistic, they constantly exaggerated England's chances and underestimated Germany, and especially France. It was already seen in GS that English clubs are limping this season and have a lot of problems, despite that Opta favored them. :mol: When we look at the 5 strongest leagues this ...

Rijeka is a young team, most of the first team is under 23, Toni Fruk 23, Niko Janković 22, Marco Pašalić 23, Ivan Smolčić 23, Niko Galešić 23, Veldin Hodža 21, Franjo Ivanović 20, there had to be a drop in form. In the last month, they create fewer chances and score less. Tonight they had dominance...

When we look at the champions of the countries from 26th to 30th place, these are quality clubs, most of which would certainly go at least to the Conference League, some to the EL, maybe Qarabag even to the CL. :applause: These clubs dominantly won domestic championships, Steaua (ROM) +12 over the f...

Here is what it might look like https://i.ibb.co/brV3MBH/Screenshot-2024-04-19-162303.png I gave the ECL winner direct access to EL so now only 79 teams will qualify for league stage (different from @babaluj1 proposal). If CL-W or EL-W spots are not used then Country 10 and 11 will get direct acces...

I've been wondering for some time if it would maybe make sense to determine the access list and number of teams not by place in the ranking, but by total coefficient points. Maybe somthing like: 0 - 3 points (San Marino) 1 CL + 1 UECL 3 - 6 ( Gibraltar, Montenegro, Wales, Andorra) 1CL + 2 UECL 6 - ...

I look at that access list and the illogic is visible both in the number of clubs and in the direct places for clubs. Top 4 countries play with 7 clubs (4 direct places in CL and 2 direct places in EL), countries from 16th to 20th place (NOR, DEN, RUS, CRO, GRE) play with 4 clubs without direct plac...

The reason that there is no subject because lots of people here hate that so many of the top countries can particiapte in CL, the topic would only make us angry, like this topic now does ;) Have fun Uefa, I'm out The UEFA system is such that it favors the biggest leagues. The more direct places in ...

Do clubs like Hacken, Sheriff or Bačka Topola deserve to play GS EL this season? Or clubs like Bredablik, Čukarički or Trnava in GS ECL? They absolutely do not deserve GS with their quality, they serve as cannon fodder there. :mol: How do they get to GS? A privileged path for champions or a privile...

Top 5 leagues 2 places each directly at CL, 6.-10. liga each 1 direct place in the CL, plus 2 places from the Top 2 Country coefficient + current champion, that's a total of 18 places, we're looking for another 18. In the EL and ECL we directly place one club from Top 5 countries, all other clubs g...