2007/08 UEFA CL - General Discussion

Originally Posted by Tony29.

They did Kastriot, but things change you know. The awful results of Croatian teams in last 2 years put them where they are now, 1st round of Q

I wouldn`t call them awful, loosing the tie to Arsenal with a draw in Emirate Stadium its not that bad.... loosing to Auxere, its bad but not awful,

On the other hand What Hajduk did two years ago, was disaster loosing to Debrecin 8- 0 in aggregate.... When a year after Rabotnicki kicked their ass 4-1 in Skopje!!!!

Originally Posted by kastriot

I wouldn`t call them awful, loosing the tie to Arsenal with a draw in Emirate Stadium its not that bad.... loosing to Auxere, its bad but not awful,

On the other hand What Hajduk did two years ago, was disaster loosing to Debrecin 8- 0 in aggregate.... When a year after Rabotnicki kicked their ass 4-1 in Skopje!!!!

The awful results of Croatian teams, not Dinamo's results.
Look at the results of last 2 years :

2005/06
CL :
Debrecen-Hajduk 3:0 - 5:0

UEFA :
Inter () Zapresic - Crvena Zvezda 1:3 - 0:4
Litex - Rijeka 1:0 - 1:2

On 6 matches Croatian teams won only 1 match which brings 1 point, or 0.333 points in UEFA list ( Croatia was placed on 49th place out of 52 teams in this season)

2006/07
CL :
Ekranas-Dinamo 1:4 - 2:5
Arsenal-Dinamo 3:0 - 2:1

UEFA :
Varteks - Tirana 1:1 - 0:2
Rijeka- Omonia 2:2 - 1:2
Dinamo - Auxerre 1:2 - 1:3

These results brought us 1 point from UEFA and we were placed on 42nd place for this season.

For last 5 years Croatian teams have 10.708 points and it's enough only for 26th place in UEFA list ( teams from 1st to 25th place don't play in 1st round. With our luck, we're 26th )

Edit : And Dinamo didn't draw in London. They conceded a goal in last secund and lost 2:1

It is our of subject but Tony do you have pictures or sthing elese from the great Croatian national team of 1998? and why Klasnic plays so well in Werder but so bad in national team?.

The Champions League and European qualifying for the 2010 World Cup undergo changes, announce UEFA.

From 2007-08 the Champions League will also have a seeding system in the draw for the quarter-finals.

This is to prevent teams who are already qualified from resting their players in the final one or two Group games, as that will affect their standing.

Clubs will receive two points for a win and one for a draw in the seeding system drawn up at the end of the first knock-out round.

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Good !
This starts from this season.

I would guess it has something to do with who will play at home first and who will host the return leg.
Otherwise, I don;t see things changing much as at the 1/4 finals you have to play strong teams anyway, so no point in trying to stack up points when you could just as easily face ManU, Inter, Bayern, Real, Lyon etc, etc ... especially once those teams have made it past the 1/8 finals, which is the first knock-out round and most of the weaker teams get elliminated anyway.

True. The real advantage will be playing the 2nd leg at home. But if the strongest teams give it all on every match, then it may mean something to be a seeded team in the 1/4 finals.
Of course, all 8 teams there are strong and everyone can be eliminated by everyone, but still :

Barcelona
Chelsea
Manchester United
Milan

Bayern
Roma
Liverpool
PSV

I guess, if Milan can chose, they'll like it this way instead of going in the 2nd group, changing their place with Liverpool !

Oh, woe is Chelsea, they're so sick and tired of drawing Barca every year that UEFA are going to make sure that there's no huge matchups in the early stages.

So, so far Rangers, Lazio and Liverpool have made it into the groups of the CL.