Quote from: Zaguru12 on Today at 06:30:04 PM

Quote from: Docnaster on Today at 01:26:54 PM

This season's Champions League group match draws is one of the most unfair and unfavorable draws.
I mean big teams were very lucky to meet the weaker ones in their teams why the weak ones were not able to meet their fellow week ones rather than meat the strong ones, which makes every group do have clearly people that are supposed to qualify apart from some few groups.
Looking at the Galatasaray group, you will understand that people to qualify from the group are Bayern Munich and Manchester United. It is so obvious unless the otherwise happens which is very rare. And that is how it is in so many other groups apart from the group where we have AC Milan, Newcastle, PSG and Dortmund.

If you say one of the most unfair it is as though you meant they rigged the draw but this is certainly how it is in every year’s edition except some years where the draws get funny. The setting of having to two favourite to qualify from the group is mostly caused by the way they are seeded in pots. The league champions are usually seeded in pot 1 and the league runner ups are then paired in pot 2 and also teams that are from countries like England who finish Third but have won the champions league before are also in pot 2. This was the reason for Manchester United been in pot 2. Then Clubs that won the league from lower ranking leagues are in pot 3 with the ones that finish third in top leagues. The pot 4 is for clubs that are finish fourth and some that went through playoffs. So from this you can see that the pot consists of top clubs in descending order like the pots and Since no two teams from same league and pot can be in the same group the pot 1 and 2 teams and some from 3 are favourites.

One of the advantages of these is to have lower clubs from lower leagues experience top football and also been seen on the limelight. The lower league players most at times love this challenges because it is where most new and young players are birth from. The likes of Mbappe and Halaand are clearly examples of these. Also as for the clubs they tend to sale more tickets when top teams comes visiting. This would be regarded as a marketing strategy by UEFA to gain more revenue and also eliminate the weaker teams and make the competition more competitive as it progresses.

It seems like @Doncaster doesn't really understand how Uefa conducts the draw so he accused it of unfairness. Uefa has really done its job in accordance with the regulations and absolutely no club has been harmed, in fact they have made a coefficient value for the participating clubs so they can participate in the UCL. Apart from that, uefa and the club have also thought about other things including income for the club so that by making such a regulation it will make the rating and marketing value of UCL bigger and the clubs participating in UCL will also get an injection of money from it. So I don't think anyone will be disadvantaged in the draft in the Champions League.