Quote from: jaberwock on September 17, 2024, 06:51:31 PM

Quote from: Hirose UK on September 17, 2024, 07:56:30 AM

basically we will not be able to judge the performance of the team to compete in the Europa League based on their performance in the domestic League because team that performs well in the domestic League may not necessarily continue to perform well in Europa League competition and vice versa.
Honestly, for Manchester United fans, there are those who are satisfied with Manchester Uniter performance at the beginning of the season with 2 wins but there are also those who say that Manchester United performance is not so satisfying because the players in the two defeats have made several mistakes.
I myself still waiting for how Manchester United will develop later in the Europa League match, if they can complete 8 matches well and qualify from the play-off round then clearly that is good achievement, but if they fail and experience more lots defeats then I will not believe that they will be contender in the title race, after that, trust in Ten Hag performance will also slowly disappear.

If I didn't see wrong, Conference league still has six games though, don't they? While UCL and UEL went to 8 games for groups, conference seems like still six games but I could be wrong. In any case, this is the new format for UEFA and they did this so that teams could make more money, they are going to charge tv rights more and more, and eventually teams will get more and more money thanks to this.

This season I haven't really followed the development of the Europa Conference League and I just opened it and saw that the Conference League has 6 matches to complete for positions for the top 8 team who want to go straight into the last 16 because for the 9th to 24th rank must go through the play-offs as the determinant of the remaining 8 team who will enter the last 16, this is the same as the Europa League and UCL.
However, it cannot be denied that the advantages of the new format with more matches will allow each team to make more profits and there are many positive impacts even though some consider it bad format.

For the first Europa League match will start in the next 4 days, the first match brings together AZ Alkmaar against IF Elfsborg and AZ Alkmaar who is one of the strongest team in the Dutch League and they have the advantage of playing at home, I think AZ Alkmaar can win this match.