The new UEFA format for the Europa League makes the competition more competitive and interesting especially football fans whose teams aren't playing in the competition. It's more demanding and exhausting which I makes it more difficult to win but the good thing about it is that at the end, we're surely gonna have a winner.
Because of the little difference in points accumulated by the teams in the competition, I've not been giving much of my attention to the competition but will be more interested when the competition reaches the knockout stages by next year.
The league format was actually aimed at creature more competition and I think that is almost achieved as unlike before the europa is now even more serious and very competitive as it now appears that getting pass the group stage alone isn't an easy one like the former where you have to literally just play against four teams in eight fixtures but this time you get stretched way beyond that and if you don't have the stamina and possible strength,,you may get relegated by the better sides.Because of the little difference in points accumulated by the teams in the competition, I've not been giving much of my attention to the competition but will be more interested when the competition reaches the knockout stages by next year.
This format is the same as that applied in the Champions League, and this new format forces teams to perform more consistently because only eight teams can qualify for the last 16, while those who enter from positions 9 to 24 must fight again to get tickets to the last 16. And through this format we see big teams like Tottenham Spurs, Real Sociedad, AS Roma and Porto fighting hard to get into the top 8 of the standings, and so do the teams in the top 8, they must continue to fight to be able to maintain their position.
Just like when he first set foot in Sporting he also did not know the players in the team and it took him at least a few seasons until finally Sporting's performance improved from year to year, it is very unfortunate that Amorim had to leave the club when he loved it and chose a club that was in chaos and he was forced to build the club from the bottom, I think we need to give Amorim time because changing a club in an instant is not the job of a coach but the job of a magician 
In Portugal he rose from the second division to the top division handling Sporting Lisbon, so it was not too difficult for Amorin to adapt. However, it was different when he decided to handle Man United, he was in a completely different place like in Portugal, he was at a more difficult level in the league with competitive competition. Moreover, he is handling Manchester United, a team with a thousand problems, even after Sir Alex Ferguson left, there has not been a coach who is truly capable of handling Manchester United, even though they are famous coaches.