Quote from: Lillominato89 on Today at 05:11:19 AM

I don't think that the players don't give the right importance to this tournament, we are talking about a competition of great economic interest, it cannot be snubbed so easily.

the thing here is that the teams from south Americans, north Americans, Asia and Africa takes this tournament as a very big tournament but the teams from Europe doesn't sees it as such, and if am not mistaken, if they have the choice to turn this competition down without no punishment, most of this European football team that are in the tournament would have done it because their football calendar is just too busy for them to be adding more, after coming from a long and higher level of competitive league campaign, so most of this Europeans football clubs sees this tournament as an added stress to their already busy schedule.

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I feel sorry for Porto, but they were not up to the task, this was a match that had to be won at all costs but they failed to do so and it cost them elimination. But the most disappointed are the Atletico Madrid players who, despite 2 victories and 6 points in the standings, have to say goodbye to the competition due to goal difference. They were so close to qualifying! They only needed one goal to advance, but that wasn't the case. What a shame!

I feel no sorry for Porto actually because they were not good enough to qualify to the next round of the competition, out of three games they only got two, which shows that they weren't good enough for the next round, it was atletico madrid that I feel pity for, because they tried, but they were just unlucky to be knockout on goal difference.