Re: ⚽UEFA Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2024/25 | Winner: Chelsea
The biggest disaster so far is Banja luka losing to Santa Coloma so much. Nobody expected this to happen in the qualification especially about a team that reached the playoffs last season. To lose so heavily against an amature team do badly its just unrealistic. I think that they wont qualify for sure after this match
Qualification games are usually very difficult to predict because you encounter some big teams losing to the underdog teams and you begin to imagine if it was a fixed game or the big teams lost due to their lack of proper preparation before playing the games this is exactly what happened in the game between Banja luka and Santa Coloma, the team that is seen as the amateur team took the game seriously but Santa Coloma knowing that they are the team with the advantage to win wasn't expecting to be defeated but they lost heavily it's a big lesson for them and other big teams.
Almost impossible to predict and today is not different and I will keep calling this competition Lottery League because of this exact reason.
Lots of draws today and a few of them are 0-0 in a competition where basically it should be easier to score but today wasn't the case. Also , Sparta Praga and Alkmaar both lost today and whoever had the feeling to bet against these 2 teams must be very happy now with his decision because I personally couldn't even think that Alkmaar ( a team that should reach quarter-finals in theory ) will struggle in 2nd game to qualify further.
