Other games - January 2025

[miller0863]

Good, dock them a point for each player

[justme]

My gawd... Man-united and Hsbc or what ever their name is,are both absolute horrendous

[Insidious]

how do the play-off games work, does it go off on table or random?

It's a draw, but the draw is seeded based on table finishes, so not entirely random.

Just to cover all of it as best I understand it (and if I've made errors feel free to correct/tweak - open to all) we'll have -

- Clubs finishing in the top 8 of the League phase (36 teams) progressed directly to the last-16 knockout phase. This of course applies to us as we topped the League phase.

- Teams finishing in the bottom 8 get eliminated.

- The 16 "in-between" sides if you like (9th to 24th) progress to a play-off phase.

- From those 16, the clubs that finished 9th-16th are seeded, creating 4 pairs for the play-off draw.

- Sides finishing 17th-24th placed into four unseeded pairs.

- Those unseeded teams (17th-24th) are each drawn against one of two of the seeded teams.

- Seeded teams get to host the second leg of the play-off matches as a reward for finishing higher in the initial League phase.

- Man City finished 22nd in the League table, so were always going to be drawn against a side that finishes 11th or 12th - in this case Real Madrid who finished 11th.

- There will be a draw on the 21st of February, after we know who won the play-off ties.

- Certain components of the last-16 draw are already decided, which is down to teams in the top 8 (of the League phase) having been split into 4 seeded pairs based on their finish in the League phase.

- Teams in seeded pairs will face the winners of one of the two play-off ties they have already been signed off with, if you will.

- We Liverpool finished top of the League phase and thus are "paired" with Barcelona because they finished in 2nd spot. So ourselves and Barca are the ones that will play either the winner of Brest v PSG or the Monaco v Benfica tie.

- Arsenal (3rd) paired with Inter (4th) so they'll play winners of Juventus v PSV Eindhoven or Feyenoord v AC Milan - info we will know on February 21st.

.....and so on. It's a bit convoluted to say the least! I'd love to see the "old" system but remove the seeding aspect in group phases so that (actual) Group of Death situations happened rather than difficult groups that favoured the giants of the game - random draws would have meant you could see Real, Bayern, Barcelona and Man City in one group for example, which could potentially open the occasional door for French sides not named PSG, the Dutch sides etc

Hope this helps, but it's a messy format in some ways and I'm sure someone will understand it better than me, so apologies if it didn't.

[Kev0909]

Thanks for your post sid, but you took too long, it doesn't matter now

Appreciate the effort 10/10
Reply time 1/10 not good enough i'm afraid.

Sort it out, or you're out the door, 4/1 to get sacked next.

[Insidious]

Thanks for your post sid, but you took too long, it doesn't matter now

Appreciate the effort 10/10
Reply time 1/10 not good enough i'm afraid.

Sort it out, or you're out the door, 4/1 to get sacked next.

Not paying the subscription service can result in lag.

[BOBPAISLEYFAN]

Forest are doing to Brighton what Bournemouth did to them last week, clinical finishing whereas Brighton look like they couldn’t score inna brothel… being 3-0 up at half-fine is very impressive… what I would give for that in our game today…

The psychological message we can send today to both Arsenal and City if we can actually manage a win today, will be imho seismic, as I am sure both City and Arsenal have probably pencilled in our Bournemouth game as one of the fixtures they are both praying we potentially drop points in…

So in that regards, today could prove to be a really pivotal result…

[LFC-DPG]

A win today and a draw tomorrow would be the perfect weekend.

[Steveo]

A win today and a draw tomorrow would be the perfect weekend.

A loss for the Arse would be a bit better imo. Don’t see City as any kind of threat at all - provided we don’t drop our pants.

[BOBPAISLEYFAN]

Totally agree on the draw, both City and Arsenal losing 2 points and momentum is like you say an almost perfect weekend, ideally I would like them to both lose … LOL !!!!!

[justincredible]

City win tomorrow, but a draw would be sufficient....