It is assumed that what is complicated to explain and, in addition, many people do not understand, it is not correct. Or, at least, it is not well given. There is a division of opinions, but the reality is that the new format of the Champions, Once this first phase is finished in which each team has played eight games instead of six, in a unique league with 36 positions, it has not just satisfied some of its protagonists. Ancelotti, the example: «I don’t like the format because it means playing more games. And what I want is to play fewer games so that the players have less wear.
Bellingham is not funny either: «It is difficult to play a couple of extra games. There is the Cup, the Super Cup, the League … it feels like we are always traveling and playing ». A complaint similar to that that Luis Enrique slid after the first days, but in his case due to the inequality of the calendar. Despite being the head of the August, the PSG has surely had the most complicated rivals, something that clashes with the kind calendar of the Brestone of the reasons for its surprising classification for crosses. «Statistically we were the least favored in the draw. I do not say it, the numbers say it. Before there were four teams in the so -called death group and now we only have the death group, ”lamented the Spanish.
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Nave of nun of the Asturian coach who has turned once the classification has already achieved, something that was at risk before the last two days: «It is a different competition because there is a team that has stayed out with 11 points. I think many things remain in this new format to discover. Before it was impossible for you to play in these phases against a team in your country and, now, it will happen to us in the play. I consider that it is a very attractive competition ».
Reflection that, being like Luis Enrique, looks like it would not have been the same if his team had been eliminated. He did not, as did not happen to any of the favorites. «This Champions is new, you don’t know what can happen and I am happy to be from the first classified. I like the new format. It is very interesting, ”says Hansi Flick, Barcelona technician. “I cannot criticize the format, it has a high entertainment factor and we are in an entertainment industry,” says Kompany, Bayern’s coach.
We will see if the Belgian coach thinks the same if the City touches today in the draw, falls eliminated in the round of the round of 16 and is seen in mid -February outside Europe. Something that could also happen to Atlético de Madrid in March. It has finished fifth, a set, but most likely it is that in the eighths it will touch the Madrid, City or Bayern. With the return at home, yes, but often three rivals: «Bad luck at the crossroads? It is what there is, this is the competition, ”says Llorente.
The Liverpool, champion of this first phase, is surely the most happy club. Not only for the seven victories and a single defeat that has added, already on the last day with nothing at stake, but for what he is entering. The English club, for the moment, has already won 100 million euros Between final position, triumph numbers and ‘Market Pool’, in addition to the award for the direct pass to eighths. In total, he already accumulates the amount of money that the Champions champion used to earn in recent years.
Obviously, the difference is important, but that does not influence the thought of their players: «No one asks players what they think about adding more games. Perhaps our opinion does not matter, but everyone knows what we think about the possibility of celebrating more parties. Everyone is tired of that, ”he said months ago Alissongoalkeeper of the English team.
Money that has also been succulent for the four Spanish clubs, including the Gironaeven though it is already eliminated. Barcelona, second classified after Liverpool, leads the income of the League teams. It has already earned 89.4 million euros, an important amount in the current context of the entity, where you need money everywhere.
Atlético has also won, for the moment, much more than added in previous Champions. It has exactly entered 84.9 million and can aspire to much more if it continues to advance rounds. Something that Girona can no longer do, which in its premiere in the maximum continental competition has barely had options to get into the crossings, but it is also true that, as in the case of the PSG, its calendar was terrifying. The Catalan club leaves the Champions League with the aftertaste of having played against some of the best teams in Europe and, in addition, with 30 million.
As for the real Madridthe whites have won 78.3 million, amount that will approach 100 million if they manage to pass the play of play, which would match Liverpool.
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