If you're in Europe and stay in the league cup you have no free midweeks from September until the week before christmas. You'll usually have 2 or 3 days between games, sometimes 4.
Europa and CL is that?
If you're in Europe and stay in the league cup you have no free midweeks from September until the week before christmas. You'll usually have 2 or 3 days between games, sometimes 4.
Are you stupid?Thursday - Sunday is less recovery time than Weds - Saturday? OK.
Playing Lyon in the EL is further than playing Marseille in the CL? OK.
Did we play more games in the EL than Barcelona have in the CL? OK.
Don't be so reasonable! Some people can't handle this.You're right but remember that half the champ league games are on Tuesdays so they play at least 3 Tues-Sat plus being part of the Sky 4 cartel there's a decent chance that the CL teams' PL games go back to the Sunday anyway.
It is about impact on league form, not the other way round. I don't care whether there is more or less time to prepare for European matches. What matters is that EL is hurting preparation time for league matches more than the CL does.Before asking if others are stupid perhaps it'd be wise to read what has been said.
Thu-Sun - two days in between
Wed--Sat - two days in between
Sat-Tue - two days in between
It seems that the only additional days rest you will get is if you play in the televised Sunday games following a midweek CL tie - over the course of a season that's probably a negligable amount, 3 or 4 days maybe?
It is about impact on league form, not the other way round. I don't care whether there is more or less time to prepare for European matches. What matters is that EL is hurting preparation time for league matches more than the CL does.
No, I'm not stupid. Obviously I haven't stated my point clearly enough, or you haven't read the post properly. It seems enough other posters have understood it so I'm not going to bother repeating myself.Are you stupid?
Did I not claim that Wed-Sat is the same as Thu-Sun? For some reason you seem to have the deluded view that it is always Wed-Sat. IT IS NOT!
Lyon? Marseille? Okay... What about Tromso, Anzhi, and other crap teams from the far reaches of Europe?
We would have played more games than Barcelona if we actually reached the final. You were trying to say?
We can conceivably fit in at least 6 - 8 second squad players or promising youngsters in the group phases and leave 7 first teamers at home. So what's the problem|?
I'd love us to take the comp as seriously as Sevilla do, massive respect for them. Like others have said, if we want to be in the champs league we'd better get used to playing these extra games, otherwise if we did manage to qualify we'd up end up "doing a liverpool" anyway.
Completely agree. Leave the likes of Eriksen, Kane and Lloris at home for the away games, unless they are short haul flights such as Spain or France for example.
Arent't we are also amongst the teams qualified for the group stage, Jordinho?!
It was - but it could have caused a bit more stress for some who isnt around here all the time, to not include us in the listThought that was obvious.