Opta Analyst: Five Premier League teams finished in the top eight in the #UCL league phase. Does the current format give them an unfair advantage because they don't have to face one another? Fixture difficulty appears to have played a big part... theanalyst.com/articles/cha...

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Five Premier League teams finished in the top eight in the #UCL league phase. Does the current format give them an unfair advantage because they don't have to face one another? Fixture difficulty appears to have played a big part... theanalyst.com/articles/cha...
Does Champions League Fixture Difficulty Carry Too Much Weight in 36-Team Format? | Opta Analyst

Following the conclusion of the league phase of the Champions League 2025-26, we ask whether the draw has too big an impact on the competition.

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Edm_Dantes emchi85.bsky.social · Jan 30
They couldn’t far each other in group stages before too, so no. The “unfair advantage” is that European cups are now opened to too many clubs, allowing for extremely weak clubs to participate tbh

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