Spartacus: in the Champions League via Basel or Thessaloniki – Eurocups News – Football

"Spartacus" will play with the Greek PAOK or the Swiss "Basel", "Zenith" – with Minsk "Dynamo" or the Slovak DAK. "Ufa", if it takes place in the second qualifying round "Domžale", will meet the Hungarian "Gonved" or the "Luxembourg Progres" (how many of you have heard about this team?)

UEFA , change the format of the European competition, persists in the small. Not for the first year of the qualifying round of the summer, individual teams do not participate in the draw, but pairs of teams in which only the first matches have been played or none have been played. played.

The same picture could be observed yesterday

There are reasons for this. For example, related to logistics. Probably, UEFA will find many arguments to explain the immutability of its actions.

Let's try, in turn, to bring a counter-argument. Take, for example, the draw for the third qualifying round of "Tournament 10". Before that, the participants were divided into "seeded" and "non-seeded". Among the first were "Benfica" and Kiev "Dynamo" (there are no questions), as well as two pairs: "Ajax" – "Sturm" and PAOK – "Basel". They arrived only because Ajax and Basel have better coefficients than Fenerbahce, Spartak, Standard and Prague Slavia. And maybe, in the second qualifying round, "Ajax" and "Basel" will give "Sturm" and PAOK? Is not it more correct to wait until they identify the strongest, and only after that, shoot the third qualifying round? In this case, the same "Sturm", after defeating "Ajax", would have entered the "unseeded", giving way to the "seeded" "Fenerbahce".

The same situation in the European League. Maybe even more complicated. Because we still do not know who will go there in the Champions League.

The scheme of the European Cup with each three-year cycle becomes more and more confusing and cumbersome. In an effort to appeal to small and medium sized clubs, UEFA is trying to extend tournament life to as many teams as possible. From where – the emergence of qualifying rounds, the duplication of the main, and the transition from the Champions League to the Europa League. For example, the defeat in the third qualifying round of the Champions League does not put an end to the team's performance during the Euro-season-2018/19. She moves … in the Europa League group tournament. In other words, if "Spartacus" fails PAOK or "Basel", red-white will not remain without the autumn of the European Cup

and to compose the company " Lokomotiv "and CSKA at the Champions League group tournament, the team Mbadimo Carrera must play successfully four matches – in the third and fourth qualifying rounds. The same "obstacles" on the way to "Zenith" in the league group of the League of Europe, where Russia has obtained directly "Krasnodar". As a result, "Ufa" has to overcome three qualifying rounds.

Then, in both club tournaments, our country will be represented by six teams, who will try not to give the Portuguese the sixth place in the UEFA clbadification. I recall that it allows you to claim three clubs in the Champions League (two directly)

LEAGUE OF THE CHAMPIONS

Third qualifying round of "Tournament 10"
PAOK / BASEL – SPARTAK
STANDARD – AJAX / STORM
BENFIKA – FENERBAKHCHE
SLAVIA Pr-Dynamo K.

Third qualifying round
SELTK / RUSENBORG – AEK
SALZBURG – SHKENDIA / SHERIFF
CREATIVE STAR / JUDGE – LEGIA / SPARTAK
KUKESHI / KARABAKH – BATE / HIK
ASTANA / MIDTJULLANN – DYNAMO WITH HAPOEL B-SH
CFR / MALME – LUDOGORETS / VIDI