The week may have started with… bitterness, as well Panathinaikos and AEK they failed to make it through to the Champions League gold-bearing groups, however it continued with two comfortable wins for Olympic and PAOK, who destroyed Csukaritsky and Hearts respectively and passed in style to the Europa and Conference groups.
Somehow, we will again see four Greek teams playing in Europe in the fall. That 2014 it had happened last time, with Olympiakos then in the Champions League and PAOK, Panathinaikos and Astera Tripoli taking part in Europa.
Busy initially on Friday (01/09) midday, with twelve teams drawn to play against ours, even busier then our Thursdays, which brings headache even in UEFA because of… fellow residents of Piraeus, Union and “greens”!
The summary of the case, however, is that the last… normal season in UEFA club competitions, we will be able to experience it properly. You see, from next year, the world-changing changes brought about by the European Federation will be implemented, with the increasing groups from 32 to 36 and the replacement of the groups by a single league, where each club will play eight games.
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Changes that we have already analyzed and that there is no reason to give us a headache yet. Surely sooner or later we will get used to them, after all. However, those who deal with it Football Managerhave experienced the new reality as the popular realistic video game traditionally makes the switch in 2024.
More important to remember, that there will no longer be a possibility of… transfer from one event to another after the end of the qualifiers. If you pass, for example, in the Champions League group, you will either advance or be eliminated. You will not be able to continue in Europa.
So before all these new fruits come, we will see four Greek teams participating in the Europa & Conference League. Three and one respectively, with Olympiakos, AEK and Panathinaikos needing not to finish at the bottom of their groups to play in Europe after the holidays.
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PAOK, on the other hand, will have to repeat the wonderful course of the 2021/22 season to continue. And with what he has shown in the qualifiers so far, why shouldn’t he succeed.
Certainly, all four of our representatives should be looking up. The Europa League has evolved in recent years into… a small Champions League, including this year from Liverpool and Roma to Ajax and Villarrealhowever Genk, Dinamo Zagreb, Marseille respectively were high-level teams and went home after the match with Greek teams!
On the other hand, with so many big names in the second regular UEFA competition as well as in the third (Fenerbahce, Fiorentina, Dinamo Zagreb among others), it is certain that big nights await us.
We’ll live it right, then. All four representatives of Greece left promises, allowed us to hope for a good harvest in the UEFA standings and the next quarter is predicted to be very interesting. A last season as we are used to it, we have the opportunity to remember it for the 24 matches we will see between September and December.
Source: Sport Fm
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