Besides the updates of the domestic leagues, I also changed the Uefa-qualifcation page: I remved the regional groupings, as now a second source has confirmed that there won't be any regional groupings anymore. I have to say it simplifies my work :) It doesn't change much, but the overview is better.
And now I'm ready for this weeks UefaCup spectacle - still a lot is possible, and though some things seem clear, UefaCup is known for their surprises (e.g. imagine NEC would win in Moscow...., or Twente eliminates Schalke....(with their former coach Rutten!))
All results are in of this weeks UCL matches. Portugal and Scotland didn't had a good week, while England had a good one. Looking at the graph we see still some possible fights: for the 5th spot is France ahead of Russia, 7/8: Romania stays ahead of Holland, 9 Portgual goes down strong, 10/11 Ukraine and Turkey moving closer, 12/13 Scotland and Greece seem to end at the same level, 14/15 Switzerland and Belgium too. When it is so close, every match count, every point counts, a draw or a win, etc.
THis was the 1st of 4 midweek European weeks. IN the end we will have lost 24 teams. Some are known already, some not. I hope Anorthosis will be able to hold on! Next week only UC.
All summerleagues are ended now. On the last matchday Zenit made sure they will return next season in the European League- or at least the qualifiers for it that is.
This seasons CL is making up for MD5, more decisions will fall: who will qualify and who will be out. Also MD3 of the UC is this week. The last combined week. There the first teams will be qualified or eliminated. It is the first week of 4 european weeks: next week again UC, then CL MD6 and then the final UC MD. 24 teams will be out after that, the shape of the countryranking will get more shape. It's time for decisions!
Summer elagues are getting to the end. On the forum I put a list of the current particiapnt standing. It's almost complete. We have BATE, Kalmar, Levadia as champions.
In CL we are getting in the endfase of the Groupstages, Barca, Sporting and Juve are sure already of spring-CL, but further there are still some intersting fights going on. In general France did very well this week, resulting in a big going upwards in the predicted yearranking'09. Holland in the same time loses ground (part of this is of course the OM-PSV match, but ther is more) and now is not destined to catch up with Romania anymore. Further we also see that Italy is doing well and Turkey seems to be overtaking Ukraine - who was possibly going to get closer to Portugal, but that seems out of reach now. Though it looks now like Sporting and Porto continue in CL, while Kiev and Shakthar continue in UC, where the points lie.......
This mid-week is for domestic cup matches, but... Read more »
Hello all, after even some midweek matchdays we are now getting close to the winterbreak. We have Rubin as the Russian champion and so all summerleague champions are almost known. Kalmar and BATE are as good as champion and so we start filling in some names for the new CL-system.
As suggested very good I added a date on all sheets so you can see if you got the latest version. All should have now 3-nov-2008.
Most important this week is the next round in CL& UC. Will already some teams qualify for the CL-KO round, or be eliminated? Normally that already happens in MD4 and I see it happening again this year group DEFGH could aal already be decided who goes to CL-KO or not....Ay that doesn't sounds interesting. We'll see....
Stabaek and Inter Turku are the champions of this weekend, Kalmar got close and Rubin will play CL next year. There is a small chance they will have to play the non-champions play-off.
In CLGS we are now half way Cluj and Anorthosis couldn't surprise this week, but BATE kept Zenit on a draw. In UCGS not much can be said yet after the first MD. After the next, the first teams could already be qualified, but not now yet.
In the predicted countryranking'09 we see now Russia has dropped below France again due to the draw of Zenit, as CSKA won greatly. Greece has a downwards tendency, but still hold the possible important 13th spot. Belgium is getting closer and is s close as Switzerland now. Can Standard and Brugge beat Olympiakos and Panathinaikos?
I added all updates of last weekend. Unfortunately I have some problems with my home-computer(motherboard crashed) so I have work around that. But still there is much happening: Bohemians is the new Irish champion and see for yourself how close the other summerleagues are getting to their champions...
And a new round in the leagues has been played. Summerleagues getting to their conclusion. Stabaek is almost champion in Norway, while in Finland Inter Turku and Honka are level with 2 matches to go.
So we have 40 more eliminated teams. Holland did great and kept all their 5 teams in UC. In the end it was mostly seede teams that qualified, or a top-10 team. If we leave those out we are left with a handfull of real surprises: Zagreb, Standard, Metalist, Lech and Zilina. 28 out of 40 are teams from the top 10. I wonder how this will be next year. Of course ther will be 48 teams, but what will we see. The new 20% rule sounds like more top-3 teams will be unseeded, especially in the new Europa League, which makes that last Q4 more unpredictable and maybe draw-dependend. We'll see next year.
For now I updated the country'09 and team'09 -predictions. Ther still will be interesting battles, but most seem already finished: 5th France-Russia. Russians seem to go dormant in November/December, that might cost them the 5th spot! 9/10th Portugal-Ukraine. With keeping Benfica, I think Portugal has advantage enough to keeep on their lead 15/16 Belgium-Denmark: Denmark has starte... Read more »
And I updated all the leagues with last weekends match. And we have a new chapion in Iceland: Hafnarfjordur! I wouldn't have seen that one coming 10 days ago, where they were trailing the leader by 8 points. OK with a game in hand, but still.....Well done!
For the calcualtions and in the extended team-ranking, I have used Bert adjusted page with the 20-pct country rule, as that seems to be the new rule for next year. I haven't checked which differences it made comparing the 2 teamrankings in relation to seeding lines in CL and/or UC(sorry EL!)
I'm looking forward to this week, nit because of the Liverpool-PSV match - I fear a big loss for my PSV(see Lyonnais game), but on Thursday 40 teams will drop out. I hope for some big names to drop! And for the Dutch teams to do well NEC and Twente are doing pretty good, and have a chance despite being not-seeded. On the other hand Feyenoord is a mess.....
And I have updated all info with the results of the CL&UC matches of last week. for UC I still hold on to the seeded team as the one to qualify, as it is still possible.
For CL a few changes have already happened: Shaktar has taken 3rd spot from Basel and Atletico 3rd spot form Marseille, causing already some changes.. I suppose more will follow with next week elimination round, though the number of seede teams being really in real trouble are not that big, though some big names do appear in that list: Benfica, Tottenham, Deportivo, Feyenoord. But a lot still really have to show their seeded status to progress. As I like the underdog I wouldn't mind all these teams to fail, also teams like Everton, Rapid, Dinamo. Of course some of this is influenced by me being Dutch- I would really like to see NEC and Twente (succeed) in Europe.
I also have corrected a number of team-coefficients, I hadn't used the latest names they use on SoccerWay, s... Read more »
Just in time before the CL-GS and UC-Round 1 starts I have put all the known sheets on my site. I'm sorry it took so long. But still, looking at it, there are some strange clubs appearing in CL, that will surely never make it. The season is stil long....
The only sheet that's missing is the Domestic Cup sheet. I always start late with that, as it's undoable to already cope with it in the early rounds of it. Of course some are already further. I will try to find that out soon (e.g. read the topic on Berts forum :) )
For this week: have fun with all the matches and I hope good results for your facorit team (except when they play a Dutch team of course)
Oh yes, I still have to update the leagoverview sheet to let it contain Q4 in the columns behind the tables (does anybody use those columns actualy, do you know what they were for? I will update them anyway, because I looked at them (sometimes).
After some request of the Veselyev brothers I decided to introduce a forum. I thought it wasn;t necessary as we have Bert's forum, but things specifically concerning my sheets can be discussed here. I prefer to keep all discussion about coefficients on Berts forum, but if there is something about my sheets, either the format or the way the predictions go you/we can discuss it here.
At the same time i also put up a new Poll if you think this forum should be here or not. Actually i wanted only to put that there, but the forum was already installed before I realised I did that. Have fun and let me know what you think!
