Wow a quicky this week: Already on sunday evening I took the time to add all league matches. So this week is available for the CL and UC matches! again a full week 8 (CL-) teams will be eliminated. Top teams, from top countries. Could Italy be almost out? I don't hope so! Let this not become the England show ones again! OK last MD the English teams were better, but let this time the roles be reversed. Let there still be a European tournament, and not an English + minor teams.
At least in UC they are not dominating. Let's hope that some French teams will be out there (especially OM. not because I'm Ajax fan: I'm not! but I am from Holland ;))
AND let the matches be nice to watch! not like Inter-ManUtd or Real-Liverpool..
And it seems that all domestic leagues start playing again. After the first KO round of the UC of the winter has finished, domestically also the leagues start again.
There were some interesting results in the UC. Most top-3 teams were eliminated, so it seems more and more that the top countries challenge the CL and the sub-top countries the UC. Would it be an idea to save the CL for the top countries and the UC(/EL) for the other? I wouldn't like the idea. Though I do like that teams that lose the Q-round in CL have another go in the EL, as it sometimes is like a punishment to start in CL, when a good run in EL is sometimes more a possibility. We will see next year.
For now the CL looks again like an England vs the rest, despite not so great performance lately of Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. I do hope that 1 or more of these teams get eliminated. THe good performance of Panathinaikos would even put an extra kick to Chelsea, as there we have tan Cate who wa
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I have updated the predictions for the country- and teamranking '09. And also the graph of it.
It shows that France and Russia are in a close fight for the 5th spot. Both did pretty well this round. Just below Ukraine has risen to the 9th spot. With Kiew, Shaktar and Metalist for Ukraine it seems to become reality that Porto, Sporting and Braga will not get enough points to stay ahead. That will mean Portugal will lose their 6th European team. For a year only probably, as for next year Holland seems to be taken that 10th spot (though more than a whole year still has to be played of course)
Hi All. I have enjoyed my vacation a lot but was eager to come back to see what had happeend in the UC matches and in the various domestic leagues. Still not all have started yet again, but more and more come to life again. With in the big leagues Barca appearing vulnarable (though with a huge gap still with Real), ManUtd seeming unbeatable still and Inter also cruising for the title. And Lyon is going for another title, while in Germany it is still a great and fantastic fight. In Portugal the top 3 is on top, so nothing new, but in Holland, though a bit struggling, AZ(very probable leaguewinner) and Twente keep being ahead of the also struggling Ajax and PSV. In Turkey we see also not top-3 faces on the top with Sivasspor and Trabzonspor.
This week more European matches to come: first CL and then elimination time in UC. Can we expect surprises? Aalborg, Metalist and Twente, (St Etienne ?) have done a great first leg preparing for such a surprise, bu
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Still only part of the leagues play, with in England even a cupweekend. But still some updates were included. If not only to give Partizan their rightfull coefficient. ...
Finally some new updates available. After adding a new file with 53 tabs on it - 1 for each country I had to update all used names - I can't follow Soccerway anymore, but maybe I use differnt languages or so, I don't know. I hope they are stable now...
Though part of Europe is still in a wintersleep, a part also continues. In England we see ManUtd rising to the top. In Holland AZ keeps doing great, while PSV has shown that there will be a nw champion after 4 years of PSV. Can Ajax threaten AZ. Even withtout Huntelaar. Suarez might be the next to leave Amsterdam. If that happens AZ will cheer, for sure.
I have been working on the update of all sheets but run into some serious trouble with Soccerway. As I download all my standings from there any change there is resulting in an update needed on my side. They did some serios re-arranging. So I had to do that too. It seems to be working again, only I noticed I have some troubles now with the team names again - I have to go thourgh all teamnames again. So I'm afraid I need a bit more time still..... Sorry..
I am on vacation and though I have my stuffwith me, I forgot I lately upgraded all to Excel 2007, which is not compataible with the versions I have here. Downgrading the sheets has not helped unfortunatley. Updates will be available again in Januari.