UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW, FIXTURES & PREDICTIONS AS NEW FORMAT BEGINS

[Music] some draw in the new Champions League format 36 teams a leak face before a round of 16 pH we both going to try to make sense of that draw we had earlier today welcome to the channel as usual I am your host El here and I'll not be doing this alone uh the Lali will be helping me to explain this draw the fixtures and everything in between for all the various ports looks like it's going to be a lengthy one there but guys welcome to the channel initial thoughts on the draw before deali steps in initial thoughts on the draw okay I think it's it's it's a new era for the UEFA Champions League and with the teams playing a lot of matches as you can see in the draw it's going to be an exciting one because you're going to see a lot of games you're going to see aot of big clubs facing each other yeah so it's going to be a fantastic one for us as football fans andjoin backto back fishes of the UFA Champions League big games as well Champions League Night Champions League nights are always special and I think as fans nothing more we can expect from this so I I think from the beginning it was it was quite confusing I was looking at I'm like I was trying to make sense of everything but I think the Baseline is that every team has the specific number of matches and the teams that they facing so then it's as simple as that I don't think we should bother our head over how it's going to play but bottom line is it's going to be exciting uh new format New Era right now I'm just trying to wrap my head around who will probably leap into scoring the first go and then probably later on setting some records in this new competition so I think this is exciting D before you explain anything they say change is the only con stand thing in our lives change is good what do you make of this new format especially looking at the fact that you don't you get to play a team just once you don't get home and away fixures again I think the format is a bit enforced because obviously it's as a result of Perez and the Super League emerging and trying to threaten bance of things there a few the super leag cre more competitive games more football like more football and also more competive according to research the the normal football fan now would love to watch more games more important fees than just 1990 minutes of average teams play you know who going to round of 16 already and also it's also in a way that according to research to the average football fan doesn't enjoy watching the entire 19 minutes so the the LIF span or the attention span of the younger generation is gradually geing towards different certain things and also we don't spend a lot of time on the on television to watch football so before I stay and watch a game it should be a game that really really interested in so I think those are the few things that UEFA picked and then decided to remodify it and just confuse everybody with the structure and all them things but I think as I I said I made a switch that it be a football fan before I go into IND try and explain if you're a football fan and you don't understand the draw don't worry the the part that you should worry about is the matches concept and be free okay so jump into right how the draw was held and so I think the draw was a bit straight forward it had one done by a human being and then the most difficult Parts done by a computerized system system simply because so Buon job was basically simple just pick the club in the the ports and the matches will be determined and I think that's where people get it confused so each team has a unique line of M that's basically it so that's where people get confused so each team has a unique line of matches but also because it's just 36 teams there will be a point where the matches will overlap so it's like four of us we are going to play football match among ourselves but we have unique line of matches so you play three people three matches at random but definitely you you play Among Us you get so that's that's how it is and that's why some of the teams are playing matches that looks familiar some are also playing matches that don't look familiar so that's basically it and also others will think about how the league will be determined so on the normal League table you are supposed to play all the teams in the so on the normal League table you are supposed to play the 36 teams on the league table but it's not like that you are every team is playing I think it's seven matches right eight matches it's eight matches so each team is playing eight matches eight different the league pH we have to the league like the league is the most so the 36 teams they going to play each but each team has a unique set of eight matches that they will play good and that will determine their point so after match day one we all play different teams but it's still three points so after match D1 you play one match you have okay three points maybe after my match I play the draw one point you play a draw one point so that's how they so they accumulated over the over the eight matches that each team will play so then after that then they move to the the round of city which is the normal one that we are familiar with I think first eight qual automatically and then the second one the 16 I think plays I think from 9 9 to 24 yeah play the other team that goes into the next so a to it's a b pretty simple so one each team plays unique set of matches to Det determined their points to give them a slot and the leag table and then you move on so what Buon did was pick just pick the team from each of the points yes just for Port one to four then Ronaldo Taps the machine uses certain parameters like countries teams different countries you have already played Med before coefficient like so they use certain parameters exactly so after port one moving to Port two you know Port one gotten this te so it has to T and so it's more like the basic when you're doing the normal draw the basic things that we do so okay two two countries in the same two teams in the same country are not supposed to meet at this period so you place the balls in in a certain way you arrange the boss in when I mean boss I mean like football like the boss not the boss like you place it in a like you place it in a way that it doesn't conflict so that one human being that but this one it involves like it's a computerized complicated why they the computer to deter soob of the computer is just deter a team that's all so let me just get your opinion before we look at the some of the fixtures for the English teams that is a computerized system is there not a chance of rigging here because even with the ones that they pick it with their hand they say no they know they know which one is cold they know how it feels so they think that it's rigged don't you think that bottom line is you can you can never satisfy anyone okay so computerized is all computerized so people there'll be people that for it be people that are against it you just can't satisfy everybody so and I think I think it's a it's a good way to actually go about it it makes it easier yeah human being yeah it makes it easier the world is actually going towards Ai and a lot of all those things so I think they also embracing it theying it their draw and it's it's going to help all right what do you think about that ring I don't think so because a lot of these clubs the leaders are there we saw the event actually the president of each Club is present everybody's there they all watching and they voted for this so they are all satisfied with what happened the only problem here is that a lot of people are seeing a whole new structure of football in terms of the the new of the UFA champions league and it's new so basically everybody have questions and people do not understand but since if the game starts to from the 17 of September right if it's that for March they one and you see the teams playing each other everybody get to the comfortability be there people get used to it and able to move on honestly it's not really complicated the machine that makes it comp it takes care of the hard part Yeah so basically if the kickoff it starts nobody cares anymore nobody cares about what whether it was computerized or whether I think all people care about is that their favorite to the next and it will be exciting as well because it's going to be a new system and people be counting points where is your team are you are you first on the table so those are the B will come in oh my team is first where are you your team is bottom of the table not at all you know you know you know the previous one you were you were you were topping group sorry you topping groups that we topping groups away from like each other so if you're in group b you it's just basically the four team that you the same but now your performance in your line also influences your performance on the table so at this point good Barcelona fans real mad MADD fans we are all on the same table so if you are good it will show yeah interesting so before we move forward and look at specific fixtures fixtures dates and times we come out on Saturday shows you how complicated system there's a lot of matches weekend to get us fures and there'll be eura league and the conference League draw tomorrow as or in the morning but let's look at Arsenal's fixtures first of all in the Premier League as we are focusing on that today PSG Inter Milan Shak donet Atlanta D zagre sporting CP as Monaco and Girona thoughts on this one here I think obviously fortunately there are some few couple of as a fan they are top three tough matches that you're going to play and then the interesting part is either home or away is determined on random so they playing PSG away or home yeah the play PSG home that's a very good one Home Atlanta away I think D Zagreb home sporting CP away Monaco home and then Shira away so I think yeah they they are very I think very unfortunate because their toughest game which is against P they are playing at the M stadium and that's the fortunate part if you are lucky to get your tough matches at home then is get opportunity to play a second league so just a oneoff match and you have to make sure that you I think Arsenal have a very decent F if you it looks like a yeah it's true looks like they playay Munich first time I think theyve want they yeah they have RB SEC away Juventus home clab brge away Celtic home young boys away bologa home and then as Monaco away that's for Aston Villa first time in Europe with a new format first time in a long time yeah with a new format your chances this is difficult because um but then again we also have to think of the person in the home of Affairs that isry he has done it multiple times at the Europa League level I don't think this should also be new for him against juv against bolog I think I think he can go head to head but it will be difficult probably I see them probably being around the playoffs playoff faces okay faces so for Liverpool I give you Liverpool so ni Real Madrid RP Li by Li AC Milan Leo PSB hen bolog shirona how do you see this one going it's a tough one it's a tough one a tough one a tough one for Liverpool there the matches are it seems bologa is the only team in there that it seems they don't have any European experience matches yeah they have tough matches yeah yeah and I think Liverpool themselves they coming with a new coach and slot in Europe it's going to last season I'm play the UFA Champions League no so it's going to be a whole and the new players sign as well like the of ma this the first time they going to be in the Champions League and and unfortunately for them the Champions has changed of atically so manity will take on Inter Milan PSG Cloud Bru Juventus fire not sporting CP Sparta prag and slovan practice La is an easy one for Man City think easy fixures for the English side do you think it makes winning the Champions League had a final thoughts that would be that doesn't make winning the Champions League any harder than it already was I think what it does is it makes the the initial games more difficult like the initial to the next stage because now you play seven matches that's at four are more competitive clubs that are on your on your level the pr previous Edition when you are a tough team you are seeded and then you get lower teams so it's like the toughest opponent at your level you can get is maybe the next one so you get only two tough open like another extra tough match and then the other ones are manageable but this time around you have at least seven you have at least four matches that are on on your level and apart from that your your position on the Le table is also determined by other teams performance to as well unless you win all your seven matches then you are free from that if you you start getting draws somewhere you start be praying that someone loses their matches so that they drop a point so I think that's what makes the opening stages so you may be very good when you go to The Knockout stages but before you even qualify to The Knockout stages you have to be very good very very good any I I think it will still be on the same level um the reason why I think for English Sims it's hard for them to actually advance to uh probably knockout faces or even win the champions league is because of the number of matches they have in terms of the domestic competion and the domes competions are still the caral and caral and FA cup plus the Le of um I think it's still the same I think yeah I think it's still the same um the likes of asva have like equal uh matchup to to play like equal teams in terms of levels to play I think Arsenal also has similar so it will probably still be around the same chances that they they have what do you think it's going to be a very difficult one for the English class yeah because if you look at the way the English teams have performed in the previous Champions League they they find it very difficult when it comes to knockout Feast of the competition and this one it seems like just the knockout faces because when you're playing an opponent even in the in the group phase is a is is a do or as because if you lose a game it's 30 same so if you lose a game imagine the first are been played and maybe you are facing PSG like Arenal you lose and you lose you're going back to the 36th position before you climb it's going to be before you climb up to the top you have to face other opponents who are equally good as you so winning your first three games are equally important as like just like a knockout yeah so it's really really difficult it's really difficult even than I think but I think the team that has it the toughest is Paris let me run you through the app they play Man City they play Bayern Munich yeah they play Atletico Madrid that's Aral yeah they has AR in it play PSV play salburg are so unlucky and play they so unlucky theough I think they went which sport and just pick the toughest I'm sure they'll be against the computer why Always a computerized system in any kind of draw but the other the other bit is that if they able to come out this like really well then they would have beli within themselves that they can win the competition because you face all the best teams in your might face them again they might face them again and it will be a different story Al together but at least it gives you perspective and confidence know how to approach their other games but also I think the other advantageous the fact that um it's a league Fest so maybe at the time they play a very tough game they would know their position on the league table the other results from other matches also have influenced on how the game will come up but on hindsight on any day these matches are pretty much tough matches and I think the fish is very tough justifies the reason why UFA perhaps wants to do this so yeah so I have exciting FES but one thing is you see the top 18 teams who will be qualifying to the next pH I'm sure they'll be seeded into like the tree aspects where if you are very good from the group faces that or the league phas that you've seen you you probably have a good knockout yeah part to the final in the no car phase so I think it beneficial to them like that on the Le table detes Yeah so it beneficial to them if they are able to win their matches and qualif in next pH well guys thank you for joining us that we've tried our best to explain and break down the Champions League new format and draw the full fixures on your screen right now you can pause now and zoom in and probably have a look at it but the ufi website will have all the details for you tomorrow is the Europa League draw and fixures will be on Saturday thank you guys for joining me I'll see you guys in the next one have a great evening [Music] [Music]