That was my point when I said that Lech played better and were having a nice passing game until the conditions were unplayable. We started playing and being better only when there were no conditions to play a passing game.
Italy has more or less lost the 4th spot, but it doesn't come into effect into 12-13 season, so this season we can afford to finish in the top 4, next season we will be better and will finish in the top 2
Serie A will lose CL spot next season. We're struggling to reach 4th place so it's only a threat for us and it might hurt us a lot eventually. We'll have to spend A LOT to be ready to get at least 3rd place.
Anyway, even if we managed to qualify, it was still gonna be useless (coefficient-wise) because teams like Sampdoria (and Palermo+Napoli most probably) are getting eliminated from the groups 1 round before the end. All the Italians in Europe, especially those who played EL in the last years, are responsible for losing the 4th CL spot.
how does the CL coefficient work anyway?what happens if another italian team win the CL again this season,will the 4th spot of 2012-13 season still go to Germany?
Anyway, even if we managed to qualify, it was still gonna be useless (coefficient-wise) because teams like Sampdoria (and Palermo+Napoli most probably) are getting eliminated from the groups 1 round before the end. All the Italians in Europe, especially those who played EL in the last years, are responsible for losing the 4th CL spot.
I did! I am glad we are out of this bullshit, this exit probably means 3-6 more points to the league, and that's great for me. I wouldn't risk being in that shitty competition for the league.
I don't think crashing out will affect us like last year, I don't think CL qualification from the group stages would have saved us last year for that matter.
I find it funny how Europa was a distraction in all of this, treated like nothing but a worthless cup, I guess it didnt mean much when we were trying to achieve enough points to qualify for it last season and here we are. Its like the logic is that we have to do win serie A before we can ever attempt to achieve anything in europe. Thats not taking tonights performance away, we tried but clearly could have and should have been in a better position..
atleast we got used to the feeling of being eliminated in the groupe stage
but srsly let's concentrate on serie a now get top 4 finish and see what we can do with cl money a new stadium etc next year.....if we add the right players we can atleast reach the knockout phase next year
how does the CL coefficient work anyway?what happens if another italian team win the CL again this season,will the 4th spot of 2012-13 season still go to Germany?
It's complicated.
All you need to know is that 99.9% Italy will have 3 teams in CL (only two that qualify directly) for the next 3-4 years (starting from 2012) and probably for more years after that.
how does the CL coefficient work anyway?what happens if another italian team win the CL again this season,will the 4th spot of 2012-13 season still go to Germany?
Yeah, because the majority of their teams do better in europe than Italian teams do. Despite the fact that most German teams do absolutely fuck all in the CL. Its Italians teams poor attitude to the EL that has cost them the 4th spot.