A modification that was born as a result of the pandemic could become permanent in the football of Europe. And it is that UEFA is considering establishing as new regulations the dispute of unique encounters in the decisive stages of the Champions League and the Europa League.
Thus assured the president of the entity, Aleksander Ceferin, who He estimates that the measure, applied in connection with the pandemic, “provided a better show and offered much more exciting football.”
“We were forced to do it, but in the end we discovered something new”, assured the manager in an interview with the agency Reuters. “We are going to think about it in the future,” he added.
“There have been less tactics. If it is a game, if one team scores, the other must score as soon as possible. There is less time and that makes everyone fight to score, “he also expressed.
“You have to think about it,” he insisted. “But you have to see it well, because it would also generate fewer games,” he added.
The current format, without the exception of the pandemic, is valid until 2025, although according to Ceferin they must begin now to project the future.
“The way it was played now was very interesting. Much more exciting to me … It is just an idea, but if we played with this system we would play in a city. If you play in a city, you can have a soccer week or something like that. But it’s too early for that “, he emphasized. “We have seen this experience that we are living as something fantastic,” he closed.
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