If it further tweaks incentive for the benefits of the top teams, then I don’t think it’s a good idea because it means less redistribution of incomes to the lower teams.
On average, the top teams will be close to the top anyway, so I don’t see the need to further tip the financial balance in the direction of the top teams.
It might feel nice that Liverpool earns more when we’re one of the top teams, but I’d rather see some kind of fairer distribution (it’s hard to say this without rolling my eyes, when you look at the state of football globally)
The problem with the old system is if a team got thumped they’d just pick themselves up against the other two unless they somehow ended up in a group of death.
I’ve never understood why playing the home leg second is considered an advantage by so many people.
When away goals counted, it was actually a disadvantage as the second leg gave the away team an extra half hour to score the away goal if the match went to extra time.
Now that away goals don’t carry additional weight, there is still still no material advantage to playing at home second. Just spank your opponents 5-0 at home and cruise through the away leg.
There is logic that, but history tells us in practice it is different because the risk from losing the first leg encourages far more caution than we see in second legs. It does seem like the elimination of the AG rule has lessened that though so we’ll see how the trend goes moving forward.
Looking through the permutations, even with the dire looking situation City are in, they have a very winnable game to finish off and if they win there isnt a realistic scenario that sees them fail to qualify. Fail to win and they are out. But if they win, at least one from from PSG/Stuttgart would drop below them, and the only team below them that would have a mathematical chance of climbing ahead of them is Zagreb who have a 10 goal GD deficit to overcome.The most likely scenario is city win and climb 2 to 3 spots
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