No I meant group stages as well as the knockout stages, for the reasons I've already outlined.
They counted in EPL games last season, in the event of goal difference and goals scored unable to separate teams level on points in the table. It was never needed to separate teams at the end of the season. Now the away goals are gone from all forms of the game and I absolutely hate it. It just means more defensive football and more extra times to be played, as seen this week at Shakhtar Donetsk v Monaco to decide who got the last spot in the group stage.
Our schedule has now been confirmed and maybe because it's the beginning of the new TV contracts, but the format is radically different to the group stage in previous seasons, and there is a new ko time for the early games, albeit all our group games start at the usual time.
v Milan (h)
v Porto (a)
v Atletico (a)
v Atletico (h)
v Porto (h)
v Milan (a)
Sequence: Wednesday-T-T-W-W-Tuesday
Hopefully we'll wrap it up with 1 game to go, but I think this group is going to the wire and we're not at home when it is.
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