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top 4 qualification to big cup
Shame UEFA gave the 4th highest rank country (currently Italy) a 4th CL place from 18/19. It would have been fun to be leapfrogged by Italy (will probably happen next year if Italy outperform the English clubs in Europe) and dropped to only 3 teams in the CL.
Little chance of France catching us: http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/crank2018.html (Italy will be on 59.249 if Juve beat Real if my calculations are correct. England above them on 59.534 but England due to lose 2.619 points over Italy when the 13/14 season drops off the end of the 5 year average.)
Greenbank
cornelius_blackfoot
I refer you to these comments
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13654286/
more Premier League teams should be taking it seriously, and it's only because of the back door entry to the UCL that Mourinho did, as it was his last way of salvaging something from this season, apologies to the Community Shield and League Cup.
Europa League success should be valued in and of itself, but we (Prem teams) don't view it as anything more than a disturbance to doing well in the league and top 4 qualification to big cup. We should have been getting teams into the quarters and semi's, if not the final, regularly, for the last decade.
One thing that Pochettino needs to progress in, is managing in European competition, and the fact that we got shoved out of both the UCL and EL when we had a great opportunity to challenge for the Europa League and didn't take it. Hoping next season Pochettino improves as the team has done...