House of Flies
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Italy could lose a CL place to Germany.
I was looking through Bert Kassie's excellent site to check the access list for next seasons Champions League and noticed that the Italy are only 2.8 coefficient points ahead of Germany now:
# country 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 ranking
1 England 14.428 16.625 17.875 15.000 12.214 76.142
2 Spain 15.642 19.000 13.875 13.312 12.928 74.757
3 Italy 15.357 11.928 10.250 11.375 12.285 61.195
4 Germany 10.437 9.500 13.500 12.687 12.250 58.374
In the last two seasons, German teams have outperformed Italian teams gaining an extra 5.5 coefficient points. A similar outcome this season would mean Italy drop to fourth ranked team and Germany move up to third, with an extra qualifying place.
lol waay to point out the obvious ed... this was long discussed waay back. but since there are 3 italian teams compared to 2 of germany, it wouldnt happen unless bayern makes it to semis (which i dont think will happen because frey is not playing)
i dont understand how anyone can like bayern when werder bremen plays such attractive football.