With the Champions League kicking off today, it is important to look at how AC Milan could progress, and what will be required of Paulo Fonseca’s side ahead of the Liverpool game.
The Champions League remains one of the most exciting competitions in World football, let alone European football and Milan vs. Liverpool is a fantastic game to kickstart things. However, the competition has been reworked.
In the past, teams would be drawn into a four-team group playing each other side twice – once home and once away. This has been scrapped by UEFA, though, in favour of a new league format. Now, clubs will face eight teams in a league system, and the hope is that this will provide a more exciting opening stage to the competition with teams having a larger chance of progression.
Perhaps, this could alter how teams perform in games, as suggested by a journalist earlier today.
This morning, Gazzetta dello Sport looked into how many points may be required to progress through the competition, and their findings have been relayed by Milan News.
How many points do you need to go through in the new Champions League?
“Only the top eight qualify for the round of 16. The football statistics platform ‘Football meets Data’ carried out ten thousand simulations and this is what came out. In 28% of the simulations, 14 points were sufficient for eighth place. In 42% of the simulations fifteen were needed. In 24% as many as 16 points. In short, with five wins and a draw you have a good chance of advancing to the round of 16.”
