With the elimination of Lazio from the Europa League, the hope of having five teams in the Champions League fades. They will have the Premier League and Liga
After chasing the UEFA ranking and the fifth team in the Champions League. For some time it seemed an impossible mission, then Inter in the semifinal, Real Madrid outside the Champions League, Lazio and Fiorentina still in the running in Europe and conference had fueled the last hopes. The penalties that promoted the Bodø were the last chapter, but the qualification of the biancocelesti would have only postponed the verdict: Spain reached 23,250 of coefficient, Italy is to 21.187 and can no longer reach it even if Inzaghi and Palladino raised their cups.
Premier and Liga
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It was nice to delude yourself, now we return to tradition: in the next Champions League the first four of the championship will go, the fifth is a place in the Europa League. Today Inter, Naples, Atalanta and Juve would be the qualified, but Bologna, Lazio and Rome have the right to dream, and Fiorentina and Milan are out for logic but not for arithmetic. The additional club deservedly belongs to England and Spain that bring four and three teams to the semifinals.
The beautiful novelty
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The award goes to the two championships that conquer the best results during the season. The photograph of this situation is the UEFA seasonal ranking that contributes, with those of the four previous vintages, to compose the absolute ranking to decide the contingents of all the championships. We have four like England, Spain and Germany. The extra place had given more meaning to the final of the last season by promoting Motta’s Bologna.
the disappointments
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Too bad that the rossoblù have “understood” Italian after a while, stopping in the group. But the points had to come from Juve, Milan and Atalanta, all out in the Champions League playoffs against opponents predictably immediately out of the games: PSV, Feyenoord and Bruges were beatable but they met the worst versions of Motta, Conceiçao and Gasperini. Then it was Roma who lost the Europa League train in Bilbao. Inter and Fiorentina remained and can still dream of a success in two cups where there is no favorite.
absolute ranking
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In absolute ranking Italy remains second. England is first with abysmal detachment, over 112.5 of coefficient. The Serie A chases with 96.5, Spain is third with 93.8, fourth Germany with 86.3. Going down to fifth would be the problem, a club would be forced to preliminaries, but France is far away, with 72 coefficient.
Seasonal UEFA ranking 1st England 26,821 2 ° Spain 23,250 3rd Italy 21,187 4th Germany 18,421 5 ° France 16,857 6 ° Portugal 16,250 7 ° Belgium 15,650 8th Holland 15,250
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