by Owzat » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:46 am
Champions League cannot be compared with the Premiership, you don't get "six points" for an aggregate win, you go through. Would we have won the league by this "six points for an aggregate win suggestion? Well it's a theory that can be proven or disproven so I 'll take the 2005/6 season where we picked up our highest points aggregate under Rafa and compare with the teams that finished above us (as many as necessary)
2005/6 season - six points for aggregate win
LIVERPOOL (3rd)
WW : 10
WD : 3
WL : 2 (won both on GD/away goals)
DD : 1 (won on away goals)
DL : 2
LL : 1
So I assume it is six points for any combination that would see us through in CL and zilch for any that don't. That would give us 16 x 6 = 96 points
CHELSEA (1st)
WW : 10
WD : 4
WL : 5 (won three on aggregate/GD and lost two, one on away goals to FULHAM)
DD : 0
DL : 0
LL : 0
So Chelsea would have picked up SEVENTEEN aggregate wins and therefore beaten us, it's nice in THEORY to say we'd win under a convaluted scoring system, but Tomkins should have tested it before coming out with it. Chelsea won 17 of their 19 head to heads on aggregate in 2005/6, Liverpool won only 16. We might have been closer, but as with the traditional points system we simply weren't close enough.
The problem is we drop too many points at home and way too many away from home. You might be interested to know that our defeats home and away were to the mancs, Chelsea scored an aggregate goals win (W3-0, L0-1) against them.
That system would be daft anyway, not to mention the fact that we'd only be three points closer than we actually finished.
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Owzat on Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
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