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Across Europe, soccer leagues try to navigate the complicated and tense maze that is ending their national calendars.
Resolutions are coming. UEFA issued May 25 as the deadline for leagues to declare whether or not they will try to end their seasons. If they choose not to, then it will be about how end an endless season. Do they nullify everything? Keep the classification as it is? Are you trying to discover some kind of formula? Does it work with points per game?
The decision to start or not to start is likely to be made by local and government officials as well as soccer stakeholders. There is not much a club can do, even a powerful one, if a local authority applies certain distancing practices. We have already seen that leagues eliminate any idea of restarting due to the practicalities and complexities within their own countries. Each of them is looking for different ideas on how to solve their season.
Let’s take a look at each one, apply them to the Premier League and rate their possible impact on Liverpool.
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Bundesliga
Bundesliga clubs have returned to training before an anticipated return to action next month in contained games behind closed doors. However, that plan remains in the air as the German government continues to tighten restrictions on public life. Is it possible that sport receives a kind of exemption? Of course. But it is still unlikely.
If the league returns, the clubs are expected to play in a kind of “pod” system: located in World Cup-style base camps across the country, with games played consistently in a compressed time frame.
Grade: A + – This, of course, is the stage that most Liverpool fans expect. It’s the best of a bad situation: he won the title in the countryside, even if it is behind closed doors. Such a solution would have to be organized in partnership with the government, which is already coordinating possible solutions with the clubs.
Belgian first division
At the time of writing, the Belgian first division is expected to be canceled. The league proposes to award the title to Club Brugge, which was 15 points from Genk’s second place with one game before the season-ending playoffs.
Belgian clubs postponed a vote on Monday that would confirm the cancellation, although it is expected to be finalized next week (the Belgian F.A. is leaving the door ajar for a possible makeover, yes, this is all confusing).
The league’s governing board has taken the position that players are unlikely to be able to train by the time the games can restart and that the stress on the public health system is not worth playing the last seven games of the season. There is also a concern that the league would have to be canceled anyway if a player becomes infected. Essentially, the Belgian authorities say: our season is canceled and first place will be declared champion unless Something drastic changes.
Grade: B + – It is a sensible but complicated approach. It’s nice that the league has already come up with what will happen if they can’t restart the league, rather than the reverse approach of most other leagues. The problem: The solution only addresses European champions and places, not any of the potential legal issues surrounding promotion or relegation.
French result 1
France is ending its season. All that remains to be decided is how they will end the season. The first: finish the season halfway. It makes any sense: everyone should everyone has played, home / away divisions would be random, the final ranking is determined by feats on the field.
Grade A – It is a bit difficult for the Premier League because some teams had not played the same number of games at the league midpoint. Liverpool, for example, had played 18 games with the rest of the league’s 19 and had not yet played against Wolves, despite playing against the Spurs twice. Still: it would mean that Liverpool is crowned champion, so he gets an A.
French result 2
A favorite of the end-of-season crowd: End the season based on points per game. Mathematics does not For real add, which is a problem. And there are arguments that it is improperly weighed against those who had a complicated schedule up to this point, but who would have had a rather favorable encounter. That’s all fair, but it’s still a better solution than any.
Grade A – The same as above from a Liverpool perspective. There are problems related to European places and promotion / descent. But in any scenario, Liverpool would be crowned champion.
French result 3
The third option on the table in France is to cancel the season entirely. As with any league, the idea could be a legal and financial quagmire, but things are tad easier given the monopoly of Paris Saint-Germain at the top of the league. Again, problems will abound at European and promotion / relegation venues, particularly with Uefa issuing an edict that will only allow clubs to participate in European competitions based on “sports merit” next season.
Grade: F – Any scenario that denies Liverpool a title they’ve earned deserves an F. Here’s something to consider: The reported cost of canceling the Ligue 1 season, according to the Italian financial newspaper Calcio e Finanza, is € 100-200 millions. The cost to the Premier League: € 860 million. Now, that cost is relative: the average income is much, much, much less in Ligue 1. But, even so, that’s half a BILLION euros that the Premier League would lose. It is just a different bet.
Eredivisie
The strangest and worst of all results. The Netherlands have tried to do it both ways: keeping their teams in European competitions next year, trying to achieve that nickname of “sports merit”; override the season to maintain the status quo on the flight. The season is canceled starting this week, with no champion declared, no one promoted or relegated (despite a team having clear double-digit points at the top of the second division). However, the league will continue to offer teams for the Champions League and Europa League based on the positions they were in at the time of the cancellation. Weird, right?
Grade: F- – Horrible. An option that feels more for money than for sports integrity. We know that the former will end up being more important than the latter, but it would be nice if the league at least faked it a bit.
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