DOMINO EFFECT
If Barça and Madrid are expelled from the Champions... Who will replace them?
Published:13/05/2021 - 20:51h
Updated:14/05/2021 - 01:44h
With the possibility that UEFA excludes Barça and Madrid from the next two editions of the Champions League, due to the Super League, the debate has started on who would replace them
LaLiga Santander is for finish, but still are in dispute the tíckets to assist to the next Europe League, with a battle that, for the moment, the Real Sociedad and Betis are winning. However, it is opened the panorama to that they will be the fifth and sixth qualifiers of the championship those that accompany to the Athletic of Madrid and Seville to the next edition of the Champions League.
It fits to remember that the UEFA has begun the formalities to exclude to the clubs that continue in the ship of the Superliga: the Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and the Juventus of Turín and that, in the last week, announced that "the UEFA will occupy of them more advance, but reserves all the rights to take the measures that consider timely against those clubs that up to now have denied to renounce to the call Superliga", a firm threat of Aleksander Ceferin to the three teams.
Like this then , considering that they can be excluídos, has begun the debate regarding the clubs that yes will be the tournament, remembering that Spain has four squares reserved for the Champions League. If it is the case, the second and third position of the championship (where are the Madrid and Barça) would remain free and would be the following classified those that participate in the Champions League.
The UEFA, however, is the one who decides to which teams correspond the squares and, arrived the case, will dictate the criterion of destribución in front of the vacancies that would leave the madridistas and blaugrana. Thus, 'Sportive World' indicates that, according to sources of the Spanish Federation, takes for granted that "to be excluded the two 'big' of our football, the echelon 'would run' downwards and his places would be for the immediately classified teams behind his", as it reads in the half.
An effect dominated
Like consequence of the classification of the fifth and sixth of the table of LaLiga, the passes to the Europe League also would change of addressees. They would be, arrived the case, the two teams that are in the seventh and eighth position when it finish the season, Villarreal and Celtic of Vigo in these moments, although the 'yellow submarine' has possibilities to classify to the to Champions League if they achieve to win the final of the Europe League in front of the Manchester United.
It fits to remember that still there is not a decision taken, but all the horizons are opened. In any case, it will be necessary to be very attentive to what happen in the weeks to come, when it already finish the season, to know the final decision of the UEFA regarding the clubs that follow supporting the project of the Superliga, so much in Spain as in Italy.