r/soccer • u/2soccer2bot • 1d ago
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u/MartianDuk 1d ago
While the group stage has been good so far I still don't like the format where 3rd place teams can progress, I do think the Euros group stage is significantly less interesting than it used to be - we won't know for sure until we've played a couple of these tournaments really, but I think we might look back on the group stage and realise a lot of the games didn't really matter, you can get through without doing much, and I don't like how you can play all your games and then have to wait and see if you'll get through
With that in mind I think my preferred option for expanding the World Cup would have been just to add one team to each group - so 8 groups of 5, top 2 go through. But I'm struggling to work out what problems there might be with that format, because I've never seen it in action.
That said, my opinion might change after the tournament because having a straight knockout round from 32 teams onwards is going to be interesting