Greece already has its 2nd best performance of the last 5 years and it’s MD2. Says it all about how terrible some of the last seasons were.
We would be even better if Olympiacos hadn’t reverted back to the early 00s, having a top-heavy team with all the quality concentrated in the attack while at the back doing blunder after blunder thus failing to consistently bring results in Europe. Today’s draw was inexcusable in every sense.
PAOK though more than made up for it (regarding the Country Ranking) because not only they got the win against the “big” team but they are hoping for 1st place now, which gives a lot of bonus points.
AEK and Panathinaikos could have either won or lost, so 2 draws is a good overall result, and keep both of them 1st for now in the Group.
I think it’s a matter of time to catch 2 of Norway, Israel and Ukraine, and the question is if our clubs will get enough wins to catch Serbia for 15th.
Czechia looks set for 12th and Denmark for 13th.
Look out for Belgium in the battle for the top 2 coeffcients of the season - all 3 of their ECL clubs can win their Groups, I think they will overtake Turkey at some point (after Besiktas’ fiasco today).
Cyprus with the huge Aris win today can feel confident for 22nd, Hacken looks out of their depth in the EL.
And in the bottom part, the Faroe keep collecting!
Czechia will be ahead of us.
We will get Israel, Norway, Ukraine and Serbia.