Posted May 27, 2024 00:26
· last edited May 27, 2024 00:27
coochiee
Hopefully this means he's available for both the Nations Cup & Olympics now. If Empoli had got relegated would have been some uncertainty about his club future. He only started 18 of Empoli's 38 Serie A games so physically he should be pretty fresh. Mentally likely a little drained right now!
It was an incredibly tight relegation battle. Any of 4 teams could have finished 18th on the final day and been the final relegated team.
Cannavaro's Udinese won 1-0 at Frosinone in the simultaneous KO. A real relegation 6 pointer. Ex Aston Villa lad Keinan Davis with the 76th min winner for Udinese.
If that game had finished a draw, by my maths Empoli would still have gone down despite beating Roma. The cards fell Empoli's way
If the game was a draw, Udinese would have gone down on 35 points :)
Interestingly, in the event that 17th/18th are equal on points, all other tiebreakers are forgotten and teams play essentially a relegation playoff match (the host is decided by whoever had the better head-to-head record between the two).
That would be incredibly tasty action if so! Happened in 22/23 when 18th-placed Hellas Verona stayed up at the expense of Spezia, who finished above them in 17th, after a 3-1 playoff win
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coochiee
Hopefully this means he's available for both the Nations Cup & Olympics now. If Empoli had got relegated would have been some uncertainty about his club future. He only started 18 of Empoli's 38 Serie A games so physically he should be pretty fresh. Mentally likely a little drained right now!
It was an incredibly tight relegation battle. Any of 4 teams could have finished 18th on the final day and been the final relegated team.
Cannavaro's Udinese won 1-0 at Frosinone in the simultaneous KO. A real relegation 6 pointer. Ex Aston Villa lad Keinan Davis with the 76th min winner for Udinese.
If that game had finished a draw, by my maths Empoli would still have gone down despite beating Roma. The cards fell Empoli's way
If the game was a draw, Udinese would have gone down on 35 points :)
Interestingly, in the event that 17th/18th are equal on points, all other tiebreakers are forgotten and teams play essentially a relegation playoff match (the host is decided by whoever had the better head-to-head record between the two).