tirto.id - Final Liga Champions UEFA (UCL) selama ini digelar di lokasi netral dengan format single leg dan hanya menjadi perebutan juara 1. Kenapa final UCL tidak pakai leg 2? Selain itu, kenapa tak ada perebutan juara 3?
Laga final Liga Champion menjadi satu-satunya pertandingan UCL yang tak digelar dalam 2 pertemuan (2 leg). Format final UCL dengan single leg ini berbeda dari skema yang ada di kompetisi antar-klub level tertinggi di beberapa benua lainnya.
Partai final kompetisi antar-klub level wahid di Afrika (CAF Champions League), Asia (Liga Champions AFC), serta Liga Champions CONCACAF (Amerika Utara, Amerika Tengah, dan Karibia) hingga kini masih menggunakan format 2 leg (kandang-tandang).
Sementara itu, di Amerika Latin (Copa Libertadores), format final dengan dua leg sempat diberlakukan sejak 1960 sampai 2018. Di edisi-edisi Copa Libertadores berikutnya, skema final tak lagi sama karena berubah menjadi 1 leg di tempat netral, tepatnya mulai 2019.
Sejauh ini, belum ada penjelasan gamblang dari UEFA mengenai alasan utama final Liga Champions (UCL) hanya digelar dengan 1 leg di tempat netral. Demikian pula terkait tak adanya perebutan juara ke-3.
Hanya saja, terkait skema perebutan juara ketiga, sepertinya memang tak populer baik di kompetisi antar-klub level Eropa maupun benua yang lain.
Ketidakpopuleran itu terutama sekali di Eropa. Bahkan, sulit menemukan kompetisi atau turnamen elite di Eropa yang memakai skema perebutan juara 3, baik itu di level benua maupun negara.
Piala FA memang tercatat pernah menerapkan skema perebutan juara ketiga selama 5 musim, tetapi itu terjadi sudah lama sekali yakni pada periode 1970-1974. Dari laporan The Guardian, diketahui skema itu tak diterapkan lagi karena dinilai gagal menarik animo pendukung. UEFA pun pernah menerapkan skema perebutan juara ketiga, tapi sejak 1980 menghapusnya dari agenda turnamen dengan alasan yang mirip.
Kenapa Final UCL Tidak Pakai Leg 2?
Kenapa Final UCL Tidak Pakai Leg 2?
Final Liga Champions UEFA (UCL) sudah digelar dengan format 1 leg sejak awal kompetisi ini bergulir pada musim 1955/1956 silam.
Sebagai pengecualian, final Liga Champions 1973/1974 digelar dua kali. Namun, dua final itu terjadi karena laga pertama berakhir seri hingga babak tambahan usai, sementara tak ada skema adu penalti untuk penentuan hasil pertandingan.
Di final Liga Champions 1973/1974 yang pertama, Bayern Munchen dan Atletico Madrid bermain imbang 1-1. Lalu, di pada laga kedua, Bayern unggul 4-0.
Namun, pada awalnya, lokasi final Liga Champions bukan stadion di tempat netral. Salah satunya bahkan berlangsung di kandang salah satu tim.
Kompetisi Liga Champions UEFA (sebelum musim 1992–1993 bernama Piala Champions Eropa) edisi pertama digelar pada musim 1955/1956 dengan peserta 16 tim.
Liga Champions 1955/1956 berlangsung dengan sistem knock out 2 leg mulai dari babak 16 besar, 8 besar, hingga semifinal. Adapun babak final hanya digelar dengan 1 leg.
Final Liga Champions pertama itu mempertemukan Real Madrid vs Stade de Reims yang berakhir dengan skor 4-3. Laga final ini berlangsung di Parc des Princes, Prancis, lokasi yang notabene menjadi 'kandang' Stade de Reims.
Pada edisi ke-2 atau musim 1956/1957, final Liga Champions juga kembali digelar dengan lokasi di negara, bahkan kandang, salah satu tim. Saat itu, partai final antara Real Madrid vs Fiorentina berlangsung di Stadion Santiago Bernaebu, Madrid, Spanyol.
Baru di edisi ketiga (musim 1957/1958), pertandingan final Liga Champions berlangsung di tempat netral. Saat itu, Real Madrid bertemu AC Milan di final, dengan Stadion Heysel, Brussel, Belgia, menjadi lokasi pertandingan.
Tradisi menjadi salah satu faktor utama yang kemungkinan menyebabkan pertandingan final Liga Champions menggunakan format 1 leg.
Selain itu, secara prestise, final 1 leg juga dianggap lebih sarat gengsi. Dua tim finalis pun akan memiliki peluang yang relatif sama besar untuk memenangkan pertandingan.
Faktor kesiapan infrastruktur, sosial, dan ekonomi pun bisa menjadi alasan mengapa UEFA lebih memilih menggelar final 1 leg di tempat netral. Final dengan skema 1 leg tentu bisa membuat penyelenggaraan partai puncak lebih efisien.
Hal itu pula yang turut mendasari langkah CONMEBOL mendorong penerapan skema satu leg di final Copa Libertadores sejak 2019.
Format final Copa Libertadores 1 leg di lokasi netral kala itu diharapkan memacu progres pengadaan infrastruktur, serta mematangkan pengorganisasian dan keamanan laga.
“Final dengan satu pertandingan menjadi peluang besar bagi Amerika Selatan, lompatan besar ke depan untuk infrastruktur olahraga, organisasi acara, kontrol keamanan, hingga kenyamanan di stadion, dan promosi level regional dan dunia," kata presiden CONMEBOL Alejandro Dominguez saat itu seperti dilansir Eurosport.
Nyatanya final 1 leg juga tidak gampang digelar di Amerika Selatan. Final perdana dengan 1 leg di Copa Libertadores 2019 sempat digeser lokasinya, dari semula di Chile beralih ke Peru. Sebabnya, terjadi kerusuhan di Chile menjelang final Copa Libertadores 2019.
Sekalipun demikian, format 1 leg untuk final Copa Libertadores dengan lokasi netral tetap dipakai hingga sekarang.
Sementara itu, di Liga Champions AFC (LCA), format pertandingan final sempat beberapa kali berganti dari 2 leg menjadi 1 leg atau sebaliknya, sejak ajang ini digelar pada 1967.
Ketika final LCA memakai format 1 leg pun muncul pergantian skema pilihan lokasi laga. Misalnya, laga final LCA 2012 bertempat di markas salah satu finalis yang ditentukan via undian. Skema ini berbeda dari skema edisi 2009 dan 2010 yang menempatkan final di lokasi netral.
Gonta-ganti format final LCA itu hanya berlangsung sampai 2012. Sejak edisi 2013, laga final LCA diputuskan memakai format 2 leg (kandang-tandang). Format ini masih berlaku sampai sekarang, termasuk pada musim 2023/2024 mendatang.
Salah satu faktor yang melatarbelakangi keputusan AFC adalah potensi pendapatan dari penjualan tiket final LCA. Dengan format 2 leg, hasil penjualan tiket final tentu akan lebih besar. Secara euforia, final 2 leg juga memungkinkan laga akan dihadiri pendukung lebih banyak.
Di benua Eropa, faktor di atas kemungkinan tidak terlalu menjadi pertimbangan. Dari satu laga final UCL saja, pemasukan dari penjualan tiket sudah tinggi bagi penyelenggara. Hal ini belum pendapatan dari sumber lain, seperti sponsor.
Sebagai ilustrasi, pada musim 2020/2021, juara UCL mendapatkan hadiah 23 juta dolar AS (Rp341 miliar), sementara 12 juta dolar AS untuk runner up (Rp178 miliar). Ini belum termasuk pendapatan lain di luar kompetisi yang diperoleh masing-masing klub.
Angka itu jauh di atas hadiah untuk juara LCA 2021 yang sekitar, 4 juta dolar AS (Rp 59 miliar) udan 2 juta AS (Rp29 miliar) bagi runner up.
Perbedaan mencolok itu tentu berkaitan dengan tidak samanya level pamor UCL dan LCA. UCL jelas memiliki pamor jauh lebih tinggi, bahkan paling bergengsi dibandingkan ajang serupa di benua-benua lainnya.
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11 min Another big switch from Bayern, Kimmich to Cancelo, and though his cross is easily claimed by Donnarumma, the visitors are finding it far too easy to move and keep the ball.
10 min Bayern have had 71% possession so far – and, though they’ve not created much, it’s hard to get anything out of a game if you’re the side with 29%.
9 min At San Siro, Brahim Diaz has put Meelan in front against Spurs.
7 min Bayern do, as I said, have probably the best midfield in the world. But if I was a Paris fan, I’d be irritated that a side as lavishly funded as the hosts weren’t able to compete against it. And as I type that, the crowd start jeering, presumably dismayed by their team’s timidity.
5 min “OK, so I’ve got both matches going on separate screens on mute,” returns Joe Pearson, “and am listening to your playlist on my phone. Am I OK?”
You sound golden to me. Football to music is always odd, usually in a good way – I remember being in Amsterdam watching Man United 7-1 Blackburn to a soft-rock compilation, a leather-clad lad on the next table drumming along with your Chris Isaaks and such.
4 min Bayern hit another switch, this time out to Coman, and it looks like they’re trying to do as we suspected: stretch the pitch and get in behind the wing-backs, down the sides of the centre-backs.
3 min Nice from Paris, Coman humping a switch over to Cancelo, who swings in a decent cross that’s got just a little bit too much on it.
2 min Already, it looks like Bayern will dominate the ball, Paris sitting off and hoping to counter. Their back three is already a back five.
1 min Bayern move it confidently through midfield, then Stoke’s Choupo-Moting wriggles space and swipes a shot from 20 yards that sails past the far post but no by loads.
A minute’s silence to respect those who’ve died in the Turkey/Syria earthquake. Godspeed, people.
And a book I’ve enjoyed recently: The Scent of Burnt Flowers by the polymathic Blitz Bazawule.
You may recall that these teams met in the 2020 final, Coman scoring the winner.
“Most major pro-sport teams in the world have clauses in their contracts that don’t allow players to participate in dangerous outdoor sports, especially skiing,” emails Mary Waltz. “Did Bayern have any penalties for their goalie breaking his leg on the slopes?”
Imagine how tense the call was when he called Nagelsmann. Like when Man City played Spurs in the Cup, were 3-0 down at half-time, and Joey Barton had to go in and let Kevin Keegan know he’d been sent-off while leaving the pitch – before City somehow forced their way back and won. I say somehow, like they weren’t playing Spurs.
Ach, go on: during the World Cup I stuck up a playlist of Ghanaian tunes that went down well, so here are the sounds of Accra from the aforementioned period, featuring much Afrobeats, a bit of Afro-house and much amapiano.
“Greetings from a surprisingly balmy Midwest where it is 56 degrees (13 to you) in the middle of February!” emails Joe Pearson. “Wondering what our major digressive theme will be this MBM, because there always is one (sometimes two). If you want to go books, ‘My Heart is a Chainsaw’ by Stephen Jones is incredibly meta and fun. Or how about strange covers like Easy Star All-Stars ‘Dub Side of the Moon’? Whatever it is, I’m here for it. What, there’s a football match on? Oh.”
OK, well here’s a cover I heard in the klurb in Detty December, also known as Christmas and new year in Accra, and lost my mind.
I can’t though, big-up Bayern’s midfield without looking at Paris’. Verratti isn’t quite what he was, I don’t think, but he’s still a tremendous player, and I’m looking forward to seeing how Soler fares outside him because he promised to be something a few years ago before his development slowed, and probably wasn’t expecting the opportunity this move presented him with. His left-footed passing gives a nice balance to things, but without any pace through the middle, he’s relying on the wing-backs to run in behind.
I absolutely love Bayern’s midfield. The balance of the three is near-enough perfect, Kimmich able to do almost everything; Goretzka a box-to-box monster and fine human being; Musiala a mercurial wildcard of insulting youthfulness. As a trio they might be the best around, and my sense is they’ll control this tie well enough to see Bayern through.
Another reason I’m buzzing for this tie is to see what Messi has left. Obviously he was alright in the World Cup, imposing his will on the tournament in affirming style. But this is, in the end, a higher standard of football, and he’s playing against better opposition and no longer in a team constructed to get the most from him.
Also tonight, Spurs are in San Siro. Follow that one with Barry Glendenning.
On which point, is there any evidence that supports the deployment of Sané on the right? Wide left, his ability to stretch the pitch but still attack the box made him unusual; on the right, he looks a little lost a lot fo the time – at least when I’ve seen him there.
On the other hand, Bayern will, I’d guess, be looking to exploit Paris out wide. If Cancelo and Coman can get at Mendes and Ramos, there’s joy to be had, and though Hakimi and Danilo look a little stronger on the opposite flank, Sané can do damage in the space between them.
Looking again at the teams, the game for Paris is, I think, down the sides of their centre-backs, both of whom have ability but neither of whom is entirely reliable. De Ligt lacks a bit of pace, while Upemacano is error-prone, and neither is used to facing attackers as skilful and intelligent as Messi and Neymar.
Jo-Lyon Le Scott has just advised us that Messi is “an exceptional talent” which surely contravenes the rules of football vernacular – by roughly a decade and a half.
As for Bayern, I was interested to see the team sent out because I was intrigued to see who was in Nagelsmann’s first XI. And for now, it’s Cancelo not Davies – I don’t massively get that, good though Cancelo is – Sané and Coman, not Gnabry – and Choupo-Moting through the middle, not Müller or one of the wingers. Sadio Mané, of course, is still injured, likewise Manuel Neuer.
The headline news is, of course, the return of Mbappé, who’s on the bench, but otherwise I’m buzzing to see Warren Zaïre-Emery, who starts in the Paris midfield; he is 16 years old or, put another way, 27 years younger than me to the day. Otherwise, the 3-5-2 system makes some sense, as it allows Hakimi and Mendes the freedom they need to bomb forward, disguises a relative weakness in midfield, and limits any defensive running Messi and Neymar have to do.
Paris Saint-Germain (3-5-2): Donnarumma; Pereira, Marquinhos, Ramos; Hakimi, Zaïre-Emery, Verratti, Soler, Mendes; Messi, Neymar. Subs: Kimpembe, Mbappé, Ruiz, Bernat, Rico, Vitinha, Pembélé, Bitshiabu, Gharbi, Ekitikém Letellier.
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1): Sommer; Pavard, Upamecano, De Ligt, Cancelo; Kimmich, Goretzka; Sané, Musiala, Coman; Choupo-Motimg. Subs: Gnabry, Davies, Sarr, Blind, Müller, Ulreich, Schenk, Gravenberch, Tel, Stanisic, Ibrahimovic.
Referee: England’s brave Michael Oliver (England)
“I’m looking for something that looks like the test card…”
You can’t get cheesier than Valentine’s Day in Paris, so it makes perfect sense that it’s Valentine’s Day in Paris when the Champions League cheesefest gets real. And, of course, because humans are irredeemable cheesemonsters we’re putty in its hands, desperate to change it but no less in love with it; obsessed with its good bits to the exclusion of its bad ones; pick that metaphor out.
Both of tonight’s teams will fancy themselves to win the thing – the entitlement of wealth versus the entitlement of identiy – and it’s easy to make a case for either. Paris are, as they almost always are, clear domestically and waiting for Europe to determine whether this is just another tedious title-winning season or something more momentous. As always and even given an injured Kylian Mbappé, they’ve a ludicrous assortment of game-breaking talent, the problem being that ludicrous assortments tend not to win this trophy because eventually they come up against a considered collection and lose – or, in the case of Paris, seize defeat in whatever way circumstance offers it to them.
Bayern, meanwhile, have the knowhow, the brilliance and the options – no squad in the world contains as many exceptional players – but that brings with it its own difficulties. For pretty much the entirety of his spell in Bavaria, Julian Nagelsmann, has seemed slightly lost in the supermarket, trying to perm the best XI from the infinite options available to him while reminding everyone just how clever and modern he is. Sometimes it works, and other times – well, you’ve seen his attire.
Ultimately, both these sides are flawed – Bayern are seeking balance while Paris lack cohesion – but either could bring ol’ Big Ears home because of the ability to conjure goals out of nowhere. More than that, though, this year’s edition lacks an obviously outstanding team, so whoever hits a seam at the right time will be champions – a tantalising prospect for squads so talented they’re perpetually on the verge – and also for us, given that right time is right now.
Kick-off: 9pm local, 8pm GMT
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