why not? more games to watch

it's a bit silly, but it's just the round of 16. lucky teams from group will mot likely get btfo then.

Same reason they used to do it in the world cup

The social-democratisation of football. Everyone has the right to play in a tournament even if they don't really deserve it :DDD Regards, Hollande/Corbyn/Sanders :D.

So Portugal and England advance

>>68476596
>Hollande/Corbyn/Sanders
That sounds like an interesting chicken sauce

can't have a Round Of 16 with 12 teams

>>68476596
that's a hot take you've got there mate

>play 36 games to eliminate 8 out of 24 teams
why is this allowed?

>>68476609

This
Mediocre QF exit here we come

>>68476641
also this tbqh

>>68476472
The rest of Europe collaborating to destroy the Islamic State of France DESU

>>68476472
>meme magic
Stupid frog poster.

>>68476472
More TV shekels for JewEFA

They fucking ruined the Euros by expanding it to 24 teams tbqh

16 Teams was a god tier tournament and it was way better in overall quality than the WC

Now you have absolute shit teams like Ireland, etc stinking up the place then handing a knock out place to some 3rd placed teams out of a 4 team group?

Get the fuck outta here UEFA it better go back to 16 teams soon

So some good teams that have to play mediocre teams that placed third in their group but still went through basically get a bye in the Round of 16?

>>68476472
>dumb frogposter

>>68477141
No because the winners of some groups still have to play the runners up of others

And the runners up of one group get to play the runners up of another group

It's a shit show organized by clowns

>>68476596
You can't say this when Australia literally play oman and little chingers to qualify for the world cup and we're not even in asia
The best teams have never gone, africa and asia will make sure of that and we have essentially been given premanent wc qualification forever

It is a bit silly but it makes the last game of the first round more interesting since even teams who lost their two previous games can still hope to win and get their place for the next round

>>68477088
are you mad because you're going to lose against wales and get knocked out?

Not really complaining since it means there's more football to watch, but it does feel a bit pointless and watered down

>>68477275
It's the same with CONCACAF and COMNEBOL tbf

Guarantees Brazil, Argentina, USA and Mexico will qualify and then whoever is the flavour of that campaign gets to go and stink up the tournament like Honduras etc

>>68477375
We could still lose to Wales then beat Slovakia in a scrappy 1-0 and qualify for the next stage

It's a clown tournament

>>68477616
>guarantees USA will qualify

Lol, we aren't making '18

>>68477700
Please, you have to play shit teams like Jamaica and The Island of Bongoland to qualify

If England come fourth place I might just quit /sp/

>>68476472

it's mostly due to arithmetics you idiot.

>>68477659
you're getting close. that's why they did this format, for big shitty teams, not for the small ones.

>>68477616
yeah like that time Costa rica didn't finish ahead of england and italy at the most recent WC

>>68477700
>this is what anti klinnsman faggots actually believe

>>68478110
How did Costa Rica do in the Copa America

It leads to more games and more games mean more money.

Otherwise...
>worse sides resulting in
>worse quality of football
>parking the bus all the time
>and 4 advancing third places mean 2 sides still play 2nd places which lead to unfair match-ups

Great work, UEFA! :)

24 teams in 6 groups -> top two qualify
12 teams in 4 groups -> top team qualify
4 teams in semifinals -> final

fixed it

>>68476515
>>68476472
More teams >> more viewers >> more money

Is that really hard to understand? People always whined that EU region and is so much better and harder to qualify than majority of the non-SA team at WC, so they decided to turn it into WC analogue

>>68477659
>my overrated garbage team has more chances to advance to the next stage

why are you upset again?

>>68478288
Eh, i feel like games between two "bad" sides might be actually more entertaining then two qualification winners, Romania played well and Austria x Hungary was pretty good, while Poland x NL(both 1st places) was shit.

Huge difference in team quality and parking the bus still would've happen in 16-team tournament, EU only has like 4 truly top teams, the rest are tier below.

>>68478645
It rewards failure

A team could theoretically advance through a group without winning a game

>>68478288
>le passive aggressive smiley

>>68479351
*sarcastic