Like everything with UEFA it's far more complicated than that. Liverpool received more coefficient points losing the final in 17/18 than we got winning the competition in 18/19 - in fact Chelsea got more poins winning the Europa than we got winning the CL that year.
Whilst I don't disagree that the system is too generous towards the Europa, when you are talking about the "2 more games" you need to remember that teams in the CL effectively get 5 bonus points for reaching the round of 16 (i.e. qualifyitng from their group). You get nothing for qualifying for the Europa round of 32 or round of 16, so even if you rack up two wins from those extra two games in the round of 32, you'd still get less points than a team got for qualifying from their CL group. So that extra 2 games, in an absolute best case scenario, earns you -1 points compared to a team that qualified out of their CL group. So when you talk about Chelsea getting more points against Malmo than Liverpool got vs Bayern that's not a fair comparison because the Malmo game was a last-32 fixtures with no points available other than the results; a fairer comparison would be to say that Liverpool got 5pts for literally sitting on their arses playing FIFA, more than Chelsea got for winning two matches.
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I did mention at the start of my post that you get more points for progressing through the CL than you do the EL and rightly so, it's a superior competition. The point of the post was explaining how points for wins (and draws) are just as big, if not a bigger factor to how many points you end up picking up and it's mad how a win vs Malmo is worth as much as a win vs Bayern Munich.
The point I was making wasn't about how far you progressed but simply that a win in the Europa has the same value as a win in the CL. I just picked out the first knockout rounds games as an example - I could have used the Kiev game but the point was simply to highlight how a win in a much inferior competition, vs weaking opposition, carries the same value as a win in the CL against the best sides in Europe.
They don't get those points for free - they get those points for progressing in a harder competition. Again, you're looking at the overall points system where as the point I was making was specifically about the points you get from wins and how it negates those points you get for progression. It's absolutely right that you should get more points for progressing in the CL than you do in the EL - the point I was making was that Europa League sides can realistically pick up just as many points as a CL side overall due to the 2 points per win system. They're playing vs far weaker opposition and get an extra 2 matches to pick up points in.
I think we're going round in circles here - the extra matches, even if you win them both are outweighed by the extra bonus you get for being in the CL. You might get less points due to playing harder opposition and I'm agreement on that issue, but that's a separate issue from the number of games.
Yea we are but I'll try one more time to clarify my point
You've not calculated the 3 points a Europa side gets for making the group stage. I forgot to add the extra 1 point CL sides get for the round of 16 too though. So the 6 point advantage a CL side gets for general progression through the competition (which seems a reasonable difference) can be cut to 2 points (which seems unreasonable) as a result of those 2 games.
