Ok lets simplify this (id much prefer to talk epl or la liga but fine).
The 4th place serie a team has to play cl and the 7th place one has to play el. For ligue one the 4th place one gets to play in the easier el and the 7th place one doesny play in europe at all. All qualifying teams are part of the denominator. So serie a has lower ranked teams that get in the calculation, so if ligue 1 was on par through the top 3rd of the league or so it is stilted for ligue 1 to move up in points. (Now i know there are bonus to cl group advancement but that is very hard in general and super difficult for non elite clubs, typically it will be easier to acquire points in the el).
Next 5 year rankings are going to be much better indicators than cherry picking one good year one bad year for league, that is why they use the moving 5 year rank and not yearly performance in awarding places to leagues.
Finally, and i dont know this myself, when was the last time a serie a match ended 11 v 11 with a 9-0 scoreline?
I know it has been fun and giggles for all the comments (used and overused) of farmer league because of that 9-0 scoreline, but take into account that it is actually the club record. That means what it means, it doesn't happen usually and why we enjoyed it so much.
Two reasons for that result:
-PSG actually tried very hard this game to keep on playing, pushing, pressing. Got to be a message for a team that had eliminated us in our stadium from a domestic Cup.
-Guingamp was poorer than they usually are (they are last in the league for a reason and it is not like Monaco that had 15-16 major players all injured at the same time) and they even rested some of their best players. They came with the idea they would get spanked and they did. Maybe that mental aspect affected their game too.
Then you have to take into account that PSG was unusually efficient with 9 goals out of 12 goals on target.
And it is not like Real Madrid didn't beat Granada 9-1, Rayo Vallecano 10-2, Barça beat Huesca 8-2, MU beat Arsenal 8-2, City beat Stoke 7-2, Barça beat Valencia 7-0, Barça beat deportivo 8-0 and so on and so on.
Here, i'm not saying this PSG side is better than those Barca or Real sides, just pointing out this kind of scoreline will be praised if one likes the team and the league or will be used to mock another team or league we don't like.
I got to see some beautiful goals and combinations, thanks to the poor display from Guingamp granted, and as a fan it was very cool to see all those goals and the team still trying to go on.
Will be better to train for MU games than to play lazy anyway.
