Difficult to tell honestly. Some teams down there do take it seriously, many don’t like you say.
Like Burnley last year - scraped through against Aberdeen and Istanbul and got scudded in the playoff round and Sean Dyche is still telling folk at Christmas that those 6 games (which ended in late August) were the cause of them being shite for the first half of the season. Definitely a ‘look down your nose’ attitude to it by some.
The EPL does start the weekend after the first leg of QR3, Wolves have Leicester away and interestingly Man United at home after the second leg. Who knows if that would have an impact on team selection though.