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Good bye away goals

Callumcafc
Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
edited June 2021 in Other Football and Sports
UEFA have announced that the away goals rule will be scrapped from the start of the new season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57599780

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  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    edited June 2021
    Good, fed up with clueless commentators going on about that vital away goal when a team wins 1-0 in an away leg. There is no possible situation where that goal is worth anything more than a normal goal. The other team have to score in the second leg to draw level, thus getting an away goal of their own.
  • stevexreeve
    stevexreeve Posts: 1,385
    Long overdue change to what was a reasonable idea fifty years ago!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,304
    So away teams will just park the bus then.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    I thought that they were going to say that in the event of a draw the team with the most gay flags wins.
  • stevexreeve
    stevexreeve Posts: 1,385
    CheshireAddick said:
    So away teams will just park the bus then.
    They normally come by plane to European games these days.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    jimmymelrose said:
    I thought that they were going to say that in the event of a draw the team with the most gay flags wins.
    Give it time 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    The way football is going I'm surprised they haven't declared that the tie will go to the team making the highest sealed-bid in Swiss francs.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    At least with the old away goal rule, the idea was to encourage away sides to attack rather than just resort to all out defence
  • SpicedAddick
    SpicedAddick Posts: 737
    jimmymelrose said:
    I thought that they were going to say that in the event of a draw the team with the most gay flags wins.
    Really? That doesn't seem likely.
    That's a very silly idea indeed.
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  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    in a world where Champions League teams rock up on private jets and start in 6 Star accommodation, the rule was dead
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    I always thought it was too encourage away teams to go for it a bit more, but I'm certainly no expert. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    So potentially a team can play 90 minutes away and then 120 minutes + penalties at home with all goals counting the same. 

    Seems like a bit of an advantage to me. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    SELR_addicks said:
    So potentially a team can play 90 minutes away and then 120 minutes + penalties at home with all goals counting the same. 

    Seems like a bit of an advantage to me. 
    Doesn't the second leg go to the team who performed better in prior stages? In that case, the perceived advantage is valid.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    jonseventyfive said:
    I always thought it was too encourage away teams to go for it a bit more, but I'm certainly no expert. 
    I think that was the original reason.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,808
    Get rid of the rule before UEFA start flogging games to neutral venues (to the highest bidder)….Qatar etc…
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    edited June 2021
    Lincsaddick said:
    At least with the old away goal rule, the idea was to encourage away sides to attack rather than just resort to all out defence
    There is no reason for it anymore. In actual fact, you could argue it’s been around long enough now to have the opposite effect.

    The way goals rule doesn’t encourage more attacking for an away team, only more defending for the home team who don’t want to concede.

    When the rule was first introduced, there was over a goal in difference between home and away on average (2.02 - 0.95). They had to find a way to balance it more evenly.

    Now it’s closer to 0.4 difference which is in alignment with most domestic leagues around the world. The rule is redundant.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,985
    Does the fact that there are now more away goals prove it worked?
    Now it is obsolete, matters may return to the original difference?
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,285
    So it means more ties decided on penalty kicks. Is that the intention? 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    Covered End said:
    Does the fact that there are now more away goals prove it worked?
    Now it is obsolete, matters may return to the original difference?

    Of course. The more something changes, the more it stays the same. UEFA are just putting the cliché into practice.
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    edited June 2021
    It always sounded wrong anyway. The away goals didn’t count double. If it did, losing 4-2 away and winning 1-0 at home would be good enough. The team that scores the most away goals went through in the event of an aggregate draw.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    We will see what difference it makes I suppose. It might not make much as some teams will see the away game as an opportunity where there is more safe and some teams park the bus anyway.

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