Away Goals Rule Scrapped

[DanEFC92]

Doesn't really bother us

Why I stuck it in World football and not the Everton one.

 

[soothsayer]

UEFA's reasoning :

Uefa now argues that there is no longer a case for weighting away goals more heavily than those scored at home. In announcing the rule change the governing body said statistics show a steady decline in home advantage since the 1970s, with the ratio of goals scored at home and away changing from 2.02/0.95 to 1.58/1.15.
Among the factors Uefa suggests for a decline in home advantage include higher security within grounds, increasingly standardised pitches and more comfortable travelling conditions for the away team journeying across the continent

... and the away goals rule.

 

[PITA]

I think it makes it more exciting to scrap the away goal rules

You won’t see teams putting 11 men behind the ball to secure the draw and win on away goals now and it encourages teams to try and win outright over two legs

I approve this rule

Funnily enough the last time this affected us was in the uefa cup in 79 I think. We beat some Irish team 10-0 over two legs then lost to dukla Prague on away goals in the next round

Everton that

I went to the home game. It could have been a rugby score. Didn’t think we would have a problem getting through. I think it was Gordon Lee who said that they were as good at home as they were bad at Goodison.

 

[Kantareller]

Not that arsed, far bigger problems with football than this

 

[wandyr79]

I am not sure much will change, you will still get exactly the same types of matches.

If there is a true underdog team playing the might of Europe you would see them either go for it, score one and then sit back or sit back from the start and hope to catch the home side on the break to score at least one goal. I don't see that mentality changing. Teams will still be simply trying to score more goals than the opposition in all manner of ways.

Regardless of who they play or where they are playing the Man City's, PSG's, Bayern Munich's, Real Madrid's, etc. will generally always play to win comfortably.

I think the change is a bit of a non event.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

UEFA's reasoning :

Uefa now argues that there is no longer a case for weighting away goals more heavily than those scored at home. In announcing the rule change the governing body said statistics show a steady decline in home advantage since the 1970s, with the ratio of goals scored at home and away changing from 2.02/0.95 to 1.58/1.15.
Among the factors Uefa suggests for a decline in home advantage include higher security within grounds, increasingly standardised pitches and more comfortable travelling conditions for the away team journeying across the continent

Fair enough.

 

[ElGato]

On the one hand I think that it genuinely awards teams who go away from home into hostile environments and nick a goal or two. Very easy to scrap the away goals rule when no-one is in the stadiums, easy to forget how much of a boost fans can give home teams.

On the other hand this surely means more extra time and penos? Which we love.

 

[DanEFC92]

Think the end goal is to do away with home and away and play games in America or Dubai etc etc