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.
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.
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.
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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That's a very silly idea indeed.
Seems like a bit of an advantage to me.
Now it is obsolete, matters may return to the original difference?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.