>Lineker watched on as Barcelona took an early lead against Manchester United in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final match and then proceeded to play cautiously for the remainder of the game.
>Barca's 1-0 win at Old Trafford, gives them an away goal advantage going into next week’s second leg, which means United will now have to win by two clear goals to win the tie in 90 minutes.
I partially agree with him, in that the away goal rule should be discarded from the ET and only in case of a double draw. 2-2/1-1 or 0-0/3-3, you go to ET or penalties, fuck the away goals. You don't advance if you don't literally beat the team you're facing at least once. Milan in 2003 "beat" Inter in a derby (same stadium both legs) like this 0-0 Home, 1-1 "away". The away goals rule was used because there were no ET nor penalties, you either replayed a game and tossed a coin. Now they do exist so it has to go.
>get rid of away goals >everyone plays for 1-0 and 0-0 That's not the problem, the problem is away goals rule extending to extra time, creating an advantage for the team playing the first leg at home.
Andrew Adams
kek
Jace Smith
if you got rid of it in extra time the team playing the second leg at home would have an advantage though
Jack Gutierrez
Lineker bumlicks Barca because he used to play for them.
Aiden King
Why do they only moan when it goes against them?
Jace Wilson
He bumlicks Man U too because they're an English club.
Julian Kelly
A perceived psychological advantage is less relevant than a concrete advantage.
How about either >get rid of ET, go straight to pens or >get rid of pens >keep away goal as usual for ET but if and only if no one scores in ET the home team advances
Nathaniel Murphy
Gary Lineker shags crisps
Jeremiah Rogers
the factor is always the refereeing desu. home teams are more agressive and get away with it due to refs being influenced by the crowd.
Ian Phillips
Also it's a matter of mentality with teams preferring to play defensively away.
Anthony Bailey
>refs being influenced by the crowd what about foreign refs who dont understand what the crowd is saying?
Christopher Sanders
Away goals are bad but away goals + extra time in the 2nd leg are extra retardation You either have: >no away goals then extra time then penalties or >away goals then penalties or >no away goals then a replay in a neutral stadium
Andrew Morris
Replays are never going to happen with an already congested fixture schedule.
Julian Ramirez
why is the home percentage getting weaker and weaker
Asher Ramirez
You don't need to understand what they're saying to be intimidated
Hunter Anderson
This. Away goals is based
Jack Butler
Shouldn't get an away goal if it's own goal desu, barca reaps the reward without doing anything
Ayden Hughes
this it adds to the whole thing. penalties are shit and if you can avoid it as much as possible do it. plus there is something to be said for european atmosphere helping a team
Joseph Collins
imagine being this mad
Jonathan Garcia
ERA
Liam Collins
he committed to the dive as soon as Marquez went for the challenge. notice how far he is in his diving motion even before marquez has a chance to put his foot down. it's a well-executed dive no era, indeed
Can someone explain how away goals even work? If they count for a goal and a half how come if you lose 2-0 at home and then win 4-3 away you don't go through?
Matthew Roberts
It's true though, you'd be fuming if it happened to your team. I'm not even a utd fan
this is a very based and underrated post from Germany and you idiots are just ignoring it?
John Sanchez
They don't count for double or extra points, the people who say that are idiots. Away goals rule is that in case of an aggregate tie, the team who scored more goals in the other teams ground goes through.
Blake Bailey
They only count double is there is a draw over two games so 1-1 away means i win if it stays 0-0 at home.
Jaxson Thomas
No, it's a 6-5 win
Anthony Robinson
It's not true, it's utter bollocks. Exactly the sort we expect from Man U customers.
Nathaniel Reyes
I think it's a valid way of preventing penalties but it's kinda of silly to not do extra time when the game is tied. This is especially the case where the leading team loses a lead in the second leg and ends the match well on the back foot struggling to maintain a draw and is bailed out by away goals. Why should the fact that one team may get fucked in OT outweighed by a goal they happened to score away?
Austin Sanchez
THIS. >1st leg Team A attacks, Team B parks the bus >2nd leg Team B attacks, Team A parks the bus
Jose Bailey
>it took a Kiwi to explain this very basic rule to a Brit Embarrassing desu
Julian Howard
It's a fair point, but when the away goals rule was introduced home advantage was greater than it is now (easier travel, more managed everything etc). I wouldn't mind a trial run of either 1. Try it for EL 2. No away goals for QFs and/or SFs
I think FA cup has revised the no-replays after the last 8 perfectly to balance small clubs getting revenue from big time matches and big clubs not having to play so many matches at the end of the season
Logan Kelly
make every matchup a best of 7 series with each time guaranteed 3 home games. coin flip to decide who gets the 4th
Daniel Gray
Based and coinpilled
Anthony Fisher
what if you just pretend they are angry at somebody else
Jack Wright
Let's not be hasty, that Brit may've been a woman
Parker Davis
lel
William Hughes
>You will always remember Lineker for being one of England's best ever strikers rather than the shitting accident People are obsessed.
Away goals rule is not perfect but fine. Away goals rule being active in extra time is completely retarded.
Gavin Sanders
I remember him for trolling Brexiteers and Conservitards on twitter. Epic style.
Zachary Gomez
Don't be a fucking beta and let teams score against you in your own backyard. Away goals are based and are going nowhere, fuck off OP and FUCK OFF BIG EAR CRISP TWAT
Jose Barnes
This has been statistically disproved in the last 15 years. The rule was created to encourage away teams to attack in the 60s, when they had to travel long distances in crappy planes and then they were knackered on the pitch. This is not the case anymore. In result, we see a first game where the home team is too scared to receive a goal and a 0-0 is considered a good result for both. Then on the second game we see the home team too scared to received a goal because it means they have to score twice, and if they receive a second, the leg is over.
Kayden Thompson
Like when he got really wound up and sperged over "child" asylum seekers?
Jeremiah Martin
That will never happen though. At most you would have to now score two.
Ryan Rodriguez
This, shit decisions happen in almost every game, if three or four more go in one team's favour than the other, it's very difficult to overcome that. Weak minded referees need to gtfo.
Robert Garcia
An away goal isn't worth double, or 1.5, or whatever retarded shit some pundit says. In practical terms, an away goal is worth 1.000000000(...)1 goals. This method of calculating who goes through will work every time unlike their dumbass ways of explaining it.
Ryder Cook
very hard, people just want to be accepted, same for referees they instinctively side with the crowd for the instinctive sake of their survival
John Reed
Funny how they never complain about the away goals rule when the plucky underdogs from Norf FC shamelessly steal a 0-1 win against far superior continental opposition.
Anthony Ortiz
NORF
Carson Garcia
>and then proceeded to play cautiously for the remainder of the game. Less cautiously than Man U who did fuck all.
Joseph Jackson
He is right. Away goals rule is cancer
Nathan Jenkins
Your face is cancer.
Zachary Butler
Pooniteds result aside. He is completely right. We are talking about magical goals here. Goals that dont exist, but are counted. Away goal rule is literally shria law. One away goal is already a huge adventage, two goals and the tie is dead.
