thehockleyhustler
Stuart Pearce
Am I correct in saying that away goals have no bearing on Playoff games now?
Playoff away goals
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MansfieldRed
Jack Armstrong
Don't think they ever have. Didn't certainly when we lost to Sheff Utd.
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Special Agent Dale Cooper
Guest
I think they do. For example if we win 0-6 at Blackpool, we will take those goals back to our place - effectively starting the game at 6-0.
If we lost 0-3, we would go through 6-3 winners.
It would be a mad system if they took them away from us! It would be 0-0 then.
thehockleyhustler
Stuart Pearce
They did use to as I remember watching Ipswich go out on the away goals rule when I lived down there
MansfieldRed
Jack Armstrong
king_congo_red
Ale Ape
Correct. To explain the reasoning above - if a game was tied including away goals and went to extra time, where both teams then scored, the away side would have had an advantage in that they were afforded 30 more minutes of extra time to score an away goal than the home side got in the first leg - which isn't fair...
MansfieldRed
Jack Armstrong
On the flip side though you could say that the home team has had 90 minutes to make the home advantage tell in the second leg.
Rigler
Jack Burkitt
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Special Agent Dale Cooper
Guest
That actually is quite sensible. Why doesn't the Champions League follow that system?
MansfieldRed
Jack Armstrong
It's probably simpler in the play-offs compared to the Champions/Europa League. It may be possible in the set of ties after the group stages, but when it gets to the stage where you are drawn out it's more down to luck if you get the second leg at home. Maybe a better way of doing it is saying that the away goals rule counts only after 90 minutes, but not 120. It gives the away team a chance, but if it goes to ET the advantage swings more firmly to the home team.
Tutts
Ian Bowyer
Jonathan
Resident foodie!
Away goals are silly, though. I wish it wasn't Liverpool I was using as an example, but why do they get 90 minutes to try and score an away goal, but Atletico get 120 minutes?
why do athletico get 90 minutes playing at their ground, but liverpool get 120minutes plus penalties if required?
NFFC Johan
Viv Anderson
i have a feeling we will win easily away first leg and cruise into the final then get nervous and fail against some wack team!!!!
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lard
Guest
On a different note our stats make interesting reading
When we score first Won 21 Drwn 2 lost 0
Opp scores first won 1 Drwn 6 lost 11
Stats taken from 365 so dont bash me if not 100% but you get the jist
Score first and its the prem all the way :cheers:
When we score first Won 21 Drwn 2 lost 0
Opp scores first won 1 Drwn 6 lost 11
Stats taken from 365 so dont bash me if not 100% but you get the jist
Score first and its the prem all the way :cheers:
eezzeetiger
Geoff Thomas
Is the flip side of that, you get 120 mins at home?
Jonathan
Resident foodie!
That's true as well. I just don't like away goals. In two-legged games, there should be 90 minutes at each ground, no away goals and then penalties after the second 90 minutes.
collardski
Youth Team
Whats an away goal?
City Ground
First Team Squad
Im not sure because they counted with Yeovil...
Rigler
Jack Burkitt
No they didn't.
At the end of 90 minutes in the second leg it was 3-3. We'd scored 2 away goals and they'd scored 3, so if they used the away goal rule there would have been no extra time.
redbeard
Youth Team
this advantage is the reward for being the team that finished higher in the league