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I don't know about that. It counters the fact that the away team has to play an extra 30 minutes away from home. And generally, games like that tend to involve team A winning at home before blowing the lead away from home, so they're now on the back foot and away from home. Away goals counting in extra time seems to balance things up nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Not for me - the value of an away goal in extra time seriously overcompensates for the extra 30 minutes away from home.
Do the records demonstrate when evenly matched teams play, the team that plays away first comes out on top?Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Offhand, I recall Celtic's UEFA cup run in 2003, they played at home first in all 5 ties, Celta Vigo, Liverpool, Blackburn, Boavista, Stuttgart.
You could say they were relatively evenly matched teams. Not good home performances either, except v Stuttgart they won 3-1. There was a lot of work to do in the away games.
The next year they knocked out Barca playing at home first and later lost to Villareal, again playing at home first.
I thought we might have had one CL 1/4 final game an evening, instead we have 2 on at the same time.
Barca's away strip is just embarrassingly awful.
Not enough weeks left in the season?
edit: 1-0 Bayern
That Alves pass was glorious. The finish weren't bad either. 1-0 Barca.
Give him a ball and a yard of grass.
I see the ITV are doing a cheapo TG4 panel on the side of the pitch affair.
TG4 do it much better.
I'm too patriotic to watch ITV. It's Tommy Martin or nothing for me.
I can put patriotism aside when HD is on offer.
I didn't realise that PSG have now changed its name. It's now called "David Beckham's PSG" or at least according to the reports of the game I heard on Sky and Ireland's Today FM this morning. Reminds me of when Sunderland were "Roy Keane's SUnderland" or Ipwich "Roy Keane's Ipswich". Alan McNally when summing up the game for Sky was asked about Beckham's performance said he wasn't very effective and gave him a 6 but realising this was probably heresy bumped it up to 7. We then got the stats of his 70 minutes on the field.
I wouldn't say that tie is over yet especially if Messi doesn't recover from his injury.
It's certainly all to play for if Beckham can bump that 7 up to his usual 12 or 13.
That was some game at Malaga. The first 20 minutes was a question of just how many Dortmund would win by, then Malaga turned it on but Dortmund hung on.
Lewandowski did everything right except take his many chances, which I suppose means he failed in everything on the night. Willy the Malaga keeper certainly had his pecker up, Dortmund were clearly a team who could blow Malaga away. A scoreless draw gives Malaga a decent chance and keeps the tie alive.
I'll be going all patriotic this evening. Kudos to TV3 for going with the BD v Malaga game, meanwhile ITV are sticking with GAL v RM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I was thinking the exact same thing. UTV showing a dead rubber for the next 70minQuote:
Originally Posted by geysir
That stopped the Dortmund drum rolls dead in their tracks, eerie wasn't it?
This is going to be very entertaining.
Frustrated at not getting a response, BonnieShels posts the exact same comment 11 minutes later.
Super equaliser from Lewandowski.
The whole move for Lewandowski's goal was brilliant.
They're a wonderful side when they click but they haven't shown enough of it tonight. They've been quite ragged, which surprised me, but I suppose pressure does that to you. The game lacks a couple of top quality finishers. Joaquin and Lewandowski are both good players but you always half expect them to miss.