Originally Posted by
OwlsFan
Do most commentators actually know about the mechanics of the "precious away goal"? Tony O'Donoghue on RTE from Oriel Park when interviewing Stephen Kelly prior to the Levadia Tallin game. "And of course you have that 'precious away goal'". He didn't mean Dundalk had the lead in the tie but that they had an "away goal". If I was Stephen, I'd reply in Martin O'Neillesque terms: "How exactly Tony will that goal ever operate as a " precious away goal" since we won 0-1?". It is a lead goal not an the away goal. For a goal scored away from home in a first leg to ever have the possibility of operating as a "precious away goal", the home side has to score in the first leg otherwise the goal or goals will always be just a goal(s) scored away from home and count towards the aggregate score in the normal way without the added value of its preciousness being counted.
Oops, almost fell off my soapbox.