For football comes a real one Revolution: it had been talked about for some time but now the decision has come official dell’UEFA to abolish the away goals rule, which had been introduced in the late sixties of the last century, as regards the European cups. In case of parity of signatures between roundtrips the direct comparison was won by whoever had made more goals away from home, while now, in all European competitions for men’s, women’s and youth clubs, including then Champions League, Europa League and the new one Conference League, they will dispute two overtime of 15 minutes and, in the event of a further tie, it will go to penalty shootout, just as it happened in the event of a tie in both away and home goals.
The way of determining le will also be changed rankings of groups: as away goals will no longer have a additional weight, they will also be removed from the criteria used to determine the ranking when two or more teams they are tied for points in a group. However, they would not be removed from the additional criteria applied to all group matches if the teams should remain tied (higher number of away goals scored in all group matches), in order to maintain a maximum number of sporting criteria.
This is the comment of the President UEFA, Aleksandr Ceferin, on the decision of the executive committee: “The rule goes today against its original purpose and in fact dissuade the home teams, especially in the first leg matches, to attack, as there is a fear of concede a goal which would give opponents a crucial advantage. Furthermore, there is an injustice when you think about extra time, as the home team has to score twice when the away one found a goal. The UEFA executive committee has taken the correct decision in establishing that an away goal it is not worth more than one scored at home “.
OMNISPORT | 24-06-2021 16:24
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