Ye I agree, it gives more time for a team to get those all important away goals. It's proper stupid.

Arguably that advantage is balanced against the fact that the other team gets to play longer at home.

Personally, I think the only fair way of resolving a tie after 180 minutes is sudden death multi-ball.

Arguably that advantage is balanced against the fact that the other team gets to play longer at home.
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There is an even more stupid rule when it comes to extra time after a drawn tie and it involves sendings off

If a team has a player sent off in the first leg and the other team have a player sent off in the second leg, and the tie ends up a draw so there is extra time to decide it

The team that had the player sent off in the second leg have to play the extra time with 10 men, but the team that had the man sent off in the first leg, get to play with 11

That's some Karl Pilkington logic Macca.

Pacaozinho - I agree, it annoys the hell out of me! haha

Red Russian - I hear where you're coming from but I honestly think whether you play 90 minutes or 120 minutes at home doesn't really make a difference.

UnitedRedMacca - Yeah that was almost the case in the AFCON in Group C. Nigeria and Zambia were level on points, goals scored and conceded, and head to head so disciplinary was the next basis to determine who went through (Zambia would have qualified). It wasn't to be as Nigeria ended up scoring twice in the last ten minutes against Ethiopia. A very strange rule

I dont disagree with the away goal rule, ok it may seem unfair that the away team get another 1/2 hr, but thats the rules, why not just go to penalties after full time? If you look at the Europa league round of 32 only 1 game needed to be settled on away goals out of the 16 games played and it was Liverpool.

Pac

But surely if the tie is drawn and both teams had a man sent of in the tie at some stage, then one team shouldn't have an advantage of a man in extra time?

I think there is an element of farce in the away goals too

Should the tie end in a draw, the extra time shouldn't really be a case of the away team going through because the extra time ends 1-1

Surely its very rare that ties are decided on away goals. I can remember us going out on away goals maybe 3 times, (Munich 2010, Leverkusen 2002 and Volgograd in the UEFA cup in 1995) I don't remember ever going through on away goals.

Basically I reckon less than 10% of European ties are decided on away goals. I would imagine that for each team to score the same number of goals in extra time of the second leg of a European tie is pretty rare, if it has ever happened.

The rule doesn't sound that fair, but I think it probably has little effect as anything other than an incentive to score away from home.

i think the away goals is just a stupid rule in general tbh.

The away goal rule was brought in for s reason and it seems to work.

Arguably that advantage is balanced against the fact that the other team gets to play longer at home.

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But the team being given the extra 30 minutes at home, is usually the team that was given the home advantage in the second leg due to their superior group record, so the extra 30 is justified. The 30 for an away goal shouldn't be.

I've always wondered why don't they just go straight to penalties after the 90 minutes.

It is such a cruel rule. Yes, you are at home, but in those 30 minutes you are always having to chase 2 goals in the fear they may get one.

It's amazing nothing has been done about it for this long. I'm assuming not many teams have a genuine problem with it.

away goals in xtra time in second legs in grossly unfair to the home side.

I'm with blackpheonix just to penalties

It should be decided by the medium of contemporary dance.

They should just scrap away goals.

If it ends a draw after 90, the players should take part in an 11v11 brawl match, the team with the last man standing wins

comment by Rusty6899 (U7079)
posted 2 hours, 44 minutes ago
Surely its very rare that ties are decided on away goals. I can remember us going out on away goals maybe 3 times, (Munich 2010, Leverkusen 2002 and Volgograd in the UEFA cup in 1995) I don't remember ever going through on away goals.
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Monaco in 98 (I think) too. Leverkusen one annoyed me so much and still does. We really should have more than 3 CL's now.
1997 we battered Dortmund and would have played a Juve side we'd beaten that season in the final.
2002.....Should have beaten Leverkusen .
2010- Rooney (I think) should have put us 2-0 up in Munich, Vidic hit the bar at 1-1 and a defensive mistake in the 90th min cost us in Germany. 2nd leg....Rafa red, Olic goal right on HT and a Robben wonder strike....we'd have beaten Lyon easily in the semi too.
3 extra finals we could, and should, have been in as well as the 4 we have been in, in the past 14 years....

although i see the away goal rule a bit silly too, if we scrap it i think the champions league games will turn into bery boring affairs, with the away team always parking the bus.