Let’s get ready: the Champions League round of 16 starting tomorrow will be the first without the away goal rule. A historic turning point: if the number of goals scored in the double knockout match is equal, the goals scored away from home will no longer count as the predominant factor, but it will go to extra time.
Already experienced during the qualifying phase for the European Cups this summer, the system that cancels the advantage of away goals is preparing to change the fate of the Champions League and beyond.
It is fun then to try to imagine which matches would have ended differently, in the history of the Champions League, if the rule of the away goal had been abolished earlier.
1) BAYERN-PSG [quarti di finale 2020-21] The last time the away goal rule was used to eliminate a team in the Champions League. PSG prevails in the double galactic challenge between the Germans and the French. In the first leg, under the snow in Monaco, the Parisians prevail with a very heavy 3-2 away win. A half seal for the passage of the shift. However, Bayern did not give up trying and in Paris they won 1-0: not enough to land in the semifinals. The three away goals scored by the French were too “heavy”. Today that race would go to extra time: and given the show offered for 180 minutes, the extra time would be a very welcome solution. CONTINUE READING->
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