Time for a new thread for a new season. The DFL announced today the the opening match for the 2021-22 Season will be Gladbach-Bayern on August 13 at 20:30 CEST at Borussia Park. I can't wait! Zieht den Bayern die Lederhosen aus!
@KCbus? I can see why. The thought was that it would encourage attacking on the road, but that obviously isn't happening. If you're on the road the first game, do you want to expose your goal, thus letting the home team score AND potentially be up heading into the second leg? It almost pays to be at home in the first leg so you can get that away goal in the second.
I've always despised the away goals rule. If you're going to have a competition where you add up the score of two games to see who wins, do it. Don't pull some arbitrary tiebreaker out of your ass to tell me why the tie score isn't actually tied. Never use a tiebreaker when you can break the tie. I assume the reason why it's still used in many competitions (aside from the tradition of it) is because they don't want one team to have the unfair advantage of extra minutes (extra time) on their home field in a competition where the matchups and locations are randomly determined. That's why I can tolerate it, despite not liking it. But I always thought it was stupid when MLS did it. You spend an entire season fighting for homefield advantage, only to be told your performance on the road counts more? And why is winning 2-1 on the road somehow more valuable than winning 1-0? I always thought that if you were going to have a tiebreaker, make it HOME goals. Encourage teams to open up the game in front of their own fans.
Have you watched the Crew play in almost any away game over the last year or two?? Sure, it's a dataset of one, but it's a dataset with global recognition and definitely applies to the smaller European teams.
In theory, it's definitely harder to score on the road. In theory. But yeah, a "home goals rule" might be interesting to see. As KCBus said, it seemed odd in MLS where home field advantage was fought for all season long.
Well I would like it if the Haslams could save my "other" team too but this will do. Goodbye Fat Ashley. Your will be remembered as the only owner that could make Precourt look competent. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ia-celebrate-news-300m-Saudi-takeover-ON.html
... meanwhile in the lower divisions... The shootout wasn’t much better 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/wfRJUyyCQG— Luke Hoey (@Hoey1890) October 20, 2021
I doubt many people in England were confident when the Euro finals went to PKs. Missing PKs is an English tradition now.
Ronaldo should stop wasting time with that mess at manu and get with a real powerhouse team. Inter Miami has to have several open DP spots still, right?
Las Vegas. https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...t-ronaldos-dna-rape-investigation/2539410002/ Edit. There was. See the next post for more.