Westin’ away again in Margheritaville: McKennie at Juventus

Yes, the away goals tiebreaker is thankfully dead and buried.

 

Meh. It was incentive for teams to play more open, especially under dogs. The new UCL format is fine, but I still liked the group stage and away goal tie breaker version better.

 

It was incentive for teams at home to shut up shop and not concede.

I always just thought it was a dumb concept. Team A and B scored the same number of goals, but Team B scored more in one place so they win? Why?

 

because it was incentive for the visiting team not to park the bus, as visiting teams will often do.

 

But it failed in that goal, instead incentivizing home teams to park the bus and not give up the dreaded double-counting home goal. The data supports the fact that the away goal rule decreased scoring overall, which is why it is slowly being phased out of most competitions.

 

Can we just outlaw busses?

 

- Marc Barta

 

Such a bummer Wes' tenure coincides with one of Juve's longer recent spells without a scudetto.

 

Haters will tell you there's a correlation there. Fanboys will say otherwise.

 

Yeah and either could be correct. I'd love to see a simulation where Weston replaces Davids in a few games.

 

Sad that our two YAs on top Italian teams are playing well when the teams themselves are nowhere near their best.

 

I liked it because it meant fewer matches go to extra time. And it made the European club competition ties feel different. And away goals were a tiebreaker; away goals did not count double. I feel the whole away goals count double myth is why it was so unpopular.

 

Right now, Italian soccer is at a low point financially. The top clubs in Italy might not be able to challenge mid-table English teams. But, at least the title races have been really interesting the last few seasons.

 

It’s the same reason golden goal went away. Teams were more afraid to give up a goal. I remember home teams scoring and then almost parking the bus because 1-0 was such a better score line than 2-1.

 

The top Italian team has been fine in Europe the last ten years. Juve two champions league finals and Inter the same. There was even the weird three semi finalist year.

However, the EPL is at a spot financially where you can struggle in the league but make a quarter final in the champions league. Serie A needs to find a way to bring in more money, but really it has the most fun league to follow outside of England currently.

 

McKennie starts! Juventus (5th) hosting Como 1907 (T-6th! How?).

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Juventus losing 1-0 to Como in the 27th. Wes playing right wingback. Jerseys look like Three Stooges era prison uniforms.

 

I gather you won't be buying Juventus' 4th kit for your collection.

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That's got cool old school vibes.

 

A fantastic throwback jersey for Juve tonight, but Wes looks tired. Without his energy, they are doomed.
Thuram and Yildiz are good, but they are also out of gas.
Juventus doesn’t have the depth they need. The midweek champions loss really hurt. Without Bremer and Kalulu, the defense has failed.

 

My God, Como means business!

 

Ftfy.

 

The Inter game that was stolen from them really took the wind out of their sails.

 

Wes at fault for a giveaway that started the sequence for Como’s first goal and couldn’t recover to intercept the pass that led to the second goal, which was scored by the player he was marking.

 

First loss at home against Como in 75 years...