| KiigelHeart said: In the past was like 50 years ago or something lol and there has already been discussions whether the rules is productive for moder day football or not. I really have hard time understanding your reasoning, the rule clearly rewards performance in one leg. Neither teams were consistent across 2 legs, Atletico held a clean sheet and then let the opponet score two goals, but were rewarded a win based on first leg. Both teams play with home advantage, head to head performance is who scores the most goals across two legs. This has nothing to do with being salty over last nights game. I'm rooting for City tonight but it's still stupid that if they score one goal, Real suddenly has to score two. The rule also doesn't prevent games from being bore-fests like 1st leg of Real-City, I'd say it does the opposite. If you're happy with 0-0 result at home, something's not right imo. Maybe away goals to count before going to penalty shootout, no?
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Except Madrid were more consistent as they scored in both legs, to me it points heavily to being salty, you know why this is an example of the rule working fine? Because it forced both teams to come out and work, once Atleti scored the game was on a knife's edge because the was no penalties or extra time so Bayern had to go full gear to score with out conceding while Atleti battled to keep them out. That's what the rule forces, you not liking doesn't mean it's not successfully doing what it was created to do.
Rol basically highlighted why such rules in football exist, you talk about modern football but complain about a rule that came into being because of the progression of modern football. If you find games now boring they would be much more boring with out the rule as away teams would park the bus with no attempt to go forward as they bank on the home game, the rule adds an element of risk to not only help deal with the home advantage but to encourage the away team to perform outside of parking the bus. At the same time the home team knows they can't afford to mess up and be reckless even when they win so they have to perform as well, so in other words it forces strong performance over two legs as both teams get the chance to gain away goals.
Do I think Atleti deserve to go through based on head to head performance over both legs? Yes, they performed at home and battled away from home better than Bayern did, like it or not over two legs they were more consistent so deserve to go through.
