In fact, any score turned the return game into a nightmare. You have already described 1-0. Now let's say the visitors won 2-1, in which case all they could do was play the bus in the return leg and hope they didn't lose by 2 goals, a 1-0 defeat was completely acceptable. It was a real mockery of football and fans.
And yes, it’s completely absurd when the overall score is, for example, 3-3, but one of the teams goes further “just because.” It's hard for me to praise UEFA here since they just corrected their own mistake, but it's good that it happened.
I hope the same thing will happen with the Swiss system, in my opinion it looks unviable.
I agree that just doing it extra time is more than enough, there is really no need for anything more, but at the same time you are playing extra time for a bit longer, at someone's home. So, let's say your team wins 1-0 at home, then you go away and you lose 1-0 for the 90 minute game, then there will be 30 more minutes played, at the other teams home, so that made it a little bit different. I always suggested, a third game And yes, it’s completely absurd when the overall score is, for example, 3-3, but one of the teams goes further “just because.” It's hard for me to praise UEFA here since they just corrected their own mistake, but it's good that it happened.
I hope the same thing will happen with the Swiss system, in my opinion it looks unviable.
.I know that sounds silly, and would make things quite hard to schedule, but it also means more TV income, more ads, more ticket sales, more merchandise sales, all around more money in the world football that needs it a lot. Nobody will even attempt that for sure, but that really does sound like a good one.