Quote from: Davian144 on Today at 06:02:15 AM

Quote from: Mayor of ogba on Today at 03:10:24 AM

It was only the Copenhagen and Manchester City match that played over 2.5 goals in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg. There will be more of over 2.5 goals in this second leg of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 because big clubs will be playing from home, and they will easily score many goals since they are at home.

Big teams that play at home during the second leg of the Champions League do have a greater chance of scoring more goals. But big teams who won by a few goals in the first leg also don't need to score more goals if they are able to secure themselves to qualify for the next round of the Champions League. Because there are still many rounds that the big teams have to go through with bigger challenges in the next round, so any team must also be able to protect their key players so that they don't get injured early.

I agree that home team does have some sort of advantage, but the first game results have even bigger advantage. If you won the first game, then you could do a park the bus tactic and put like 6 defenders in there, and 2 midfielders, and just 2 wing/striker type of players, that should be more than enough in most cases.

This is why we end up seeing 5-3-2 most commonly on the second leg of these knock out stage games and nowhere else, because the first leg winners just want to do fine. Plus, it is a system that works perfectly with most common tactics of today with just one change, you take out one defender and put one striker in and suddenly you have your old regular system back as well, this makes things a lot more easier for teams.