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If both teams have scored the same number of away goals, then the second leg goes to Extra Time , after which the revised aggregate score determines the winner. If both teams score an equal number of goals in extra time, the away team will win on away goals. If no goals are scored in extra time, then a Penalty Shootout decides the winner. The away goals rule is intended to encourage the away team to be more attacking. However, players and managers sometimes state before a home leg, that 'it is vital for us not to concede a goal', so the home team may play more defensively than usual. USAGE The away goals rule is applied in many football competitions that involve two-legged fixtures, including the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup , and any two-legged playoffs used in qualification for the FIFA World Cup or European Championships . Not all competitions use the away goals rule. For example, before 2005 , CONMEBOL used neither the away goals rule nor extra time in any of its competitions, such as the Copa Libertadores . Ties that were level on aggregate went to an immediate penalty shootout. The away goals rule (without extra time) was introduced to the Copa Libertadores in 2005. In English Football , two-legged fixtures in the League Cup are only subject to the away goals rule after extra time; even if one team leads on away goals after 90 minutes of the second leg, extra time is played regardless. The semi-finals of the Promotion Playoffs in the Football League , despite being two-legged, do not employ the away goals rule at all. ANOMALIES If the two clubs contesting a two-legged fixture share the same stadium, each club is the home club in one leg, and the rule still applies. In many such cases, most tickets to each leg will be reserved for the "home" side's fans, so the designation is not simply arbitrary. More anomalous was a qualification play-off for the 1991 , Israel's "home" leg was played in Australia {Link without Title} . There has been at least one case of a wrong application of the away goals rule by a referee in an international club tournament. It happened during the second-round tie in the 1971 – 72 Cup Winners' Cup between Rangers and Sporting Lisbon . This fixture had the following scorelines:
Since the teams were now level 6–6 on aggregate, the referee ordered a penalty shootout, which Sporting won 3–0. However, Rangers appealed the loss on the grounds that the referee should not have ordered the shootout, since the Rangers goal in extra time in Lisbon gave them a lead of 3 away goals to 2. Rangers won the appeal and went on to win the Cup Winners' Cup that season. |
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