No away-goals rule means new era for Champions League

Published February 15, 2022 10:05 AM

By STEVE DOUGLAS
AP Sports Writer

Jürgen Klopp and the other 15 managers still in this season’s Champions League have one less thing to think about when preparing their teams for matches in the knockout stage. This is the first season in 57 years that the away-goals rule, which is a way of deciding two-legged matches in European club competitions if necessary, will not be in use. UEFA announced the scrapping of the rule last year. The governing body said it had outlived its usefulness and was holding back home teams from attacking for fear of giving their opponents an advantage. Klopp takes Liverpool into a first-leg last-16 match at Inter Milan on Wednesday and doesn’t see his tactics changing too much as a result.

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