Hmm. "Thinking" ..
Hmm. "Thinking" ..
To reduce the likelihood of extra time and pens I would guess. The side losing on away goals would need to commit to attack too.
Always felt it was unfair that the rule continued into extra time if that was needed.
True. But it was rather like the lira, the peseta or the mark or the frank; pointless and ridiculous, of course, often infuriating too, but an essential and mildly amusing part of the whole foreign experience. Losing on away goals was always synonymous with Cheating Foreigners Cheating and therefore reassuring.
Things are somehow not the same without it.