{"id":358251,"date":"2021-05-29T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T09:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358251"},"modified":"2021-05-29T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T09:23:57","slug":"uefa-to-scrap-away-goals-in-champions-league-europa-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358251","title":{"rendered":"UEFA to scrap away goals in Champions League, Europa League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">UEFA\u2019s Club Competitions Committee has agreed to scrap the away goals rule, the UK Times reports.<br \/>\nThe move could drastically change knock-out fixtures in European club competitions.<br \/>\nOn Friday, officials reached the verdict in a meeting, but UEFA\u2019s Executive Committee will now decide whether to approve the change.<br \/>\nThe away rule stipulates that if two teams are on the same aggregate after two legs, the side with more away goals progresses to the next round.<br \/>\nIt has been a controversial feature of European competitions since 1965.<br \/>\nIt has been credited by some observers with making the knock-out stages of the Champions League and Europa League exciting and unpredictable.<br \/>\nBut many UEFA executives feel it is outdated and have agreed to do away with it.<br \/>\nThey will now begin lobbying the Executive Committee to sanction it.<br \/>\n(Daily Post)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA\u2019s Club Competitions Committee has agreed to scrap the away goals rule, the UK Times reports. The move could drastically change knock-out fixtures in European club competitions. On Friday, officials reached the verdict in a meeting, but UEFA\u2019s Executive Committee will now decide whether to approve the change. The away rule stipulates that if two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[11005,7415],"class_list":["post-358251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-madrid","tag-uefa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}