I know you are clicking this thinking it is another away goal tiebreaker question. It is not!


In my CL semi, I won the first game at home 2-1. In the second game, my opponent won at home 2-1. So we even tied the away goal tiebreaker at 1-1!

Then we went on and played an extra period in which neither of us scored. Then we had a penalty shootout.

The extra period surprised me. I thought we would go straight into the penalty kicks because we had tied for the series.

My question is:

Was the extra period completely independent of the second game? It didn't occur to me at the time, but I am now thinking that if my opponent had outscored me in the extra time, I would have lost the whole series. I had been playing as if all I needed to do was score one more goal to win the away goal tiebreaker and that the number of goals my opponent scored was irrelevant.

Thanks for replies.