Home and Away, does it matter, should it matter?

I've had a couple of scenarios now where I have faced teams I've expected to annihilate, but end up barely escaping with a small margin win, or draw or worst case a loss, and I have noticed them to be mostly while playing away from home.
I've not found any thread catering or hinting towards this topic, and frankly am just a little curious, so I'm asking any experienced players to drop a few cool pearls of wisdom on these burning questions.
Is there any difference in team performances based on home and away? (other than the possession stat.)
Should I alter my strategy based on the venue ? (especially if the quality of my opponent's team matches mine)
And if not, shouldn't this feature be present ??? To make this "football" simulation game more realistic ?
Thanks in advance.

Yes. There is a diference between home and away matches. My cup and cl results are showing that when I play @home I have advantage. Also I like to play with deffensive style@ home and attacking @away.

I agree here I tend to play home defensive to avoid away goals and when away I go all out attacking !!! ?? who knows but it my preference

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Originally Posted by khris

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Home games with filled stadium gives a slight advantage, which is not very big but its better than nothing.

So it is important to adjust your ticket price properly so that your stadium is filled.

So the only adv is in possession ? I don't really see that as a major adv anyway (in terms of affecting the result). And I find the way they calculate the possession in this game a bit shady to say the least.

Can you care to elaborate a little ? How is it an advantage to play at home if it means you have to play defensively, I mean that doesn't even sound right, never mind how unrealistic it is.

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Originally Posted by Mo Avengers

I agree here I tend to play home defensive to avoid away goals and when away I go all out attacking !!! ?? who knows but it my preference

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So I guess what's you're saying is, I SHOULD be at an advantage at home anyway, so to avoid any chances at all for the opponent I should play defensive ? And since I'm already at a disadvantage and hence more likely to lose away, I just go all out attacking to give myself a chance ? Is that the logic here ?

I always said-.... the game don't have a big margin to give advantadge to one or another team... the Quality mean a lot, the internal proggramming mean a lot... then you can have some penalties, for wrong positions, no bonus for victory... whatch or no see the match... and... more things that I've always said for these lands but now dont remember LOL

So if we have to say if theres a difference between matches out and home, I will say that we have only the 5% possession... in other senses... the players work in same sense... and the game do exactly the same out and innnn.... ...and if we have to analyze if 5% of possession mean or not I will say that 5% maybe don't.. but the 8% of you mean, by my viewpoint and give more chances to one... so 8 +5 ... at the end can be the differance... yeah... just a 5% can be some more occasions.. more control...

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Originally Posted by Top Eleven Blogger

So I guess what's you're saying is, I SHOULD be at an advantage at home anyway, so to avoid any chances at all for the opponent I should play defensive ? And since I'm already at a disadvantage and hence more likely to lose away, I just go all out attacking to give myself a chance ? Is that the logic here ?

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Mo explained that its about away goals rule. If you can play defensive and shut out the opponent when you are home that gives you a nice advantage when you are away. And when you are away if you can score a lot of goals, even if you lose, it allows you to get the away goal advantage. I also use this strategy, unless of course playing defensively at home in the first leg led me to win by a nice margin, then i just repeat orders and tactics

I also think Home / Away do need to be played differently, and that it is more important difference in Cup or CL than League, and friendlies not so much.

Whether you are home or away, doesn't matter, unless it is a cup game and away goals come into play. Other than that there is no obvious proof that you are stronger playing at home (possession is shady as someone mentioned). Possession probably has 5% impact on your play. I think the way the logic is set, you should worry more about chances created and shot efficiency - which directly tells you how good your players are!

You get more chances to score at home, thus more goals.

Nice post, I always seem to perform poorly away than home, maybe it has something to do with the possession factor. but I do agree with what everyone has said about cup games and going for the away goal as nobody likes to be knocked out on the away goals rule.

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Originally Posted by Celtic

You get more chances to score at home, thus more goals.

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The way the game is programmed, it's irrelevant. I've scored more goals away than at home.

Playing at home means you don't have to hire a bus.

Whether you play defensive or attacking or both or....is a judgement on what will do the job in any given game. I play defensive or attacking based on 3 criteria - 1. the quality of opponent 2. the effectiveness of my formation v oppononent's 3. the outcome I want. I do not factor in whether its home or away.

(Occasionally I might want or be required to use a formation that is not optimal so if I decide that changing the mentality improves that I will change it.)

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Originally Posted by Qambu Yaasi

The way the game is programmed, it's irrelevant. I've scored more goals away than at home.

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That's an isolated sample.

No one knows how the game is programmed, we can only guess from observing.

In the end of the season, compare the number of goals scored home and away and you'll see that you always get more at home.

I don't know why. It's just the way that it is.

It's like Supersonic Ads.

You don't know who they are, you don't where they are.

But you can conclude what they are by observing.

Ok, so let me share what happened with me today, I was playing against an opponent of similar quality, maybe 2* higher, away from home,
his formation :- 2-3w-1-2w-1 , I played with 4-1-2-1-2, His DMR got a red card on the FIRST minute, and my 5* AMC scored on the 15th minute, I'm leading and enjoying a lot of possession, he was not spectating, and there was no CROWD (0 attendance), then his team scores at 32' and 36', I'm baffled, I change my tactics at aroung the 60' and change to attacking, his team play even better, no mention of my forwards in the commentary AT ALL !! Then at 81' and 87' they score two more and I lose 4-1 away to a 10 man managerless team, I cannot believe it, almost threw my Phone away !!!
Then in the evening I played against a muuuch higher quality team, but this time at home, she played with 4-1-2N-3 and I didn't bother to change anything thinking I'd lose anyway. But somehow each of my strikers score at 32' and 44' and I win with a comfortable 2-0 scoreline,
she was spectating the match and made changes to her formation midway as well, they created chances (more than us) but could never capitalize, hitting the bar once.
So is there a pattern here ? Or did I just get my formation wrong ??? Is this kind of a new change in the game ? The first match was in the league and the second was in CL.
I had more (much) possession in the away match and lost disastrously.
I had same possession as my opponent in my home match and won comfortably.
So what does this say about the possession bonus theory ???

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Originally Posted by Celtic

That's an isolated sample.

No one knows how the game is programmed, we can only guess from observing.

In the end of the season, compare the number of goals scored home and away and you'll see that you always get more at home.

I don't know why. It's just the way that it is.

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Exactly. You know how the game is programmed from observing. And the conclusion is and at the end of the day, this is still jst a mobile/web-based game which requires no skill and really very much depends on the players you buy.

So let's jst have fun playing instead of over-analyzing simple A-B-Cs! :)

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Originally Posted by Top Eleven Blogger

Ok, so let me share what happened with me today, I was playing against an opponent of similar quality, maybe 2* higher, away from home,
his formation :- 2-3w-1-2w-1 , I played with 4-1-2-1-2, His DMR got a red card on the FIRST minute, and my 5* AMC scored on the 15th minute, I'm leading and enjoying a lot of possession, he was not spectating, and there was no CROWD (0 attendance), then his team scores at 32' and 36', I'm baffled, I change my tactics at aroung the 60' and change to attacking, his team play even better, no mention of my forwards in the commentary AT ALL !! Then at 81' and 87' they score two more and I lose 4-1 away to a 10 man managerless team, I cannot believe it, almost threw my Phone away !!!
Then in the evening I played against a muuuch higher quality team, but this time at home, she played with 4-1-2N-3 and I didn't bother to change anything thinking I'd lose anyway. But somehow each of my strikers score at 32' and 44' and I win with a comfortable 2-0 scoreline,
she was spectating the match and made changes to her formation midway as well, they created chances (more than us) but could never capitalize, hitting the bar once.
So is there a pattern here ? Or did I just get my formation wrong ??? Is this kind of a new change in the game ? The first match was in the league and the second was in CL.
I had more (much) possession in the away match and lost disastrously.
I had same possession as my opponent in my home match and won comfortably.
So what does this say about the possession bonus theory ???

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Just don't make in-game changes during a live match. That was wht screwed you in the first game and then screwed the opponent in your second game. True story.

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Originally Posted by Top Eleven Blogger

Ok, so let me share what happened with me today, I was playing against an opponent of similar quality, maybe 2* higher, away from home,
his formation :- 2-3w-1-2w-1 , I played with 4-1-2-1-2, His DMR got a red card on the FIRST minute, and my 5* AMC scored on the 15th minute, I'm leading and enjoying a lot of possession, he was not spectating, and there was no CROWD (0 attendance), then his team scores at 32' and 36', I'm baffled, I change my tactics at aroung the 60' and change to attacking, his team play even better, no mention of my forwards in the commentary AT ALL !! Then at 81' and 87' they score two more and I lose 4-1 away to a 10 man managerless team, I cannot believe it, almost threw my Phone away !!!
Then in the evening I played against a muuuch higher quality team, but this time at home, she played with 4-1-2N-3 and I didn't bother to change anything thinking I'd lose anyway. But somehow each of my strikers score at 32' and 44' and I win with a comfortable 2-0 scoreline,
she was spectating the match and made changes to her formation midway as well, they created chances (more than us) but could never capitalize, hitting the bar once.
So is there a pattern here ? Or did I just get my formation wrong ??? Is this kind of a new change in the game ? The first match was in the league and the second was in CL.
I had more (much) possession in the away match and lost disastrously.
I had same possession as my opponent in my home match and won comfortably.
So what does this say about the possession bonus theory ???

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That possession bonus is not the only thing that counts in the game... too a substitution during the match can change the situation... maybe some peopel think that the game is played before be played... just we see a simulation and we can not change the result but I don't belive in that exactly... sometimes we are playing and winning 2-0... then the game is stopped and result is not saved in the server so game do a new simulation of the match and maybe if we were winnin 2-0 then we loose 1-3,,,, so our decisions affect in the game. And more things that now at 3am I dont remember,, but about "possession" theory I just will say that possession is like all things, like the bonus of victory, like have a good ST that scores every match... like have the correct man for corners... the correct for fouls... like a good decision...
Possession (and thats by my own viewpoint) just give one some more chances that can be decisive, no more.

Then talking about your matches, we can say that is normal loose against a +2* team no? then if we have to analyze something is the 2nd match, the formations, and the players you used.
Too is posible, (and thats something not comproved by me...) that you have a player in your team, that works better in CL.... (I usually say and always was thinking that this game is so simple, and players work in same line always but... who knows...) so if you see a player that contributes and works(scores assists in this competition, just use this.

Thats something that only you can analyze, because you know every player how works, and for what can you use this.
Maybe I had the perception that some players work in different mode in different competition... but I did not put attention to this factor... I don't belive in that exactly, but... who knows?... so maybe is something pending to analyze...