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

[Top Eleven Blogger]

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.

[jacks]

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.

[Top Eleven Blogger]

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.

[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

[Top Eleven Blogger]

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

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 ?

[RJSlow]

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 ?

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

[khris]

no o o o

[Mo Avengers]

no o o o

lol yesssssssss lol

[Amane Ito]

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.

[Top Eleven Blogger]

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.