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It's essentially one of the accepted rules of football, playing at home is much easier then playing away.

 

Why?

 

Obviously the fans play a big part in this, if you're at home you'll have thousands of extra people singing your name, but atmosphere's in the league aren't really what they were, so how big an effect do fans have? Is it more to do with the fact that they expect their team to attack more when at home?

 

Travelling probably isn't that important now a day's, surely most teams travel the day before. Is the loss of a training session that crucial?

 

Some pitches are bigger or smaller then others which makes a difference. Highbury used to be much smaller then Old Trafford or Villa Park. Does that play a part?

 

Is it just a mental thing. "We're away from home, this will be difficult."

 

What is it about playing away from home that is different from a home fixture?

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Is it just a mental thing. "We're away from home, this will be difficult."

 

This is it.

 

Look at our league table for proof - the atmosphere at home probably hasn't been 'all that', andnowhere in comparision to in the Champions League. Yet we have the second best home record in the League, and the less said about away results the better.

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you would have thought playing away from home would suit us, the empasis is on the other team to attack and we should be able to pick them off

so why dont we ?

 

I suspect one of the reasons is a lack of pace throughout the side, Man U can counter attack at real pace, so can Arsenal and even Chelsea

we have ... Bellamy ..... that's one player

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I've always though the pitch size (especially width) must be a bigger factor in this than is popularly assumed, but I've never seen that confirmed by reasearch.

 

In theory a team should have a better record on pitches of similar size to its own and that theory could be put to the test with a bit of effort. Empirically I always thought Southampton's poor record at Maine Road (the Dell was a very small pitch while City's was a big one) suggested that there might be something in this.

 

Pitch quality probably also used to play a part - some grounds like Derby County's were particularly hard for away teams since they were muddier and/or bumpier than most. And wasn't it Yeovil who actually had a sloping pitch? I think there's far less variation in this nowadays, though.

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