Scottish football watches on as startling Bundesliga stat hints at beautiful game's new distortion
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dailyrecord.co.ukIt's one of the first and most enduring things we learn about football - the home team has the advantage.Whether it's a big club dishing out regular thrashings at their cavernous home stadium or the classic 'tricky place to go', it's harder to win on the road.
Ask any fan about the prospect of going to Ibrox to face Rangers, or to Parkhead to take on Celtic and they'll tell you as much.
In Italy, Juventus have lost just 11 home matches since opening their new stadium in 2011, showing just how important playing on your own turf can be.
The statistics bear it out too, with a study looking at close to 80,000 matches in 64 leagues across a five-year span finding that the home team wins, on average, 47.14 per cent.
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