An unprecedented “natural experiment” has shown that, even with spectators completely absent from matches during the COVID-19 pandemic, professional European football teams playing at their home field have a statistical advantage over visiting teams. Fabian Wunderlich, Robert Rein, and Daniel Memmert of the German Sport University Cologne and Matthias Weigelt from the University of Paderborn present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on March 31.
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Source: Phys.org