eli5, apart from the psychological factor and weather, how does playing at home stadium affect a football game as compared to a sport where attributes of the home stadium affect the game in a much more nuanced manner like cricket ?

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eli5, apart from the psychological factor and weather, how does playing at home stadium affect a football game as compared to a sport where attributes of the home stadium affect the game in a much more nuanced manner like cricket ?

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If you remove the psychological factor and weather (those are huge advantages). Then your left with the fact the away team had to travel which is mental and physical efforts the home team didn’t have to deal with. For home teams that play and live at altitude, there maybe a physical advantage, but the fact that most plays in football rarely last past 10 seconds, I doubt it’s much.