Attention Unión: Rule change to take effect from Clausura last 16 | OneFootball

The Professional League changes the rules for this championship as in the event of a tie, there will no longer be a direct penalty shootout. Instead, an additional 30 minutes of extra time will be played, and if the tie persists, then there will be penalty kicks.

AFA once again shakes things up, as it has done many times during the current administration, by including an important change in the already approved regulations of the 2025 Professional League. In this Clausura tournament, a tiebreaker stage will be added for the Playoffs.

Thus, those matches that end in a tie in the 90 minutes during the Clausura Playoffs will have a 30-minute overtime as the first tiebreaker, instead of going directly to penalties.

It is vaguely understood that the possibility of extra time would give the home team some advantage, avoiding the "lottery" of penalties as the first tiebreaker criterion.

This arises after the impressive performance of the visitors in the 2025 Apertura Playoffs, where no home team advanced from the quarterfinals and semifinals.

Three of the six matches in question were decided by penalties, while the other three saw visitor victories in regular time. It is worth remembering that Platense, the great champion of the 2025 Apertura, played all Playoff stages as a visitor and only defeated River by penalties.

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