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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	The advantage of scoring just before the halftime break – pure myth? Quasi-experimental evidence from European football
Organization Unit	Department of Business Administration (Egon Franck)
Authors	Philippe Meier Raphael Flepp Maximilian Valentin Rüdisser Egon Franck
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	UZH Business Working Paper Series
Number	382
ISSN	2296-0422
Number of Pages	29
Date	2019
Abstract Text	We examine whether the moment just before the halftime break is a particularly good time to score a goal. Using detailed data from the top five European football leagues between the 2013/14 and 2017/18 seasons, we exploit the quasi-random occurrence of goals scored just before and just after the halftime break. In the former situation, the game is exogenously inter-rupted by a break immediately after the goal, whereas in the latter situation, the game continues without interruption. We show that in the case of a goal being scored just before halftime, the scoring team benefits more from the halftime break than the conceding team.
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