India Vs Pakistan - Semi Final World Cup 2011

Does home teams have advantage over visitors ?
Are home teams in more pressure when performing in front of their home crowd ?

It is complete rubbish that home teams are in bigger pressure to perform when playing on their familiar grounds and in front of supportive crowds. It is a psychological tactic used by visitors to pressurize the home team. Just look at the statistics on the home teams a large percentage of wins are at home as opposed to losses which are in foreign soil. One may argue the case about the world cup in which no home team has won it yet.

The reason is that there are many countries participating in world cup and the home teams were simply not good enough to win the tournament. On tomorrow's game India have advantage over Pakistan in terms of the crowd support and familiar conditions. If Pakistan wins this then it will be a mega effort defying all odds. We wish that it is a clean friendly and competitive game and bring people of both countries closer to each other, no matter whoever wins. Our best of luck to both teams.