It's one of the first and most enduring things we learn about football - the home team has the advantage.
Whether it's a big club dishing out regular thrashings at their cavernous home stadium or the classic 'tricky place to go', it's harder to win on the road.
Ask any fan about the prospect of going to Ibrox to face Rangers, or to Parkhead to take on Celtic and they'll tell you as much.
In Italy, Juventus have lost just 11 home matches since opening their new stadium in 2011, showing just how important playing on your own turf can be.
The statistics bear it out too, with a study looking at close to 80,000 matches in 64 leagues across a five-year span finding that the home team wins, on average, 47.14 per cent.
With the coronavirus pandemic changing the sport as we know it though football will have to adjust to a new normal - and the early indications are that will include home advantage.
Of the 16 home matches since the Bundesliga returned to action, there have been just three home wins.
While that's a small sample size, it represents a percentage of just 18.75 per cent - a huge drop-off.
It's not difficult to conclude that games being played behind closed doors is having an impact, with a partisan home crowd one facet of the home experience.
It's also worth noting that of the three home wins we've seen in Germany so far, one was Bayern Munich beating relegation-threatened Eintracht Frankfurt and another was Borussia Dortmund's derby win over Schalke.
Take out the top two and we've seen just one home win since the Bundesliga returned, Hertha Berlin's 4-1 thrashing of city rivals Union Berlin on Friday night.
It remains to be seen whether the trend will continue as more leagues start back up, but early indications are that home advantage may be a thing of the past.
