You’re all narrative merchants who want to attribute essentially random events to something more solid, as you think the sport you love is somehow devalued if you admit it wasn’t all destiny and that if the ball had bounced 10cm in the other direction one time, a team in blue would be lifting a trophy instead of a team in red.
So even when team A batters team B, hits the post eight times and then concedes a last minute deflected winner, they weren’t unlucky, but Team B had a better mentality, or Team A’s manager always bottles things in Europe so this was inevitable, or it was actually the genius of dropping player X into a false 9 rather than playing a traditional striker that made the difference.
The fact the best team doesn’t always win is what makes football interesting. Winning any big cup competition requires being both really good and really lucky. People should embrace that.
Its funny how the same teams seem to be lucky almost every season
Yes but that’s over a big sample, eventually (we like to think at least) luck evens out and skill rises to the top. However, for any one game OP’s point is still true. This gets magnified in a cup competition where one off day results in you going home. Idt he’s saying that it’s ALL luck but even at a casino roulette where your odds are roughly 50/50 you can go home having lost 20x in a row.