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.
I agree with you. Of course i do. I watch football since the 90s and it is in fact the reason why football is so beautiful.
And i get that what you mean isn’t that this is always based on luck, but so many outcomes are up to coincidence. A game of football is millions of factors making little impacts and at some point a game is decided by a little breeze that carried a long ball a bit too far.
Managers like Guardiola try to completely erase incalculability from the game, while Mourinho really tries hard to work with it. Ancelotti seems to be in total balance and control with it. Just be there and make the right decision when the time is right.
There is also the element to work hard to achieve situations that turn out lucky for you. Players like Messi know it is important just to try until the very last moment of the game and therefore he will be rewarded by chance.