There’s no such thing as “luck”. Luck is a fiction of the human imagination.
Luck is what the superstitious or weak minded blame for something in hindsight when they don’t understand or can’t admit that it’s their own fault or that someone else is just better.
Everything happens by the coincidence of preparation meeting opportunity, or lack of preparation or mistakes meaning you miss an opportunity.
There’s also no such things as “meant to be”.
Monaco began with poor recruitment in preparation for Pep coming and poor defending on the night.
Liverpool came during a period where we fucking shat ourselves every time we went to Anfield because of a weak mentality.
Spurs away was down to leaving out Kompany and deBruyne in the away leg.
Lyon was down to playing 5-2-3 and being swamped in midfield.
Chelsea was down to a collective weak mentality.
Last night was down to not playing out the end of the game smartly enough.
In all of those games we missed a lot of chances as well. And that’s been a hindrance to us even when we had a record breaking strikeforce.
Pep's Barcelona dived a lot and they got a hell of a lot of "questionable" decisions in their favor, decisions that we never get because we simply aren't part of the "elite" clubs unlike Barca.Maybe not luck but we're certainly not very good at European style football.
Has a team won the Champions League in the last 20 years that hasn't dived, cheated and whinged their way to winning it? Maybe Pep's Barcelona and those great Bayern Munich teams but everyone else knows how to ride that line that allows them to kick lumps out of the opposition without getting a card and how to initiate contact in a good area for a free kick, you only have to look at how Real closed the game out last night compared to the way we did.
We're really not very good at the 'gamesmanship' side of things and in Europe, and in particular the Champions League, you have to be very good cheats as well as a very good team to win it and the closest we've come to that is when we played Atletico.
It's no coincidence that the best English team in Europe is Liverpool are also the biggest cheats in the league.
I don't think you've understood what I'm saying. If we started acting like Real Madrid did when we went 1-0 up and started time wasting, diving about and generally spoiling the game do you not think we would have held out to go through?Nothing of what you are saying here didn't happen last night. RM won it fair and square, the ref had a few questionable decisions with Casemiro in the first half, but they affected in no way our performance or the result. We just waited for that opportunity to self destruct and RM just pressed the button.
There’s no such thing as “luck”. Luck is a fiction of the human imagination.
Luck is what the superstitious or weak minded blame for something in hindsight when they don’t understand or can’t admit that it’s their own fault or that someone else is just better.
Everything happens by the coincidence of preparation meeting opportunity, or lack of preparation or mistakes meaning you miss an opportunity.
There’s also no such things as “meant to be”.
Monaco began with poor recruitment in preparation for Pep coming and poor defending on the night.
Liverpool came during a period where we fucking shat ourselves every time we went to Anfield because of a weak mentality.
Spurs away was down to leaving out Kompany and deBruyne in the away leg.
Lyon was down to playing 5-2-3 and being swamped in midfield.
Chelsea was down to a collective weak mentality.
Last night was down to not playing out the end of the game smartly enough.
In all of those games we missed a lot of chances as well. And that’s been a hindrance to us even when we had a record breaking strikeforce.
None of it is “luck”. It’s just all a coincidence of circumstances that happen by chance.This really is not true in football. It is not a precise science, there are 2 teams with officials too plus there is human error.
Luck is obviously not everything but it clearly plays a part as does preparation, concentration and everything else.
You are massively confusing one off cup games with a league. In a league, by and large luck is not a determining factor because of so many games and so many variations.
In cup games, luck can play a massive part. If you can’t see or understand that then football might not be the game for you.
We played well, better than the opposition but we lost yesterday to a 1 in 100 chance. There are so many examples of games where luck played a huge part. For example, Gillingham at Wembley - most observers were surprised Halsey signalled 5 mins injury time. We were lucky he didn’t signal 4. And conversely Gillingham were unlucky
It’s the way people think of luck being this thing that shines on some teams and players, but not others, like luck is an entity. A lot of people look at luck like they do fate, destiny, omens and all that shit (that also don’t exist).I agree with your point that 'luck' can too often be used as an excuse for poor preparation or performance, and more than once we have been the architects of our own downfall in the CL. However, I disagree that there is no such thing as luck. Timing and chance can have a huge impact on events and ultimately you cannot prepare for every eventuality, control all variables or mitigate all risks. You can plan, prepare and perform but sometimes shit happens.