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.
Won’t read all that but it’s true there are so many luck in the game on the pitch and off the pitch. One of the unluckiest thing for my local club was it was in the african champions league final, the game got proposed for 3 weeks and during those three weeks we lost 3 prominent players. One of them was the starting left back. Our back up left back in the 7th minute makes a mistake. Gives the other team a corner and they opened the score from that.