El Gato
Villarato!
lol, admit it. You know there is a point made somewhere in there.
Gee.
Aliens exist.
Probably.
Pretty sure.
lol, admit it. You know there is a point made somewhere in there.
What even is this comparison?
Projecting a whole-scale corruption scandal suggesting some teams undeservedly won the CL via corruption... please demonstrate which ones and what do you have to support the implication you make.
Penalties are not 'deserved' for many reasons and it is not binary either.
CL winners without fail have done something to deserve winning the trophy. Every tournament winner did.
Ain?t gonna lie, I am a Barca fan and to this day still feel embarrassed discussing the Barca Chelsea game of 2011/2012 lol.
Why? It was simply divine intervention that caused Chelsea to win.
You also conflate two things: On one hand you say a team always wins the CL deservedly, on the other hand you say a team always does something to deserve it. It?s very hard to argue the second because someone could argue something very basic as saying the team showed ?fighting spirit? or they didnt show up late to the game or they qualified for the tournament through playoffs or domestic league.
(and i say usually because we have seen many winners who do not need to demonstrate even that. The sheer difference in quality is enough for them to win).
Such as?
You'd struggle to name a team that has walked to any title without being challenged by someone somewhere along the way.
Juventus winning many of the scudettos of the last 9 years, or Bayern likewise many of the last years, or PSG many times in Ligue1
Juventus winning many of the scudettos of the last 9 years, or Bayern likewise many of the last years, or PSG many times in Ligue1
It?s simple, if there can be a general consensus of a team undeservedly winning a single match, by logic the same can be said about a tournament.
Why is there a compulsion to mention league competitions in this argument when the format poses a different set of challenges? One of them being that you won't always find a match against the same/similar quality opposition with an equivalent degree of depth. In the CL you'll almost always at some point play a team that is actually as good or better at football, or will at least be good enough to make it difficult for you to win if they're inferior and make it a point to win by preventing you from winning. In leagues, not so much, because the ultimate result is less so decided in H2H. I mean I don't think that's unheard of. So how is that a valid argument?
So you have curtailed your original argument to the following form: we should give credit to those base traits (like fighting spirit, strong mentality, etc) only in cup competitions and only when all other factors (like football quality) are all equal?