++ [ originally posted by Zlatan ] ++
Yes, thats exactly what I'm saying. It's the same thing like with Porto: many people said that Real deserved it more, that Arsenal would have won if they had just scored that one chance, that Team X would have won had Player X not been injured. But none of that is important. What is important is that Porto made it to the finals and that they won.
Okay, here's an example: what if Scholes' goal had stood? That's different from saying "What if Nedved played in the CL final against Milan?", because the fact is that if the goal had counted (which it definitely should have), Porto would have been knocked out and they wouldn't be considered the best team in Europe.
++ [ originally posted by Zlatan ] ++
Let me ask you this Gray: What are the European Championships? A tournament to determine the best football team in Europe, right? Well, if you win those European Championship, having qualified for it as first in your group, ahead of Spain, after having beaten Portugal twice, played a draw with Spain, knocked out France and the Czech Republic, after having won the Final, does that not prove they are the best team in Europe?
Are you saying that for the next 4 years, Korea should be considered the 4th best team in the world, and that faced against England, Holland, Czech Republic, they should be considered favourites simply because they had a better showing at the last World Cup? That France and Argentina should be considered worse teams than Senegal and Turkey?
Surely you can't have so much faith in the structure of a tournament and the 'fairness' of the outcome of matches that you blindly agree with whatever rankings a tournament churns out.
I think you're a bit too quick to dismiss the possibility of say, the Czech Republic taking one of their many chances. You're right, it didn't happen, but you can't guarantee that if the Czechs and the Greeks were to play against each other at any time in the next 4 years, that Greece should be considered favourites. You can't guarantee that the Czechs are going to be so unlucky in front of goal.
Basically what I'm saying is that you can't attribute horrible finishing and poor marking solely to the quality of the opposing team.
++ [ originally posted by Zlatan ] ++
What more do you want, for it to be written in the Bible?
Grow up.