Intro

“Oh! So unlucky!” - One of the most used soundbytes in football commentary is actually the state of mind that managers and players should try and avoid. It’s one of the first things they teach you in Coaching Football courses, never say your player was unlucky, rather try to understand what and why he failed the move, and try to correct the movement.

 Football isn’t luck, it’s the result of a week preparing 90 minutes. It’s a big chess game that the managers prepare for, but they can only do so far. Because this pawns have independent movement, feelings that need to be managed, moments of brilliance or stupidity. Because football is a chess game with human pieces.

 We call it luck, but it’s the unpredictability of football that attracts us. It’s not luck, it’s the expectation that we have that surprises us (or not) during a game. But we only see the 90 minutes of play, when the game started being played in the first training for said game. And it seems luck to us who think that understand the game, when we only see its final result.

That’s why we are here. To try to analyze what is likely to happen during the Euro and future competitions to come. And we will probably fail, not because of sheer luck, but because football is unpredictable.