So Liverpool and Arsenal just gave us one of the greatest games ever, well at least since Chelsea beat Liverpool in the Champions League recently. Either way Liverpool have now been involved in the two best games this season. Soccer pundits as they do, cannot just admit to a great game, no, they have to dig deep and tell us all that was wrong, bad defending, goalkeeping errors, bad decisions and tactics.
Fare enough, but its these mistakes that gave us such a great game, so more mistakes please. The fact is you probably had to watch 10 - 12 league matches before you saw a great game, you most likely watched every champions league game, and only seeing Chelsea play Liverpool did you walk away saying great game. And why, because each great game has goals, lots of goals.
As much as Formula 1 is desperate for overtaking so too is soccer for goals. Goals are created by moments of individual magic or mistakes. If you think about individual goals of magic, are caused by a mistake somewhere along the line. If every player on the pitch did there job to perfection, well goalkeepers would save all shoots, but there be no shoots, because the defenders have cut off the supply, but there would be supply because the midfielders are playing total football, and there be loads of goals, because every shoot from a striker would be goal, but the goalkeeper would save everything. So the fact that there are mistakes the better the football match, the more mistakes the more goals, and so with get the great games.
Unfortunately there are teams with great defences that kill games, but never win, bad strikers, there teams with great strikers but always lose because of there defence. So why not stop the pursuit of perfection, let there be more mistakes, lets have more high scoring games and let there be great games every weekend.
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