FC Barcelona and Chelsea played a tight match in which neither team got much in the way of splitting defenses, but each was able to score a goal to go 1-1 into the second leg of this UEFA Champions League tie.
After the match I was slightly surprised that people thought Barcelona were lucky to come away with a 1-1. This idea has some merit, Barcelona’s equalizer comes from a really poor mistake by a defender. Meanwhile, Chelsea hit the post twice in the first half.
But if we are willing to write the equalizer off as luck, based on a poor individual decision or poor technique, why do we not write off Chelsea’s goal on the same basis - that Willian’s great individual technique was just “bad luck” for Barcelona?