They are closer to 50-50, than an actual skill. Good teams play close games against good teams; and they beat bad teams comfortably.
However, I admit that experience and mentality seem to help gaining or losing an edge at those ending moments of close matches. If they actually do and how much...
Following futsal at the moment. The local team is playing in the regional tournament. It’s the last game of the “minor round”. We are leading, with 5 wins in 5 games. It’s away against the wooden-spooners.
I knew we would have down games. I was just hoping it wouldn’t be this week. Alas, it was — and we lost it by 5.
I can forgive bad Showdowns with a win. The loss makes it all worse. Let’s see now whether we can rebound.
Growing pains.
We were outcoached and outplayed the whole night. It was very annoying.
The game shouldn’t have been close, but we never gave up (I mean, I did; but not the team). Yet, we were 10 seconds away from winning it.
I’m gutted. Too many different feelings at once. I’ll rationalize all later, but...