est wrote:
It's not. They are by far the better team. Like we are in comparison to Anderlecht.
Good teams can have bad games like bad teams can have good games. If it happens two times in a row, then it just highlights some problems with the better teams.
In your mind, they might be. On the pitch was a completely different story. The reason you might think there are problems with the better teams is to justify your initial opinion. Sometimes there are problems, but usually the football on the pitch is the only and truest indication of how two teams compare.
This isn't domestic football, where you can compare two teams on their matchups and eventual position in the league. This is European football where teams are facing each other from completely different landscapes. There is nothing to go off except the actual matchups, and the nature of knockout football only adds to the difficulty in doing so.
You haven't seen a single Anderlecht or CSKA Moscow game this season. No-one has. It's ignorance and arrogance to assume that English lot are no doubt better and should beat them. Like I said, the actual results and performances are more valuable than any picture you may have painted in your head regarding how the outcome ought to have been.
