I believe in football you do make your own luck to a degree, if you create more chances and make more efforts on goal you will get lucky more times than if you make less and if you limit your opposition to few chances the odds on them getting lucky are reduced.wanderlust wrote:Apart from the injury to Wheater, our luck definitely seems better this season. Some people say you have to make your own luck so maybe it's a reflection on the team's improvement but it's early days yet so I'll sit on the fence for a while as regards where we are at as a team.whatsgoingon wrote:To be fair lusty picking up bits of luck is a decent habit to have, we've had the opposite habit long enough.wanderlust wrote:I still feel that our two wins had an element of luck about them so I don't know how we'll go on but a solid performance would be reassuring.
But having been to the Sheff Utd game and reading the reports of Blackpool and Wimbledon we had more than enough chances to win all those games easier. Yes we had to defend at times but we did it well (apart from lapses against Blackpool) and will always have to as we haven't got a dominant team.
But we also had bad luck with chances missed as well so it balances out.
In terms of injuries there are several factors - training methods, playing an effective system so people have to make less reckless/last ditch challenges, and keeping the ball so you defend less and have to run less