Winning is a mixture of different ingredients that in soccer concerns the quality of the players, their ability to be cohesive in the most difficult competitive situations, is influenced by the coach and of course by the opponents play and many other aspects, including luck.
It is likely that the strongest teams that have been eliminated from this European Championship have suffered from some of these variables. I do not have the information to be able to analyze the match by examining these variables, however there is a characteristic that in my opinion is the glue to these variables and that is often decisive in favoring the final victory.
When Mourinho says that he wants “11 bastards”, Conte wants in his team aggressive players like Vidal, Ferguson waited for the 75th minute because knew from that moment his team would be unleashed, the same Tuchel saying that his players are predisposed to fight because this is their nature.
These different words affirm the idea that fighting spirit is the ingredient that a team that wants to win must show and that without this attitude even the best in quality will never achieve this result.
So let’s not be surprised if many of the best teams were eliminated, they obviously didn’t play with this approach. Combativeness does not mean to be foul but to want to win contrasts, to get up immediately when you fall, not to protest with the referee, to kick to score goals, to maintain the intensity of play throughout the match. The role of the coach is decisive in stimulating this kind of commitment.
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