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Tennis: if you want to win you need the killer instinct

How many times have we seen ditching the match point and then lose the game ? Too many!
How many times have we seen players play the very well one set and then lose the next one perhaps dramatically to zero? Many!

How many times after a wrong service we have seen players lose your head and continue with this negative sequence until the end of the set? Many!

These are all situations where is not prevailed the killer instinct, the result is that one imposed his/her game while the other with the negative attitude underwent the opponent.

What is the killer instinct :

It’s the will to do what is reasonably necessary to win or to achieve your goal.
It’s the awareness of when you have to push to close a game, set or match, and you go for it.
It’s the awareness that when you drive the match, you should not pass up the opportunity to continue to do so.
It’s the awareness that when the opponent is down, you have to continue to keep him/her under .
It’s the will to want to emerge successfully from a negative phase of the game .

Barcelona and Real Madrid assess their will to win

The two matches that Barcelona and Real Madrid will play will be a measure of their “will to win.” The team’s will is the power  to choose and implement actions suitables to the achievement of certain purposes. Only at the end of the two matches we will know who won but since the beginning we can know who fights to win. For teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona the attitude with which they will begin the game will be relevant, opponents will never have the perception that it will be easy to go to the Champions League final. That’s why they should enter into the field with the will to win despite the very negative result of the first match. This is the Everest they have to climb: play to the best of their abilities and win, knowing that it would be much easier to play a poor game in terms of pride and will and not qualify. These challenges are almost impossible as it is to climb Everest without oxygen, but someone did it.

How Juve lost the winning will

What happened last Sunday at Juventus, and that is to lose a game being up of  onegoal, against a weaker opponent playing in 10 can be explained if one takes into consideration the characteristics that determine the will to compete to win. There are three factors that constitute it:

  1. desire to succeed – is the will to give the best of themselves as a team
  2. probability to succeed – assessment team to the probability towin
  3. incentive value of success – evaluation of the importance to win

I think the team has been lacking in the first and the second point. Players have thought it would be very likely to win, especially in the condition that superiority had reached for score (1 to 0) and their opponents in 10. In this way the players have reduced the motivation to do their best. Translated in the words of Conte, the coach, it means not being cocky and “want to go back to having dig the earth.”

Al Real Madrid non è bastata la volontà

Con la volontà si può tutto aveva detto Mourinho, ma questa volta non è anadata bene per il Real Madrid. Drammatizzare le partite e creare forti aspettative su come giocherà questa volta la squadra è la filosofia di questo allenatore. Ieri sera il Real Madrid sembrava attendere gli avversari nella speranza di un loro errore, ma evidentemente non tutti condividevano questo approccio, giacchè Ronaldo si lamentava vistosamente di questo atteggiamento dei suoi compagni. Quindi squadra poco unita se la sua stella principale si arrabbiava con gli altri. Insomma questa versione moderna degli Orazi e Curiazi non ha funzionato. Inoltre la volontà da sola non funziona se non si coniuga con la tenacia di volere ottenere il risultato a ogni costo.