I was very surprised by this statement. I can understand the reasoning about knockout tournaments - there is some role played by randomness (the so-called random variable variance) but not by "luck". But when we talk about a big two-round tournament, the result is 100% fair and logical. And if we take into account the gap between Real Madrid and rivals, then I don’t understand at all what kind of luck we can talk about here.
Kind of three times luck in champions league i guess ...Against chelsea they did a great illogical comeback with benzema as a hero .. so do against psg and manchester city. So much luck factor there tbh.
In la liga , the biggest rival .. barcelona suffered a heavy financial problem and didn't play 100% of their power due those chaotic internal matter , it's like real madrid being in farmer league such as ligue 1 last season.
No hate. Just my honest opinion. Peace out
Round robins and knockout tournaments are very different. For example, one team is stronger than the other and on average wins 7 games out of 10. Variance can happen in such a way that these 3 games when the outsider wins will fall into their two-round confrontation (but still Real was the strongest, hahahaha).
But in round robin tournaments, the influence of variance is reduced to almost zero, so it makes no sense to talk about luck here. By the way, the financial situation is the same factor of strength as everything else - if the team is weak in this and this affects its game, then this is its weakness and problems, and not the "luck" of the opponent.