Sky Sports pundit makes absolutely ridiculous Tottenham claim - opinion

Tottenham Hotspur are “lucky” to be in the Champions League final, according to Graeme Souness, per Balls.ie.

What’s the word?

Spurs face Liverpool in Madrid on Saturday as they attempt to win the competition for the first time in their history.

But Souness insists that Mauricio Pochettino’s men have merely qualified for the final by the skin of their teeth.

Spurs lost 13 games in the Premier League en route to their fourth-placed finish and ultimately lost 19 matches in all competitions.

And the former Reds man insists that there has been a huge dose of luck involved in the London club’s run; unlike Liverpool’s.

He said: “The minute you try to attach logic to a game of football, you will come unstuck. Eight, nine times out of ten, the team with the best players wins the football match. Liverpool have the best players.

“On the other side of that coin, there’s a small part of me thinking, ‘Spurs’ name is already on that trophy’. The way they’ve got to the final, they have been lucky.

“You can’t say Liverpool have been lucky. They came back from 3-0 down against Barcelona, you can’t say that was a lucky performance. They steamrolled Barca that night, stopped Messi, they steamrolled them.

“I’m hoping it will be a Liverpool win but there is an element of doubt in my mind because of the luck Spurs have enjoyed getting to the final.”

Absolute nonsense

Souness is talking absolute nonsense, there’s really no two ways about it.

This is a very good Liverpool team, yes, but they drew perhaps the easiest possible quarter-final opponent in Porto – Spurs played Manchester City, the Premier League champions – while the Reds also lost three times in the group stages. Spurs took just two defeats at that stage.

Yes, Barcelona were handsomely beaten at Anfield but Spurs “steamrolled” Borussia Dortmund at Wembley and also pulled off a miraculous comeback in Amsterdam against Ajax.

Luck, at the end of the day, is integral to any great cup run, and has surely helped both sides on route to Madrid.

Souness insisting that only Spurs have benefited is, as Donald Trump would say, fake news.

from FootballFanCast.com http://bit.ly/2VWeMsJ