Originally posted by Hosseini
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I am going to give you an example. Try to dig down and remember how you felt before the Argentina game. We barely made it to the WC and we were playing one of the WC favorites. Remember who Argentina's players were and what clubs they played for vs ours. And they had Messi... We had lost to Lebanon and Uzbekistan in the qualifiers. What was your truth at that moment? Certainly, you did not think that we are going to give Argentina a game, did you? And if one of Argentina's early chances had gone in, it could have been 4-0 Argentina easily. And if Dejagah was given that penalty, we could have won 1-0. Even walking into that game, I kept reminding myself that we have a chance and clung to that. I was not being fictitiously positive. I knew the chance was small but it was not fictitious. My point being that there are very many different potential outcomes in a game and each has a probability associated with it.
My expectations is that we lose to England and I am aware that we can get blown away 6-0 or lose 2-0 but I also know there is a chance we can tie 1-1 or even win 2-0... Likelihood is that we are going to lose but it is only likelihood, not truth. I choose to cling to the possibility of a 1-1 tie or a narrow win and I claim that it is not fictitious.
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