What a Game

FA Cup final, liverpool vs west ham.
One year after Istanbul, Liverpool played another dramatic final.
I am not superficious, I am trying to understand the meaning of "luck".
"Something is not right." I thought after the game had started for a while.
The performance of a couple of players are indeed below their standard, Kewell seldom touched the ball, Alonso made a couple of stupid mistakes. The defenders were fooling around. "These shouldn't happen altogether at the same match. The luck is not flavoring our side."
0-2, including one own goal.
Liverpool bounced back, 2-2.
"they are still not in the right track."
Several minutes later, 2-3, once again, it's really weird, 無心插柳的cross fly to the net and became a beautiful goal.
The remaining 20 minutes or so were really hard. one goal behind, the players were tired, no more attacker in the subsitution list (why? Luis Gacia was in suspension, a point everyone thought doesn't matter a lot before the game).
足球就是這樣令人著迷, Steven Gerrard scored the equalizer. A fantastic goal in the extra time.
"How can he do it? The captain, somehow the burden of the whole team is on his shoulder, the camera captured he was 抽筋 several minutes ago, and at the final seconds...." It reminded me the story in the comic book.
"The luck is back." Indeed, in the extra time, west ham had a shoot hit the post, and Liverpool won the penalty.
The game is such a reflection of life. Even though I use the term luck, I am not saying life is a bunch of random processes, as I believe God in charge of our life.
The book "alchemist" makes the following point: Right before someone achieves his personal legend, he/she has to face the toughest challenge. He/she is asked to show all the things learnt in the process, and the challenge is to test whether he/she deserves succeed. May be, that's not a bad way to think about luck.
We were taught something like "fight back; never give up; ...". All these could be found in textbook I really doubt how many of us believe these principles work. A football game opens a window, we are reminded that there is something in life we have to fight for, and those textbook principles are not bullshit.
ps. For west ham, they really played a great game, they worked very hard and actually both sides deserve to win.