yeah, I understand your point, but I think you just look at it theoretically.
there is how many? 7 or so? rounds before a team reaches the quarter finals. Statistically spoken, chances are very small you will not meet a decent team on that road sooner or later, so a bad team will never reach that spot, but for 1 time in soooooooo many times...
Bad teams get eliminated as well, even if all good ones have to play each other early.
Good teams somethimes get eliminated because their bad opponent decided to crunch and was playing at home,... so somethimes it's better to play a good team that doesn't want to crunch to not throw away it's enthousiasm, then to get a lesser team that crucnhes you out of the cup,... it's not just the luck of the draw you need, to be able to reach far, you need luck, a good team is not enough, plain and simple.
you thought you had a chance? well, you had. I think popo got lucky to win the game, or she used very good tactics (did realy look at your game) but if both play the best options, I think you would be the winner in 60 or even 70% of the games... HCA is pety strong, and it takes some good tactics and/or a clearly better team, to overcome the advantage the hometeam has.
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