Vivalaraza
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Yeah fair enough.Oh he definitely did what he intended to do, but if it was just 1 inch further to the right, it probably doesn't take the same angle after deflecting off the post. I think fortuitous is a good descriptor. Amazing how such a small margin can have such a big repercussion. We see it every game (Guzan had two fingertip saves that caused balls to hit the post instead of go in yesterday) but it's always impressive.
It's just something you hear alot of when somebody scores a pearler - "well he just smashed it and it went in". Of course, could have just missed...but it didn't! Full credit to Modric it was a wonderful goal and it didn't even have that much to do with us being down to 10 men.