Maxime Vachier-Lagrave talks to Cristian Chirila after defeating Ding in Round 9 of the 2024 Sinquefield Cup. 2024.08.27 GrandChessTour... / grandchesstour / stlchessclub / grandchesstourofficial / grandchesstour
That's not exactly what MVL is saying. In contrary, he is rather saying that Alireza's performance at Candidates was clearly not as bad as people suggested as he had some really bad luck there whereas in this tournament, he is saying Alireza had sometimes a bit of luck (especially against Fabi and himself) but he clearly didn't suggest he had more luck in this tournament than he had bad luck in the Candidates. To sum up, another balanced and fair comment by the always classy MVL