Chelsea (N) | FA Cup Final | Post Match Thread

noseve said:
Always comes across as no more than a soundbyte, that one - it counts some games twice.

I doubt whether City - or any team, come to that - has ever played 6 games in any 14-day period, which is what that suggests.
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A game every 3 or 4 days when playing in 3 cups and PL

Edit: Doesn’t help when most of our players are called up for international duty as well
 
paulchapo said:
Oh i forgot it was boring, like we're there to entertain cunts who hate us
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Truth to tell, I can imagine that it was fairly boring for the neutral. But what exactly are we supposed to do about it? That's the salient question, the question that nobody on social media or the professional media ever asks.
Every team — every last one — now plays against us as though they were playing at the Etihad, and have no chance unless they put 11 men behind the ball and count on a break that will catch our high line out. That is exactly what Palace did last year — no more, no less — and yes, it was pretty fucking boring. But it worked for them (literally one break, well executed to be fair — goal). That is not Johan Cruyff level of tactical sophistication, it is moronically simple, but it sometimes works.
Not yesterday, thank God. Football had the last word, with a beautiful goal, which would have graced any game.
Chelsea absolutely only started playing in the second half, and especially only when they went behind. James Trafford did not have one single actual save to make. He himself must have been bored.

But I'll say, once again, what I've said a thousand times on here: we don't set the terms of boredom. The opposition does, by setting out their stall the way they do.

And I'll say again, because it's true: the one team that didn't do it was the Liverpool of their prime years. They went at it hammer and tongs, they took us on, sometimes it worked for them, sometimes for us, but in any case it must have been thrilling for the neutral. They did it on Boxing Day, 2013, they did it again in January, 2019, and those are two of the absolute best matches that City have ever been involved in, whether in the old First Division, or in the PL. It turns out that we ran out winners, but let's tell the truth, it could have been them. That is what football is about. But it takes two to tango. Only one team wanted to tango yesterday.
 
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jrb said:
Whilst over at United, the United players doing lap or honour around Old Toilet had no trophy to show the United fans.
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Their fans are mainly braindeads and morons anyway so would not recognise the banality of the "gesture".

Having a shit season with no trophies to show, being seriously helped by pgmol to enable them to get into CL, and signing another saviour of the shithole club is a massive achievement for the easily pleased cunts and lemmings.

Fools and their money are easily parted.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Truth to tell, I can imagine that it was fairly boring for the neutral. But what exactly are we supposed to do about it? That's the salient question, the question that nobody on social media or the professional media ever asks.
Every team — every last one — now plays against us as though they were playing at the Etihad, and have no chance unless they put 11 men behind the ball and count on a break that will catch our high line out. That is exactly what Palace did last year — no more, no less — and yes, it was pretty fucking boring. But it worked for them (literally one break, well executed to be fair — goal). That is not Johan Cruyff level of tactical sophistication, it is moronically simple, but it sometimes works.
Not yesterday, thank God. Football had the last word, with a beautiful goal, which would have graced any game.
Chelsea absolutely only started playing in the second half, and especially only when they went behind. James Trafford did not have one single actual save to make. He himself must have been bored.

But I'll say, once again, what I've said a thousand times on here: we don't set the terms of boredom. The opposition does, by setting out their stall the way they do.

And I'll say again, because it's true: the one team that didn't do it was the Liverpool of their prime years. They went at it hammer and tongs, they took us on, sometimes it worked for them, sometimes for us, but in any case it must have been thrilling for the neutral. They did it on Boxing Day, 2013, they did it again in January, 2019, and those are two of the absolute best matches that City have ever been involved in, whether in the old First Division, or in the PL. It turns out that we ran out winners, but let's tell the truth, it could have been them. That is what football is about. But it takes two to tango. Only one team wanted to tango yesterday.
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The majority of cup finals are boring because there's a lot at stake.
 
goalmole said:
Other teams have done the domestic cup double in previous seasons, so surely they must also have won every single cup match that season?
Am I missing something?
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I’d guess it’s referring to penalty shootouts determining the winner in the case of a draw. Or replays.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
But they didn't! 2-0 at Old Trafford. 3-0 at the Etihad. Aggregate score over the season — 3-2!
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We don't want to burst the Raggie bubble, they're pathetic and insecure enough as it is.
Let the irrelevant non-entitites wank themselves silly over nothing whilst we get on with the serious business of competing for and winning trophies.
 
We've been to Wembley and played better than that and lost, but who cares? Result is everything in a final. Guehi superb and our MOTM I thought with Nunes also excellent and Kovacic also positive when he came on and got us playing a bit on a day so many were not near their best.

Had a wonderful day, celebrated raucously afterwards; love the Cup and having now seen us lift it 4 times in the flesh it's provided another treasured memory
 
I think Pep got the starting line up wrong with Marmoush starting instead of either Cherki or Foden…..but quickly corrected this at half time ….although Ironically the first ten minutes of the second half was probably Chelsea’s best spell.

We definitely deserved the win…..just
lacking a fully fit Rodri and some creativity.

Whoever replaces Bernardo is going to have to be some player.
 
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