Jase

You complained about the starting XI against Arsenal and kept banging on about the top 4 more than anything else in midweek.

Mendy would have absolutely saved it, IMO. Questions must also be asked of the players. I don't know if they have let all the praise got into their head or have just hit a wall after the Man City game but no one looked bothered in the last two games. We didn't play with the same energy, desire and intensity and now the season is in danger of becoming a complete failure. The FA Cup was our best chance of winning something out of the two finals and we bottled it. God knows what's gonna happen with the Top 4 race now.

lol Am not the one who was/is screaming to care only about the Top 4 and nothing else.

🤣 Look who's the dumbass trying to resort to insults now after being called out...

Oh, you care about the trophies now? Thought you only care about Top 4?

My guess is that Havertz and Pulisic did nothing in the last game against Arsenal and Ziyech did score the winner in the semi-final. So, I guess it became a bit of a toss-up between the 3 and out of our attackers, Pulisic is arguably the best when it comes to coming off the bench. If anything, it's probably baffling that Tuchel didn't start with Havertz-Werner upfront and Mount deeper in midfield considering it was working well recently. Werner can be OK at leading the line but he's better off playing off someone upfront. Kepa played because he has been the cup keeper - something Tuchel has mentioned - although you could argue that Tuchel could have been more ruthless but think there's also some club politics involved in this. Tuchel said he played Alonso because of his height and experience but he brought Chilwell later on anyway. Chilwell was clearly desperate/motivated to play against his former side. No clue why Tuchel didn't try to harness that. Went with Alonso instead and we had 2 malfunctioned attacks from the wingbacks.

Maybe Jorginho should do his job as a midfielder better first before expecting someone else to do it for him. And had Silva come out to close Tielemans, it would have opened up the space for him to make the pass to Vardy before he attempted to make the shot.

Arsenal managed to beat Liverpool in the Community Shield this season and look where they are now.

WUT?

Jorginho spending more time shouting and pointing than trying to close down Tielemans...

But it's a trophy - if you want to call it that - that people only care if the team win and don't care if they lose. Totally different to the others.

The difference between the Community Shield and the League Cup is that the former is just a one off game while the latter is an actual tournament with multiple rounds etc, however big or small it is. I know that record is bad anyway even without the Community Shield but the Community Shield is basically a glorified pre-season friendly.

Maybe it's karma for the way we won the 2017 FA Cup but the stupid thing about this final is that Leicester did nothing special to win this. The game was there for the taking and we did F all with it and we allowed them to shithouse their way to the win with a long range goal. And had Chilwell goal stood, Leicester would have been fucked considering Rodgers had made so many defensive changes by then. Fucking joke!

Are we really counting the Community Shield? lol

Also worth remembering that Mendy is slightly taller than Kepa.

Mike Dean is the referee for this...

Dortmund can guarantee their place in the Top 4 with a win tomorrow, after Eintracht Frankfurt's latest bottlejob.

The thing is, what is a handball and what is not a handball these days? When James played the ball, Perez turned his body and hands at the same time, which led to him intercepting the ball and setting the goal in motion.

That's why it's strange to see people say they don't care about the FA Cup and only a Top 4 finish. We used to talk trash about Wenger and his "top 4 trophy" at Arsenal and not winning anything but we're now slowly becoming that.

Not that we'll get a second chance but willing to wager that Mendy would have saved that Tielemans goal. Kepa did that silly hopping/skipping thing of his again at that attempted save and that split moment of him doing that could well have been difference between him saving that goal and not saving it.

Lazy from Chilwell......

I mean...

This is just fucking stupid. It's like that Werner goal that was ruled out for the same thing at Anfield. Players can't score with their hands, shoulders, arms or whatever. So why is the line drawn to measure against that body part!?

ahahah But it's been happening right in front of our very eyes!