Conference League Final 2025 - Real Betis 1-4 Chelsea

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

19 hours ago, King Kante said:

Finally, one of the players said they're tried of going backwards and sideways: 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/Chelsea.news/2025/05/Chelsea-player-admits-he-was-sick-of-going-backwards-and-sideways-and-did-his-own-thing/amp/

Be another good few seasons of backwards and sideways if Maresca sees out his contract though 😂

I don’t think we will see much change, like with Arteta at Arsenal too. Who without a fit and firing Saka look pretty toothless playing that style.

15 hours ago, Mário César said:

the importance of this win I think is a lit of bit comparable with EL 2013 because in that time we had a tough season and some players like eden, azpi or oscar need to felt what is to win a european trophy and that gave them a huge mental boost for next years

Now that the dust has settled a bit.

In reality, it’s not something a club of this magnitude should’ve ever been aspiring to be competing for. Yes first club to win all 3 European competition trophies, can’t take that away from us but if you had said when BlueCo took over, say 12-18 months after winning a CL, Super Cup, CWC etc that our first trophy since then would be the Conference League - we’d all be quite deflated. Lets be honest. Particularly after a £1.5bn outlay. 

It is good for this group to get the monkey off their back after the result last season in the Carabao final with the “billion pound bottlejobs” thing but will it change much? Thats the question. 

Still have huge concerns about the quality of a large % of our squad. And huge concerns about the direction of recruitment and the actual manager himself which need answered. 

This summer will probably answer a lot of those questions. Sancho & Delap aren’t exactly brilliant first steps either in the market (squad players at best). At the end of the window things will maybe be clearer, lets hope so, but generally still think next season will be another slog if we keep insisting with this utter guff, inflexible style of football and 3-4 years down the line recruitment.

I mean 3-4 years is going to come and the first guys signed with this strategy could be off somewhere else, sick of waiting….  maybe not but again, who knows. Its a short career all players don’t want to wait 3-4 years to win something hugely significant. 

[Mário César 1,232]

4 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Be another good few seasons of backwards and sideways if Maresca sees out his contract though 😂

I don’t think we will see much change, like with Arteta at Arsenal too. Who without a fit and firing Saka look pretty toothless playing that style.

Now that the dust has settled a bit.

In reality, it’s not something a club of this magnitude should’ve ever been aspiring to be competing for. Yes first club to win all 3 European competition trophies, can’t take that away from us but if you had said when BlueCo took over, say 12-18 months after winning a CL, Super Cup, CWC etc that our first trophy since then would be the Conference League - we’d all be quite deflated. Lets be honest. Particularly after a £1.5bn outlay. 

It is good for this group to get the monkey off their back after the result last season in the Carabao final with the “billion pound bottlejobs” thing but will it change much? Thats the question. 

Still have huge concerns about the quality of a large % of our squad. And huge concerns about the direction of recruitment and the actual manager himself which need answered. 

This summer will probably answer a lot of those questions. Sancho & Delap aren’t exactly brilliant first steps either in the market (squad players at best). At the end of the window things will maybe be clearer, lets hope so, but generally still think next season will be another slog if we keep insisting with this utter guff, inflexible style of football and 3-4 years down the line recruitment.

I mean 3-4 years is going to come and the first guys signed with this strategy could be off somewhere else, sick of waiting….  maybe not but again, who knows. Its a short career all players don’t want to wait 3-4 years to win something hugely significant. 

yeah keep sancho for me is a red flag

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Great game and atmosphere!

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

56 minutes ago, xPetrCechx said:

Great game and atmosphere!

What row were you? Looks like you were super close to where I was. 

 

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

8 hours ago, We Hate Scouse said:

What row were you? Looks like you were super close to where I was. 

 

Row 50 seat 2.

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

39 minutes ago, xPetrCechx said:

Row 50 seat 2.

I was 35 - 10, so we were super close!! 

I had one of the big flags, in this picture I'm holding the blue flag above where it says London on the massive flag

I also went to the Chelsea fan zone beforehand and my son got a squad signed shirt 😍😍😍

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

16 minutes ago, We Hate Scouse said:

I was 35 - 10, so we were super close!! 

I had one of the big flags, in this picture I'm holding the blue flag above where it says London on the massive flag

I also went to the Chelsea fan zone beforehand and my son got a squad signed shirt 😍😍😍

Great!

I was at the zone fan too before the game and then walked to the stadium.

[Fernando 6,585]

I thought no Reece at the beginning was weird but then I heard the comment from Maresca at the end and I was like interesting. 

Maybe if he continues doing that next season then James can stay more fit, and he might need to do the same for Lavia.