Rice has taken 16 free kicks since he scored against Real Madrid and not scored.
He took 12 before that game and never scored.
His had 23 assists in 8 years in the Premier League.
The overhype for this player who runs around a lot and gesticulates for the cameras is staggering.
🚨 Didier Drogba on Kai Havertz:
🗣️ “Kai Havertz spent years telling everyone that winning the Champions League with Arsenal would mean more than winning it with Chelsea. The problem is that to compare trophies, you first have to win them.
Chelsea gave him the biggest night of his career. One goal, one Champions League, and a place in football history. Instead of appreciating it, he acted like it was only a warm-up for something greater.
He celebrated every goal against Chelsea as if he had something to prove. Last night proved the only thing that matters: talking about the Champions League is not the same as winning it.
The medal in his cabinet still has Chelsea's name on it. The trophy he dreamed of winning with Arsenal is still missing.
Football is a cruel game. Sometimes it waits patiently before reminding people where they achieved their greatest success.
Kai wanted to show the world that Chelsea was just a stepping stone. Instead, he discovered that Chelsea was the peak.
Some players leave Chelsea and become legends elsewhere. Others leave Chelsea and spend years chasing the standards they already had.
The Champions League doesn't care about feelings, interviews, or celebrations. It only remembers winners. And the last time Kai Havertz was one, he was wearing blue..."
lets give a massive shoutout to the referee tonight
-didnt let saka take the corner after he was wasting time
-gave mosquera yellow card for time wasting
-didnt give madueke pen for a dive
-gave rice and arteta yellow card for CRYING
MASTERCLASS PERFORMANCE
Worst PL champions of all time.
Not even 70 goals scored.
VAR on their side all season.
One of the lowest points tallies ever.
22 years and billions spent in that time.
Football lost tonight.
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: An official image has been released of Kai Havertz' challenge.
Studs above the ankle is a 100% red card in the book of rules, but VAR decided NOT to give it.
2019:Disallowed Azpilicueta Goal.
2020: Kovacic Red Card & dibu handball outside his box.
2021: Tielemans Handball in build up to goal.
2022: lukaku Offside.
2024: Jackson offside against Liverpool, that same season fa Cup semi finals grealish handled a free kick and no pk was given.
2026: 4 penalty shouts, none was given.
Referees 🚮🚮
🚨🎙️| Didier Drogba:
‘I’ve watched football for many years and what happened in the Chelsea vs Manchester City final today was shocking.
Chelsea should have had at least 2 or 3 clear penalties and somehow the referee ignored every single one. I just don’t understand how a professional referee can watch those incidents and pretend nothing happened. People will be scared to say it, but it looked very suspicious. When decisions are this bad, fans will start asking serious questions about whether Manchester City are being protected. Chelsea were robbed today.’”
🚨🎙️ José Mourinho BLASTS VAR on controversial decisions in the FA Cup Final: [PT news]
“I am not even surprised. It is Manchester City and it is Chelsea. When you wear the blue shirt of Chelsea, you must be ready for decisions like this. It is the history, no?
For me, the penalty decision is not a mistake it is clear. Chelsea were robbed, simple as that. Everybody saw it. The whole world saw it
I have a lot more to say about this referee, a lot more about how certain clubs and managers are treated in these finals, but I am not allowed to speak. I cannot say too much because if I speak… you know what happens if I speak. If I speak, I am in big, big trouble. And I prefer not to be in trouble”
🚨🎙️Thierry Henry on Chelsea’s denied penalty appeals in the FA Cup Final, SLAMS VAR: 💣🤯
“If those same decisions happen against Manchester City at the other end, people are calling it corruption for a week straight. Chelsea got robbed today.
The first one on João Pedro before halftime was a clear penalty for me. Khusanov doesn’t even try to play the ball, he just goes through the back of him. Then in the second half, Doku clips Caicedo driving into the box and somehow VAR still stays quiet.
And the handball? We’ve seen those given all season. Enzo’s cross strikes O’Reilly’s arm and suddenly everyone wants to pretend the rules are different in a cup final.
That’s three huge moments in one match and Chelsea got nothing from any of them. No proper VAR intervention, no consistency, no urgency from the officials.
If Arsenal or Liverpool were treated like that in a final, football wouldn’t stop talking about it for months. Chelsea didn’t just lose the FA Cup today, they were officiated out of it.”