🚨🎙️ Pep Guardiola on the 2021 UCL Final vs Chelsea:
“People talk about my Barcelona teams, Bayern, treble-winning City… but that Chelsea final is still the most difficult game I’ve ever coached in my career.
For 90 minutes, we suffered. Every space was closed. Every mistake felt fatal. I knew one goal could destroy us… and it did.
I have lost many games, but that night against Chelsea made me feel helpless on the touchline. Tuchel got everything perfect. It still hurts me today.’
Bottled. Fully bottled.
Good luck trying to get back up and running after the summer, no one will take it seriously 🤷♂️
The group just signed its own death warrant.
Since January 2019 — Chelsea has featured in 7 domestic cup finals at Wembley.
7 losses
1 goal scored in 750 minutes of football + additional time
The Chelsea curse at Wembley continues — so much so that you're almost starting to think it's not a curse — but rather a higher power not wanting Chelsea to win.
In the League Cup final in 2019 — Hazard was through in the dying minutes of extra time and the ref blew the whistle for offside — wrongly. We went on to lose in a penalty shootout.
In the FA Cup final in 2020 — Anthony Taylor decided to screw us over again — like he did in 2017. Kovacic was sent off for being stamped on by Xhaka. Emi Martinez handballed outside the box without being punished. Arsenal got a penalty for a foul outside the box.
In the FA Cup final in 2021 — Ben Chilwell had an equalizer disallowed for a wrongly called offside.
In the League Cup final in 2022 — Lukaku had a goal disallowed for offside — again wrong. We went on to lose another penalty shootout.
In the FA Cup final in 2022 — we lost yet another penalty shootout.
In the League Cup final in 2024 — we choked vs Liverpool's C team (thanks Poch).
And today we have three 50/50 penalty decisions all given against us because Darren England is too much of a coward to make a tough decision.
It's adding up to something that simply can't be excused away as "bad luck" anymore.
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Dropping Sanchez in this game for JORGENSEN is a sackable offence. 5-2 and 3 of those goals are on Jorgensen. Liam you messed up massively with this one, got us knocked out th CL
@BrawleyDarbon@OfficialPDC Is your us darts masters link still in the “register your interest” part of the https://t.co/qWdVyLFS0B website and not the “on sale now” part?
Fans aren’t always right but my god one of the first things I do when we sign someone is get the general consensus from them.
For Garnacho, it was that he’s a super sub but against deep blocks he’s not good at dribbling and makes bad decisions. Oh, so just what we’ve seen at Chelsea then.
For Hato, it’s yes he’s good on the ball but defensively he’s not good. Oh, just what we’ve seen at Chelsea then.
For Gittens, it was that he’s way too raw and needs confidence and a run of games which will be hard for expectations and change of league. Oh, just what we’ve seen seen at Chelsea then.
These 3 players were £145m! £145m!!
Why is it that so many time we see a heavily rotated lineup we know we’re in for a rough time until subs come on!
@Buccaneers Defensive mastermind Todd Bowles let a 37 year old backup throw for 373 yards a week after getting torched by Tyler Shough. Fire him today or Licht isn’t a serious GM