Sometimes you do not need many words to analyse a game of football and just a sentence works just fine. And that is certainly the case for yesterday’s League Cup Final between Chelsea and Liverpool.
It was Chelsea and Mauricio Pochettino’s huge chance to win silverware this season and they are highly unlikely to get another. It would have been massive for the manager, the club, the players, and for the fan base after what has been a hugely up and down season so far with a lot of doom and gloom.
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Liverpool were forced to field a team of largely second string players with so many of their key players not even making the squad. Once those players tired, Jurgen Klopp bought on a handful of very inexperienced teenagers who had barely played senior football at all, presenting Chelsea with an even bigger chance to go win the trophy.
But they well and truly bottled it, and there are no two ways about it.
Journalist Andy Dunn from The Daily Mirror had it spot on with his short and sweet analysis, as cited by Chels HQ.
He said: “This defeat could eventually be filed as an embarrassment for such an expensively-assembled operation. With Klopp feeling compelled to bring on six substitutes who cost a combined total of £15million, Chelsea should have seized control.”
