Just now, Blue Exile said:

f**king blatant handball....lol

hands

I somehow feared this. Well, the good thing is that Wenger will continue next season.

their goal come 20/30 seconds after costa gets in the way of kante on our way to a break. such a frustrating player is costa. 

Edited May 27, 20179 yr by enigma

The team playing today is short of technical gifts like good first touches and quick turns.  Arsenal easily counters that with a couple of players positioned in the right places to limit angles and the players allow them to do that with those crucial extra seconds.  I firmly believe what this squad has achieved is as far as it goes and it definitely need several TOP quality players to be bought.  Otherwise, there won't be any cup finals or even a strong challenge for he title next season.

Edited May 27, 20179 yr by lchk

I'm disappointed with the way we played. We haven't even created any chances in this half. 

Only Cahill and Moses came to this final until now, we are far away from our best football. Arsenal looks good because we're allowing them, we're looking bad so Arsenal takes the lead.

I will put Sanchez's handball on a side for a moment, Arsenal deserves to lead in this half, I can't believe that I'm saying that, but I can't accept that.

We must wake up in the second half, put Fabregas and Batshuayi, let's wake up and give a 45-minute show! ITS STILL NOT OVER! 

COME ON CHELS!!!!

Players been on the piss, somehow we're still in this, terrible performance.

2 minutes ago, the special one said:

3-4-3 at Wembley? You're having a laugh.

Arsenal are playing the same formation.

2 minutes ago, the special one said:

Tibo 6/10
Moses 5/10
Azpi 6/10
Luiz 6/10
Cahill 7.5/10
Alonso 5.5/10
Kante 4/10
Matic 6/10
Pedro 5/10
Hazard 6/10
Diego 6/10

3-4-3 at Wembley? You're having a laugh.

Matic a 6? Have you been drinking?

Just now, Cam said:

oh no, that's his worst fk of the season (by a long way too)

That's it, it's pretty much the worst of everything today. It's so frustrating that we've done a complete no show today. And weirdly, it's this disappointment that will carried into the summer.

Just now, spadefx said:

If Cahill wasn't on the pitch this would be over, very lucky that we still have a chance to make the obvious change (Cesc for our Serbian statue).

Confident we can still win this, but everyone could do with stepping it up a few gears. Maybe remind them it's a final?

I don't think we will win t, we've been sh*te. This is the worst performance I've seen this season, reminds me of how Everton played against us at the Bridge.

Getting absolutely thrashed and the post and goal-line clearances aside, we should be 0-4 down.

Good to see Matic has saved his lowest ever amount of effort for a cup final.
Defence is embrassingly easy to get through.
No movement, no clues up front.

Sadly, with everything in our favour and everyone saying we'd win, I had a feeling we'd do this.

Fabregas needs to come on at HT for Matic. Other than that, I have no idea, we just look a shadow of the team that won the league a week ago.

It was a handball by alexis

Then Chelsea switched off

Then Offside player interfered with play

They score

It is the only scenario I did not see coming Le’ Arse

Can BBC sub Murphy off?

I think our players are already in the off-season frame of mind.

I'm grateful to Cahil at least for keeping us in the game.

If Drogba is at the game I hope Conte lets him in the changing room and let's him punch the holy sh*t out of  Costa. Then he should give the number 9 shirt to him and tell to go out and murder the Arsenal back four like he always used to.

Frankie’s blood boiling inside the studio

On 2017-5-25 at 09:15, charierre said:

Biggest challenge for us will be regaining intensity in our play. We've had a couple of games were didn't need to be as mentally strong plus celebrations, focus will now need to be the key.

This was my biggest fear. We've been celebrating too much and it's hard then to get the intensity back.Cesc  for Matic asap to get us on the ball.

We need to be a lot better in this first 10 minutes or we are done.

Come on everyone - we are playing to win the Double. Very few teams have a sniff of achieving that, I really expect us to come out and blitz them second half.  

2 minutes ago, Imran_CFC said:

Can BBC sub Murphy off?

He quite blatantly hates us, doesn't even hide it.

This has got the away defeat at Man utd written all over it. Just so poor all over the field.

Scarily I don't see Conte changing it. Being dominated by an Arsenal reserve team, my throat is burning.

2 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Arsenal are playing the same formation.

3-5-2

It gets worse everytime you see it. It's always amazed me how referees always seem to be the only ones in an entire stadium that fail to see such blatantly obvious fouls

Watching this in bien sports as I'm abroad, tony pulis says poor poor  refereeing by Taylor who overrid the linesman, handball then offside Ramsey moving towards the ball, Says should never have stood