English League Cup 2018/19

Shedite wrote:

Chelsea is a rotten club, even at the end when Terry was asked what he would have done as Chelsea captain he shrugged.

For those of you above that said Sarri should have done more, what could he have done? He can't go on the pitch and haul off the player? The ref is instructed to play on if a player is refusing to leave. He can take action now (start fining wages, few weeks on the bench for Kepa, strip Luiz of captaincy etc) but not much he could have done yesterday.

Luiz isn't the captain it's Azpillcueta (Club Captain is actually Gary Cahill)

Chelsea is a rotten club, even at the end when Terry was asked what he would have done as Chelsea captain he shrugged.

For those of you above that said Sarri should have done more, what could he have done? He can't go on the pitch and haul off the player? The ref is instructed to play on if a player is refusing to leave. He can take action now (start fining wages, few weeks on the bench for Kepa, strip Luiz of captaincy etc) but not much he could have done yesterday.

Sarri should have been demanding Kepa came off. He was in a weak enough position as it was, and he's made it worse now by allowing Kepa to stay on. I can't think of any other manager, especially one in charge of a huge club, who would have allowed his goalkeeper to stay on in that situation.

There was a lot to be gained by Cabellero coming on IMO. Ex-City player who might have an idea where they would place their penos. And even if he didn't, it would surely place an element of doubt in their minds any way.

As for Jorginho's peno, I know he scored with a similar run up in the semi-final, but he deserved to miss for that.

Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."

Baldrick wrote:

Green Devil wrote:

Given that Cabellero is a somewhat lucky keeper when it comes to penalty shoot outs it was so obvious Sarri wanted to make the change for that reason.

If Pep decided to take off Ederson and bring on Muric everyone would have assumed that Ederson was injured and needed to come off, no one is buying Sarri's defence of Kepa.

It was clearly wrong by Kepa and it's hard to see how Sarri can regain any control on this group of players.

Conte to his credit ruled that dressing room with an iron fist, big mistake getting rid of him imo.

He did for The first season and then the players took control again.

Sarri is just protecting his player publicly now. Nobody believes the line or spin

I think Conte's problem was that when you challenge the owner in the manner he did, there is only ever going to be one winner. When they won the FA Cup the players were very much behind him but the whole saga with Rom was always going to see him being replaced.

It's a sad state of affairs when a manager can't speak his mind anymore (within reason) but its a sign of the times unfortunately.

Given that Cabellero is a somewhat lucky keeper when it comes to penalty shoot outs it was so obvious Sarri wanted to make the change for that reason.

If Pep decided to take off Ederson and bring on Muric everyone would have assumed that Ederson was injured and needed to come off, no one is buying Sarri's defence of Kepa.

It was clearly wrong by Kepa and it's hard to see how Sarri can regain any control on this group of players.

Conte to his credit ruled that dressing room with an iron fist, big mistake getting rid of him imo.

Not his fault at all but weak from Sarri and Zola no better....should have been on the pitch and haul him off ....or failing that give the keepers jersey to an outfield player for the shootout

but what do you do with a 70m footballer at a club where players clearly run the show

Roberto Baggio wrote:

was a poor final

Sarri’s tactics almost worked

Zinchenko and Otamendi were city’s best players I thought

Thought it was a good game myself. Maybe that's just bias after watching the dross at OT earlier that I will never be able to unsee.

"I called him an embarrassment to FIFA and to himself," .... He said 'No-one speaks to me like that'.... and I said, "well I do' and that was that."

Have to think that's the end for sari obvious to see players don't respect him and do what they want to do

the closest i will ever come to playing for ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_7w4JyvI4

The Kepa incident just shows everything that is wrong with that club