Yay!

What a game! The best game I have seen all season and one of the best cup finals in years. I would have put money on Chelsea to win (as an Arsenal fan), but I enjoyed the game thoroughly as both sides producing great football and moments of quality.

Arsenal were brilliant all round; all their players put in great performances in a proper cup final atmosphere. Per Mertesacker read the game so completely he did not put a step wrong. Rob Holdini Holding showing off what he can do. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain looks like an inspired selection as wing-back. Hector Bellerin....WHY CAN YOU NOT CROSS!?!??!?! HURR DURR.

Aaron Ramsey was very energetic, Granit Xhaka looks more and more like the player we spent 30 million pounds for this season.
Mesut Ozil...WTF were those last few chances the last few minutes? Alexis Sanchez all over the pitch.

Danny Welbeck, WHY WHY WHY are you so good outside the penalty area and absolutely screwing things up inside it? Olivier Giroud, wow?

I'd have to disagree about both sides playing good football. Chelsea were dreadful in the first half. Could easily have been 4 goals down at half time. They looked like total strangers who were playing blindfolded their passing was that bad.

The first goal should never have been allowed. Clear handball and the offside rule is open to interpretation but it suggests that it should have been offside as well. Clearly in Courtois' field of vision and made a movement towards the ball.

However it was early enough to recover from and you'd have thought the injustice Chelsea felt from the goal would have fired them up. Instead they played like they were warming up for a 7.45 kick off or already thinking about their holidays.

Fabregas should have started instead of Matic. There were massive gaps between Chelsea's holding midfielders and the front three. Not helped by the inability to find a blue shirt.

Played into Arsenal's hands with too many long balls forward which either Mertesacker won or landed at an Arsenal player's feet.

Then, after half time when Chelsea just looked like they might have been getting a foothold in a game they'd have been dead and buried in had Arsenal's finishing been better, Moses commits an act of unforgivable stupidity.

Most players on a yellow card have the sense to do everything they can to avoid a second one. What does Moses do, blatantly dives in the box, which is inexcusable in itself, and leaves Chelsea with 10 men.

Even with the equaliser it was never going to be an easy task to win, so switching off straight away afterwards was a killer.

Chelsea were very lucky to lose 2-1. Outfought and outplayed by Arsenal on the day. Why it was such a lacklustre performance from Chelsea who knows, perhaps they were overconfident because of Arsenal's defensive crisis. Whatever it was, the best team by some margin won on the day.

count pls

Count what exactly?

You got that right.

I'm not sure where it went wrong; Granit Xhaka is currently a damp squib.

We bought him because he was supposed to be a strong, deep-lying defensive playmaker a la Mikel Arteta who can tackle. I would actually argue that he IS NOT a defensive midfielder at this point. He has only shown himself to be a decent passer, and nothing else. His defensive repertoire is horrible. He is slow, rash and not positionally aware. Worst of all, he doesn't seem to make the effort for defensive duties.

That matchwinner for Watford; what the heck was that? 92nd-93rd minute of a tie game, there are 4 Watford attackers against 3 Arsenal defenders. With no one even tracking back to the penalty box!

Alexandre Lacazette must feel frustrated; he doesn't get a lot of service despite the possession we have.

At this point, Arsene Wenger needs to go. Mesut Ozil also needs to go.
Arsenal (in my honest opinion) give up too much for him in the team. This Arsenal would be lucky to even finish 6th.

YOu think that's better? Besides which, Watford aren't having a bad season (they are 4th right now and in good form), you couldn't say that about Palace before Saturday. No goals, no points then ...

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