This league cup final on Saturday, the 18th of May, was rather slow and most definitely painful to watch for Manchester United fans. A 1-0 loss is never fun to watch unless you’re on the winning side. Into the match, only 20 minutes gone and Chelsea were given a penalty. For me it didn’t look like much contact after watching the replays, but in normal time the referee easily saw what looked like a bad tackle. They do use VAR, Video Assistant Referee, in the FA Cup but there is no way that they would overturn a penalty call. Eden Hazard drew the penalty and scored it with David De Gea guessing the wrong direction of his shot. After this score, Chelsea clearly dropped back a fair bit and predominantly played defense. Manchester United was constantly in their attacking half and had 3 times the shots of Chelsea. Manchester United held 66% possession of the ball, but they were still unable to execute in the final third. This FA Cup was quite disappointing to watch for me, not only because I’m a Manchester United fan, but because scoring was low along with scoring opportunities. How do you think this FA Cup final was? Does this result make Chelsea’s rough season sustainable?

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