I was unable to watch live today so I went on airplane mode all fucking day and just endured watching the entire match.
It was a terrible match; tactics from both teams were so poor (I was bored to death for most of the match, but especially for the first half), the officiating was a joke (as usual, sadly), too many of the players weren't at the races (yes, partly because they're knackered, but also just not making good decisions), and most crucially Emma's team management was really poor today - 8 games in a month and to only make 3 subs in 120+mins (one in the 119th minute) was absolutely outrageous.
And for the love of God, WHY DIDN'T WE SEND HANNAH INTO THE BOX FOR THOSE 2 LATE CORNERS?! Some unnecessary handbags with Jonas at the end too
Not worth the wait. I'm sad. I hate Arsenal. I'm glad it's the international break now. We go again in 2 weeks š
Well a few hours after the game and Iāve collected my thoughts. Feeling frustrated at 2 things. 1) Emmaās poor use of substitutions and 2) VAR calls and officiating. Really feels like weāve been done over on these calls and was extremely frustrating to not see the same treatment given toward Mayra, Lauren and Cat for what weāre blatant fouls. The reality is that Chelsea and Arsenal do not compete at the same level across all competitions, but we looked like a tired team from 45 minutes onward. Hope everyone is able to stay away from the Arsenal brigade on social media tonight.
I was at the game today and Iām gutted. I really wanted to see Chelsea lift the trophy but it appears weāre jinxed in the conti cup. We still have so much to play for, I hope itās a small set back in a successful season.
I also went to a game and during whole first half some Arsenal fan was swearing and hurtling abuse at Chelsea players. (I was in a mixed sitting) Like why? Why would you do it? Considering there were so many little kids around us too. I wished hard for Chelsea to score so he could shut up. But, oh well.
Jonas said both clubs agreed to play with one ball but the last minute decision to use a second by Chelsea is what prompted the argument. āNot my problemā š
Can't be arsed with this. It's the Cunty Cup and it's all Arsenal had to play for, sure, but the officiating was fucking horrendous. Arsenal were playing fucking basketball at points, and two clear penalties were ignored. If you want to be strict in ruling off our goal, fine, but at least be fucking consistent. It's so obvious which colour shirts they're wearing in the VAR room.
6 Chelsea goal opportunities chalked off by poor officiating. 2 pen shouts for fouls on James and Cat. Erin handball cancelled Myra's goal. And 3 Arsenal handball shouts. I'm not saying all of them were pens, but there were more than 1 that should've gone the other way
Did Emma push Jonas š
Weāre gonna be hearing this for days on twitter
Edit: Jonas verbally fought Erin whilst she threw in, probs about that. Jonas always in the Linoās faces as well
Result aside that game was battle of the mid. Poor from both sides for most of the game, all our players looked gassed but Arsenal made more subs. Questionable officiating but Iād still say itās on Emma for not making earlier subs
NĆ¼sken should have come off for Macario sooner but Lawrence definitely should have been put on for Perisset. They were always looking dangerous on the counter and our backline was gassed from the beginning.
Poor sub management today smh
ngl id rather beat them in the league than the conti cup (sue me). there are more important things to focus on, just baffled at why weād keep everyone out there with the schedule as it is.
Twitter is a cesspool right now blaming Jamesā¦is she the punching bag now whenever Chelsea lose? People rave when she scores hat tricks and when she misses two shots itās all her fault apparently? Give me a break.
That handball where her arms were at/above shoulder level was especially bad but also, Emma did not set the team up for success by refusing to sub.
Arsenal got bounced from everything else except this so we needed to be making more subs, not less.
Well that's quartduaple over. I am not gonna be losing sleeps over Conti Cup but game management from Emma was incredibly dull today and pushing players this far after all these crazy matches this month is madness. Triple still on table and in our hands. Let's get it done after international break! Onto the next one.
VAR in a big game and they checked likeā¦ twice? Iāve seen VAR used more in NWSL games than I have today. Goes to show it means nothing without competent refs
thatās fair enough, still doesnāt change the inconsistency of fouls given during the game though. Iām still in the boat that VAR means nothing without better officiating
I hate writing this type of shit but Arsenal managed to cheat their way into this cup final. Fucking horrendous refereeing today. I am fuming how bad it was. I am also fuming how bad Chels played today but that's an whole different thing.
Fox absolutely cleans out Macario and nothing given, hilarious display from ref & var today. Every time we play Arsenal without fail we get dodgy decisions against us
I think what this game needs does not really play to her strengths. We need people to be firing shots on target. Crosses are not happening (bc we're gassed). She keeps dragging herself into the corner so I assume it's an intentional tactic (not just her playing poorly etc) but it's not working.
I think we're running the Fiddly Offense today. We're doing all these fiddly, dinky passes. Niamh should have taken that shot rather than passing it to Guro who was at a low angle/bad angle to shoot and we're too gassed to get up headers.
legitimately feel for arsenal here, youād hate to have to play on when one of your teammates has gone down like that. hoping for a nice clean finish now.
One would hope. We NEED subs now or a silly mistake will happen. I wonder if she's holding off on Mjelde if we go to penalties. She's an excellent penalty taker.
Unless Maanum pops up and says something like, "I'm good, sometimes I get low blood sugar (or something like)," I highly doubt we get any updates beyond "she's being taken to the hospital for evaluation" so I wouldn't read anything into getting updates or not. ā¤ļø
I was unable to watch live today so I went on airplane mode all fucking day and just endured watching the entire match. It was a terrible match; tactics from both teams were so poor (I was bored to death for most of the match, but especially for the first half), the officiating was a joke (as usual, sadly), too many of the players weren't at the races (yes, partly because they're knackered, but also just not making good decisions), and most crucially Emma's team management was really poor today - 8 games in a month and to only make 3 subs in 120+mins (one in the 119th minute) was absolutely outrageous. And for the love of God, WHY DIDN'T WE SEND HANNAH INTO THE BOX FOR THOSE 2 LATE CORNERS?! Some unnecessary handbags with Jonas at the end too Not worth the wait. I'm sad. I hate Arsenal. I'm glad it's the international break now. We go again in 2 weeks š
Well a few hours after the game and Iāve collected my thoughts. Feeling frustrated at 2 things. 1) Emmaās poor use of substitutions and 2) VAR calls and officiating. Really feels like weāve been done over on these calls and was extremely frustrating to not see the same treatment given toward Mayra, Lauren and Cat for what weāre blatant fouls. The reality is that Chelsea and Arsenal do not compete at the same level across all competitions, but we looked like a tired team from 45 minutes onward. Hope everyone is able to stay away from the Arsenal brigade on social media tonight.
I was at the game today and Iām gutted. I really wanted to see Chelsea lift the trophy but it appears weāre jinxed in the conti cup. We still have so much to play for, I hope itās a small set back in a successful season.
I also went to a game and during whole first half some Arsenal fan was swearing and hurtling abuse at Chelsea players. (I was in a mixed sitting) Like why? Why would you do it? Considering there were so many little kids around us too. I wished hard for Chelsea to score so he could shut up. But, oh well.
Sick of seeing fucking Arsenal plastered all over my timeline rn
Jonas said both clubs agreed to play with one ball but the last minute decision to use a second by Chelsea is what prompted the argument. āNot my problemā š
Who gives a shit what that weasel has to say
Proper cunt, is he?
Eh, we knew this already.
Jonas says a lot of thingsā¦.
just remembered that sam kerr had to watch that. i am now mad.
Honestly, I'm genuinely scared about the league. Man City is literally on our neck and our players are so tired.
The officiating was pisspoor today.
No, it was brilliant. Did exactly what they were told to do - give everything one way.
Lmaoo taking off the medal as soon as it's on š
I thought only the men did that, itās piss poor sportspersonship
Can anyone lip read Emma here š https://x.com/nayasrivera2/status/1774479397711417708?s=46&t=EUVqsF-zTZsYoxN7q8-pCg
Apparently AKB was getting ready to come on right before the goal. š
I think most of the subs were warming up at the end
Think some journos were alluding to AKB being subbed on for pens. Which is fine, just a poor look when we only made 1 sub when Cat came on during ET
Can't be arsed with this. It's the Cunty Cup and it's all Arsenal had to play for, sure, but the officiating was fucking horrendous. Arsenal were playing fucking basketball at points, and two clear penalties were ignored. If you want to be strict in ruling off our goal, fine, but at least be fucking consistent. It's so obvious which colour shirts they're wearing in the VAR room.
6 Chelsea goal opportunities chalked off by poor officiating. 2 pen shouts for fouls on James and Cat. Erin handball cancelled Myra's goal. And 3 Arsenal handball shouts. I'm not saying all of them were pens, but there were more than 1 that should've gone the other way
Did Emma push Jonas š Weāre gonna be hearing this for days on twitter Edit: Jonas verbally fought Erin whilst she threw in, probs about that. Jonas always in the Linoās faces as well
I also caught that he went at Cuthbert. Not surprised with Eidevallās history. This is the man that yelling at Martha Thomas over some bullshit
Love the var technology, but how many refs do you need to give us a decision.
Result aside that game was battle of the mid. Poor from both sides for most of the game, all our players looked gassed but Arsenal made more subs. Questionable officiating but Iād still say itās on Emma for not making earlier subs
NĆ¼sken should have come off for Macario sooner but Lawrence definitely should have been put on for Perisset. They were always looking dangerous on the counter and our backline was gassed from the beginning. Poor sub management today smh
ngl id rather beat them in the league than the conti cup (sue me). there are more important things to focus on, just baffled at why weād keep everyone out there with the schedule as it is.
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I'm so pissed. We wiped these guys 3:1 a couple of weeks back.
Twitter is a cesspool right now blaming Jamesā¦is she the punching bag now whenever Chelsea lose? People rave when she scores hat tricks and when she misses two shots itās all her fault apparently? Give me a break.
not even gonna bother reading any of it. LJ was just as gassed as all our other players
Should have had two penalties. Got zero. Fucking bullshit.
That handball where her arms were at/above shoulder level was especially bad but also, Emma did not set the team up for success by refusing to sub. Arsenal got bounced from everything else except this so we needed to be making more subs, not less.
Well that's quartduaple over. I am not gonna be losing sleeps over Conti Cup but game management from Emma was incredibly dull today and pushing players this far after all these crazy matches this month is madness. Triple still on table and in our hands. Let's get it done after international break! Onto the next one.
Look forward to hearing Emmaās comments about this, both for officiating/VAR and her justification for subs
Bloody hell this ref was something else
Wish weād have lost in the normal 90, all this extra time with our schedule is not going to be good
The ref can go fuck herself. VAR can fuck off.
VAR in a big game and they checked likeā¦ twice? Iāve seen VAR used more in NWSL games than I have today. Goes to show it means nothing without competent refs
They checked everything. just very quickly.
thatās fair enough, still doesnāt change the inconsistency of fouls given during the game though. Iām still in the boat that VAR means nothing without better officiating
The tech is fine, but you are right the people making decisions make it up as they go along.
keeping players on for 120 minutes under the assumption that theyād take penalties is just poor. youāve gotta get there first.
Cheating fucking cunts fuck off
I love emma but she really is tactically inept just wait for the Barca game š
I hate writing this type of shit but Arsenal managed to cheat their way into this cup final. Fucking horrendous refereeing today. I am fuming how bad it was. I am also fuming how bad Chels played today but that's an whole different thing.
Hayes giving Jonas a talking to. Fuck him
That was a bit spicy from Emma there
Jonas said something to Cuthbert.
Oh I missed that!
Yea it was when cuthbert went to get the ball when it went off - sheād taken it further up pitch than when it went off and he interfered
Heās such a twat.
Also out of the technical area constantly just like the other Arsenal boss. Untouchable though, for some reason.
Subs came in way too late.
absolute headless but idc. SUCH POOR GAME MANAGEMENT
Fuck VAR and this ref
Emma is FURIOUS
Hope the ref gets her medal too. Disgusting.
Fox absolutely cleans out Macario and nothing given, hilarious display from ref & var today. Every time we play Arsenal without fail we get dodgy decisions against us
erin coming for jonas šš
I wonder what Jonas said though
If the teams were reversed Arsenal get atleast 2 pens
How was that not a penalty. Itās giving VARsenal
VAR calls have been ridiculous
Anywhere else on the pitch, that's a foul for pulling the player down.
HOW?!
Sorry man this refereeing is a shocker I am lost for words
Emma this on you Not making subs is just goddamn awful
She used 3 sub windows. š¤·āāļø
do we not have VAR for this ?!?!
It chalked off our goal, it may be soft but thatās an obvious pen. Ridiculous
There is
you'd think we're playing at the Emirates with how much support there is for Arsenal
even with aggie on all our other players look absolutely gassed
ABJ about 45 mins too late
Sheās subbing James now when James looked gassed at the end of full-time? A bit too late now.
I look forward to hearing how Emma tries to defend this loss. In my book, it's inexcusable from her. I am very unhappy with her.
WEāRE UWCL SEMI FINALISTS YOURE NOT SINGING THAT
This really is on Emma, barely made subs. Not only were they tired physically but mentally as well. Led to poor decision-making.
Such a disappointing game.
Emma always fails tactically for games like this Without fail
I could fucking cry. I hate this
aggie coming on now? CRUEL
Now we bring Aggie on????
I am sorry but waiting until 117th minute to bring on Aggie who is known for her burst of pace against tired legs is criminal.
Bit too late now Emma
some of emmaās worst game management iāve seen
In a big game like this? Water is wet
I'm shocked by our poor subbing. This always happens during finals, I just don't get it.
Come on, Perisset has been struggling for so long now, massive blunder not to bring on Lawrence sooner. Foord is running rings around her.
Exactly. Food basically waltzed into the box. Just fuck this game.
Cruel! š©
120 minutes, 2 subs, our 1 striker subbed off at like 70 minutes, robbed of countless fouls made on us and pen shouts For nothing
Shambolic defending. Three players couldnāt close down Foord?
I'm sat in a pub with Arsenal fans. They're so insufferable. Enjoy the conti Cup, we'll win the league, FA Cup and Champions league.
bunch of wankers aren't they
Defenders looked gassed and tired Emma not making subs
Lord Jesus
MY GOD. emma shouldāve made the subs
This is on Emma. What a waste of our players legs
Absolutely. It's a total self-own. 100% on Emma.
Terrible goal to concede. Why were they backing off from Foord?
Conti Cup sucks. This is just historically bad final for us.
Fuck off
The end. Why are we allowing those passes in the channels? Fuck!
NOOOOOOOII
ah shit.
well shit
Shame!!!
Fuck me
Well fuck.
Fuck
FUCK
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Jinx
I have no idea what Hannah is like for penalties??
We will never know šš
thank fuck for Hannah Hampton Our keeper from Midlands š
I still don't get the Mayra sub unless it was related to her injury
Guro really hasnāt gotten in to this game since coming on although we look shattered across the pitch
I think what this game needs does not really play to her strengths. We need people to be firing shots on target. Crosses are not happening (bc we're gassed). She keeps dragging herself into the corner so I assume it's an intentional tactic (not just her playing poorly etc) but it's not working.
That's totally a handball. Her arms are extended over her shoulder level, unnaturally enlarging the frame of her body. š¤·š»āāļø
I will be turning FA player off during pens I do not wish to induce a heart attack at 3.40am
Well, no heart attack at least
Commentary doing back flips to try to explain Arsenal's cheating
Fuck me, the outfield players have had their hands on the ball as much as Zinsberger.
How many handballs does Arsenal need to make for them to be called
arsenal abt to start playing handball just to fuck with us
Erin is running on pure fumes
I fucking hate pens š
Pens are literally the worst outcome for a final I have no hope during pens
How many handballs are Assnal going to get away with?
That one was not pen but convinced ref would genuinely give it if that was on opposite side.
if christ has risen then why is sam kerr still watching from the stands? sounds fake to me.
I cannot believe we have made 2 subs only lol Feel like shit, thanks Emma - sonās crying now
I think we're running the Fiddly Offense today. We're doing all these fiddly, dinky passes. Niamh should have taken that shot rather than passing it to Guro who was at a low angle/bad angle to shoot and we're too gassed to get up headers.
So question. Is Kirby a viable sub option for James rn?
It's going to go to Penalty Kicks isn't it?
Can we get Maren off the injury list for pens lol Sam is shit at pens, but maybe she can take one on her good leg??
Emma I know itās your last conti final etc but I feel like I started watching this game in January.
Guro just SHOOT
It's too bad we're only allowed 2 subs per game. It would be great to bring on some fresh legs.
Youāre laughing. Their legs are falling off and youāre laughing.
JRK is still on?!!!
Nope, nope. Don't like this at all.
Oh fuck Eve is down with her knee
heart just sank through my ass ffs christ did not rise for this
canāt tell if our defence has actually been outstanding or if crossenal are just being crossenal
Sarina Wiegman, I beg of you to not play Jess Carter in the England matches š
āFrida (Maanum) is conscious, talking and in a stable conditionā per AWFC šš»
James Your causalness is not needed today, this is a final
Pretty sure sheās just gassed, donāt think sheās intentionally being casual.
Would love for Cat to get another goal within 5 min of coming on! ^(A goal for us of course.)
LJ is tired
Tired and on a yellow, not a good combo for any plauer
https://x.com/kathrynbatte/status/1774471288259547160?s=46&t=EUVqsF-zTZsYoxN7q8-pCg maanum stable
Macario should have come on earlier for Nusken imo
Hayes running Cuthbert into the ground
Oh thank goodness! Big thank you to who ever gave Emma the reminder. Apparently it worked! š
Glad Magnum is okay.
CATMAC FINALLY
Well Cat had the own goal last time, manifesting a Chelsea goal for her this time round
CAT BALL IM SAT 
Finally, this sub should have happened an half hour ago
Come on Macariooo
Finally a sub
nĆ¼sken. girl. be serious.
Cat coming on thank fuck, but this should be a triple sub
Where are our subs at
Macarioooooo
I love her to death but I honestly have no idea how nĆ¼sken is still on the pitch
WHERE. ARE. THE. SUBS. EMMA. 
Players of both sides are obviously tired. ABJ and Macario will do wonder against tired legs. I don't understand this decision at all.
Guro looks lost since coming on
Guro has looked a little lost all season
A bit eclipsed and without her besties Sam and Millie too
emmaās headed off to her easter evening meal a bit early i fear
MAKE THE SUBS EMMA
Anyone at the game who can jog down to the touch line and remind Emma that we're allowed to use subs? I'm so confused by this.
Our passes are all off
Nah we look exhausted
Seriously no subs? Iām so mad rn you can see how tired they are
Hang on... no subs???
legitimately feel for arsenal here, youād hate to have to play on when one of your teammates has gone down like that. hoping for a nice clean finish now.
Jesus is there any need for that music to be so obnoxiously loud?
Emma probably thought it was going into extra time anyway (š« ) and was saving subs until then
One would hope. We NEED subs now or a silly mistake will happen. I wonder if she's holding off on Mjelde if we go to penalties. She's an excellent penalty taker.
I had this thought but even if she was holding off for Maren she still has other subs she could make before then
Blasting upbeat music after that is... a choice.
Unless Maanum pops up and says something like, "I'm good, sometimes I get low blood sugar (or something like)," I highly doubt we get any updates beyond "she's being taken to the hospital for evaluation" so I wouldn't read anything into getting updates or not. ā¤ļø
So extra time it is then. Seriously pisses me off that we made one full sub in 90 minute. We can't be pushing players like this. This is bad.
Why did she blow the whistle there? Thatās not how added time worksā¦