This Saturday, May 14, the 141st final of the oldest football competition in the world is being played: the FA Cup, or England Cup in VF. A dream final, which will oppose Chelsea and Liverpool. How to follow this clash of the titans? Here is the program.
They don’t leave each other anymore. After having already met in the final of the Carabao Cup (the English League Cup) last February (Liverpool victory on penalties, with the incredible score of… 11-10), the two clubs find themselves in the final the other national cup, the prestigious FA Cup. The second final of the season for the Reds, before playing the third, in the Champions League, against Real Madrid on May 28. A program of madness, while the Reds can no longer really dream of a historic quadruple, now that they are 3 points behind in the Premier League on the Manchester City machine, two days from the end. But is a hat-trick possible? We will find out from this Saturday, May 14, with this Chelsea-Liverpool to follow from 5:00 p.m. on beIN SPORTS (kick-off at 5:45 p.m.).
Return to Wembley. While the semi-finals (2-0 victory for Chelsea against Crystal Palace, 3-2 against Manchester City for Liverpool) were already taking place in the temple of football that is the legendary London stadium, Blues and Reds are making their comeback there. , less than three months after having met there for another final. If the match was finally played on penalties, the spectacle had been total, as the English journalist of beIN SPORTS Darren Tulett recalls, in an interview granted to Our Global :
“Looking at the score you would think it wasn’t a terrible game but in fact it was the best 0-0 I have seen in my life. With beIN SPORTS we were there at Wembley and we will be again, on Saturday, for this FA Cup final. This match was fabulous with a lot of intensity, goals disallowed, an endless penalty shoot-out…”
We hope for the same burst of energy for this FA Cup final, the 141st of the name as the competition celebrates its 150th anniversary (the world wars have led to forced breaks). And the poster is just incredible, between the winner of the Champions League 2021, Chelsea, and the winner of the Champions League 2019, Liverpool. On the field, we can follow duels from a distance (or close) between stars like Kanté, Lukaku, Havertz, Thiago Silva, James, Mendy, Thiago Alcantara, Salah, Mané, Luis Diaz, van Dijk, Alisson Becker… In short, a perfect cast. Only Fabinho, injured this week in the Premier League against Aston Villa, will be absent, and the loss of their precious Brazilian defensive midfielder may just be a real key to the match for the Liverpool players…
How many titles for Liverpool?
If the LFC dreamed a few days ago of a quadruple, it can also lose everything. Or at least win nothing but a Carabao Cup this year, which wouldn’t take anything away from their backgrounds, as Darren Tulett also points out:
“It’s extraordinary to arrive in the final of three competitions and to be very close to the title of champion. We may be used to trivializing this kind of exploit but we shouldn’t. It’s really a crazy season for Liverpool, unheard of, even if it will be difficult to win everything.”
One thing is certain: spectators and television viewers should enjoy this high-intensity match, to be followed live and exclusively on beIN SPORTS 1 from 5:45 p.m. this Saturday, May 14!
Sources : Our GlobalbeIN SPORTS
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