Chelsea and Leicester City are meeting in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium today, with 22,000 fans in attendance. It’s one of those dates that fans circle on the calendar, the ultimate finale of the domestic season, but which shade of blue will lift the famous trophy at full time?
Chelsea, defeated 2-1 by Arsenal in the 2020 final, are into the Champions League final and triumphed over Manchester City – who they face in Porto later this month – in the semi-final thanks to Hakim Ziyech’s strike. Thomas Tuchel’s Blues topped Pep Guardiola’s side again a week ago but their preparations for their clash with Leicester were hampered as they surprisingly lost 1-0 to the Gunners at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday. However, Chelsea will look to secure the first half of a potential domestic-European cup double under the German, who took over in January.
Leicester will hope star man Kelechi Iheanacho can continue his incredible run of form as the club eye a first major trophy since their scarcely believable Premier League win in 2015/16. The Foxes have never lifted the FA Cup and have been runners-up on four occasions – but Iheanacho’s 18 goals in all competitions, including four in five FA Cup matches, could fire them to glory. Follow all the latest updates from Wembley below.
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Leicester win the FA Cup!
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:42
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Youri Tielemans is only the third Belgian to score in an FA Cup final, with the other two also going on to lift the trophy that year Eden Hazard in 2018 and Kevin De Bruyne in 2019.
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:37
Let the celebrations begin
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:35
Reaction from Leicester’s Kasper Schmeichel
“So happy I can’t begin to describe it. What a day. Indescribable, it’s what dreams are made of, I’ve dreamt about this since I was child, we have talked about wanting to win trophies. The performance today, the grit and determination, I’m so proud of everybody, everybody contributed to get to the final everyone has played and been sensational. Everyone behind the scenes, all the team behind the team, medical staff and everyone. That’s why when you work together and do things properly and you have an internal belief that’s what we can achieve.”
“Youri Tielemans, wow what a finish. I didn’t dare to celebrate because of VAR but wow.
“Today is an amazing day, a great day we will enjoy it thoroughly, but we are training tomorrow we play them on Tuesday again in another massive game. Today we enjoy it but we can’t for too long because they are a top class side and they will want revenge.”
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:32
Leicester chairman Top Srivaddhanaprabha joins the celebrations on the pitch and he gets a loud round of applause from the fans as he lifts the trophy. What a moment for his dad, Khun Vichai.
This is another remarkable chapter in the club his father played a significant role in propelling to where they are now.
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:29
History maker
Brendan Rodgers is the first manager to win both the English and Scottish FA Cup since Sir Alex Ferguson (four Scottish FA Cup titles with Aberdeen and five English FA Cup titles with Man Utd).
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:26
Kasper Schmeichel lifts the FA Cup
Leicester collect their winners medals. Captain Kasper Schmeichel comes up last, he takes the cup and hoists it into the air as the celebrations begin again for Leicester City. They are the 2020/21 FA Cup champions.
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:25
What a feeling!
Michael Jones15 May 2021 19:23
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