Mason Mount, the Chelsea playmaker, urged his teammates to break their streak of cup finals defeat in recent years at Wembley Stadium and thus avenge the defeat against Liverpool on penalties (0-0 and 11-10) in the decisive League Cup match played in February.
Chelsea and Liverpool will meet again at Wembley on May 14 in the FA Cup final after the ‘reds’ eliminated Manchester City on Saturday (2-3) and this Sunday the ‘blues’ did the same at Crystal Palace (2- 0). ). After Ruben Loftus-Cheek opened the scoring, Mount established the final 2-0.
Chelsea have not won a final at Wembley since 2018
This will be the third consecutive FA Cup final Chelsea will play since 2018 they won the trophy for the eighth time in their history by beating Manchester United at Wembley (1-0). Mount could not prevent defeats to Arsenal (2-1) in 2020 and to Leicester last year (1-0).
In addition, Chelsea have also lost two League Cup finals, both on penalties, in recent years: in 2019, Mount is still absent, against Manchester City (0-0 and 3-4) and the aforementioned that February against Liverpool (0-0 and 11-10) after goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga sent the last 22 shots high.
Wembley, jinx for Mount along with England and Derby
“It’s really time for us to win the final at Wembley. For me, I’ve lost five finals at Wembley and five finals,” said Mount, who is from the 2019-2020 season, in addition to two FA Cups and one League Cup, was also lost at the London Coliseum in July with England in the decisive European Championship match against Italy on penalties (1-1).
Also, Mount, 23, lost in May 2019 at Wembley in the final for promotion to the Premier League with Derby County, whose rankings he borrowed from Chelsea, against Aston Villa (2-1).
revenge serves
“Now we have to push ourselves to climb … It’s time for revenge,” Mount said after reaching the FA Cup final and facing Liverpool again with the title at stake.
Only once have two teams met in the FA Cup and League Cup finals in the same season. It was 1992-93, when Arsenal won the same game against Sheffield on Wednesday.
Trio of international titles
Despite a poor run in the national finals, Mount has won the last three international titles including Chelsea: Champions League and European Super Cup in 2021 and the Club World Cup in 2022.
Source: La Verdad
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