northbank123 wrote:Holding the save at the end really took the pressure of but it was a fairly tame effort from quite a distance, "great save" is a bit of a stretch for me.
First goal no chance. For the second he had ages to get to the header which was not point blank, he did have some ground to cover but he should have got there. Follow up he could only try and make himself big but this was pretty hard seeing as he was lying behind the line.
It's bad enough if a keeper comes out of his box and gets rounded once a season - he's done it 3 times in 3 Wembley appearances and although the initial mistake was BFG's he was incredibly fortunate. He also then dropped a late cross under no pressure, although luckily at his own feet.
We got away with it big time, might have been no guarantee Szczesny woud have done better but that was miles below the typical level of performance Szczesny has been putting in this season. Again Fabianski had relatively little to do bar the goals and yet again we are talking about how he 'got away with it'.
Don't agree on the save at all. He saw it late with a sea of bodies in front of him. Got down superbly. The most difficult shot for a keeper is a grass cutter. He did brilliantly to save that. Credit where credit is due.
Never said the header was point blank. The follow up shot that went in was blasted point blank. And he actually did get up and spread himself. But those ones are often in the stars at that range. They either hit your spread arms/legs or body or they go in.
We can talk about what might have been until the cows come home but the facts are Chesney fucked up in the last final he played in. And he was our keeper for each of the hidings we got this season. He has potential but when he turns up for (most) of the big games he has that cocky grin on his face and blam, we lose a cup final or we get dicked in the PL. Of course not all of the blame for the dickings rest with him but certainly there are several goals in those games that my 9 year old son would have saved.
Flappy dropped one cross. Chesney drops one nearly every game. It happens. The only real mistake Flappy made was charging out. But even then he did the right thing, once he committed he committed fully and didn't freeze halfway out. We've all seen Chesney make those same mistakes.
So my point stands. Chesney over the season is the better keeper. But in a one-off final (or indeed a huge PL game) Chesney too often lets the occasion and his own ego get the better of him and fucks the pooch. Flappy did well in the cup this year and did ok in the final.
But again, I'd say ultimately, at present neither are good enough to be number one at a team that wants to win the PL.
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, he won us so many points this season, and for me was one of our best performers.
