Category: Liverpool

Thomas Tuchel says he has no regrets after his side lost 6-5 on penalties to Liverpool in the final of the FA Cup at Wembley.

Chelsea lost to the same opponents in the League Cup final back in February – again on penalties, again after a scoreless 120 minutes – but Tuchel said his side left everything on the pitch and that he was proud of his charges.

“The way we played again we can be nothing but proud,” began Tuchel. “We left everything on the pitch, so there are no regrets. But of course we are disappointed and sad.”

The Chelsea boss added that after a nervous start, his side grew into the game.

“It was clear that in some moments we would suffer and unfortunately we did in the first 15 minutes. We looked nervous and tense,” Tuchel added.

“We also played with one less day in recovery. We had an away game against Leeds on Wednesday and played again 120 minutes today but it was clear we would suffer against this team.

“We managed to stay in the match, clearly because of an excellent goalkeeping performance from Edou [Mendy]. We dug in and got better and better, more confident and we found solutions and created chances ourselves. Everybody is in pain, there is no way you escape this game without pain.”

Tuchel added that his side would be able to draw on the experience in the future.

“Every experience helps you, like it or not,” he added.

“Obviously, you’d like to be on the winning side. I think we did everything to be the deserved winners but, like it or not, we need to play again on Thursday and secure our goals in the Premier League.”

Chelsea face Leicester in the Premier League on Thursday before closing their campaign against Watford on Sunday May 22. They sit in third and hold a four-point advantage over Arsenal in fourth and five over Tottenham in fifth with all three sides having two games left to play.

For Jurgen Klopp it seems domestic cups in England are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come along at once.

It is no mean feat and the result is that Klopp has pretty much won it all when it comes to adding to the Champions Walls at Anfield and inside the club’s AXA Training Centre.

And yet … There is a sense that this Liverpool team STILL need something more, particularly when it comes to legacy.

A preposterous notion? Perhaps. Remember, this is the team that ended a 30-year wait for a Premier League title, that has pushed Manchester City to the limit at the summit of the table on more than a couple of occasions, won the club’s first ever Club World Cup and have also reached three Champions League finals in the last five years.

The standards Klopp and his side have set in recent seasons have threatened to reach new heights even for a club with the glittering history of the Anfield giants. Indeed, many a Kopite privy to witnessing the greats of the 70s and 80s have suggested this is the best team they have ever seen play on the hallowed L4 turf.

That is some accolade and conversely this is where expectation soars beyond the norm.

If this Liverpool team is to stand above greats of yesteryear, they must go on and win more of the top-tier trophies. Yes, they may have surpassed points tallies of previous champions wearing a liverbird upon their chest, but at present the roll of honour stands at one top-flight title and one Champions League.

A second Premier League title in three years is looking unlikely given Manchester City’s fixtures, three-point lead and superior goal difference – and that is where the unprecedented quadruple bid is likely to come unstuck. Stranger things have happened, of course, but Pep Guardiola’s team will have to suffer a collapse akin to their Champions League semi final exit – and it’s hard to see lightning striking twice with such a magnificent team.

Klopp himself has previously stated they would need to accumulate more silverware if their legend is to stand the test of time.

Earlier in the season he said: “In 20 years if you want to talk about this team, I would not be surprised if people would then say if we don’t win anything any more, ‘Yeah they were good, but they should have won more’. That’s why we should try now to win a few things.”

This FA Cup triumph ensures two more trophies have been added to the cabinet for this particular side but there’s no doubt within the inner sanctum of Anfield they will be disappointed if they don’t go on from the euphoria of another shoot-out triumph and land at least one of the two big ones.

Three ‘cup finals’ remain with two league wins and a snooker needed to pinch the title, but the big one will come against Real Madrid – that is in their hands.

Mo Salah has already stoked the flames ahead of the contest by suggesting there’s unfinished business from the 2018 final defeat in Kyiv and what better way to potentially confirm a season to match any of the greats of times gone by than by lifting a seventh European Cup in Paris in the spring?

For Jurgen Klopp it seems domestic cups in England are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come along at once.

It is no mean feat and the result is that Klopp has pretty much won it all when it comes to adding to the Champions Walls at Anfield and inside the club’s AXA Training Centre.

And yet … There is a sense that this Liverpool team STILL need something more, particularly when it comes to legacy.

A preposterous notion? Perhaps. Remember, this is the team that ended a 30-year wait for a Premier League title, that has pushed Manchester City to the limit at the summit of the table on more than a couple of occasions, won the club’s first ever Club World Cup and have also reached three Champions League finals in the last five years.

The standards Klopp and his side have set in recent seasons have threatened to reach new heights even for a club with the glittering history of the Anfield giants. Indeed, many a Kopite privy to witnessing the greats of the 70s and 80s have suggested this is the best team they have ever seen play on the hallowed L4 turf.

That is some accolade and conversely this is where expectation soars beyond the norm.

If this Liverpool team is to stand above greats of yesteryear, they must go on and win more of the top-tier trophies. Yes, they may have surpassed points tallies of previous champions wearing a liverbird upon their chest, but at present the roll of honour stands at one top-flight title and one Champions League.

A second Premier League title in three years is looking unlikely given Manchester City’s fixtures, three-point lead and superior goal difference – and that is where the unprecedented quadruple bid is likely to come unstuck. Stranger things have happened, of course, but Pep Guardiola’s team will have to suffer a collapse akin to their Champions League semi final exit – and it’s hard to see lightning striking twice with such a magnificent team.

Klopp himself has previously stated they would need to accumulate more silverware if their legend is to stand the test of time.

Earlier in the season he said: “In 20 years if you want to talk about this team, I would not be surprised if people would then say if we don’t win anything any more, ‘Yeah they were good, but they should have won more’. That’s why we should try now to win a few things.”

This FA Cup triumph ensures two more trophies have been added to the cabinet for this particular side but there’s no doubt within the inner sanctum of Anfield they will be disappointed if they don’t go on from the euphoria of another shoot-out triumph and land at least one of the two big ones.

Three ‘cup finals’ remain with two league wins and a snooker needed to pinch the title, but the big one will come against Real Madrid – that is in their hands.

Mo Salah has already stoked the flames ahead of the contest by suggesting there’s unfinished business from the 2018 final defeat in Kyiv and what better way to potentially confirm a season to match any of the greats of times gone by than by lifting a seventh European Cup in Paris in the spring?

For Jurgen Klopp it seems domestic cups in England are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come along at once.

It is no mean feat and the result is that Klopp has pretty much won it all when it comes to adding to the Champions Walls at Anfield and inside the club’s AXA Training Centre.

And yet … There is a sense that this Liverpool team STILL need something more, particularly when it comes to legacy.

A preposterous notion? Perhaps. Remember, this is the team that ended a 30-year wait for a Premier League title, that has pushed Manchester City to the limit at the summit of the table on more than a couple of occasions, won the club’s first ever Club World Cup and have also reached three Champions League finals in the last five years.

The standards Klopp and his side have set in recent seasons have threatened to reach new heights even for a club with the glittering history of the Anfield giants. Indeed, many a Kopite privy to witnessing the greats of the 70s and 80s have suggested this is the best team they have ever seen play on the hallowed L4 turf.

That is some accolade and conversely this is where expectation soars beyond the norm.

If this Liverpool team is to stand above greats of yesteryear, they must go on and win more of the top-tier trophies. Yes, they may have surpassed points tallies of previous champions wearing a liverbird upon their chest, but at present the roll of honour stands at one top-flight title and one Champions League.

A second Premier League title in three years is looking unlikely given Manchester City’s fixtures, three-point lead and superior goal difference – and that is where the unprecedented quadruple bid is likely to come unstuck. Stranger things have happened, of course, but Pep Guardiola’s team will have to suffer a collapse akin to their Champions League semi final exit – and it’s hard to see lightning striking twice with such a magnificent team.

Klopp himself has previously stated they would need to accumulate more silverware if their legend is to stand the test of time.

Earlier in the season he said: “In 20 years if you want to talk about this team, I would not be surprised if people would then say if we don’t win anything any more, ‘Yeah they were good, but they should have won more’. That’s why we should try now to win a few things.”

This FA Cup triumph ensures two more trophies have been added to the cabinet for this particular side but there’s no doubt within the inner sanctum of Anfield they will be disappointed if they don’t go on from the euphoria of another shoot-out triumph and land at least one of the two big ones.

Three ‘cup finals’ remain with two league wins and a snooker needed to pinch the title, but the big one will come against Real Madrid – that is in their hands.

Mo Salah has already stoked the flames ahead of the contest by suggesting there’s unfinished business from the 2018 final defeat in Kyiv and what better way to potentially confirm a season to match any of the greats of times gone by than by lifting a seventh European Cup in Paris in the spring?

For Jurgen Klopp it seems domestic cups in England are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come along at once.

It is no mean feat and the result is that Klopp has pretty much won it all when it comes to adding to the Champions Walls at Anfield and inside the club’s AXA Training Centre.

And yet … There is a sense that this Liverpool team STILL need something more, particularly when it comes to legacy.

A preposterous notion? Perhaps. Remember, this is the team that ended a 30-year wait for a Premier League title, that has pushed Manchester City to the limit at the summit of the table on more than a couple of occasions, won the club’s first ever Club World Cup and have also reached three Champions League finals in the last five years.

The standards Klopp and his side have set in recent seasons have threatened to reach new heights even for a club with the glittering history of the Anfield giants. Indeed, many a Kopite privy to witnessing the greats of the 70s and 80s have suggested this is the best team they have ever seen play on the hallowed L4 turf.

That is some accolade and conversely this is where expectation soars beyond the norm.

If this Liverpool team is to stand above greats of yesteryear, they must go on and win more of the top-tier trophies. Yes, they may have surpassed points tallies of previous champions wearing a liverbird upon their chest, but at present the roll of honour stands at one top-flight title and one Champions League.

A second Premier League title in three years is looking unlikely given Manchester City’s fixtures, three-point lead and superior goal difference – and that is where the unprecedented quadruple bid is likely to come unstuck. Stranger things have happened, of course, but Pep Guardiola’s team will have to suffer a collapse akin to their Champions League semi final exit – and it’s hard to see lightning striking twice with such a magnificent team.

Klopp himself has previously stated they would need to accumulate more silverware if their legend is to stand the test of time.

Earlier in the season he said: “In 20 years if you want to talk about this team, I would not be surprised if people would then say if we don’t win anything any more, ‘Yeah they were good, but they should have won more’. That’s why we should try now to win a few things.”

This FA Cup triumph ensures two more trophies have been added to the cabinet for this particular side but there’s no doubt within the inner sanctum of Anfield they will be disappointed if they don’t go on from the euphoria of another shoot-out triumph and land at least one of the two big ones.

Three ‘cup finals’ remain with two league wins and a snooker needed to pinch the title, but the big one will come against Real Madrid – that is in their hands.

Mo Salah has already stoked the flames ahead of the contest by suggesting there’s unfinished business from the 2018 final defeat in Kyiv and what better way to potentially confirm a season to match any of the greats of times gone by than by lifting a seventh European Cup in Paris in the spring?

For Jurgen Klopp it seems domestic cups in England are like buses. You wait ages for one and then two come along at once.

It is no mean feat and the result is that Klopp has pretty much won it all when it comes to adding to the Champions Walls at Anfield and inside the club’s AXA Training Centre.

And yet … There is a sense that this Liverpool team STILL need something more, particularly when it comes to legacy.

A preposterous notion? Perhaps. Remember, this is the team that ended a 30-year wait for a Premier League title, that has pushed Manchester City to the limit at the summit of the table on more than a couple of occasions, won the club’s first ever Club World Cup and have also reached three Champions League finals in the last five years.

The standards Klopp and his side have set in recent seasons have threatened to reach new heights even for a club with the glittering history of the Anfield giants. Indeed, many a Kopite privy to witnessing the greats of the 70s and 80s have suggested this is the best team they have ever seen play on the hallowed L4 turf.

That is some accolade and conversely this is where expectation soars beyond the norm.

If this Liverpool team is to stand above greats of yesteryear, they must go on and win more of the top-tier trophies. Yes, they may have surpassed points tallies of previous champions wearing a liverbird upon their chest, but at present the roll of honour stands at one top-flight title and one Champions League.

A second Premier League title in three years is looking unlikely given Manchester City’s fixtures, three-point lead and superior goal difference – and that is where the unprecedented quadruple bid is likely to come unstuck. Stranger things have happened, of course, but Pep Guardiola’s team will have to suffer a collapse akin to their Champions League semi final exit – and it’s hard to see lightning striking twice with such a magnificent team.

Klopp himself has previously stated they would need to accumulate more silverware if their legend is to stand the test of time.

Earlier in the season he said: “In 20 years if you want to talk about this team, I would not be surprised if people would then say if we don’t win anything any more, ‘Yeah they were good, but they should have won more’. That’s why we should try now to win a few things.”

This FA Cup triumph ensures two more trophies have been added to the cabinet for this particular side but there’s no doubt within the inner sanctum of Anfield they will be disappointed if they don’t go on from the euphoria of another shoot-out triumph and land at least one of the two big ones.

Three ‘cup finals’ remain with two league wins and a snooker needed to pinch the title, but the big one will come against Real Madrid – that is in their hands.

Mo Salah has already stoked the flames ahead of the contest by suggesting there’s unfinished business from the 2018 final defeat in Kyiv and what better way to potentially confirm a season to match any of the greats of times gone by than by lifting a seventh European Cup in Paris in the spring?