The sovereignty of the English at this year's European events was confirmed in the Europa League event where the two Londoners Chelsea and Arsenal will confront the distant Baku of Azerbaijan for the trophy.
The 68.700-seat Baku Olympic Stadium will look empty with the two teams unable to sell the 6.000 tickets they received. The trip for their fans is expensive and time consuming due to the distance and so the teams returned half the tickets making the final look even more ungrateful in a boring stadium atmosphere. Last game of a great career for the Czech against his beloved Chelsea and probably Azar's last with the blue jersey as he promotes the whites of Real.
In the games now there are absences for each team, Arsenal's Armenian Mikitarian could not travel to hostile Azerbaijan while Chelsea are facing a very serious problem in the midfield as they will not have Loftus Chik who, apart from being very strong, will be suspended. height in the set phases while Cande is also doubtful.
The climate in the two camps in view of the final is different. At Chelsea, the situation is a bit of a mess with Sari being on the run despite winning 3rd place, which leads to the Champions League groups and the European course, as he could not win the respect of his players, culminating in Kepa's make-up in the penalty shootout. with City. There was an incident in yesterday's training session where the Italian coach got up and left after a quarrel between Higuain and David Luiz, but these can also be communication tricks to disorient the opponents. In any case, the climate at Stamford Bridge does not seem to lift him.
On the other hand, the team of Unai Emery, which has won the trophy 3 times with Sevilla, is clearly calmer, wants the cup for one more reason, to win the place in the Champions League that it could not through the Premier League and generally in the quarterfinals and semifinals. of the tournament showed more convincing than the team of Sari excluding Napoli and Valencia with 4 wins.
The companies favor Chelsea to win in the regular season but such a game between these teams should be more balanced. Especially with the case of Cande who, if he fights, we do not know if the problem in his knee leaves him to be the well-known Cande. If he manages to play as well as he can, Chelsea will win more balls than without him to transfer the ball to the opponent half of the field with Azar trying to create cracks.
The important thing for Arsenal is to be able to respond suspensively, while offensively I believe that tonight Ozil's performance will play a key role so that Lacazette and Obamayang have the appropriate support. If the Gunners score first goals, things will become easier for them.
In a final between two teams from the same country with the same jersey weight and a similar course in the league and Europe I will bet in favor of the one that seems to be in a better psychological state as in the already problematic environment of Chelsea if things go wrong in the game I know how he will react. With the hope that our Socrates will celebrate and the English will make a 5th team in the Champions League with the form they have taken, I will bet on Arsenal's victory with the security of the dnb that we find in a pretty good performance.