Stern tests await Chelsea next season with their manager now needing fresh blood and fresh ideas to carry the fight on multiple fronts
The double has proven one step too far for Chelsea. Diego Costa’s late equaliser gave the Premier League champions momentary hope in the season’s finale at Wembley but it was not enough to mask a bad day at the office. You would expect to see Chelsea wrest a contest like this from the grip of a team they were fancied to beat but they couldn’t do it here. That spoke volumes.
Wenger savages Arsenal fans before final
Their hopes were extinguished when Alexis Sanchez initially found Olivier Giroud with a quick through ball.