FA-Cup Final – last game of the Season

FA-CUP Final

Today it’s time for the last game for this season, and as usual it’s the FA-Cup final that ends the football season. And as usual it’s going to be played in one game, at Wembley Arena with almost 90 000 fans on the grandstand.

But all you football-lovers can cheer up anyway. Because we have a great Under 21 European Championship waiting just in some weeks and seen to the squads that have been presented I can assure you all that it will be a great tournament with all the most talented players that we have in Europe.

I will be back with all my best picks from that tournament later in June, so don’t be to sad that the league season is over soon.

But now back to the FA-cup final between Chelsea vs Everton, here is my pick for the game:

Chelsea vs Everton, home win @ 1.67

Chelsea had a pretty bad start of this season. But since Gus Hiddink took over as manager (after Luis P Scolari) they have both been playing well and started to win matches. But still they risk standing there without a trophy at the end of the season if they don’t win today.

Everton have made a great season, as we start to get used to, and Moyce´s team are pretty stable just after the top4. This year they ended fifth in Premier League and since even they had a pretty bad start of the season it’s a god mark.

Everton beat Manchester United, after penalties, in the FA-cup Semi-finals and even that is a nice record for David Moyce and his team.

But even though Everton has made a strong season and even though they knocked out Man United in the semi finals I have a strong feeling that Chelsea will win this game. They are the stronger team and a season without trophies is a bad season for a team with Chelsea’s capacity and skills irrespective of that they are in Final in FA-cup, almost came to the Final in Champions League and a third place in Premier League.

Normally I wound not bet on Chelsea, on neutral ground, to 1.67 in odds against a team with Everton’s defence and ability to play god against stronger teams. But as I wrote before this is more then a “normal” match. This game can be compared to a Champions League match or World cup / European Cup. And what happens in these kinds of games is that the better team often wins at last. Chelsea is the better side here and if you break down each part of the team (Goalie, defenders, midfield, and offence) and compare them to each others I think that Chelsea is stronger in every part of the field.

My Guess is that Chelsea will have the following start-up:

P Cech – J Bosingwa, Alex, J Terry, A Cole – J-O Mikel, M Essien, F Lampard – F Malouda, D Drogba,  N Anelka.

Maybe the German Midfielder M Ballack will start instead of Mikel, but my first guess is that the Nigerian Mikel’s going to start in the start-up squad.

And this strong team will probably beat Everton with one or two goals in this FA-cup final (2-1 or 3-1?)

The odds are picked from Bwin-football.

God Luck

/Amrish