Football Discussion | Can Chelsea save their sesson and win the FA Cup
A season defining day for Chelsea against Manchester City at Wembley
Can they win the FA Cup?
Author | Lauren W
Back in August, when the season began, most Chelsea supporters, players, directors and owners would have accepted a place in the FA Cup final by the end of May.
The Blues are a club built on silverware, whether it was lifting the revamped FIFA Club World Cup last summer or winning the UEFA Europa Conference League a year earlier, and maintaining that winning culture always carries value, even if it is “only” the FA Cup. Few, though, could have imagined this final would stand as the sole bright spot in such a turbulent campaign.
Three managers, as many Premier League defeats as victories, an embarrassing early exit from the UEFA Champions League, six successive league defeats for the first time in 30 years, sitting ninth with two games remaining and players openly questioning the direction of the club.
Chelsea have endured a disastrous season. From top to bottom, the club appears fractured, lacking both identity and direction while posting losses running into hundreds of millions of dollars.
And yet there remains a sense that all is not entirely lost.
Somehow, amid the chaos of this existential crisis, the FA Cup still offers Chelsea a route to salvage something from the campaign and secure European football. They are unlikely to care that it would be the Europa League, something their league position will not deliver.
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Supporters may still feel disillusioned and continue to demand change from the American ownership, but at least victory would provide a glimmer of hope at the end of a season that has felt relentlessly bleak.
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