Chelsea employer Emma Hayes says beating an Arsenal side that”out-footballed “her Blues to lift
the Continental League Cup showed just how great her team is.Beth England’s injury-time winner clinched Saturday’s last after her very early opener had been counteracted by Leah Williamson.Chelsea’s Ann-Katrin Berger had made a string of conserves to irritate Toolbox, that controlled property and also opportunities.
“The better group did not win, the most resistant group won,” Hayes stated.
“I value safeguarding and also durability as well as it isn’t always about being the very best group, it isn’t always concerning possessing the sphere the a lot of.
“We will not be chatting in 3 years’ time concerning that dominant Arsenal performance, they will certainly state ‘Chelsea won’.
“Football has to do with getting one even more goal than the opponent. People don’t bear in mind efficiencies in finals, they bear in mind results.
“To win the game recognizing that they dominated, they out-possessed us and they out-footballed us, for me, reveals what a wonderful team we actually are.”
[ 1] Read more- As it happened: Female’s League Mug final [2] Saturday’s significant success at Nottingham Woodland’s City Ground saw Hayes ‘side lift the Organization Cup for the very first time, in their initial final, as well as deny Toolbox a 6th success in nine seasons in the competition.In raising the English season’s very first item of major cutlery, Hayes contributed to her two organization titles as well as 2 Females’s FA Cups.The Blues, who might yet win a residential treble this term, were thankful to German goalkeeper Berger for various excellent conserves, consisting of two first-class close-range quits to shut out Arsenal’s Vivianne Miedema.
“She was amazing, she really was,” Hayes claimed of Berger.
“There are a great deal of gamers right here that have never won a prize prior to. Ann is one of them, she is somebody that has actually always finished second. So it mattered. She came to the club to win prizes.
“We always talk about attacking being the most leading attribute of a football suit, rather than stating ‘why do not Chelsea deserve to win the video game on the basis of an outstanding goalkeeping efficiency?’
“To do it and also still come with makes me actually pleased with my gamers.”
