‘He would’ve’… Robbie Savage says Chelsea would’ve won the Carabao Cup if they had 56-year-old manager

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You don’t need us to tell you that Chelsea aren’t having a good season.

The Blues failed to win yet again at the weekend against Brentford, and it looks as though another mid-table finish is on the cards for the Stamford Bridge outfit.

Chelsea are going to finish in mid-table, and while they’re still in the FA Cup, a win in that competition also looks unlikely.

The Blues could’ve won some silverware in the shape of the Carabao Cup, but, as Gary Neville so eloquently put it, the ‘Blue Billion Pound Bottle Jobs’ threw the final away.

Speaking on BBC 606, Robbie Savage has been going back over that final along with Chris Sutton and he says that Chelsea would have won that game if they had Jurgen Klopp in their dugout instead of Mauricio Pochettino.

Chelsea would’ve won the Carabao Cup with Jurgen Klopp

Savage spoke about the idea of the 56-year-old manager being at Chelsea.

“Where was the motivation? He was giving it but I don’t think the players were reacting to it in extra-time. The average age was younger than Liverpool’s. It’s not the players’ fault they have spent so much money,” Savage said.

“You can’t blame it all on Pochettino, you just have, you’ve just said that if Klopp was in the Chelsea technical area he would’ve won the game,” Sutton said.

“I think he would’ve yeah. In that extra time period it was 5-4-1 for long periods. The way you finished that game last week, Chelsea played well, they were in the ascendancy, but in extra time it was completely different,” Savage said.

Winner

It’s an old, probably outdated cliché, but there is something to be said for managers who are winners and those who aren’t.

Mauricio Pochettino’s teams have, time and time again, crumbled on the biggest of stages, while Klopp has won all there is to win one way or another.

It’s obviously impossible to say, and entirely hypothetical, but if the two gaffers switched places, perhaps the result of this final would’ve been different.