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Daniel Childs

Chelsea's brave Virgil Van Dijk transfer offers Tuchel timeless gift after Carabao Cup final

There was a moment in the second period of extra time where I looked down from my very-high Wembley seat and could spot some weary legs across both sets of players.

This felt like a long final. 120 minutes had followed a pretty tense 90 minutes that included VAR shenanigans, changes in momentum and some baffling misses. Tired passes, sloppy first touches and uncharacteristic errors are par for the course in extra time.

But even with much younger legs failing, it was Chelsea's Benjamin Button who continued to remain undeterred from potential chaos around him.

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