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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Rob Smyth

Chelsea 1-3 Arsenal: Continental Cup final – as it happened

Arsenal players celebrate after Chelsea's Niamh Charles (not pictured) scores an own goal.
Arsenal players celebrate after Chelsea's Niamh Charles (not pictured) scores an own goal. Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA

That’s it for our coverage of today’s final. I’ll leave you with Suzanne Wrack’s match report from Selhurst Park. Thanks for your company and emails – goodnight!

Jonas Eidevall and Leah Williamson have joined the BBC team

JE I’m so happy – for the team, for the players, and for the way we came back into the game. It was a really tough start but the team showed what they’re made of.

LW I feel good. You’ve gotta break the chain [of not winning trophies] at some point, and today was that day.

At this point Katie McCabe crashes the interview, says something about non-alcoholic champagne and does one

JE We were so much more intense today [than against Chelsea last week] with our runs off the ball, and that creates a lot of situations. Those runs that led to the penalty for the second goal, for example – that’s what we were missing last Sunday.

LW We wanted to put pressure on them and get the pace of the game up, and [going 1-0 down] doesn’t change that. It would have been stupid to go crazy. This means so much. For us, a trophy is a trophy – Arsenal should be winning trophies and we needed to start again today.

JE These are the games we want to play in. To get a result creates belief for all the games coming forward.

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