Chelsea will face Liverpool in the EFL Cup final on Saturday (14th). The two sides have already had a battle in this year's EFL Cup final, and although Chelsea suffered a defeat on penalties, in order to avoid repeating the same mistake, the team has adopted the strange tactic of "changing shirts to turn the luck around", and has decided to give up its traditional home blue jerseys in the match, and instead, wear the away yellow jerseys. The team decided to abandon the traditional home blue jersey and wear the away yellow jersey for this game.
Chelsea have won the UEFA Europa League and the World Cup in their home shirt this season, so the blue shirt should bring good luck to the team, but the situation is very different in the local cup matches. In fact, Chelsea's last four seasons of playing in local cup finals in blue jerseys have resulted in five defeats, including a loss against Liverpool in the current EFL Cup.
In addition, Chelsea lost to Leicester City in their home shirt in the last EFL Cup final, and were defeated by Arsenal in the previous final. Dating back to the 2018/19 EFL Cup final and Community Shield, Chelsea also lost to Manchester City in their blue shirts, which begs the question of the vagaries of fate.
In this EFL Cup final, Chelsea will change to the yellow jersey, let's wait and see if they can break this seemingly insurmountable curse.
