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Chelsea and Arsenal fans say the same thing about Maurizio Sarri as N'Golo Kante starts final

N'Golo Kante looked like he would never make the Europa League final start yesterday during training, but just 24 hours he is in the team to take on Arsenal.

The 28-year-old took part in just 25 minutes of the session in the Olympic Stadium yesterday, without doing any ball-work or sprints with the rest of the squad.

He then headed down the tunnel with chief medical director Paco Biosca and Sarri's '50/50' claim that he was going to be fit looked like it was optimistic to say the least.

However, astonishingly he will start in Baku in what is a massive boost, but maybe a risk' from Maurizio Sarri.

That got Chelsea and Arsenal fans talking alike about whether or not the Blues boss was playing some mind games with his opposition ahead of the match.

And they were both in agreement that the scenes yesterday, which included Sarri getting angry and throwing his hat to the ground, were actually all for a bit of show.

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