Every word Mauricio Pochettino said on Chelsea, Liverpool, cup final heartbreak and Gary Neville

Mauricio Pochettino put on a brave face as he spoke to the media after seeing his Chelsea team fall agonisingly short at Wembley against Liverpool. The Blues were beaten 1-0 in the Carabao Cup final thanks to a late Virgil van Dijk header.

The Reds captain headed past Djordje Petrovic to send half of Wembley wild. For Chelsea, though, it is yet another heartbreaking final in the capital, becoming the first team in English football history to lose six successive domestic cup finals.

Pochettino, as you can imagine, looked very glum in the press conference room at Wembley. Here is every word the Argentine had to say.

How crucial were those chances at the end of the second-half?

«I think so. That was the key. Today we created, I don't know, four, five or six big chances and we didn't score. And in a game like today, a final, to score first maybe will be a big advantage.

»Then we conceded in the last minute and it was difficult to react. Yes, finals are finals, it's about to win, it's not about to talk too much and go back."

What do you say to your players? How do you pick them up?

«Nothing, nothing. No. They are professionals, they are very competitive and now we need to move forward, but they need to feel the pain. We play for a trophy and we didn't get, and now it's the same. Nothing you can tell me can make me feel better.

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»They need to feel the pain like us. And of course to realise we need to work more, we need to do better things, we need to improve. To compete at this level against a team that is in the last six or seven years is competing for