N'Golo Kante Is Taking A LOT Of Criticism For His FA Cup Final Performance

It's not often that this has been said over the past two seasons, but N'Golo Kante is coming in for a fair amount of criticism for his performance, today.

The French midfielder, who just weeks ago was crowned the PFA Player Of The Year after helping Chelsea to the Premier League title, just a year after inspiring Leicester City to the same achievement, was far from his best and also appeared to be at fault for Aaron Ramsey's winning goal.

The Premier League champions' hopes of a domestic double were dashed by a spirited Arsenal side in a 2-1 defeat at Wembley, this afternoon and Antonio Conte's team's chances weren't helped by Kante enduring a rare off day.

Of course, given how much praise the former Leicester man has received over the course of this season, much of it deserved, but some of it naturally exacerbated to an almost unbearable degree, social media couldn't wait to rip the French midfielder to pieces.

Somehow, I doubt Antonio Conte will be rushing to sell the all action Frenchman, just yet. If Twitter meltdowns really led to manager's taking action, Paul Pogba would have been offloaded to Northampton in October.

Topics: Chelsea FC, FA Cup Final, Arsenal, N'Golo Kante

Joe Baiamonte

Northerner. Assistant Editor of SPORTbible. Studied Journalism and Broadcasting in a portakabin on a car park of Salford University for three years. Believes football peaked with Serie A in the '90s and strong-arms pro wrestling references into as many articles as possible. Neymar once took 50 euros off me during a game of poker.

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