Yesterday's FA Cup Final showed that once again, this competition brings the best out of England's finest and is still a sought after way to end the season. Compared to our last FA Cup winning campaign, we've had to come up against some serious opposition, with the likes of Manchester City in the semi-final and Chelsea in the final.

The fact that we've had such a terrible season in terms of our league performance, even dropping out of the top four for the first time in over 20 years, we still had one way to replenish the hopes of the club and the fans.

Personally, I felt that it would be Chelsea who would come out on top, further dismantling our season, but things looked up right from the get-to and no one could have predicted our start to the game.

The game was written to be a thriller and it started off with us capitalizing on a Chelsea mistake and then Alexis scoring the first goal just under the five minute mark. At first there was much confusion as to whether or not the goal would be given as it was told that the goal was offside and that there was a handball in the process. In the end the decision was favorable to us as we went 1-0 up to the surprise of many, including me.

It was the dream start to a game that had so much written on it. It wasn't just a lucky start, but we showed that we were the better team and that Chelsea were too hungover on their Premier League title win.

Our performance was something that brought back memories of the quick and exciting football that we used to play and reminded me that this is the Arsenal that you shouldn't mess with. Our passing was fluid and we always found space to move the ball around. We won every challenge and got to the ball quicker than Chelsea did. Our great performance in the first half warranted all the chances that we had on goal- and they were good.

The only bad part about the first half was that we couldn't put the game to bed sooner as we had one or two very good chances that could've killed off any hope Chelsea had of winning the cup. As the half went on, Chelsea did grow into the game a little bit more, but we were absolutely dominating that game and Chelsea looked too desperate to find that equalizer and were frankly still trying to keep up with the pace of the game.

The second half was a little slower, but that could be do to the fact that this time around Chelsea had more fight in them. There were a couple of times that Chelsea got dangerously close to scoring, but Ospina had a worldie yesterday and kept us in the game.

Not only Ospina, but our whole defensive performance was impressive with Holding, Mertesacker and Monreal clearing away Chelsea's efforts. I have to give a big shout out to our back line as they did a phenomenal job. I was the most surprised by Per as he just came back from injury and has played less than half a game before his start yesterday. He was a commandful presence who used his defensive intelligence to block off Chelsea. I was also impressed by Holding because he's such a young guy and was thrown into this final looking like he's been playing at the top level for several seasons.

The real highlights of the second half were when Victor Moses dived in our box and got sent off and then a nine man Chelsea ended up leveling up the score in the 76' with Costa putting it in the back of the net. At that point I felt that this might just have to go to extra time, which stressed me out even more because once Chelsea got back into the game, who knows what they might do.

Luckily for us the boss made a birlliant change after they equalized and brought on Giroud who set up the winner immediately as he came on. Giroud put a fantastic cross in the box to Ramsey who headed it in to make it 2-1 to us in no time. Things could not have gone any better as it looked like this game would have to go on for longer because of Chelsea's goal back.

As the final whistle blew, it all felt surreal. We had just won our third FA Cup in four years.... wow. We went 10+ years without a trophy and then from 2014 onwards we've won three FA Cups in the past four seasons. It still hasn't sunken in as I'm writing this, but it's testament to the players we have now and it shows that we've still got competitive spirit.

Now, I do think that this FA Cup win has glossed over the rest of our season, but after all the hype is over, the question remains as to what do Arsenal do going forward. I mean, yeah, we've won an impressive amount of FA Cups, but what do we do about our league form? The fact that we haven't won a league title since 2004 still stings, and after what we did last season where Leicester ended up winning the league and this season where we finished 18 points behind the Champions, I feel that there is more to just this FA Cup win.

What do we do about our league performance next season? How can we resolve having half and good season and then another poor half the season? The common denominator was that we always had Champions League football, next season we don't. Can the fact the we don't have CL football be a good thing and help us focus on winning the league? I personally could not care less about the Europa League and honestly hope that we get knocked out of it and focus on the league.

Anyways, I'll save all my thoughts for next season in one of my next posts, but I do want to highlight again our achievements in the fact that we are now the most successful club in FA Cup history and Arsene Wenger is the most successful manager in this competition. Now that is something worth celebrating for, regardless of how the rest of the season went.

What We Learned: FA Cup Final 2017