Chelsea tackle Manchester United in Women’s FA Cup semis
- Chelsea are aiming to carry the trophy for the fourth consecutive season
- They face Manchester United in subsequent month’s semi-finals in repeat of 2023 remaining
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Chelsea will journey to Manchester United within the semi-final of the Women’s FA Cup, in a repeat of final 12 months’s remaining.
The Blues are pushing for a fourth consecutive trophy within the competitors after beating Marc Skinner’s aspect in entrance of a record-breaking crowd at Wembley final time period.
Sam Kerr, who has been dominated out for the rest of the season after sustaining an ACL harm firstly of the 12 months, scored the one objective of the sport.
Chelsea will go to Manchester after knocking out Everton within the quarter-final final weekend, with Catarina Macario scoring her second objective in as many video games for the south-west London membership in what was an unusually tight encounter on this fixture.
Chelsea lead the WSL by objective distinction, and are set to play within the League Cup remaining and the Champions League quarter-finals within the coming weeks, as they hope to grow to be simply the second English group to win the quadruple within the ladies’s sport after Arsenal within the 2007-08 season.
Chelsea and Manchester United have been drawn collectively within the Women’s FA Cup semi-finals, in a rerun of final season’s remaining at Wembley
Chelsea lifted the cup for the third consecutive season with a 1-0 win over Man United
Tottenham Hotspur beat Manchester City on penalties to achieve the semi-finals
They are favourites to win this battle, having by no means misplaced to Manchester United in every of the 11 occasions they’ve confronted them in all competitions, and drawing solely as soon as.
While departing supervisor Emma Hayes is refusing to have interaction in quadruple talks, Macario stated: ‘Obviously, that is the objective.
‘That’s the Chelsea normal however on the finish of the day we’ve got to take it day-to-day and sport by sport, do our job each single day and go from there.’
Tottenham, who knocked out Manchester City on the weekend on penalties, will host Leicester City within the different sport to be performed on the weekend of Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14 with the ultimate to be performed at Wembley on Sunday, May 12.
