Chelsea vs Leicester – FA Cup LIVE: Mauricio Pochettino goes robust

Another lengthy ball performed ahead, this time by Moises Caicedo in search of out Nicolas Jackson down the centre. Again, the goal simply unable to convey it beneath his spell and Stolarczyk can come out and declare for Leicester.

Down the opposite hand, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall overhits a cross from the left.

Bright begin to the sport as a looking move over to the appropriate facet appears for Malo Gusto’s run. It’s a contact overhit and Gusto runs out of bounds to the delight of the Leicester followers there.

Chelsea pressure a few corners in fast succession and Leicester residing very dangerously.

Mudryk delivered and Cole Palmer with the cutest of flicks on the close to put up that looped up and struck the far put up earlier than Leicester actually realised what was occurring. They get away with it.

Bright begin by Leicester as they pressure a nook contained in the opening minute. It’s performed brief, then labored to the again put up the place Harry Winks can’t direct his shot on course. Nicely labored set-piece routine although by Maresca’s males.

Off and working in west London. Leicester of their change colors, a darkish blue or black with lighter blue trim. Chelsea in acquainted blue and white.

KIERAN GILL AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: Good ambiance inside Stamford Bridge for such an early kick-off on a Sunday. Leicester’s followers are up for it, though some supporters are holding up a banner which reads: ‘£38 – magic of the cup?’

Pre-match formalities are completed and dusted, the third of the 4 FA Cup quarter-finals is about to get underway at Stamford Bridge.

Can Chelsea protect Premier League pleasure, or can Championship leaders Leicester spring an upset?

It’s a sell-out Stamford Bridge crowd for this FA Cup quarter-final and all people is taking their seats because the gamers undergo their last preparations and superstitions.

Over 6,000 Leicester followers packing one finish of the stadium for this one and an important ambiance constructing because the groups assemble within the tunnel.

• Chelsea have progressed from seven of their eight FA Cup ties in opposition to Leicester. The exception was a 1-0 defeat of their most up-to-date assembly within the 2021 last.
• Leicester have gained simply one in all their previous 13 away video games in opposition to Chelsea, beating them 1-0 within the Premier League in December 2018.
• Chelsea have gained their previous 5 FA Cup quarter-finals, since shedding to Everton in 2015-16. The Blues have reached the semi-final of the competitors in 5 of the previous seven campaigns.
• Raheem Sterling has scored 4 targets in his previous two appearances in opposition to Leicester, together with a double for Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in August 2022 – his first targets for the Blues.
• All seven of Leicester’s FA Cup targets this season have been scored by totally different gamers, with solely six golf equipment having extra scorers within the competitors this season.

The Chelsea supervisor Mauricio Pochettino has simply been talking on the BBC’s protection. Here’s what he needed to say on the magnitude of immediately’s recreation:

Always, the sport is essential for us. We have to enhance our place within the desk within the Premier League and we have now performed a last within the Carabao Cup. But now within the FA Cup additionally, it is actually necessary for us.

We should go to the pitch and method the sport respecting Leicester as a result of they’re an excellent workforce. They are doing improbable within the Championship and naturally it isn’t going to be straightforward.

Yesterday Wolves v Coventry was a extremely tough recreation, that is the great thing about the FA Cup and that is why we’re very acutely aware we have to carry out effectively immediately.

We know we’re Chelsea and Chelsea is likely one of the greatest golf equipment on this planet and that persistence typically just isn’t straightforward to get for the followers as a result of they wish to see the workforce performing and successful titles however it’s true we’re in a unique undertaking now and we have to settle for that.

Dion Dublin and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink are within the BBC studio alongside Gary Lineker immediately and right here’s some ideas on the significance of immediately for Chelsea:

Dublin: This is the final likelihood (for Chelsea to win a trophy), the gamers will assume that as effectively. This is an actual likelihood of silverware. They’ve had a poor season their requirements are greater than that.

Chelsea will anticipate a trophy each season that is what the followers demand. This is about doing knowledgeable Premier League efficiency in opposition to a facet they need to be beating.

Hasselbaink: It was at all times going to be a season about ups and downs. They’ve been enjoying very well in opposition to the larger groups like Liverpool, Man City however after they should make the sport itself they’ve struggled right here and there.

Yes, the punters they need trophies however it’s a unique membership it is taking time and you must be affected person. You have to know a variety of the younger gamers.

They have gotten a variety of younger gamers who should develop they usually should take time with. You can see they’re proficient however it’s going to take time.

Made in Manchester, Cole Palmer may simply have stayed at house with the most effective workforce on this planet, a membership who can virtually assure their gamers a glut of trophies.

Instead, he had the arrogance to attain within the Community Shield and Super Cup at the beginning of this season after which inform City: let me depart as a result of I need to be enjoying week in, week out. Watching him for Chelsea, you may see why he insisted he was prepared.

This 21-year-old is an immense expertise. He is cool, elegant and measured, with a bit maverick in him, and decided to show why he deserves to characterize England at Euro 2024.

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Both groups being put by way of their paces as we quick method the 12.45pm kick-off.

It’s been a season of merciless harm blows for Reece James and now Gareth Southgate has advised his Euro 2024 place with England is in danger if he doesn’t show his ‘physical resistance’.

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While Leicester shall be absolutely centered on the duty at hand within the Cup, they’ll even be conserving half-an-eye afterward when Leeds United host Millwall within the Championship.

If Leeds win by a two-goal margin, they’ll go above Leicester and prime of the Championship.

Yesterday, Ipswich bolstered their promotion credentials with a 6-0 rout of Sheffield Wednesday and now sit only a level and a spot behind the Foxes in a gripping promotion race.

Just a few snaps of Chelsea stars Cole Palmer and Ben Chilwell greeting followers as they stroll into the stadium.

The Leicester chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha can be seen greeting followers of his workforce already inside the bottom.

Leicester City XI: Stolarczyk; Choudhury, Faes, Vestergaard, Doyle, Ndidi, Dewsbury-Hall, Winks, Fatawu, Mavididi, Daka.

Substitutes: Ward; Coady, Nelson, Justin, Yunus, Albrighton, Marcal, Iheanacho, Cannon.

Enzo Maresca has made 4 modifications from the Leicester facet that drew 2-2 at Hull final Saturday.

Coming in are Jakub Stolarczyk in objective, Callum Doyle, Wilfred Ndidi and Patson Daka instead of Mads Hermansen, James Justin, Yunus Akgun and the injured Jamie Vardy.

Chelsea XI: Sanchez; Gusto, Disasi, Chalobah, Cucurella; Gallagher, Caicedo; Sterling, Palmer, Mudryk; Jackson

Substitutes: Petrovic (GK); Badiashile, Thiago Silva, Acheampong, Chilwell, Harrison, Chukwuemeka, Madueke, Washington

Pochettino clearly ‘up for the Cup’ with that robust workforce choice. Aside from switching the goalkeeper, that appears like about as robust as Chelsea may go in the intervening time.

Enzo Fernandez is suspended for immediately’s tie. Mykhailo Mudryk is the participant introduced in, with Conor Gallagher prone to play a bit deeper.

The solely different change is between the sticks with Robert Sanchez in for Djordje Petrovic.

Stay tuned for the 2 confirmed workforce line-ups as we method an hour till kick-off in west London.

Here’s photos of Chelsea boss Pochettino and among the Leicester gamers strolling in.

Here’s Leicester inspecting the pitch at Stamford Bridge after arriving only a few minutes in the past.

Heart-warming scenes this week as Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino grew to become the drillmaster by internet hosting a 130-person BBQ at their Cobham coaching floor.

Apparently, there have been sausages, steaks and delicacies from numerous totally different international locations to maintain his cosmopolitan squad glad.

But clearly the membership nutritionists had their say and fries (and alcohol) had been banned.

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As you may see from these photos of among the early-arriving followers at Stamford Bridge, it’s a little bit of a moist one in London.

Mind you, it appears to be fairly damp throughout a lot of the nation. Anyway, it ought to make for a slick floor beneath these leaden gray skies.

The Championship leaders might come to Stamford Bridge because the underdogs however they’ll be backed by 6,015 followers, who’ll pack out The Shed this afternoon.

It guarantees to be a improbable ambiance because the Foxes intention to repeat their win over Chelsea within the 2021 last.

Two down, two to go when it comes to this weekend’s FA Cup quarter-finals.

As we’ve seen, Man City and Coventry are already by way of to the final 4.

Chelsea vs Leicester City is subsequent up at 12.45pm after which afterward it’s the humdinger at Old Trafford between Manchester United and Liverpool, a 3.30pm kick-off.

As for the draw for the semi-finals, that’ll happen after the motion finishes at Old Trafford later. Mark Pougatch will host the draw, with Ian Wright pulling the balls from the velvet bag.

Apparently, it’s going to happen inside quarter-hour of the ultimate whistle.

The ball numbers are: 1 – Coventry City; 2 – Manchester United or Liverpool; 3 – Chelsea or Leicester City and 4 – Manchester City.

TOM COLLOMOSSE: For the final 34 years Mark Robins has been recognized finest as the person who saved Sir Alex Ferguson’s job however now the Coventry supervisor is writing an excellent higher FA Cup story of his personal.

Robins’ targets within the 1990 competitors helped United attain the Final and eased the strain on Ferguson. They beat Crystal Palace in a replay at Wembley and 23 years later, Ferguson retired as arguably the best supervisor within the historical past of the sport.

Robins won’t ever have that tag however what he has achieved at Coventry is outstanding. They are again at Wembley within the Cup for the primary time since successful it in 1987 and they’ll bear in mind this basic quarter-final for practically so long as that one.

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IAN LADYMAN: After the turmoil and the chaos of Anfield final weekend, this was the return of the Manchester City we all know. Ordered, purposeful, dependable and, in fact, totally in management. Pep Guardiola’s workforce are in to one more home cup semi-final and no one would be the least bit stunned about that.

Admittedly the opposition are battered, bruised and going backwards. Newcastle, so quickly after the highs of final season, are at the moment heading within the flawed course at an alarmingly and more and more predictable price.

No scarcity of effort from Eddie Howe’s workforce however the reality is that they had been by no means on this recreation, probably not. City had been impressively relentless all through and the very fact they’ve now progressed to 6 FA Cup semi-finals in a row says every thing about them. No workforce has ever completed that earlier than.

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Coventry City and Manchester City have already booked their FA Cup semi-final spots with their followers already wanting ahead to a visit to Wembley subsequent month.

This lunchtime, we’ll discover out the id of the third facet by way of to the ultimate 4.

On paper, Chelsea ought to be the favourites as they welcome Championship Leicester City to Stamford Bridge.

But Enzo Maresca’s facet have taken the second-tier by storm this season as they give the impression of being to return to the highest division on the first time of asking.

They will definitely give Mauricio Pochettino’s facet loads to consider and shall be backed by a legion of followers in what’s a repeat of the 2021 FA Cup last.

Back then it was Leicester who emerged victorious, lifting the well-known trophy for the primary time of their historical past.

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