Impressive Chelsea Beat Middlesbrough To Book FA Cup Semi-final Ticket
The Thomas Tuchel’s led side defeated Middlesbrough 2 nil on Saturday to reach the semi-final of the Emirates FA Cup for a third consecutive seasons.
Goals from Romelu Lukaku and Hakeem Ziyech was all the Blues needed to book a spot at the Wembley Stadium.
Even Middlesbrough had defeated Manchester United and Tottenham in the previous two rounds, Chelsea wouldn’t just allow the ‘against the run of play show’ to rear its ugly head in their book.
Despite trailing behind the visitors, fans at the Riverside Stadium were full of chants for their players all through.
The victory came few days as Blues scaled through to the Quarter-final of the Champions league now making it sixth win from their last six games.
The London side dominated the proceedings from the blast of the whistle with another ‘stand out’ performance from their back line lead by Thiago Silva and a certain Mason Mount also doing wonders upfront with the two assist that birthed the goals.
‘Brogh really did have a tough time breaking the wall of the visitors even as Chelsea had failed to covert their begging chances, especially in the second half.