Chelsea beat Leicester City 5-2 in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup in Stamford Bridge to make it into the last four of the competition.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roberto-c31294 Di Matteo maintained his one hundred percent record since taking over the reins of the club.
Defender Gary Cahill scored in the 12th minute to put the Londoner’s in front and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Salomon-Kalou-c32266 doubled Chelsea’s lead six minutes later. Torres then ended his goal drought by scoring two goals in the second half before Meireles wrapped things
up in the closing stages of the match. Although the Foxes did manage to score two goals in the evening including a wonder striker from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ben-Marshall-c7452, Chelsea remained on top of things and romped to an easy win in the end.
Leicester City started the match on a positive note, with Beckford attempting to curl the ball inside the goal but his attempt went just wide of the mark.
Chelsea went in front when a Juan Mata corner was headed home by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gary-Cahill-c14439, who celebrated the goal by revealing a T shirt which read “Pray for Muamba”. The message was dedicated to his former Bolton team mate, Muamba, who on Saturday suffered a Cardiac
arrest during a match against Tottenham Hotspur at the White Hart Lane.
The Blue’s went further ahead in the 18th minute, when Torres played a ball to Kalou from the right who smashed the ball past Foxes goal keeper, Kasper Schmeichel.
The championship side at times looked threatening in front of the Chelsea area with Neil Danns forcing a driven shot at the Chelsea goal but it was kept away by a diving http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Petr-Cech-c29837. Later, Lloyd Dyer made an impressive run for Leicester, but his shot was
struck wide of the goal.
However, Chelsea, enforced their grip on the match when Kalou played the ball in from the right flank and Torres dispatched the ball into the goal to score his first goal since October of 2011. The much needed goal for the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 striker came after a long
wait of 25 hours and 40 minutes on the pitch.
The foxes managed to score a goal in the 77th minute when Danns’s shot hit the wood work and Beckford put the ball in from close range. However, just seven minutes later, Torres regained Chelsea’s three goal margin when he nodded a Meireles corner
into the net.
The final couple of minutes saw a goal get scored for each side with Marshall blasting a 35 yards shot into the net and with Meireles claiming a goal for himself to complete an impressive victory for Chelsea which sends them into the semi-finals.
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