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Chelsea Into the FA Cup Final

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew join us from Wembley recap Chelsea's 1-0 win over Leeds United to book their ticket in the FA Cup Final setting up a Manchester City vs Chelsea final. Plus, the guys talk LALIGA title race after Barcelona have opened up and 11 point gap over Real Madrid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome in to the latest edition of ESPN FC. We've been at Wembley all weekend with Craig Burley and Nadine Mnua.

0:42.3

What a treat.

0:44.3

Chelsea then will face Manchester City in the final.

0:46.3

They would defeat Leeds by one goal to nil.

0:49.3

A pretty forgettable tie, but in the end it's Enzo Fernandez's goal that separates the two sides

0:55.0

that sees Chelsea book a place in the final against City.

0:58.0

You felt that Chelsea once they got the goal they felt they did enough and they were asking Lees to try and get them and of course they never did.

1:04.0

Well Leach did change their shape in the second half.

1:06.0

Needham talked about it. They went to your back four.

1:10.0

They took Aronson and Ocalfour and they put them

1:13.6

a little bit wider and that just kept Gusto and Coquerella on the back foot a little bit more,

1:18.6

but it didn't really make them more creative. What it did do, they were able to pick up the second

1:24.6

ball 20, 30 yards higher up the the field so they had a bit more

1:27.8

pressure and it felt like they had more possession but they don't have we were talking about it

1:34.1

nidem and i if a bad ball was played up to zhao pedro he did something brilliant with it

1:40.6

generally and he was able to get hold of it if a bad ball was going up to calvert lewin he wasn't really able to get hold of it. If a bad ball was going up to Calvert Leone, he wasn't really able to get hold of it. And that was the difference. The difference between

1:48.2

the two sides was the quality of the possession of the ball. If Leon Rasinia was still in charge,

1:55.1

would we ever see the same game? That's a nice type of question. Have that one. I'm not sure. I think to be honest, the way the game started was more to do with how Leeds started the game than as opposed to how Chelsea did. I don't think Chelsea did anything that was extraordinary, but Leeds themselves, they're almost playing scared that first half, which you absolutely cannot do. That's why some of the Leeds fans were sort of booing at half time. Right. Because this isn't why they all came down here.

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