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Leicester City 1-2 Chelsea: FA Cup quarter-final – as it happened


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Leicester (4-4-1-1): Kasper Schmeichel; Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Harry Maguire, Christian Fuchs; Riyad Mahrez, Wilfred Ndidi, Vicente Iborra, Demarai Gray; Shinji Okazaki; Jamie Vardy

Chelsea (3-4-3): Willy Caballero; Cesar Azpilicueta, Andreas Christensen, Gary Cahill; Davide Zappacosta, Tiemoue Bakayoko, N'Golo Kante, Marcos Alonso; Willian, Alvaro Morata, Eden Hazard

20/09/16 Leicester 2-4 Chelsea (Piala Liga Inggris)

15/10/16 Chelsea 3-0 Leicester (Premier League)

14/01/17 Leicester 0-3 Chelsea (Premier League)

09/09/17 Leicester 1-2 Chelsea (Premier League)

13/01/18 Chelsea 0-0 Leicester (Premier League)

10/02/18 Man City 5-1 Leicester (Premier League)

24/02/18 Leicester 1-1 Stoke (Premier League)

03/03/18 Leicester 1-1 Bournemouth (Premier League)

10/03/18 West Brom 1-4 Leicester (Premier League)

20/02/18 Chelsea 1-1 Barcelona (Liga Champions)

25/02/18 Man United 2-1 Chelsea (Premier League)

04/03/18 Man City 1-0 Chelsea (Premier League)

10/03/18 Chelsea 2-1 Crystal Palace (Premier League)

14/03/18 Barcelona 3-0 Chelsea (Liga Champions)




Chelsea will look to keep alive their last hope of silverware this season when they take on Leicester in an FA Cup quarter-final on Sunday.

Antonio Conte's side are 25 points off Premier League leaders Manchester City and were dumped out of the Champions League by Lionel Messi and Barcelona earlier this week.

Can they reach the last-four or will Leicester cause an upset? Follow all the action live with Sportsmail's ADAM SHERGOLD. Kick-off is at 4.30pm.


Chelsea provided the FA Cup shock. It was not that they won this fiercely contested quarter-final – but that the decisive goal came from a header by substitute Pedro Rodriguez: all 5ft 6in of him. The little man rose to the occasion with the big moment.

Having spent the January transfer window searching for a tall ­target man, Antonio Conte was saved by the aerial prowess of the smallest player in his squad. When Pedro scored in extra time, the Chelsea head coach already had Olivier Giroud – the striker the club ended up buying – ready to come on to replace their other centre ­forward, Alvaro Morata.

Reaching an FA Cup final will not define Conte’s future, of course, but given the sense at Chelsea is that he will leave at the end of this campaign, then it remains possible that he will do so with a trophy.

Chelsea fans, who were in fine voice here, sang of going to ­Wembley – where they will face Southampton in the semi-finals – and chanted Conte’s name. Whatever the level of upheaval, there is no question that this team are not playing for their manager.

Those supporters may also know that the previous three times they have met Leicester City in the FA Cup – 1997, 2000 and 2012 – Chelsea have gone on to win the competition, while Conte will want to make amends for losing last ­season’s final, which denied him the double. He may have to beat his predecessor Jose Mourinho to do so, should Manchester United ­overcome Tottenham Hotspur in the other semi-final.

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