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Rob Smyth

Chelsea 1-0 Leeds United: FA Cup semi-final – as it happened

Marc Cucurella and Pedro Neto celebrate Chelsea's FA Cup semi-final victory over Leeds
Chelsea are through to the FA Cup final, where they will face Man City. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Nigel French/Apl/Sportsphoto

That’s all for today. I’ll leave you with Ed Aarons’ report from Wembley. Goodnight!

Calum McFarlane's reaction

‘Relief’ is the correct word. We were confident going into the game – we had a really good three days leading into it – but you never know.

I did the job for a week in January so I knew what I was stepping into. It’s actually been easier this time because I have a relationship with the players, I’ve worked with them for three or four months now, and I had a feel for what they needed psychologically. It’s been intense but not as crazy as the last time.

We knew Leeds were at their most dangerous when we had deep possession, because they go man for man, so we wanted to negate that by going longer. Create a bit of fear in them, because we’ve got athletes in our top line, and then once they dropped we got space to play.

I thought Enzo’s positioning was brilliant, the way he pulled wider to pin the right-winger, so we had a spare man in the build-up and we took control.

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