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55 year wait to be champions can only end if Tottenham win here. | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
COMMENTATOR: Here is Hazard, what a goal by Eden Hazard! | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Chelsea have ripped the title out of Tottenham's hands. Tottenham have | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
finished. Tottenham are striving for excellence. The best coached team in | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
the Premier League. They know they have to win a trophy. Chelsea have | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
raised the bar that little bit. Kante finds a way! They are | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
relentless. Can anybody stop Antonio Conte's Chelsea? The most strongest | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
mentally this year and they will take it to the wire. Special strike | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
to add to the collection of Harry Kane. Chelsea fans rise to Eden | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
Hazard, brilliant! Chelsea, be concerned, because Tottenham are | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
coming at you. The two best teams in the country go | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
head-to-head at Wembley for a place in The Emirates FA Cup final. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Chelsea's ten point lead in the Premier League has been cut to just | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
four by Tottenham in recent weeks. So much talent on show today but | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
it's been an emotional 24 hours for Spurs following the death of their | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
U23 coach Ugo Ehiogu at the age of just 44. There will be a minute's | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
applause before kick-off in memory of the former England international. | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
Our condolences of course go to the Ugo's friends and family and we will | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
pay tribute to him at half-time. Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard and | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Jermaine Jenas John Halas, plenty to come from them before kick-off but | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
first the team use and quite significant Tignous it is too. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Thibaut Courtois recovers from an ankle knock to start in goal, Nathan | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
Ake replaces Gary Cahill for his third Chelsea appearance this | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
season. Marcos Alonso returns at left wingback after a stomach bug, | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
no place for Eden Hazard, Willian maintains his record of starting | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
every FA Cup game this season and the shock inclusion upfront too of | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Michy Batshuayi, making his first start in nearly three months, there | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
is no Diego Costa. As for Tottenham Hugo Lloris Captain | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Spurs on his first FA Cup start over three years. In defence Eric Dier | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
drops into a familiar back three, Son deputises at left wingback | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
despite being the joint top scorer in this year's competition. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli take up their usual positions in mind | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Harry Kane, the England man already has 25 goals to his name this | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
season. Only one question to start with? Apart from the fact it is a | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
big game, the big omissions of Eden Hazard and Diego Costa. Big | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
surprise, you could argue Diego Costa's form doesn't warrant him a | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
place in the starting line-up because he hasn't been at it since | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Christmas, hasn't scored in six games. But the huge surprise in | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
leaving, or resting, Eden Hazard. I know they play Southampton on | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Tuesday evening in the league but they have not been in European | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
football this season when other teams have been travelling around | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Europe these guys have been resting. It is a massive surprise. What is | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
your take on it as a Chelsea man, Frank? As a Chelsea man I am sitting | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
here this morning thinking how do we win this game? Eden Hazard and Diego | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
Costa at the front of that, they have been the attacking players and | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
the big players so to take them out of the team. We have Willian who is | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
an attacking boy but Batshuayi, he has not done much at Chelsea. He | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
must have thought long and hard about it and we will see. It will | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
either be a genius move, having rested Hazard and Costa or if they | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
lose people will look at it. Looking at the Tottenham line-up the | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
interesting thing is the wingback selection, particularly on the left. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Son is definitely a surprise to a lot of people, to be fair to | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Trippier on the right-hand side he has been playing very well as well | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
as Ben Davies. Son came in in the Champions League game against Gent | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
at half-time in the left wingback position and played very well, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
changed the game, he is in form, so whether he's just trying to fit him | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
into the team because of his impact from goals, or whether he is more | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
worried about keeping Moses back, and obviously the worry that he | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
brings to the team and his attacking prowess. Again, it's another one of | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
those moves we will look out at the end of the game and say it was | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
either a weird one. Besides last season when Chelsea were dominated | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
the only side that has looked comfortable against the league | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
leaders this season is Spurs. They looked very comfortable. You said | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Man United last weekend, they were aggressive and man marked them but | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Tottenham will fancy their chances and won't do that because they will | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
think they have more ability in their team and would need to change. | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
This is in the game they beat them, Wanyama was fantastic in this game | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
and will have to be every bit again today if Tottenham are going to get | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
a result. Close them down, going straight at the Chelsea players, not | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
giving them any space whatsoever. Everyone was at it. Goes to Eriksen | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
come into the box and decent effort on goal and they were like that for | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
the vast majority of the game. This is the first goal for Dele Alli, | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
brilliant ball in but look how clever he is not going in to stand | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
up against one of the centre halves or the full-back and what a | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
brilliant header that is. Almost identical goal, similar ball in a | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
look at his positioning in between the full-back and the centre-half, | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
pulls off him, far post, Azpilicueta doesn't know where he is an equally | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
good header as the first one. I mentioned Wanyama earlier on in the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
piece, this sort of summed up the game, he was Man of the Match, not | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Dele Alli who got two goals, superb skill and he bossed the midfield | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
that they will have to do the same today if they are to go through to | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
the final. We need some explanation is. Matas here from the Chelsea head | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
coach Antonio Conte. One thing is for sure he will be kicking every | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
ball with his team today. Antonio, some very big team | :06:59. | :07:24. | |
decisions today, most notably Costa and Hazard on the bench. Can you | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
talk me through your thinking behind the way you have set out your team | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
today? Yeah, I took this decision about our starting XI. I think that | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
in this moment in this part of the season when you play another game | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
that is important for us it's important to have the play in your | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
mind and then take the decision. You risk in the same way if you start | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
with Eden and Diego, or if they come on, it's the same. It's important to | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
have an idea, to know the situation of your team, of your players | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
command to try to make the best decision. There you have it, that is | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
his explanation. Aside from that, since he has changed his formation | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
it has worked, not just for the team but it is a formation that kind of | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
works with David Luiz, because there were so many question marks about | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
him prior. David Luiz has always been a top defender for me, he is a | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
world-class defender, and in his first period at Chelsea the only | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
accusation about him would be he overplayed at times he had such | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
confidence in his own ability that there were times he would make a | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
great defensive tackle and then try and overplay in dangerous areas | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
where he shouldn't. In his first period at Chelsea he was | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
occasionally a midfield and these things you cannot do as a | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
centre-half. The other thing for me when he was here first he was | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
playing in a back four and hear his body shape was wrong and he got | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
exposed and the Chicharito scored. Cincy has come back to the club in | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
the back three he can play central giving him time on the ball where | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
his great range of passing can start a tax. He has lots of time here, his | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
balls driven into the front men getting Chelsea onto the attack. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
Nobody closing down because he has the nice central role. On the | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
defensive side it has given him the confidence that he does not have to | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
worry about being as exposed as he was previously when he was here so | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
he can stay central, he knows Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill will | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
defend everything in front of them and take a good positions in the box | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
to defend the box, he has a good reading of the game and is sharp | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
around the box. He has come back like a more mature man. Going away | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
and playing in Paris, the change in system has helped him and he is a | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
massive character. When there is injuries around him they have not | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
wanted to move him out of the central position because he's so | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
comfortable they are. He is certainly a more mature man today, | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
it's his 30th birthday, happy birthday David Luiz. You talked | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
before the game, Alan, about the fact Costa has not been a great form | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
of late. Having said that Batshuayi has come in and hardly played any | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
football. He's only played 22 minutes since the end of January, | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
five goals this season. When you are not playing and the guy in front of | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
you is not doing as well as he should be you have every right to | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
knock on the manager's door and ask for an opportunity. He has a hell of | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
an opportunity to make a point today in front of millions, in front of | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
his fans here at Wembley Stadium. So it is a great chance for him to go | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
and shine today. I might be getting a bit ahead of myself here but are | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
some teams working at Chelsea? I think you are. I'm just playing | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
devil's advocate. What happened at Manchester United at the weekend, | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
they did a fantastic job, especially Ander Herrera but I think that was | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
more of a blip for Chelsea, they have a lot more to offer, they have | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
too many world-class players within their ranks to be sussed out. It is | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
a couple of defeats in the last few weeks, Palace as well. What has | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
upset the more than anything is the goals they are letting in all of a | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
sudden after keeping so many clean sheets and they | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
were so solid, they have a foundation to build from for their | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
attack but now they are leaking goals and that's a massive area you | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
want to shore up going into the back end of the season. We have heard | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
from the current Chelsea manager, we can go pitch side for the thoughts | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
of one of his predecessors, Eilidh Barbour is with Ruud Gullit. | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
One of Antonio Costa's predecessor, as Gary says, but already won a FA | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Cup 20 years ago. I feel old already! But it was amazing for me. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
I never asked for the job but I got the job because they wanted me to do | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
it and eventually we get to the final and win it and for the fans it | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
was fantastic and also for the players. If you have your manager's | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
hat on and look at the two teams out there today, which dugout would you | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
rather be in? Which group of players would you rather be in charge of? I | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
think Tottenham players have the best guns, the best players. Chelsea | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
have two on the bench, Hazard and Costa. Do they have the squad to do | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
that? I think this game is also a psychological game because if you | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
win it will push you for the championship. I think that the ones | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
who win this game, maybe also will win the championship. A huge | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
decision from Conte to leave those two out. I know you said on football | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
this morning -- Football Focus this morning that you fancy Chelsea, does | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
it change your mind? It doesn't change my mind because they can come | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
onto the pitch from the bench but can they afford to do it? That is | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
what you are thinking of, if he's doing it if he thinks he can rest | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
them for the championship, OK, let's see if they can. He knows his team | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
better than we do but it is a gamble, of course, but they are | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
still on the bench and can still come on. Thank you for joining us. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
We will chat to you again at half-time. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Gary. Since winning the cup in 91, and what a side that was, Spurs have | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
lost six semifinals in a row. # Life is but a dream # | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
COMMENTATOR: Merson chips it in and in comes Tony Adams and Spurs's cup | :13:18. | :13:27. | |
dreams are over. # But there's no escaping... | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
COMMENTATOR: It's all over Everton four. Oh! Who else but Alan Shearer, | :13:33. | :13:44. | |
the man for the big occasion? In comes the cross and Pires is there. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Arsenal 2-1 Spurs. The Prince stands and scores! And | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
puts Portsmouth into the final. And the goal is given, Spurs are | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
furious. It is a fantastic goal by Frank Lampard! I think I recognise a | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
couple of the goal-scorers there. Defeat would make Spurs the first | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
club in the history of the FA Cup to lose seven consecutive semifinals. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
Let's get the thoughts of the man hoping to end that run, Mauricio | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Pochettino. It has been a difficult couple of | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
days for the club. How hard has it been to prepare for this match and | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
go out and play football after what has happened? Yes, it is so | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
difficult. It is a big loss for us and a big loss for all of the | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
Tottenham family. I want to say to all of his family and my friends, | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
all my best, and a big hug because it is a difficult moment for us. And | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
now we play football. But yes, it was a very tough and very difficult, | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
still, always, through our life we will need to adapt to live with that | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
pain in our heart. The problem is what we can do to change. Only now | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
to give all of our support to his family and try to be close with his | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
friends. Very sad time. If we look to today's game now, how do you set | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
up for today? There are not many changes in terms of players but it | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
looks like a different formation to the last match. As always we base on | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
principle in the way that we play, not on systems. You will see all the | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
people that watch Tottenham for a long time, I think for us it's not | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
important the system. It's true that we want to win, we will put very | :15:55. | :16:07. | |
offensive setup and we will try to give our best and try to win the | :16:08. | :16:08. | |
game. That is our challenge. There is so much talent in this | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
first-team but it's often Mousa Dembele who is the linchpin. He was | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
described as a genius by his manager earlier this month. | :16:23. | :16:38. | |
Pochettino said he wish he had US a younger player. What is your | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
relationship like with the manager? Very good. He speaks a lot with me, | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
the way he trains, the way he motivates people is something | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
special. Everybody recognises it, it's the biggest reason we have so | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
much success here. He said he wished he had me when I was younger. I know | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
what he means. He helped me a lot to show me my limits and recognise I | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
can do a lot more than I did before. Has it taken new time to get to your | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
true potential? I don't think so. I'm playing better. The way we play | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
now, it's easier to play and we all know what to do. You are in a title | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
race again for the second consecutive year. How does this | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
season compared to last season? What's changed? Last year, the last | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
two games, it's difficult to say what happened. This year we are | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
Mogul focused and we believe in it. Everybody said so many points. I | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
don't think about how many points, we just try to win games. The | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
semifinal of the FA Cup, Chelsea are leaders and you are second. Do | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
Chelsea have a psychological advantage? I don't believe this. I | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
know they respect us, they know it won't be easy. It's a game on its | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
own. For me personally it has nothing to do with it. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
The inimitable Garth Crooks putting the questions. Dembele is pivotal to | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
Tottenham. He is indeed. Harry Kane gets plaudits, so does Dele Alli, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
but if you spoke to the players about their most important player, a | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
lot of them would say Mousa Dembele. He goes past people with ease. Look | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
at the amount of bodies he draws in to create an opportunity for Harry | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Kane. He was so strong in this game alongside Wanyama. The amount of | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
time he gets back. This is what everybody loves about him. He has | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
the ability to glide past people like they aren't even there. He's so | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
strong with the ball that nobody can get it off him. Towards the back end | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
of this season, he seems even sharper and even quicker. Does he | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
create enough chances or score enough? That's a criticism of him. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
If you think about players who play in the two in front of the back | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
four, it's like a new midfielder. He scored last weekend. It's a part of | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
his game he should probably work on, but his job is to get the ball, give | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
it to people like Eriksen, Alli, Son, they are the goal-scoring | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
midfielder 's these days. Spurs have struggled at Wembley and in the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Champions League in particular. It could be their home ground next | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
season. Why do you think it is? A change of stoutly -- Stadium for the | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
fans, a move from the home ground. Spurs player very fast, pressing | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
game with the ball and they haven't transferred it to Wembley. They will | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
have to do. If you want to win the FA Cup, you have to perform here. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
440 square metres bigger. If this is their home game next year, they | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
should make it the same size as White Hart Lane. They should do | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
then. Once again we are looking at Harry Kane. One season wonder! He's | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
now scored over 20 goals in the Premier League for three consecutive | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
seasons. He's a hell of a player. He's had an injury lately and came | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
back last weekend, looking very sharp. He's one of the best forwards | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
in the league. He is having an season again. It's a crucial time | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
for Tottenham are not just Harry. They want to be classed as a big | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
club, big clubs win things. They have to start winning things now. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
They've got one of the best goalkeepers in the league, the best | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
centre-half in Alderweireld. We've just spoken about Wanyama and | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Dembele. Harry Kane. Eriksen isn't bad. One of the best youngsters in | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
world football in Dele Alli and they now have to win things. They are | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
talking about Pochettino being a great coach, but he's yet to win a | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
major trophy. That's the next step. It's these moments, with these | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
players from working with them to getting them to this point, we are | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
about to see if he's made that big step in his own managerial career as | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
well as the players making that huge step. They will also take a lot of | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
confidence from seeing the team sheets. When they saw no Costa, | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
Hazard, Gary Cahill. They will say they've got one hell of a chance of | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
getting to the FA Cup final. How do you see it going? The best team in | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
the league, Chelsea, and the form team, Tottenham. Tottenham have a | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
history of not performing, losing six semifinals in Rome. Now they | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
have the team to do it. I see a really close game. I can't say I | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
fancy Tottenham is a Chelsea man! It will take a big Chelsea performance | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
to win. I fancy Spurs. It will be tight. The form they are in, free at | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
the back, he's saying we can take you on and I fancy them. I'll go | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
with the form team, Tottenham. The first of the FA Cup semifinals. The | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
best two sides in the country, Chelsea against Tottenham Hotspur. | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Your commentators are Danny Murphy and Steve Wilson. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Good afternoon. Shoulder to shoulder, not quite neck and neck in | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
the Premier League title race, but it could be getting there. Both | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
Spurs and Chelsea can realistically dream of being double winners in | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
2017. But not for long. One of those dreams will fall by the wayside | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
tonight. It's been said that nobody remembers the semifinal losers. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Spurs fans might not agree. Six times FA Cup semifinalists in the | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
last 24 years and beaten every time. Is this their time? Or will it be | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Chelsea's again? Fantastic early evening. Thibaut Courtois is back | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
after his ankle injury. Cahill is out. Ake plays his first game since | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
the fifth round win at Wolves. Alonso and Moses have recovered from | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
illness. Up front, no Costa or Hazard. William -- Willian and Pedro | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
support Batshuayi, whose last start was in the fourth-round against | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Brentford for stop Lloris might have played over 200 games for Spurs, but | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
only one was in the FA Cup, against Arsenal in 2014. A back three in of | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
him. Trivia preferred to walk. Son on the left. -- Trippier. That's a | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
surprise. Up front, Eriksen and Alli supporting Harry Kane. Interesting | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
to see these two young managers, Antonio Conte and Moritz Pochettino. | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
Conti with a whole host of trophies and medals as a manager. Pochettino | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
with nothing, Spurs with nothing for a long time. Too long, they will | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
say. On the bench for Chelsea, Hazard and cost. It's a big call by | :24:44. | :24:55. | |
Antonio Conte to leave them out. Can he break through for Tottenham | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Hotspur and win them a trophy? Michy Batshuayi, the young man up front | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
for Chelsea today. 23 years old, prolific with Marseille, yet to | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
really make an impact at Chelsea. The referee, Martin Atkinson, took | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
charge of this game, cup semifinal between these teams when Chelsea won | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
5-1 including a ghost goal from Juan Mata that never crossed the line. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
This week English football lost one of its most respected former | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
players. Ugo Ehiogu played with pride, skill and determination for | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
West Brom, Villa, Middlesbrough, Leeds, Sheffield United and Rangers. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
He was seen as an up and coming coach with a reputation for passing | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
on his knowledge, working with Tottenham's under 23 side. We pass | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
on our heartfelt condolences to Gemma and his children. Football has | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
lost, but they have lost a dad and a husband. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
APPLAUSE . | :26:06. | :27:04. | |
Terrible shock for those young Tottenham players who worked closely | :27:05. | :27:16. | |
with Ugo Ehiogu. It's been a very special season of shocks in the cup, | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
so well done Macclesfield and Millwall, Baro, Wolves, Sutton and | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Lincoln, but now it's the big boys. Four of the usual suspects to kick | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
off this semifinal weekend. Tottenham against Chelsea is the | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
first of the last four encounters. Martin Atkinson is ready. Tottenham | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
and Chelsea are ready. Spurs will kick from right-to-left in the first | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
45 minutes. Both chasing the title. Both hoping to win this FA Cup. | :27:49. | :27:58. | |
It could barely be more mouthwatering and encounter. Spurs | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
have a throw. Danny Murphy, everyone has been looking forward to this for | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
a long time. Including me. Contact Miss -- fantastic atmosphere this | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
evening. A couple of surprises in the line-ups, but still a | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
fascinating game. So many battles all over the pitch. I think the | :28:24. | :28:32. | |
absence of cost and Hazard was a surprise for most people this | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
evening. I think that's a compliment to Tottenham. I think he wants | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
everybody on board defensively. Sometimes you don't get that with | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Hazard. He's probably been their best player this season, though. | :28:45. | :28:53. | |
Spurs get a corner thanks to the endeavours and determination of | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
Harry Kane. Putting Ake under pressure. | :28:59. | :29:07. | |
Spurs starts this semi on the front foot. Christian Eriksen with this | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
early corner kick. Alderweireld! If he had made contact, it would have | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
been a free header. Spurs rebound onto the attack. The pass intended | :29:23. | :29:30. | |
for Alli was cut out by Azpilicueta. Willian has had to be patient this | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
season. It's a chance for him, just as it is for Batshuayi, who was | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
beaten to it by Hugo Lloris. Good break by Chelsea. Dembele using his | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
athleticism to get back in. Victor Moses asked to retreat a | :29:45. | :29:59. | |
little before taking the Chelsea throw in. | :30:00. | :30:10. | |
Ake performed so well for Bournemouth in his loan spell in the | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
first half of this season. Their form really tailed off when he went | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
back to Chelsea. This is a big stage for him. He was at Reading when they | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
reached the semifinal a couple of years ago. But his loan spell ended | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
just before they took on Arsenal in the semifinal. That's a good tackle | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
by Nathan Agevi. He will feel pretty good about that. -- Nathan Ake. Eric | :30:38. | :30:48. | |
Dier brings down Pedro. Out protests. Earlier -- early recipient | :30:49. | :30:56. | |
of a yellow card for a foul on Pedro. Another great break, started | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
by Ake. A great tackle on the edge of his box. He's made the most of | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
it, Pedro, but he was stopped. Lovely touch from Batshuayi. That | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
will do him the world of good as well. Good awareness from the young | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
man, who we haven't seen much of. Another couple of yards and it was | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
inside the penalty area. It could have been worse than a yellow. That | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
is only his second yellow card in his last 41 Tottenham games, which | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
is incredible. You very rarely see him going to ground in desperation. | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
He's very calm, a good decision maker. He said to the ref that Pedro | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
had made the most of that. Will it be a Willian Curly or a David Luiz | :31:47. | :31:47. | |
Dipper? It is a chance for Chelsea either | :31:48. | :31:56. | |
way, that is for sure, Hugo Lloris on his toes, it is a long white | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
wall, Willian scores for Chelsea! And immediately repays the faith the | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
manager has shown in him. Effectively in the side in place of | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
Eden Hazard, Chelsea's Brazilian Willian gives them the lead in the | :32:15. | :32:20. | |
semifinal. We have seen him do it so many times. I think he's been | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
unfortunate this season, Willian, not to play more. I'm not sure it | :32:25. | :32:33. | |
takes any sort of deflection. We will see it better from this angle, | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
it is a short run-up. The keeper has got to save it. It's a goalkeeping | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
mistake, it's his side, he took a big step to the right, he can't see | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
the ball, if he keeps his position he catches it. You see it so often, | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
the goalkeeper just move one way and then get beat the other. But he | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
doesn't need to because he has his wall outside and if the wall does | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
its job from that close and jumps... It is still a great free kick, | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
Chelsea in front early. He will be really disappointed with himself | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
when he looks back at that, Lloris, top goalkeeper like him. It is | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
Alderweireld. Alonso retreating. Hugo Lloris. | :33:16. | :33:32. | |
With the ball being so close it's not far off impossible to get it | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
high over the wall and dip in time in 18, 19 yards so he's got to keep | :33:38. | :33:45. | |
his position. Little flick from Kane looking for Eriksen, David Luiz is | :33:46. | :33:52. | |
there, captain played by Victor Moses but he might regret doing so. | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
Dele Alli. What is it about Spurs and Wembley? It's still a long way | :33:57. | :34:04. | |
to go but they are behind. They have a corner, however. | :34:05. | :34:13. | |
Spurs have only won one of the last eight games over nine years they've | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
played in the stadium. Christian Eriksen with this corner. | :34:18. | :34:34. | |
Headed firmly away by Nathan Ake from the Chelsea area. The key is to | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
try and remain calm, get some touches on the ball, get yourself | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
back into the game. Some people say you can score too early but I'm not | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
sure I am a believer in that one. It's got to be playing these days at | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
a football match, there must be a plane overhead. | :34:56. | :35:12. | |
Strange really, the only game Tottenham have won over those nine | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
years at Wembley Stadium was the only game that didn't really matter, | :35:19. | :35:20. | |
the dead rubber in the Champions League earlier this year against | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
CSKA Moscow. That is N'Golo Kante, Michy Batshuayi is square, here he | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
is, Angola can then again, good play by Dembele to snuff out the first | :35:31. | :35:38. | |
threat from Batshuayi. Vertonghen has helped out. That was sloppy. -- | :35:39. | :35:48. | |
N'Golo Kante again. Spurs look hesitant. | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
Incidentally, Spurs have to announce over the next week whether they will | :35:56. | :36:03. | |
be playing all their home fixtures here next season. Here's the goal. I | :36:04. | :36:11. | |
mean, I'd think it does clip somebody slightly on the way | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
through. But it is a big error from Lloris. Good to see Costa happy, | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
celebrating. He is certainly celebrating. I'm not sure he is | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
exactly happy to be out of the side but he's happy enough to see his, I | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
hesitate to say, Countryman, Countryman by birth anyway, put | :36:36. | :36:37. | |
Chelsea in front. Dembele. So many victories have come so | :36:38. | :37:00. | |
naturally, so easily, so comfortably for Tottenham Hotspur of late. At | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
Chelsea was never going to be like that, and certainly not now. They | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
will be wounded, would they, after their performance at Old Trafford? | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
Top players always have a point to prove when you have let yourself | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
down in a game. Jan Vertonghen to Son Heung-min. He is in an | :37:21. | :37:27. | |
unfamiliar position on the left of Spurs' four man midfield. | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
Wanyama. Trippier claiming a handball on Marcos Alonso, but not | :37:34. | :37:35. | |
getting it. The three slightly unexpected picks | :37:36. | :37:51. | |
for Chelsea, Ake, Batshuayi and Willian have all made a great start | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
to the game. They have, there is a freshness about them, especially | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
Willian. He is a super player only because of Pedro's Superform and | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
Hazard, that he's not been playing. Pedro. Ake. Ake looks to me to the | :38:08. | :38:17. | |
Manor born, he has that elegance and grace about the way he plays. He | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
does need to be playing football. When they brought him back I thought | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
they were going to play him a bit more but he has not played much | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
since. Great opportunity for him today. He has started with a great | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
deal of confidence. He's 22 now, so time is on his side, but there are | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
22-year-olds who have played an awful lot more first-team football | :38:43. | :38:49. | |
than he has. There is Kurt Zouma who started against Manchester United | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
last weekend on the right of Chelsea's back three but he is on | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
the bench amongst the subs today. I think it's hard for a right footer | :38:57. | :39:13. | |
to play the left side in a three, you find yourself on the left foot a | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
lot and coming out in the left-back position, hence the fact he has | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
probably gone for Ake. You need eyes in the top of your head today, never | :39:23. | :39:30. | |
mind the back of your head. Moses | :39:31. | :39:37. | |
Slightly clumsy challenge by Wanyama. | :39:38. | :39:47. | |
Arguably more than a slightly clumsy challenge. Here is Harry Kane. | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
Wanyama. Nicely thought out but not quite | :39:53. | :40:16. | |
executed. It is unlucky. I'm impressed with Chelsea, committed, | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
on the front foot, winning a few knock-downs. Dele Alli is having an | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
unbelievable season. 19 goals this season. He is an incredible young | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
man. To come into the Premier League and play as consistently well as he | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
has, to have such an influence at such a young age. In an FA Cup final | :40:36. | :40:43. | |
semifinal against Chelsea Dele Alli is one of the key men Spurs are | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
looking to to get them back into the game. -- FA Cup semifinal. He scored | :40:49. | :41:05. | |
both of the goals in the win against Chelsea in January. That is a good | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
tackle. Here goes Dele Alli. Azpilicueta thought about blocking | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
his path but decided not to. It was a good decision in the end, it is a | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
Chelsea throw. I think one of his strengths is, | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
apart from the obvious athleticism and ability to score goals, is he | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
plays with no fear. It is like he is playing with his mates, he tries not | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
makes, flicks around the corner -- nutmeggeds. Batshuayi into the feet | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
of Willian and he has got there and Pedro is quick, he is going to reach | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
that, Marcos Alonso wants it at the back post. Pedro Coelho nonstop, | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
tried to deliver, blocked by Eric Dier. Willian, plucked that is like | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
a pair from the tree, that sure's header would not have counted. The | :42:04. | :42:11. | |
flag was up. The delivery from Hugo Lloris has a bit too much on it for | :42:12. | :42:22. | |
Eriksen. That was a close call. It was a good move again. Here he is | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
again, Michy Batshuayi. He has started well. Pedro chasing Eric | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
Dier here. Batshuayi again. Chelsea in the | :42:34. | :42:53. | |
ascendancy at the moment. Cut out by Son Heung-min but given away to | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
Azpilicueta. Here is Moses. It seems Antonio Conte has picked on | :42:59. | :43:13. | |
the perfect way to prevent Eden Hazard being man marked out of the | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
game. Don't pick him. There is probably a bit more to it, another | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
big game in midweek but certainly Willian and Pedro possess the | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
defensive qualities he looks for. Azpilicueta, he didn't know Dele | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
Alli was there. With Spurs' performance at White Hart Lane and | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
be athleticism they showed you can't carry anyone against Spurs. Chelsea | :43:37. | :43:44. | |
have started well. Kane. That is a foul, it was a foul on Harry Kane, | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
not the one which followed on Dele Alli. | :43:49. | :43:58. | |
Eriksen's free kick played quickly into Kane, N'Golo Kante just reacted | :43:59. | :44:14. | |
in time and got a deflection on the shot. They were nearly caught out | :44:15. | :44:21. | |
here. Super run from Kane and well spotted by Eriksen, something they | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
have obviously worked on. Kante did enough, nice underwear. Good job for | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
Chelsea that the little number seven was awake. He usually is. I was | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
going to say, you rarely see him switched off. | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
Christian Eriksen with this Tottenham corner kick, headed firmly | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
out by Ake. Son to Trippier, Eriksen. That is a good ball, the | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
little flick on and it's in the net! Harry Kane, who else? Two goals in | :44:54. | :45:00. | |
the first 18 minutes of this semifinal and Spurs are level. | :45:01. | :45:10. | |
What a header that is, what a goal from Harry Kane. He makes this looks | :45:11. | :45:25. | |
so easy. Eriksen manipulates the ball really well here. To get down | :45:26. | :45:33. | |
that low and guide it in, that is a superb header. I am sure big Al will | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
talk us through that. That is a striker who knows what he's doing, | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
where the goal is, playing with confidence, the first decent | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
opportunity, brilliant, brilliant goal from a brilliant player. They | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
say necessity is the mother of invention. That was inventive, | :45:54. | :46:00. | |
improvisation, at its very, very best. | :46:01. | :46:03. | |
That is a foul by N'Golo Kante. What a start we have had to this game. It | :46:04. | :46:10. | |
has not disappointed, has it? People talk sometimes before a big game, it | :46:11. | :46:13. | |
is going to be good, it is going to be this, part of me today wondered | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
driving here today whether it would be tight and cagey. They needed | :46:18. | :46:20. | |
that, Spurs. Kane just unable to collect that | :46:21. | :46:30. | |
from Vertonghen. Such an important goal by Harry | :46:31. | :46:49. | |
Kane. 26 goals this season. 28 in all competitions last season, 31 the | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
season before. Ake gave it away to Christian | :46:54. | :47:10. | |
Eriksen. Kane was in the middle again. That says strong challenge. | :47:11. | :47:19. | |
Marcos Alonso has conceded the free kick. It's a foul, but he slipped. | :47:20. | :47:42. | |
We've only played 20 minutes. So much to talk about already. Another | :47:43. | :47:50. | |
Spurs free kick. Christian Eriksen, few better. | :47:51. | :48:15. | |
That goal has made so much difference to Tottenham. They looked | :48:16. | :48:24. | |
second-best before that. They did. Use a important goal, but what an | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
important player Harry Kane has become for this football club. Talk | :48:29. | :48:38. | |
about wage structures and ambition, whatever it takes they have to keep | :48:39. | :48:43. | |
that young man at this football club for as long as possible. He's a | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
wonderful player. Alli fouled by Ake. He made a very confident start, | :48:49. | :48:58. | |
Ake, but a few questions being asked of him now by Spurs. Son's ball in | :48:59. | :49:07. | |
was not great and he apologises. I don't think there's any other way he | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
could have got this in the net. Ake is not in a bad position. That's | :49:13. | :49:20. | |
what great strikers do, they find a way. It's as good a finish as you | :49:21. | :49:33. | |
will see. In terms of invention, as you said, technique. Absolute joy | :49:34. | :49:44. | |
from Spurs fans who were getting a little bit worried after the start | :49:45. | :49:45. | |
Chelsea had made. Spurs have bossed possession since | :49:46. | :49:57. | |
that Kane header. David Luiz is still down and playing | :49:58. | :50:31. | |
everyone onside. Being asked by Chelsea players to put the ball out | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
of play. In the end Jan Vertonghen does. Definitely some contact here. | :50:36. | :50:44. | |
It's actually a really good clearance. I think he fell... | :50:45. | :50:52. | |
Nothing to do with Dele Alli. I think he trod on his ankle. OK. It's | :50:53. | :51:02. | |
kind of... Can't be that bad, surely. We'll let him off because it | :51:03. | :51:12. | |
did look painful. Inadvertent. Hopefully he's OK for Chelsea's | :51:13. | :51:20. | |
sake. He seems in pain, to be fair. John Terry is warming up. Not a bad | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
replacement! Eight FA Cup semifinal. It's a complete accident from Dele | :51:25. | :51:47. | |
Alli by the looks of things. There's not a great deal of force. My gut | :51:48. | :52:01. | |
feeling is he will be OK. He has a few problems that the moment, | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
Antonio Conte. David Luiz is just one. The message from the medical | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
staff getting back to the Italian manager. I strongly suspect David | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
Luiz will be back in a minute. Didn't look much. Putnam's problem | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
is down the left, Son is not used to that position. -- Tottenham's | :52:23. | :52:26. | |
problem. Vertonghen has been isolated a few times. Chelsea will | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
give possession back to Tottenham. Immediate test for that ankle from | :52:31. | :52:51. | |
Harry Kane. He seemed equal to the task. Miracle! | :52:52. | :53:03. | |
Eriksen trying to wiggle through where there didn't seem to be any | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
room. Eriksen has been pivotal in Tottenham getting on the ball a lot. | :53:10. | :53:19. | |
One of those majestic balls David Luiz is capable of, finding Moses. | :53:20. | :53:30. | |
Lovely ball to him by David Luiz. Brilliant. Unexpected for Victor | :53:31. | :53:42. | |
Moses to be against Son, I don't think he would have been preparing | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
for that this week. A different kind of challenge to the one Ben Davies | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
might have given him. Dembele made the wrong decision, I think. He got | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
away with it. He kind of wrestled Willian. | :54:00. | :54:08. | |
So many fascinating duels and tactical things going on. Eriksen | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
sneaking into that position between Alonso and Ake. He needs picking up. | :54:15. | :54:25. | |
Perilously close to a penalty -- the penalty area. | :54:26. | :54:38. | |
Azpilicueta but his leg out and Kane went over. Martin Atkinson | :54:39. | :54:46. | |
completely unmoved. He didn't appeal. Normally you get an idea | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
from the response of the players. The Spurs fans appealed! | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
Alderweireld at full wretch to get it away. -- full wretch. | :54:57. | :55:07. | |
Tonight, match of the eight, ten 20 PM on BBC One. -- Match Of The Day | :55:08. | :55:15. | |
at 10:20pm. Will the final feature Tottenham or | :55:16. | :55:26. | |
Chelsea? Antonio Conte was a player at the | :55:27. | :56:11. | |
World Cup and European Championships as a player. Three times a title | :56:12. | :56:19. | |
winner at Juventus. Plenty for Roberto Martinez to be watching, the | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
Belgian national team manager now, of course. But no Eden Hazard yet. | :56:24. | :56:45. | |
They are spoilt for choice in that squad, Belgium. Wonderful forward | :56:46. | :56:52. | |
players defenders and midfielders. They should have done more in recent | :56:53. | :56:55. | |
tournaments with the quality they have. Dries Mertens and nine Gelant. | :56:56. | :57:07. | |
A good -- a good block by Azpilicueta. Another Spurs corner, | :57:08. | :57:15. | |
their fourth of the game. The thinking behind playing Son is his | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
ability to run in behind. The pace and athleticism Davies doesn't | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
possess. It's really difficult to defend against. Moses is more attack | :57:25. | :57:31. | |
minded. Six FA Cup goals this season, equal with Adam Morgan at | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
the top of the FA Cup scoring charts. | :57:36. | :57:45. | |
Careless by Batshuayi. Not what they want from their man at the top, | :57:46. | :57:55. | |
Michy Batshuayi, Chelsea. Adam Morgan scored those six FA Cup | :57:56. | :58:14. | |
goals for Curzon Ashton. He was a Liverpool youth player. Remember | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
him? No, afraid not, but he'll be proud of that record. | :58:21. | :58:28. | |
It's been a terrific half an hour at Wembley. 1-1. | :58:29. | :58:42. | |
Matic has done well there. Alonso was struggling. Alonso looks a | :58:43. | :58:52. | |
little bit of it today. I think he's been ill. Dele Alli brought down by | :58:53. | :59:01. | |
Alonso. Spurs have the ball. Referee Martin Atkinson has acknowledged the | :59:02. | :59:03. | |
foul but has said play on. Great play, getting out from there. | :59:04. | :59:24. | |
Really good football from Tottenham. Spurs looking for an angle, looking | :59:25. | :59:49. | |
for a crack. Warm applause for the attempts of | :59:50. | :00:07. | |
Michy Batshuayi. This is good again from Spurs. | :00:08. | :00:21. | |
Pressing, quick passing. Was there a shove by David Luiz? | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
Yes. Harry Kane's linkup play this season | :00:32. | :00:52. | |
is much improved. So reliable when it comes in, so strong. Luiz seems | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
to have run off that injury. He missed the FA Cup final in 2012 | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
after getting injured in the semifinal against Tottenham, David | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Luiz. He would be desperately disappointed if history repeated | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
itself. That's a foul. It was the decision of Stuart Burt on the far | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
side. They are fortunate because it was a good break. Not sure what he's | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
doing, Alonso. Too late with his pressing. Just a yard of it at the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
moment. Getting played around a bit too easily. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
A fair few set pieces from Tottenham Hotspur. Four corners and a few free | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
kicks. Eriksen has been on all of them. A little over ten minutes of | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
the first half to go. Beautifully poised. Eriksen with a free kick. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Everybody back for Chelsea. Pretty much everyone except Dembele is | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
forward for Spurs. In by Eriksen. Son was just in behind hoping it | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
would reach in. It's a corner. Dangerous ball from Eriksen, good | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
pace on it. A bit low. Kante spotting the danger again. He's had | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
a good half. He rarely has a bad one, does he? | :02:27. | :02:45. | |
Unbelievable. Eriksen. Alderweireld! He would have needed lightning | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
reactions, Wanyama, to actually direct the header. Jan Vertonghen, | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
dangerous, great ball in and headed just wide by Eric Dier. Beautiful | :02:56. | :03:07. | |
delivery. He got it out of his feet, from that far out it is a good ball | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
in. It was a good effort. Good header from Eric Dier. It is a | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
Tottenham throw. Wanyama. Good play from Trippier. It will be | :03:21. | :03:52. | |
a goal kick to Chelsea. You might just save Spurs are in the | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
ascendancy, just as Chelsea were in the first ten to 15 minutes of the | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
game but there has not been much to pick between them. The goal from | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Spurs changed the momentum for them. They were struggling, to be honest. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
There are 30 Chelsea Pensioners here today, invited by the club, good to | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
see Chelsea still look after their most famous servicemen. | :04:18. | :04:33. | |
Trippier forward, bent in over the top of Ake, to Kane, the first touch | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
took him a little wide and Kane ran into the back of Ake rather than | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
anything more sinister, no appeal from Kane. Kane made a great run. | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
What a good pass it was from Trippier. From that 50-50 from | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Trippier, Alonso back to Nathan Ake, the header from Pedro. We have not | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
seen much of Pedro in the last 15 minutes or so. Good header by Kane. | :05:02. | :05:11. | |
Dele Alli. Really good from Harry Kane and then by David Luiz. Good | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
recovery from David Luiz. He made the right decision. | :05:18. | :05:30. | |
His birthday today, David Luiz, as Gary told you earlier today, 30, big | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
day in every way. Azpilicueta, Dembele. | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
Three at the back for Spurs suits Eriksen and Dele Alli because they | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
don't have to play the wide roles so much. Dinked in, covered again by | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
David Luiz. He's having a very good game. The offside flag was up | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
anyway. I think Eriksen and Dele Alli, the license, similar with the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Chelsea formation, Hazard and Pedro, of course, when they play they can | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
go and wonder a little into central areas rather than thinking I've got | :06:17. | :06:17. | |
to give some width in a 4-3- three. Eric Dier. There might be some room | :06:18. | :06:37. | |
here, Christian Eriksen with Harry Kane in the middle, Marcos Alonso | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
has recovered his position, Trippier is capable from there. Good ball, | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
read by Courtois. Dele Alli hoped his late run into the box might bear | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
fruit. They are having some joy down Chelsea's left, most of their | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
attacks have come from there. Azpilicueta forced into a mistake. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Eriksen. Dele Alli turns to Christian Eriksen and said, did you | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
see me? With Eriksen's shooting ability he has every right to have a | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
go from there. Chelsea have a free kick. One of the | :07:17. | :07:32. | |
factors for Spurs this season, obviously Harry Kane is so important | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
to them, his goals, and of course again today, go without saying, but | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
the support they get in terms of goal-scoring from Eriksen, Alli and | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Son Heung-min has been exceptional this season. In all competitions | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
those three have contributed 49 goals to Tottenham's season, before | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
you even get to Harry Kane's tally of 26. Earlier in the season it was | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
debated a lot and I was one who suggested they needed more from | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
those guys. Son and Eriksen have stepped up to the plate. Eriksen's | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
stats in terms of chances created and assists has been fantastic as | :08:11. | :08:11. | |
well. David Luiz, Alderweireld comes | :08:12. | :08:30. | |
across for Spurs. The 12th meeting between these two London rivals in | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
this competition, the most significant, the 67 final which | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Spurs fans will gleefully tell you they won 2-1. But in recent years | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
Chelsea have normally have the upper hand against Tottenham Hotspur, two | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
wins in 16 against Chelsea, Spurs, one of those this January. N'Golo | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
Kante playing in Moses. Son slid in. Penalty. He has given it, the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
linesman has given it. He has given it. Ian Hussin on the nearside | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
raised his flag and the referee has given it. Spurs complained but I'm | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
not quite sure what basis they are mounting their defence on. Well, we | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
don't know until we see a replay for sure but I don't know why he is | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
diving in, why is he diving in? Stay on your feet. It's a penalty, isn't | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
it? Whichever way you look at it. He might have jumped over him, it | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
doesn't matter. It is a ridiculous decision from Son to dive in. | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Chelsea have missed their last two penalties, although Eden Hazard | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
scored from the rebound of one. I think Conte is shouting on. He told | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Willian to take the ball from bachelor. Batshuayi was the last | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Chelsea player to convert a penalty. But this is going to be taken by | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
Willian. To put Chelsea in front. And he does. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Never seemed to be in doubt. Willian has two, Chelsea has two, Tottenham | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
have one and Son can only reflect on a poor decision. Great penalty from | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
Willian, great dead ball specialist. I don't know what Son is thinking. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
As soon as you go to ground, players are clever. Nice penalty, nice and | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
calm. Well, this could be Willian's day. | :10:48. | :11:03. | |
That's how it's shaping up at the moment. I'm surprised that the | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
penalty taker hadn't already been sorted out before the game, to be | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
honest. These are big moments for Spurs before half-time. | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
2-1 is not the end of the world. 3-1 against Chelsea is a major headache. | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
We see here, Moses sees him go to ground, nicks the ball past him. You | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
are always going to give away a penalty. He's made the most of it to | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
go over it. Never go sliding income are never going to win the ball. | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
It's just about making sure you don't give the referee decision to | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
make, stay your feet. Lloris has handled that outside the penalty | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
area, Ian Hussin on the nearside does not seem moved to give it. But | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
from up here it looked as if Hugo Lloris handled that. He did. He will | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
not give that if he has just given a penalty, the linesman, the referee's | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
assistant, sorry. Kante's header. It's a free kick to Chelsea for a | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
foul on the Willian, the double goal-scorer. Let's have a look at | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
this. He has definitely handled it. He got away with one. | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
It is interesting, all of the tour, not the only taught, but one of the | :12:53. | :13:19. | |
big issues on the team selection was that Son might be able to push back | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Victor Moses and ask defensive questions of Victor Moses. That | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
moment, which may prove a defining one in the game, the boot was on the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
other foot and Son defensively made a poor decision. He did but playing | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
in a different decision should still not make you make those silly | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
decisions because as a white man he will have been back in those | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
positions doubling up for full-backs before. You cannot go diving in. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Five in this Spurs attack and has gone right through Moses to Son, out | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
to Dembele, Dembele running into Pedro. Important intervention from | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Pedro who is then fouled by Mousa Dembele in the opinion of the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
referee. That work ethic from Pedro to nick the ball from Dembele is | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
part of the reason I think he and Willian were selected. Of course, | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
Hazard has more ability than them in terms of the final third but from | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
defensive positions. Alonso forward. Batshuayi. | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Alderweireld just read that, but under the chest of Marco Alonso, | :14:25. | :14:47. | |
though. That is going to be a free kick to Tottenham, and the next | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
whistle will be half-time. Hello. What is he doing? The card is coming | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
out. That is an unnecessary yellow card for Marcos Alonso. He is always | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
going to get a yellow if he does that. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
2-1 up with a minute to go until half-time, ridiculous decision. | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
N'Golo Kante with a foul on Dele Alli. Two minutes where indicated, | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
that is why they always say a minimum of, because we are now deep | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
into the third. Antonio Conte thinks the players should be in the | :15:28. | :15:28. | |
dressing room by now. Which is where they will head now | :15:29. | :15:41. | |
and Tottenham have some thinking to do. Willian has two for Chelsea, and | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
despite the brilliant improvisation by Harry Kane between those goals, | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
the defining moment of the half, the sliding challenge by Son on Victor | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Moses which led to the penalty converted by Willian. At half-time | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
at Wembley in the first of the FA Cup semifinals, Chelsea 2-1 | :16:01. | :16:01. | |
Tottenham. A fascinating first half and end to | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
end stuff for much of it. Chelsea got off to a very, very good start. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
First ten to 15 minutes they were all over Spurs. To be fair, Spurs | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
came back into the game for the next 20 minutes and they dominated. They | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
got the goal and could have got another one through Dier. A crazy | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
tackle from Son. It's a really fascinating and interesting 40 | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
minutes -- 45 minutes. When the whole world is bemuse by a decision | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
and then a player scores twice! We aren't finished yet. What Conte did | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
when he brought Willian into the team, he knows he still has pace in | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
the team and you saw the counterattacks from Chelsea. They | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
are still quality players and Willian came up with a great free | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
kick. For Spurs, playing Son as a Wing-back has kind of backfired. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
It's not paid off anywhere near as much. The plan was to get Moses | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
running the other way. But Moses is winning that battle, he's been much | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
stronger. The majority of the counter racks from Chelsea have come | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
down the right. Chelsea have been brilliant at this all season, they | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
soak up pressure and they had Spurs running back towards their own goal | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
numerous times in the early stages. That was the first one. Look out | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
quick they go from defence that transition into attack. Spurs | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
defenders running towards their own goal. They couldn't deal with it and | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
then a foul that led to the free kick. I have to question Hugo | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
Lloris. Frank, you saw something else. I'm looking at Eric Dier. I | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
saw him in midfield last week and now he's centre-back. If you're | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
playing in midfield, you can afford to let Pedro run off you, but you | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
can't do that in the back three. Pedro is really quick. It's a | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
problem for Tottenham to get back to him. As for the free kick, Willian | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
is brilliant, do you question the goalkeeper? You have to. It's his | :18:20. | :18:29. | |
side. A little deflection off Matic. It just clips him. Having said that, | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
I don't think it clips him enough to change the direction of the ball a | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
lot. He tries to gamble because he thinks he's going over the wall. The | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
wall is therefore a reason. If he has the ability to put it over the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
wall and put it in the corner, you put your hands up. He save it. | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
Chelsea have their own wall. They know he's going in that corner. We | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
see it quite often. As a goalkeeper, if you're on that side, if they pop | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
it the other way, you won't get blamed. If you had goalkeepers in | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
him now, they would tell us we are all wrong! Why they choose to gamble | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
I don't know. Even if it doesn't hit Matic, it's still going in. All | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
three goals have come from set pieces. Tottenham's as well. Harry | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
Kane got the corner in the first place, bright and alert from the | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
free kick. I did think he was going to let it run and uses body to roll | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
past the defender. They get the corner and they don't have any | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
protection in front of the near post. Harry Kane is so clever, right | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
and quick, alert. He spots the space and that is a hell of a header. To | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
guide it into the far corner. He knows where the goal is, he knows | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
what he has to do. He spots the space, no one protecting him. Superb | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
header. The keeper has no chance. He doesn't look at the goal. You don't | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
have to. The goal never moves. He knows exactly where he is. On | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
occasions when I played I felt it did move! That was a gorgeous | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
header. Then Tottenham were pretty dominant, Frank. But the penalty. He | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
went down early, but what a crazy tackle. I'm not a big fan of playing | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
attacking players as wingbacks. These moments can change big games. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
He goes to the floor far too early. I can't even criticise Victor | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Viguera in early. You are waiting for the contact. Clear penalty. | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
Crazy, what's he doing? It was how early Heaslip. As a player, I will | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
go over his legs. Conte saying Willian had to take it. Batshuayi | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
once a goal, but Willian has taken penalties before. He waits for the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
keeper to go. He went Batshuayi crazy! One of a talking point in the | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
first half that we should look at because there's been a few people | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
whingeing, especially Chelsea fans on social media. Did Dele Alli stamp | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
on David Luiz? You will make me disagree with Chelsea fans and get | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
me in trouble. I don't think he does. He's looking in the opposite | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
direction. We can't say he meant it. Anyone think he meant it? Definitely | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
not. He has that edge to his game. It's probably the reason social | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
media has gone crazy. Nothing in that. Doesn't social media always go | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
crazy! Plenty more sport to come on the BBC this weekend. | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
It's a site that never fails to inspire. Very neat! | :22:12. | :22:23. | |
That guy is unstoppable. What a great start. He scores! | :22:24. | :22:36. | |
It's been a big day at the bottom of the Premier League. All the action | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
on Match Of The Day. Manchester United and Liverpool both | :22:41. | :23:04. | |
in action tomorrow. Time to pay tribute to Ugo Ehiogu, the former | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
England defender who died yesterday at the end -- at the age of just 44. | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
44, a tragedy. It puts football into perspective. He used to stand up in | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
the dressing room and say his piece. He was a strong character. Dawn in | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
the east of London, Ugo Ehiogu began his football career at West Brom, | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
but it was a move to Aston Villa under Ron Atkinson at the age of 19 | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
which ensured his name in football folklore. He was the big man, an | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
imposing centre half who helped Villa to two League Cup triumphs and | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
went on to win as the England shirt four times. Ugo Ehiogu scores for | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
England! He loved a full-blooded challenge. He was an old-fashioned | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
centre whose job was to head it, kick it, block shots, tackle. Centre | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
forwards would not have playing against him. Fine tackle. In | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
training one used to get so frustrated that we couldn't score, | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
but he didn't realise how good Ugo was. He was just brilliant. It was | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
at Middlesbrough where his partnership with the current England | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
manager helped the club to the League Cup. His third. He finished | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
with spells at Leeds, Rangers and Sheffield United. After retiring he | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
moved into coaching with the youth teams at Spurs. He was a very good | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
player and a very, very good human being. Ugo Ehiogu, so sad. It's hard | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
to know what to say at these times. So young, 44. Terrific player and a | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
lovely person. I played against him many times and when on trips around | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
the world with him after our careers had finished. What you hear most is | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
how nice he was and he really was. He was very tough to play against, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
but he was a nice centre-half. He wouldn't say things to you or kick | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
you, but he was a very, very tough player. Frank? I knew him a little | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
bit. I met him a few times. No ego, a gentleman, always positive. The | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
football speaks for his self, but as a man, thoughts with his children | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
and family. Terrible news. A coach at Tottenham. Very highly thought | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
of. He was and he was doing a fantastic job. A lot of the younger | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
players have been hugely affected by this. It wasn't just him as a coach, | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
it was him as a man. He was teaching labs about handling money, other | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
sites to the game which a lot of people take for granted. That tells | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
you all you need to know about him. He will not only be missed by the | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
football world, but also those young lads at first. Thoughts very much | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
with his family at this very difficult time. The second half is a | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
few minutes away. Chelsea have the edge. Both Spurs and Chelsea can | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
realistically dream of being double winners. | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
Willian scores for Chelsea! Chelsea in front early. A little flick and | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
it's in the net! Harry Kane, who else? That's dangerous and headed | :26:30. | :26:42. | |
just wide by Eric Dier. Son slid in. This could be Willian's day. | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
Chelsea are 2-1 up at half-time. Wembley Stadium, fabulous site. Down | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
there somewhere inside the stadium, waiting to talk to us is Ruud | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
Gullit. We've just had to run away from a | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
sprinkler. Sitting next to you, your excitement levels have been up and | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
down. Chelsea are leading, but have you been happy with everything | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
you've seen? They are fortunate to be ahead. Tottenham played really | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
good football. Chelsea had the opportunity to have an easy | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
build-up. Tottenham are pressing them from the start. It was | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
difficult for Chelsea to come out. They were very proactive, they had a | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
couple of counter attacks, they were dangerous. Tottenham, when they | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
scored, got better and better. They get out of jail, Chelsea. I'm | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
curious to see how they do in the second-half. Will they play like | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
this again? Tottenham looked much better. I was really impressed with | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
them in the first half. We know Chelsea have huge firepower on the | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
bench. Do you expect changes? Could cost or Hazard be involved? Not at | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
the moment, they are 2-1 ahead. I think the Italian will try to do the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
same thing, play on the counter attack. They have quick players. If | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Tottenham keep playing like this, pushing up, they will score more | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
goals. Who is the happiest manager? Will Pochettino still be pretty | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
happy? From his team performance he has to be very happy. Unfortunate | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
that Son made a mistake, sliding in in the box, unnecessary. He will say | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
to them, continue with what you're doing and the goals will come. | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
Chelsea have to be very careful. They can't allow Tottenham to play | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
like they do. I'm furious to see how the second-half develops. I'm also | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
curious. Thank you. Another big story out of Chelsea. | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
John Terry has announced he is leaving at the end of the season. | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
You have to be a good player to do that two seasons running! It looks | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
like it will be it this time. Appreciation of a great player. | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
Great player, irreplaceable. As a captain he led the club. Behind this | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
is, on the pitch. You can't buy that, you can't get someone to do | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
that. Not just a leader and the man he was, the player, underrated on | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
the ball. Always in the right position. These sorts of games where | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
his day, getting the team going in the dressing room. I think we've | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
lost the best defender in Premier League history. An absolute giant of | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
the Premier League. It speaks volumes that every manager who went | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
into Chelsea had him as their captain, their leader. When all the | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
foreigners were coming into Chelsea, they do to John Terry delete them. | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
What Frank says about him being a top footballer goes under the radar. | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
Two feat. He could pass. My first run in with him was when he came to | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
Forest online. -- on loan. Such a good footballer. Brilliant this year | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
for Chelsea, behind-the-scenes. He will be talking to the lads in the | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
dressing room now. You can't play down his role this year. They are | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
back on the field, the referee is in position. Let's go back to the | :30:32. | :30:32. | |
commentators. Thank you. No substitutions from | :30:33. | :30:43. | |
either side. When Willian moved to England from Russia, it was like | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
pass the parcel. Liverpool fought they had him, Tottenham hijacked the | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
deal and then Chelsea hijacked that deal. Now here he is biting the hand | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
that wanted to feed him. Chelsea lead 2-1. They get the second half | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
under way. But there's plenty of time for Tottenham Hotspur to turn | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
this one around. Spurs from left to right in the | :31:08. | :31:23. | |
second half with Chelsea attacking the goal away to the left-hand side. | :31:24. | :31:31. | |
Dembele. Kane. | :31:32. | :31:40. | |
Nicely done. He beat Cesar Azpilicueta there and the referee | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
Martin Atkinson will not let that go without a word to Azpilicueta who | :31:44. | :31:51. | |
gives Kane a little part of apology. Knockaert. It was good feet from | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
Kane, sees him coming. So many titanic battles between | :31:56. | :32:08. | |
these two sides, not least in the game at Stamford Bridge at the end | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
of last season which confirmed Leicester as Premier League | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
champions. Chelsea came back from 2-0 down. You are a former Spurs | :32:17. | :32:28. | |
man, Danny Murphy, and it is often said that, terrific though Spurs are | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
at the moment, and the very good times they have had over recent | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
years, they need to win something. I think so, yes. They've been so close | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
recently. To move forward and gain confidence as a group they need | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
something that makes that easier. The referee says, play on. Getting a | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
furious reaction from Tottenham fans and not a good one from the manager | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
either. David Lewisham was not overly interested in the ball, say | :33:04. | :33:12. | |
Tottenham. -- David Luiz. Agreed. It gives you such belief as a group | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
when you get over the line for your first one. I remember Liverpool | :33:17. | :33:19. | |
against Gerard Houllier getting their first trophy. The confidence | :33:20. | :33:26. | |
you get from that is huge, and for the supporters of course. They are | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
certainly hungry, first Tottenham fans. | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
Here is N'Golo Kante for Chelsea. Pedro. Eric Dier. That is a foul by | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
N'Golo Kante on Victor Wanyama. On the flip side the Chelsea fans | :33:43. | :34:06. | |
are used to seeing trophies most seasons these days. The amazing | :34:07. | :34:14. | |
thing is that since Tottenham last played in an FA Cup final Chelsea | :34:15. | :34:15. | |
have played in eight. Really? Eriksen. Pedro. Ake. Spurs' throw. | :34:16. | :34:41. | |
Eriksen. Harry Kane got in behind Matic. David Luiz is a big influence | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
on this football match. Yes, he's had a good game, hasn't he? The | :34:49. | :34:55. | |
corner count is now 6-0 in Tottenham's favoured but that is one | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
of the least significant statistic. The one that matters is Chelsea 2-1 | :35:01. | :35:02. | |
Tottenham. Can Chelsea spring out? It is a | :35:03. | :35:28. | |
strange choice from Eriksen with the power they have in the air in the | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
box. He is a great dead ball specialist and he should have just | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
put that in. I don't understand that one. | :35:37. | :35:43. | |
Dembele. Wanyama. | :35:44. | :35:53. | |
Spurs will be glad to have Victor Wanyama back for the run-in after | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
his injury problems at the beginning of this calendar year. | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
Trippier. He's been the one Spurs signing who | :36:04. | :36:09. | |
has really improved the team. He has had a great season. | :36:10. | :36:17. | |
They have had a few injuries this season, not least Danny Rose there. | :36:18. | :36:24. | |
Sitting, forced to watch, still hoping to get back and should be | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
soon. He's missed the last 13 games with a knee injury. Ake. Spurs are | :36:30. | :36:37. | |
trying to dictate the game. Dembele has space. Azpilicueta did well. | :36:38. | :36:46. | |
Victor Moses. Batshuayi was moving in the other direction. It is a good | :36:47. | :36:55. | |
start from Tottenham. Good tempo, on the front foot, trying to get back | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
into the game. Chelsea very dangerous like this, though, because | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
they love breaking. They don't mind soaking up pressure. I've seen them | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
do it many times this season when you are thinking they are sitting in | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
and comfortable, and all of a sudden, as the boys talked about in | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
the studio at half-time, their pace on the brakes so quickly can hurt | :37:17. | :37:25. | |
you. Chelsea sometimes are at their most dangerous when you have the | :37:26. | :37:26. | |
ball in their final third. Eriksen, delightful ball. What a | :37:27. | :37:39. | |
great goal! Dele Alli scores it but Christian Eriksen makes it with one | :37:40. | :37:45. | |
of the assists of the season. That is a brilliant, brilliant Tottenham | :37:46. | :37:51. | |
equaliser, it's 2-2. You are right, you are absolutely | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
right, that is one of the assists of the season. I was talking about his | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
influence in the first half, he's playing with confidence at the | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
moment. I mean, this Paris, he knows Dele Alli is going to be on his | :38:06. | :38:12. | |
bike, he sees him, but to pick him out, we can talk about defending but | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
that is an absolutely unbelievable pass and brilliant run and finish by | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
Dele Alli, he doesn't miss those. Great run. | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
That is the move of a grandmaster from Christian Eriksen. And Dele | :38:27. | :38:33. | |
Alli got there and Spurs are level and Spurs now have their tails up. | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
Here is Dele Alli again and he goes over, Ake's challenge, Spurs howling | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
for a penalty of their own, not going to get it. Given away by Ake, | :38:44. | :38:52. | |
here they come again, Tottenham. Dembele. A challenge on Dele Alli | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
and he's not getting that either, Dele Alli can't believe he hasn't | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
got either of those decisions. I tell you something, Dembele and | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
Wanyama are dominating Chelsea's two. Kante is gamely trying but he | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
needs a bit more help from his partner. Here we go. Well... Spurs | :39:12. | :39:21. | |
are in Chelsea's faces at the moment. | :39:22. | :39:29. | |
Having given a penalty to Chelsea, of course Martin Atkinson is going | :39:30. | :39:39. | |
to be put under pressure. Batshuayi has won this from Wanyama and Martin | :39:40. | :39:41. | |
Atkinson gives Tottenham that decision. I think they might have | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
got lucky with that one, Batshuayi does well. This is the penalty | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
appeal, I think you will see Ake just gets a touch on the ball. | :39:53. | :39:53. | |
There. It's a good tackle. It does not surprise me that Spurs | :39:54. | :40:09. | |
were appealing, however. Yes, the pass from Eriksen is exquisite. Its | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
two things, seeing the paths, which is difficult for most people, and | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
then executing the paths. And now it's Tottenham feeling good. | :40:19. | :40:34. | |
The odds in this match have swung wildly one way and then the other. | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
It's all square again if this game goes a long way beyond the 90 | :40:41. | :40:54. | |
minutes. It could be about aces up your sleeve. Don't forget Chelsea | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
have Eden Hazard and Diego Costa on their bench. David Luiz and Harry | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
Kane coming together, the referee Martin Atkinson inclined to see that | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
as six of one and half a dozen of the other. Here is Willian. What a | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
game this is, Dembele trying to find Dele Alli. We always go hoping for a | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
good game. Today I think we came expecting a good game and we have | :41:22. | :41:22. | |
got one. Oh! There are some tackles going in now. | :41:23. | :41:30. | |
There certainly are. Luiz. We talked about the 2-2 draw | :41:31. | :41:55. | |
at Stamford Bridge at the back end of last season and they spent 90 | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
minutes kicking lumps out of each other, these two, providing all | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
kinds of entertainment. There are more than a few people on the pitch | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
who remember that game. Lucky he did it to Wanyama who is honest because | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
he left a straight leg there. It is one of those games. I think he | :42:11. | :42:23. | |
got away with it. He got angry because Dembele had taken the ball | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
from him and our strength, took out his frustration with a straight leg | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
on Wanyama. Alderweireld for Tottenham Hotspur. Twice they have | :42:33. | :42:40. | |
come back now. A great sign of their mental strength. Here is Dembele. He | :42:41. | :42:47. | |
had a six match ban for gouging Diego Costa in the game at Stamford | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
Bridge. Pedro going forward. Good feet by Pedro, Willian for Chelsea, | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
outside Vertonghen, good block by the Belgian, that was dangerous. | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
Great defending, Vertonghen, well done. Kante has robbed Dembele. Here | :43:05. | :43:10. | |
is Mousa Dembele again. Tottenham get the free kick and Son | :43:11. | :43:26. | |
has taken it. Good run by Dele Alli, he's got himself in the box. It's a | :43:27. | :43:28. | |
corner. Talk about turning up for the big | :43:29. | :43:36. | |
games. For a young man he has the temperament. It has been superb | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
today. Another Tottenham corner. Another | :43:41. | :44:00. | |
Christian Eriksen delivery. Couldn't get his head on that one. Hazard is | :44:01. | :44:08. | |
coming on. Eden Hazard is stripping off. Eriksen pulled it back. | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
Dembele... Dembele started the second half very well, they can't | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
cope with him at the moment. Hazard and Costa are getting themselves | :44:21. | :44:21. | |
ready. In goes this Tottenham corner kick, | :44:22. | :44:34. | |
out goes Courtois, I don't think he got anything on it, the keeper. | :44:35. | :44:43. | |
Trippier. Out by Kante. Son to Alli, brilliant footwork, but then the | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
scoop. The first touch was great, his second was all wrong. It was. He | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
has such good feet. So now the team we expected will be on the pitch. I | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
am a little bit surprised to see it so early but I suppose he thinks | :45:04. | :45:12. | |
Tottenham have the momentum. So, Diego Costa and Eden Hazard will | :45:13. | :45:13. | |
both be on shortly. Willian and Batshuayi will be | :45:14. | :45:34. | |
enough. Has not been a hat-trick in an FA Cup semifinal for 59 years, | :45:35. | :45:46. | |
since 1978. I don't know the thinking behind that. I'm really | :45:47. | :45:47. | |
surprised. Unless he has a knock. Predictable mixed response from the | :45:48. | :46:15. | |
two sets of fans at the name of Diego Costa. He tends to divide | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
opinion. Chelsea love him. Not many other people do. Eden Hazard on. | :46:23. | :46:32. | |
Arguably Chelsea's ace in the pack. Unbelievable couple to bring on. | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
Hazard has been the best player in the Premier League for me this | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
season. Willian has gone straight down the tunnel, which would suggest | :46:43. | :46:51. | |
a knock. Yeah. Maybe. Or he could be extremely annoyed. He didn't seem to | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
have a knock to me. I'm really surprised, if it was tactical, but | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
it was Willian. Really surprised. Pedro was pleased to hear the | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
whistle. A little under half an hour of normal time to go. | :47:10. | :47:36. | |
That will be... Is that a corner or a throw? If it's a corner, it's | :47:37. | :47:46. | |
Chelsea's first. It's a throw. Five Premier League games without a | :47:47. | :48:11. | |
goal, Diego Costa. His longest lean spell in England. Unlucky, good | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
break. Offside flag is up on the far side. | :48:19. | :48:45. | |
Against Chelsea. The number three. It wouldn't surprise me if Tottenham | :48:46. | :48:52. | |
start thinking about fresh legs at some point. They don't have the same | :48:53. | :49:00. | |
kind of big beast on the bench. They don't have a Costa or a Hazard. | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
Davies, Janssen, Sissoko, Wimmer, Nkoudou and Walker. | :49:07. | :49:57. | |
Good tackle by Kieran Trippier. A few Spurs fans behind the goal | :49:58. | :50:10. | |
urging Wanyama to shoot. Or not to! I can just see Pochettino having a | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
word with Kyle Walker. He will be on. Interesting to see whether they | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
put him on the left or have Trippier over there. I've seen Trippier play | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
there before, he's reasonably comfortable. Don't forget match of | :50:26. | :50:35. | |
the data night. -- Match Of The Day tonight. | :50:36. | :50:48. | |
We are none the wiser as to who will be in the FA Cup final. | :50:49. | :51:10. | |
Offside, Diego Costa. He's probably had his poorest month over the last | :51:11. | :51:18. | |
few weeks for Chelsea, Diego Costa. That was close, a tight one. They've | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
got to keep giving Hazard the ball. He will get them back into this | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
game. At the moment Tottenham are quite comfortable and looking is a | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
bigger threat. Spurs beat Chelsea at White Hart Lane 2-0 in January. They | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
have never beaten Chelsea twice in the same season since 1970 - 71. | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
That is a very long time. You can see why both teams are | :51:47. | :52:05. | |
number one and two in the Premier League. So strong, athletic, so much | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
quality and creativity in both teams. | :52:12. | :52:24. | |
Ake did really well. Kante with the long Chelsea clear Ross. That was a | :52:25. | :52:37. | |
hoof, the whole hoof, and nothing but the hoof. Foul by Diego Costa. A | :52:38. | :52:48. | |
little pat on the back of Mousa Dembele. Rather more friendly than | :52:49. | :52:51. | |
the exchange between the pair last season. For which Dembele was | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
banned. A clever nudge from Alderweireld. | :52:55. | :53:12. | |
That's what centre halves do, a quick nudge before the ball comes | :53:13. | :53:18. | |
and your control goes. Out of-year-old is so big and strong. -- | :53:19. | :53:29. | |
Alderweireld is so big and strong. Spurs are now going to make that | :53:30. | :53:35. | |
substitution. Son is coming off. Kyle Walker is coming on. | :53:36. | :53:45. | |
Trippier is going left-hand side, getting instructions from Walker. | :53:46. | :54:04. | |
It's what you said, Danny. It makes more sense. I've seen him play there | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
before. I've rarely seen Kyle Walker on the left. Here he is, Walker with | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
a throw in. We've just gone past the midway | :54:16. | :54:30. | |
point of the second half in this first semifinal. 2-2. | :54:31. | :55:25. | |
He certainly went off down the tunnel when he went off, Willian. | :55:26. | :55:34. | |
Two goals in the semifinal. I think he was upset, I really do. He looked | :55:35. | :55:44. | |
pretty annoyed. As I would be. After scoring two. This is going to start | :55:45. | :56:01. | |
getting tense fairly soon. It's been a match of abandonment and | :56:02. | :56:04. | |
unfettered excitement. The tension will creep in as the clock ticks on. | :56:05. | :56:16. | |
Spurs are asking most of the questions that the moment. Alonso | :56:17. | :56:24. | |
did well, but it's a corner. They are the better team. You have to say | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
it. They are winning the midfield battle, Dembele and Wanyama | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
controlling things. Alli's movement and Eriksen, terrific. | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
Ninth Tottenham corner. It flashed just in front of Eric Dier. | :56:42. | :57:01. | |
Dembele did really well against Hazard. That was a brilliant spot by | :57:02. | :57:13. | |
Dembele. Got there first. Great pace and strength. Another Tottenham | :57:14. | :57:25. | |
corner. 10-0 in corners. There have been some terrific performances out | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
there. Man of the match will be impossible at this rate. Just under | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
86,500 here. Everyone utterly engrossed. | :57:37. | :57:52. | |
Nonstop Spurs pressure at the moment. | :57:53. | :58:06. | |
Not often you see Chelsea camped in their own half of the field. | :58:07. | :58:28. | |
I suspect Dele Alli knew precisely what he was doing. He did indeed. | :58:29. | :58:36. | |
Calculated foul and it brings him a yellow card. Chelsea have to be | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
careful they don't become a back five. Their wing backs still need to | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
get a bit higher and press the ball higher. Otherwise they give up | :58:47. | :58:55. | |
possession to Spurs. Fabregas is coming on for Chelsea. I think | :58:56. | :59:02. | |
that's a very sensible choice. The surprise is Pedro coming off. Matic | :59:03. | :59:06. | |
hasn't done enough today. He's been overrun. What Fabregas gives you is | :59:07. | :59:13. | |
that confidence and capability to keep the ball under pressure. He's | :59:14. | :59:25. | |
going to play further forward, further forward than Matic and | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
Kante. He takes the ball calmly in tight areas. He has the ability to | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
open new up with his passing ability. He won the FA Cup 12 years | :59:36. | :59:44. | |
ago with Arsenal, Cesc Fabregas. Finally Chelsea have a corner. I | :59:45. | :59:52. | |
think Victor Moses has been one of Chelsea's best players today. He's | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
continually got forward, good energy and he's defended reasonably well. | :59:57. | :00:03. | |
The first chance they've had to do what they were working on on the | :00:04. | :00:05. | |
training ground. Hazard. It's in! Eden Hazard scores for Chelsea. And | :00:06. | :00:22. | |
for the third time in this semifinal, they are in front. | :00:23. | :00:39. | |
Now, can Tottenham do it again? Well, for the life of me I'm not | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
sure how or why he has this much time on the edge of the box. But | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
it's a great strike, isn't it, on his weaker foot. It may have taken a | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
little nick on the way through. But no chance for Lloris. You can't let | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
someone of his quality have that much time on the edge of the box. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
The players must have been drawn into areas they should have been | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
because you would never setup is only to have no one on the edge of | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
the box and even man to man you would still have somebody there. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
It's a great strike. It is a great strike. It's 3-2. From a brilliant | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
player. Dele Alli fouled by David Luiz. You could argue it's very much | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
against the run of play which is what Chelsea are so brilliant at, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
they don't have to be playing particularly well to win games | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
because they have such amazing firepower in their side. So, | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
Mauricio Pochettino and Jesus Perez deep in conversation. If anyone can | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
conjure something it's Christian Eriksen. But how many times can they | :01:56. | :02:07. | |
come back? Eriksen. That flicked off the head of David Luiz. That was an | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
important touch. He's had a lot of those today. In a game where Chelsea | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
have been put under a lot of pressure he's stood up and been | :02:16. | :02:16. | |
counted. In it goes. Diego Costa, useful to | :02:17. | :02:35. | |
have defending corners. Jan Vertonghen, nice turn. Matic rather | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
bundling his way into possession. Wanyama. Dele Alli to Walker. | :02:41. | :03:14. | |
Stabbed away by Alonso. Dele Alli. Dembele. Trippier. | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
It's Eric Dier. He can't find Kane. Off the ball Kane was trying to pin | :03:24. | :03:46. | |
David Luiz and he moved away from him, clever from David Luiz to stop | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
himself getting pinned on the edge of the box. Good defending. | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
Spurs are going to make another change. Mauricio Pochettino speaking | :04:00. | :04:13. | |
to Georges N'Koudou. I would imagine he would put him down the left-hand | :04:14. | :04:14. | |
side. Wanyama's head. Diego Costa's flick, Alderweireld | :04:15. | :04:27. | |
for Tottenham. Spurs have to do something which no | :04:28. | :04:50. | |
team has done to Chelsea since Arsenal right at the beginning of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
this season, that is put three past Chelsea. The substitution is going | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
to take place here. Georges N'Koudou coming on, Wanyama going off. | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
Georges N'Koudou brought to Tottenham from Marseille for ?9 | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
million in the summer, his 13th appearance off the bench, only two | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
starts. They have gone to four at the back. Eric Dier stepped into | :05:23. | :05:34. | |
midfield. Only ten to play. Eden Hazard for Chelsea, Fabregas onside, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Eden Hazard, still Eden Hazard. Driven. Brilliant goal! Nemanja | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Matic Hamels Chelsea to within touching distance of the FA Cup | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
final itself. With a hammer of a drive. Tottenham Hotspur have come | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
back twice from a goal down but with ten to play now they have to come | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
back from two down. Magnificent strike. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
That is an incredible strike from Matic. I was talking about him not | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
being at his best today but he certainly made up for that here. | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
Look at this. I mean... That's incredible. If you're going to wait | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
until the back end of April to score your first goal of the season you | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
might as well make it a good one. One or two of them you hit in your | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
career, one or two at the most. I mean, he has caught that pure. That | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
should be it for Chelsea. Famous last words. But... Ten minutes to | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
go, two goal cushion. He didn't just hit the sweet spot, he knocked the | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
living daylights out of it. Its 4-2. Sometimes you just catch one and you | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
know as soon as it leaves your foot. He will never score a better goal | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
than that. Here is Eric Dier for Tottenham Hotspur. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
They have lost their last six FA Cup semifinals. No one has ever lost | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
seven on the spin. But it will take something truly remarkable now. It | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
will. They deserve great credit today, there has been a lot going on | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
at the football club over the last couple of days and they have put in | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
a hell of a performance. Let's give Chelsea credit too because after | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
their defeat last week, they have not played that well today but shown | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
the spirit, dug in and showed some moments of quality that look like | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
they will get them through this game. There is lots of credit to | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
both sides, it's been a wonderful game of football. It's not over yet. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
It's not over yet and if Spurs can snaffle something soon, it will have | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
to be very soon, but it might be game on again, Eriksen to Dembele. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Running into the Chelsea defender. Azpilicueta. Martin Atkinson saying | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
there was no intent on either side. But, feast your eyes on this. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Or if you are a Tottenham fan look away now. | :08:33. | :08:46. | |
As I said, it's not been his best performance. Look at Kurt Zouma's | :08:47. | :08:58. | |
face, look at his face. Eden Hazard's onside, Lloris has | :08:59. | :09:12. | |
come, Hazard has hurtled him, he can pull it back, they are queueing up | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
in the middle, Marcos Alonso and Alderweireld with the block. | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
Nearly five. That's going to happen now, | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
Tottenham are going to throw men forward and not chase back because | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
if you are going to you lose a semi you might as well and dumber lose | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
five or six, you've got to try and get back in. Chelsea are very good | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
at that, as we know. -- you might as well lose five or six. Just can't | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
control that, Diego Costa. Dele Alli and N'Golo Kante together, forward | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
towards Cave, cut out by Azpilicueta. Victor Moses, no | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
direction on that, Walker and Moses together. Eden Hazard here. | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
Fabregas. Alderweireld do well. -- did well. This has been one of the | :10:22. | :10:34. | |
best semifinals at the new Wembley, it really has. | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
If Spurs are going to stay in the cup it's going to have to be one of | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the best on any ground at any time. I've been fortunate to be in a lot | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
of them and this is definitely the best in terms of quality, | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
entertainment, the ebb and flow of the game. | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
N'Golo Kante. Cesc Fabregas. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
It's a challenge which Cesc Fabregas took exception to. | :11:07. | :11:18. | |
I think the one thing it does show, there are long periods in this game | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
and when Tottenham have been better. But the strength in depth that | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Chelsea possess. Whoever they had played today, Willian comes in and | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
scores, Hazard comes on and scores, Fabregas comes on and makes a | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
difference. I'm not sure Tottenham have that. That face tells the | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
story. Painful, so painful. It is an old, old story being played out yet | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
again here for Tottenham. Here is Diego Costa, and he really should | :11:51. | :11:51. | |
have made it five. Good ball from Fabregas. | :11:52. | :12:08. | |
Not like Costa. Normally Diego Costa just buries that. I think Alonso was | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
in a much better position behind him. Here is N'Koudou to Walker. | :12:14. | :12:23. | |
Chelsea have won the FA Cup seven times, hoping now, surely expecting | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
now, to reach their 12 FA Cup final. Here is Eric Dier for Spurs, for | :12:30. | :12:47. | |
whom time is now trickling quickly through their fingers. N'Koudou | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
taking on Moses. Good balance, good feet. Goalkick. Danny, your thoughts | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
about the Man of the Match here in this semifinal? Well, I think for | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
Tottenham there has been some really, really great performance but | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
I will give it to David Luiz for Chelsea because on a day when they | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
have been under the cosh, he has lost Cahill, he's been exceptional, | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
won a lot of headers, interceptions, he's stood up to the play, taken | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
criticism in the past but he has topped a great season with a | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
wonderful performance on his birthday today. Rarely have we seen | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Chelsea under so much pressure but he, for me, is the Man of the Match. | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Alderweireld for Tottenham, for whom the game is almost up. Eric Dier. | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
They played their part again and again. That is absolutely no | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
consolation. No. Losing 4-2 sounds like they have been torn apart | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
really and they haven't, they have played really well. They have | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
obviously had their bad moments defensively a couple of times, but | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
generally their performance has been decent. But Chelsea just know how to | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
get over the line, they've been there and done it. I could watch | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
that all-night. Yes. Chelsea are very good at punishing teams, they | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
give you a glimmer of hope and punish you with their quality going | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
the other way. It's the reason they have been successful for so many | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
years now. Is this place becoming a problem for Tottenham now? They will | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
almost certainly be playing all of their matches here next season. They | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
have got to make the pitch smaller. For psychological reasons I don't | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
see it as an excuse, we saw the dimensions before, two meters each | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
way in length and one metre in width. It's amazing. I think 440 | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
metres square when you add it up. It sounds a lot to me. But geometry has | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
never been my strong point. That's Courtois. I think the type of pitch | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
makes the difference, more than the size. N'Koudou climbing. White Hart | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
Lane, really firm. The grass is really short. Ball zips about. This | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
grass here is a lot softer, after walking on it it has a lot more | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
give, the grass is a bit longer. The way you want to play and with press, | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
I think it's fair to say if they had played this way at Wembley every | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
time they had been here they would have a lot more wins. Of course, it | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
is likely that once Spurs move out of Wembley, assuming they do move | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
here, and into their new home, it's likely Chelsea move in. They are | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
hoping to play their matches here while Stamford Bridge is rebuilt. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Stamford Bridge, which hosted the FA Cup final, the last three finals, | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
before the old Wembley was built. One of which was won by Spurs at the | :15:57. | :16:08. | |
Bridge. Here is Fabregas. Five would be so harsh on Tottenham. It doesn't | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
really matter. But they don't want to go away having let in five. There | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
are four added minutes for Chelsea to inflict further pain on their | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
neighbours. Costa... Conte will enjoy his post | :16:20. | :16:43. | |
match interview about their tactics. Isn't a! The man brought in score | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
two, the man brought on scored one, and the other man brought on scored | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
one. Exactly! He's provided one of the memorable | :16:53. | :17:20. | |
moments of this game, Christian Eriksen, with the pass for Dele | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Alli's goal. It's been a memorable game. But that is of absolutely no | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
consolation for those who just can't watch the end. There are many, many | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
of them. You think how far the club has calm in the last two years and | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
how the team has progressed. The expectancy level has gone high | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
because of the success they've had and it's understandable, but they | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
are in a really good place. You just hope the Tottenham fans and the club | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
that they keep their best players. Kante with a foul on Dele Alli, free | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
kick. Yellow card. Alli's waving leg was at least | :18:00. | :18:16. | |
partially responsible for the contact. But a yellow card was | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
shown. If this was to go in, we might have 60 seconds of drama. If | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
this was four minutes ago, you'd think it could be the platform for | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
something extraordinary. But two and a half minutes of the four added | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
have been played. If Spurs are going to do something incredible, this has | :18:40. | :18:40. | |
to go in. Harry Kane. Courtois! It has not | :18:41. | :19:09. | |
been their day. Just has not been their day. Backspin kept it out. | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
Good strike. Talking about the keeper staying where he is. That's | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
when you know. It does occur to me that only Kenny | :19:23. | :19:39. | |
Dalglish and Carlo Ancelotti have won the double in their first season | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
as a manager in charge of their clubs. Antonio Conte could do that. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Four points clear at the top of the Premier League table. I think | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
Liverpool won it at Chelsea. Yes. Kenny scored himself. | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
Good effort by included, David Luiz covering to a mighty roar and the | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
ball flies away into the empty seats that were once packed with Tottenham | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
faces. Expectant faces. Heartbreaking. Seven on the spin. | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
Seven semifinals. A lot of these players won't have been involved in | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
those and they have to take the positives. Chelsea are into the 2017 | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
FA Cup final. Their double is still on. It's been a remarkable | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
semifinal. Chelsea were never behind, but only late on could they | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
truly say they had shaken off Spurs, who came back bravely twice, | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
skilfully twice, but in the end a Nemanja Matic piledriver has sent | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
Chelsea to the final. Spurs have to reflect on what might have been yet | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
again. It's finished 4-2. What a fabulous game of football | :21:07. | :21:19. | |
that was. Chelsea eventually running out winners and they are the first | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
side through to the final of the FA Cup, where they will play either | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Manchester City or Arsenal. They are in great shape for a league and cup | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
double. For Spurs, a seventh consecutive loss in the FA Cup | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
semifinals. An unwonted new record. Conte, who made those controversial | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
changes prior to the game, leaving out Hazard and Costa, but Hazard | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
came on and scored the all-important fifth goal and then a stunner from | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Matic clinched it at the death. Thoroughly entertaining game. | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Brilliant game of football. I thought Chelsea deserved it. They | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
were dogged and resilient. Tottenham had a lot of possession, but didn't | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
make as many chances as they would have liked. We talked about his | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
decision before the game. It was a huge gamble to leave Hazard in | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
particular out. He had firepower to bring on, Fabregas, Costa and | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Hazard. Has changed the game and I think Chelsea deserved it. It's what | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
they do, they frustrate teams. Maybe Conte has found the new formula, | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
save your best players and bring them on later. We can hear from the | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
man who clinched the game, Nemanja Matic. | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
What an incredible result. What a strike that was. You surprised even | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
some of your team-mates on the bench. It was a nice goal. First of | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
all I want to say we are very happy because we are in the final. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Congratulations to Spurs, they are a great team. It was really hard | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
today. When you score four goals against them you have to win the | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
game so I am very happy. It was the perfect start, but Tottenham | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
wouldn't leave you alone, they kept coming back and coming back. It | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
looked tough. They are a great team, one of the best teams in the Premier | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
League. It was very hard today. We scored the first goal, they | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
equalised, we scored a second, they didn't give up. Congratulations to | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
them, they play good football. That's why we are so happy today. | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
You had some firepower on the bench today. You showed what you can do. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
You must be delighted to be coming back in May. It's always good to win | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
this game, this kind of game, a semifinal against London team. It's | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
good for the fans. It will be my first final in five years at Chelsea | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
in the FA Cup. I hope to win it. It was a surprise for many that you | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
were on the bench. How did you feel about starting the game there? Were | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
you surprised? No. The manager told me yesterday. You have to expect | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
everything in football. You want to play every game, but he made a great | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
choice. Willian score two goals. Well done to both of you and we will | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
see you back here in May. The fans leaving after the game. A | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
lot of Spurs fans left before the final whistle. If they had got a | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
couple of late goals it would have been interesting to see them try to | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
get back in. Frank, your former club through to Wembley again and they | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
did it with emphatic finishing. They did. I have to give Conte so much | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
credit. The two most potent attacking players in the team on the | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
bench and they win. A lot of people will have watched the game and said | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
they defended a lot. This is Hazard. Bad from Tottenham. They leave the | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
edge of the box completely open. It's a great finish, but you need | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
leaders in there to put someone on the edge of the box. They don't. | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
That was Chelsea's first corner. They've had to switch around, Walker | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
coming on as substitute, the full-backs changing around. I think | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
they were mixed up. Very rare and we rarely would you not have anyone on | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
the edge of the box. You felt Tottenham were unfortunate. Alan | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
thought Chelsea deserved it, you're not so sure. Definitely not. I can't | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
believe you think that. I can't see how you don't feel Spurs deserved to | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
win that. Not lose the game the way they did. They were the better team | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
throughout, they dominated possession. Granted, Chelsea were | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
much more potent in front of goal. No way Spurs deserved lose. You | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
don't win games with possession. We know that. Spurs dominated that | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
game. With possession. Chelsea were on the back foot. Chelsea were | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
against the best defensive team in the league and they scored four. You | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
don't need to play well to win finals. When you're under pressure, | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
you need to defend. Tottenham played the better football, but the only | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
had four shots on target. Frank, you would be upset as a Spurs player. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Yes, when you think you've played well and you've lost 4-2, you will | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
be upset. Let's move on! One thing we can all agree on was the final | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
goal was something special. Unbelievable strike from Matic. You | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
hit a few strikes in your career where the minute it leaves your | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
foot, you don't need to watch it because you know where it's going. | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
Do you?! He will not hit a better strike than that in his career. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Right in the postage stamp, top corner, Lloris had no chance. You | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
could have two or three goalkeepers and they wouldn't stop it. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Unbelievable strike. Look at Zouma's face! One of the best goals ever | :27:23. | :27:31. | |
seen at Wembley I would suggest. Out of the blue and it finished off the | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
game. His game plan today worked absolutely perfect. The guys he left | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
out showed him the right reaction, the guy he brought in score two | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
goals soak it worked out perfectly. We have two more heavyweights facing | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
off here next weekend. We followed Anthony Joshua in the way to | :27:52. | :27:52. | |
Wembley. Heavyweight champion of the world, | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
Anthony Joshua! Don't miss that. It's been a big day | :28:01. | :28:18. | |
at the bottom of the Premier League. All of the action in Match Of The | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
Day. We've got a bit more time to talk | :28:21. | :28:35. | |
about what was really cracking game of football. It was. It was | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
interesting. You've got one team who dominated possession, one team quite | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
happy to sit and soak up pressure because they know they've got the | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
players to change the game when they go forward and that's how they won | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
the game. Is it also important in terms of the title? Definitely. | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
Confidence. He's rested their two best players and they've made the | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
final. The run in looks nice. They will be fresh and confident on | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
Tuesday. I'd love to see the Alli goal again. It didn't have much | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
bearing, but it made it a cracking game of football and it was such a | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
sensational goal. Eriksen has come into his own at the back end of this | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
season. This ball, you won't see many better deliveries. David Luiz, | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
man off the match, scrambling to get anywhere near it. I think Alli was | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
clipped by David Luiz. To finish it on his left foot like that was | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
brilliant. One big thing. Yours, what Chelsea brought off the bench | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
today is something Spurs need to look to for the future. Final word | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
on Spurs. Looking ahead, it could affect them a bit, they missed out | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
at the end of last season and this season again possibly. They had a | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
big chance today, no Cahill, Costa or Hazard. They had a big chance to | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
win today. I think it will damage them. Chelsea? They've got the | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
mindset, they are winners. We are out of time. Chelsea are through to | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
the FA Cup final. Once again, Spurs are given the Wembley blues. | :30:16. | :30:16. | |
Goodbye. # You've made it this far | :30:17. | :30:50. | |
Don't leave it to chance | :30:51. | :31:10. |