FA Cup Draw: Chelsea Get Leicester City At Home, Assuming Blues Get That Far
by Graham MacAree on Feb 19, 2012 4:34 PM GMT
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Assuming Chelsea can navigate their fifth round replay against Birmingham City, who managed to hold the Blues to a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge, they've got what looks like another straightforward draw in the quarterfinals. Another Championship team awaits - it's Leicester City at home.
I don't want to say Chelsea will cruise to a win on March 6th, because I'm nowhere near that confident, but no matter how poorly we're doing of late we're still going to be favourites to advance against Birmingham. If we do get through, it'd be nice to get a straightforward win to take us into the semifinals. On paper, the only other team that can match us remaining in the competition is Tottenham Hotspur (who managed to draw against a League One side today), so we have to take advantage of a fairly kind draw. A couple of trips to Wembley this year would make us all feel quite a lot better about things.
Full draw after the jump...
Liverpool or Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Stoke City
Chelsea or Birmingham City vs. Leicester City
Stevenage or Tottenham Hotspur vs. Bolton Wanderers
Everton vs. Sunderland
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In theory that was about the best draw we could have hoped for
That’s been pretty rare so far this season, the draws haven’t generally been too kind
by Stephen Schmidt on Feb 19, 2012 4:58 PM GMT reply actions
I guess it turns out that Birmingham are now unbeaten in 14
Not a bad streak. No excuses, of course…
I think this DEFINITELY means we should throw everything at the FA Cup
It’s our only genuine chance at a trophy. Priority number 1.5 now (finishing fourth is still more important probably).
by FootieFromAfar on Feb 19, 2012 5:27 PM GMT via mobile reply actions
Fourth is way more important.
This would be a nice consolation for the season but it’s just nowhere near as important as finishing fourth.
I can't see us getting past Birmingham at alone Leicester City!
Leicester have DAVE NUGENT, PAUL GALLAGHER and, AND RICHARD WELLENS!!!!
we’ll have all sorts of problems with them given the sorry team we’ve been all year.
Ex-Chelsea boy Liam Bridcutt has scored twice today at Anfield
Both times in his own net, unfortunately… :(
oh dear
That’s a new type of awful right there.
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The last one was the worst
I mean… the guy juggled it right into his own net.. he about saved it, then put it in. So many own goals lately. I wished they hadn’t gifted Liverpool with all that today… they really didn’t need the confidence boost.
And of course
the pundits all said this is the turning point for those partnerships and they’ll probably go on to do wonderful things. Barf.
At least Suarez’s penalty was worse than Mata’s? I take small comfort in that.
Ok, I missed the part where you said on paper. Still, I don't see the point of looking at
who could beat us on paper. It never plays out that way. We were supposed to smash Birmingham and QPR on paper (and Everton, and Swansea, and Norwich, and Villa).
I remember last season
how we compared our squad with United’ and how good our squad was against theirs on paper. They managed to beat us 3 times, nonetheless :(
And it saddens me deeply how often we had been beaten by Liverpool recently
Tor ilisar'thera'nal!
Leicester will forever be on my sh*t list.
The Leicester supporters were the only group that thought it was funny to come up with a Matthew Harding piss take song right after his helicopter went down. Ever since then I have relished watching them get relegated and loved it when they hired Sven.
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