Chelsea joy and Newcastle misery come from unlikely sources in Carabao Cup drama
by Jack Rathborn
Dec 19, 2023
4 minutes
A moment to savour and delight, finally, for Mauricio Pochettino, who will dance long into the southwest London night. His Chelsea into the Carabao Cup semi-finals and a cruel exit on penalties for a brave Newcastle United. It was so nearly more of the same for the Blues: plenty of promise but ultimately heading for a miserable conclusion to another 90 minutes in this lavish project.
Desperately searching for inspiration, it arrived in unlikely circumstances, with not only another calamitous error from , but their much-maligned £88.5m man doing the damage. He prodded into the corner in stoppage
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