Chelsea’s magic and mayhem laid bare in last-gasp FA Cup win over Leicester

A turnaround in a few senses, on the day, and even in decades.

Chelsea’s private equity owners are essentially subjecting the squad to an unseen experiment in modern football recruitment but all it seems to have done for the moment is to return the club to something like the mid-1990s. They are erratic cup specialists who look like they have potential but so many issues.

This 4-2 win over put them into their second domestic semi-final of the season. The game. That was particularly the case when Chelsea dropped a 2-0 lead and two substitutions were questioned – especially when Mykhailo Mudryk was taken off for Carney Chukwuemeka, meaning the erratic was left on. Pochettino was then vindicated by the outcome. Whatever the thinking, it worked: Chukwuemeka scored the brilliant match-winning goal.