FA Cup: Pochettino reacts as Chelsea progress to semi-final

Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino has reacted to his side’s recent win against Leicester City in the FA Cup quarter-finals.

The Blues were able to defeat the Foxes in a 4- 3 scoreline in a game Pochettino described as harder than it needed to be.

‘Yes, it was harder [than it needed to be],’ said the Chelsea head coach after his side’s win. ‘If we scored with all the chances we created in the first half I think the game would have been finished after 45 minutes. But we missed too many chances.

‘Then conceding [the first goal] in the way we did had an emotional impact. That is the magic of the FA Cup – as we saw yesterday with Coventry and that is football.

‘But we fully deserve to be in Wembley and we will now go back to Wembley. We are in the FA Cup semi-final, so we are going twice at the moment but hopefully three times (including the final) we can go.

‘But I think this group of players deserve great credit and also the staff. In the circumstance of the beginning of the season, to go twice and fight for cups twice, is massive.’