FA Cup: Leicester City Rock Manchester United To Reach Semis, Chelsea Face Manchester City In Last Four

Leicester despatched Manchester United crashing out of the FA Cup as Kelechi Iheanacho's double sealed a 3-1 win, whereas Chelsea will face Manchester Metropolis within the semi-finals after beating Sheffield United on Sunday. Brendan Rodgers' aspect can look ahead to assembly Southampton of their first FA Cup semi-final since 1982 because of Iheanacho's predatory ending on the King Energy Stadium. He put Leicester forward in Rodgers' one centesimal sport in cost earlier than Mason Greenwood equalised late within the first half. Youri Tielemans restored Leicester's lead and Nigeria striker Iheanacho wrapped up solely their second win over United in 23 years and their first since 2014.

Leicester, who've by no means received the FA Cup and final reached the ultimate in 1969, will head to Wembley to face Southampton in April.

"I'm obviously delighted. It was a great performance. Every aspect of the game was complete," Rodgers stated.

"We showed courage to play against one of Europe's greatest teams. I told the players they were three games from history. Now it's two."

United's limp exit ended their run of 29 away video games with out defeat in all home competitions since dropping at Liverpool in January 2020.

And not using a trophy for the reason that 2017 Europa League, that competitors is now their final lifelike probability of profitable the primary silverware of boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's reign.

"We didn't have the spark but it's understandable. We played every three days and been on a great run. It just caught up with us, all the games and travels," Solskjaer stated.

"Thursday in Milan was a big night and took a lot of out of us physically. We didn't have the extra zip, authority and confidence today.

"We have the Europa League and Premier League to focus on. Sure we'd've preferred to go to Wembley however now all the main focus is on the video games we do have."

After reaching the Europa League quarter-finals with a win at AC Milan in midweek, Solskjaer made five changes and United's reshuffled line-up never looked comfortable.

Fred paid the price for a woeful mistake in the 24th minute.

When Harry Maguire played a risky ball out to Fred on the edge of the United area, the Brazilian's panicked response was a weak back-pass towards United keeper Dean Henderson.

Iheanacho nipped in to intercept it before rounding Henderson and tapping into the empty net to make it eight goals in his last nine games.

United equalised in the 38th minute when Pogba's cross was cleverly dummied by Donny van de Beek and Greenwood slammed his shot past Kasper Schmeichel from 12 yards.

Lacklustre United were still out of sorts and Tielemans put Leicester back in front in the 52nd minute.

The Belgian midfielder advanced unchecked as United backed off and he took full advantage with a fine low finish from the edge of the area.

Iheanacho killed off United in the 78th minute with a clinical header from Marc Albrighton's free-kick.

Chelsea set up City clash

At Stamford Bridge, Thomas Tuchel's much-changed side were below their best but still earned a potentially thrilling showdown with quadruple chasers Manchester City by beating Sheffield United 2-0.

Oliver Norwood's 24th-minute own goal, the midfielder turning Ben Chilwell's shot into the net, put them on course for the last four.

Hakim Ziyech came off the bench to finish Chilwell's pass in second-half stoppage time.

The Blues are back in the FA Cup semi-finals for a fourth time in the last five seasons after losing last year's final against Arsenal.

Chelsea won the last of the club's eight FA Cups under Antonio Conte in 2018.

"We had a great first half the place we managed every thing. We misplaced management within the second half. After 14 consecutive matches I might really feel we have been drained and we made many little errors," Tuchel stated. 

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Since changing the sacked Frank Lampard in January, Tuchel is unbeaten in 14 video games in all competitions.

Chelsea have saved 12 clear sheets in that interval, shutting out the opposition of their final seven matches.