Highlights: Chelsea 3-2 Leeds United | Emirates FA Cup 2023/2024

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Playing from the back comes with inherent risk.
Well, they've just got themselves in trouble.
There was a little bit of this on Sunday
where just they didn't feel comfortable with the ball.
What a mistake.
Di Sassi with it.
Doesn't really pass the ball into Casedo.
Safe side.
There's lots of pressure from Leeds
that there has been all game.
They've really pressed well from the front.
Nipped in.
Really good interception
and then a simple finish really
for Mateo Joseph to get his first goal.
What a moment for him.
The young centre forward.
Rudrik playing a much more central role.
Got through Enzo Fernandes
who can hit them much better than that.
Fernandes.
Casedo.
This is how probably Leeds
would expect the game to be played.
Need to make sure there are no gaps.
And there is a gap.
And Nicholas Jackson has found it.
And that's just what
Pochettino ordered.
Get back on the front foot
and wipe out that error.
And it hasn't taken too long.
Well, there's a lot of talk about the chances
that he misses.
He's certainly capable
of finding the back of the net.
That's Chelsea putting a good passing move together.
Lovely movement off the ball.
Vincent Rodin
did well.
I think the free kick would have been given but
Leeds still had the ball.
Giving it away for Fernandes
who can crack them from that distance.
Tumbled by Melio
but no one following in.
He's in that number 10 position
but you're right.
He hasn't really got on the ball yet, has he?
Chelsea have
started to really dominate position now.
Gusto on an early cross.
Woodrick's fastened on to it with speed.
He does pretty much everything with speed and
speed of the shot
doesn't quite get the better of Melio.
Woodrick again.
And Anthony.
And Woodrick involved again
on the set piece.
By
Anthony.
Gusto.
From Sterling.
A deep one.
Made a right kick.
Reacted a bit quicker than the Leeds players did.
Nearly got a full reward for it.
Space for
Madawiki between the lines.
It's a Chelsea pressure
starting to pick some holes in Leeds.
And Woodrick!
Just like that.
Well, he's been in the game.
He's probably had
one of his best spells
in a Chelsea shirt.
Starting tonight
and turning
a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1
lead for Chelsea.
Snappy finish
from a player who's showing
the better side of his game, Matt.
Yeah, of all the players
on the pitch tonight,
he's the player that needs this goal.
Absolutely.
At home.
In front of the supporters.
And it's a good goal as well.
Really well worked.
Gets the ball wide, Madawiki.
It comes into
Sterling and this is lovely awareness.
And the movement across the face
of Ampadu
is really good.
And it's a lovely measured finish.
Doesn't snatch at it at all.
I think they're much better
once they've got the ball
into the midfield or wide areas.
But building out from the back there.
They struggle to do that, Chelsea.
It's a decent try for
2-2 from Jadon Anthony.
They seem to be playing much of their youth team
in the first team tonight.
Here in Southampton in
the big trophy.
In from Anthony.
He's got another one.
Wow, what a night.
Steaming in.
Matthew Joseph.
Right place.
Right time.
He put them in front.
Now he's drawn them level.
It did look as though it was coming, Matt.
Absolutely.
It has been building.
I'm here.
He's saying to the Leeds fans
and rightly so.
You are here.
Pirou.
Anthony.
Spinning and
Sanchez hadn't been
committed.
At Stamford Bridge tonight.
This is the young man who's played
such a major part in it.
Matthew Joseph.
Anthony.
Slip.
Anthony goes on and there was
Hernandez.
It's Gallagher who's won it for Chelsea.
Connor Gallagher
who suddenly found his scoring touch
since the turn of the year.
He took it in his stride.
Made the space for himself
and planted Chelsea into a 3-2 lead.
Well,
there's your one big moment, Matt Upson.
Well, you said that
moments win football matches, Martin.
Well, that's
Connor Gallagher's moment and Chelsea's moment.
We knew there was going to be one coming and this is it.
Chelsea working the ball.
Leeds have just dropped off a little bit too deep.
Firpo comes in,
makes half a challenge.
But the awareness for Gallagher to know where the space is.
He's been really good at that since he's been on the pitch.
Knowing where that first touch has to go
to enter the space.
Takes it brilliantly.
And then I think there's a slight deflection
on the shot through but is in such close range.
He's just got to hit the target.
And the ball just skims off the toe of the defender.
Really
gives Melier absolutely no chance.
But Chelsea
look like they're going to see it over the line.
