{"id":1027793,"date":"2022-03-20T10:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T10:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/20\/lukaku-strikes-as-chelsea-reach-fa-cup-semifinals\/"},"modified":"2022-03-20T10:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T10:47:55","slug":"lukaku-strikes-as-chelsea-reach-fa-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/20\/lukaku-strikes-as-chelsea-reach-fa-cup-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukaku strikes as Chelsea reach FA Cup semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239329685-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Chelsea players celebrate\" title=\"Chelsea players celebrate\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea players celebrate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea marched into the FA Cup semi-finals with a ruthless 2-0 victory over Championship play-off chasers Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>First-half strikes from Romelu Lukaku and Hakim Ziyech put Chelsea in the driving seat heading into the break. A quieter second period saw relatively few chances of note, but the Blues remained professional to progress to the semi-finals\u00a0amid all their uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku opened the scoring inside the first quarter of an hour, turning home Mason Mount\u2019s cross from close-range. Mount turned provider again with half an hour played, setting up Ziyech who doubled the Blues lead with a dipping strike from distance.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wilder\u2019s men refused to lie down in the second half and kept Chelsea on their toes, the fans were the 12th man and did everything to inspire a comeback, however, it\u2019s the Blues who booked a date with Wembley, bringing an end to Boro\u2019s inspired FA Cup journey.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>After the international break, Chelsea host Brentford in a south-west London derby at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League. Middlesbrough return to Championship action when they travel to Peterborough United looking to chase down the play-off positions.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"DwmEVmZsL2w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (18-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DwmEVmZsL2w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea players celebrate Chelsea marched into the FA Cup semi-finals with a ruthless 2-0 victory over Championship play-off chasers Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday evening. First-half strikes from Romelu Lukaku and Hakim Ziyech put Chelsea in the driving seat heading into the break. A quieter second period saw relatively few chances of note, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58,262,59,3068,3728,2928],"class_list":["post-1027793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-cup","tag-lukaku","tag-reach","tag-semifinals","tag-strikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}