{"id":737125,"date":"2022-01-06T07:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/dominant-chelsea-beat-spurs-in-first-leg-of-carabao-cup-semi\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T07:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:12:33","slug":"dominant-chelsea-beat-spurs-in-first-leg-of-carabao-cup-semi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/dominant-chelsea-beat-spurs-in-first-leg-of-carabao-cup-semi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Chelsea beat Spurs in first leg of Carabao Cup semi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3281204-67141348-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"3281204-67141348-2560-1440\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Chelsea deservedly beat Tottenham in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final but had so many chances they should have already sealed their place at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Havertz gave Chelsea an early lead when he ran onto Marcos Alonso\u2019s through ball and fired home with Davinson Sanchez unable to keep the shot out on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues\u2019 second was a comedy own goal as Japhet Tanganga headed the ball into team-mate Ben Davies\u2019 shoulder and it flew into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Romelu Lukaku,\u00a0back in the team\u00a0after a one-game exile for comments he made in an interview, had several chances and headed wide from close range.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Spurs, who changed to a back four after a torrid first half, had to wait until the 50th minute for a shot, with Harry Kane\u2019s free-kick saved by Kepa.<\/p>\n<p>But the chances continued to come for Chelsea with Hugo Lloris denying Lukaku, Hakim Ziyech and the returning Timo Werner.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs will need to be much better in a week\u2019s time in the second leg to have any chance of reaching Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool and Arsenal play in the other semi-final with their games on 13 and 20 January after the\u00a0first leg rearranged\u00a0because of Covid cases in the Liverpool camp.<\/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=\"nbJch3MvaeE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tema metro records bird flu outbreak- Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (5-01-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nbJch3MvaeE?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 deservedly beat Tottenham in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final but had so many chances they should have already sealed their place at Wembley. Kai Havertz gave Chelsea an early lead when he ran onto Marcos Alonso\u2019s through ball and fired home with Davinson Sanchez unable to keep the shot out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,297,58,262,298,299,300,301],"class_list":["post-737125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beat","tag-carabao","tag-chelsea","tag-cup","tag-dominant","tag-leg","tag-semi","tag-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737125","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=737125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}