{"id":515148,"date":"2026-04-06T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:12:08","slug":"chelsea-drawn-against-leeds-united-in-fa-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515148\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea drawn against Leeds United in FA Cup semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chelsea and Leeds United in the FA Cup is about as iconic as it gets for the competition, and in this year\u2019s semifinals, we\u2019ll get to have the latest iteration of this famous matchup. The Blues were paired with our historic rivals in today\u2019s semifinal draw, following Leeds\u2019 quarterfinal win against West Ham United on penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the other semifinal, favorites Manchester City will take on Championship side Southampton, pairing the two teams who have, over the course of two weekends, reduced Arsenal\u2019s quadruple to, at best, a double. We\u2019re all winners in those matchups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both semifinals will take place at Wembley the weekend of April 25-26. City and Chelsea will be favored to advance to the final, but, as always, anything can happen in a single-elimination competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Our recent record against Leeds isn\u2019t exactly stellar, as we\u2019ve won just two of our last five meetings in all competitions. We did beat them 3-2 in the fifth round of the 2023-24 FA Cup, but lost 3-1 in the league at Elland Road back in December and managed just a 2-2 draw in the reverse fixture at the Bridge in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea and Leeds United in the FA Cup is about as iconic as it gets for the competition,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179896,59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-515148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chelsea-fc-fa-cup","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}