The Blues came into the match with a 2-0 lead from the first leg and Antonio Rudiger scored the only goal of the match on Wednesday to seal their passage to Wembley.
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Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 on aggregate to go through to the Carabao Cup final. The Blues came into the match with a 2-0 lead from the first leg and Rudiger scored the only goal of the match on Wednesday to seal their passage to Wembley. Thomas Tuchel’s side will face Arsenal or Liverpool in the final, with their delayed second leg getting underway on Thursday night. Meanwhile Tottenham were rightly denied two penalties and a goal by VAR.
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— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) January 12, 2022
Chelsea started the match brightly as Rudiger played a brilliant long ball from the back to find Romelu Lukaku’s run down the center. The Belgium striker chested it down nicely before shrugging off the challenge from Ben Davies and testing Pierluigi Gollini from inside the box.
It didn’t take long for Chelsea to break the deadlock as they put their nose in front in the 18th minute. Ridiger went past his marker and headed home from Mason Mount’s corner after Gollini came for the ball and didn’t get it. Spurs were left with an uphill task, and they responded pretty well as Sanchez’ header from a corner kick went just wide of the far post.
And then, Rudiger brought down Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg on 40 minutes and referee Andre Mariner initially pointed to the spot. But VAR intervened and concluded the foul took place outside the box, and the home side were awarded only a free-kick on the edge of the box.
Just before the hour-mark, Tottneham thought they had earned a penalty as Kane tried to set up Lucas Moura inside the penalty area after some superb individual play. But Kepa Arrizabalaga quickly came off his line to deny the chance. The referee pointed to the spot for a foul on Moura but then reversed his decision after checking in the side screen as it was a clean challenge from Kepa.
After 64 minutes, Kane put the ball in the back of the net after being set up by Moura. But the England captain was correctly adjudged off-side by VAR. Late in the game, Kane got past two Chelsea defenders inside the box before Kepa made a super close-range save to deny Ryan Sessegnon.
Tuchel said after the match: “We started good and had big chances but then we didn’t play with fire. We allowed chances from easy and sloppy mistakes. We were lucky and almost gave a penalty away for absolutely no reason, maybe a bit of overconfidence. We then started well in the second half and the same happened in the last 20 minutes.”
