Rick Edwards
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They had that big, in fairness, big, big chance right near the start.
Aronson threw and Sanchez made, I think, an excellent save with his feet.
But they kind of huffed and puffed a bit in the second half.
But Chelsea were reasonably comfortable, I think, Luke.
Yeah, a team that's used to playing in semi-finals and at Wembley, groups of players who are used to playing on that stage, playing against perhaps a collection of players who aren't used to those sorts of games.
They were second best in the first half, that early chance apart.
And Chelsea, actually, I was really impressed with Chelsea in the first half.
I thought they were pretty dominant and could have gone on to get the second goal.
But then Leeds, as you say, huffed and puffed is maybe a bit unkind.
I thought they did a much better job on Chelsea.
They stopped Chelsea playing a lot more.
They got into some really good positions.
Calvert-Lewin header springs out to mind.
Sanchez made another really good save, didn't he, in the second half.
And look, Sanchez has had his critics this season, but he's probably got them.
If you think the saves he's made, he's actually got them to the final.
So he deserves a bit of credit.
But yeah, I just think Leeds maybe, just maybe froze a little bit.
It was a much bigger deal for them, for the football club and their supporters.
uh than it was for Chelsea and I just think that maybe got the better of them a little bit because they didn't give they've been so impressive in the league been playing so well and I've really found this formula that has got them out of relegation danger I don't think we saw that version of Leeds today and I think that might have been might be unfair but a little bit of stage fright perhaps in in terms of being at Wembley in the semi-final where they haven't been for a long time