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Chelsea tops Leicester City in extra-time to book FA Cup semi-final spot

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Chelsea is off to the FA Cup semi-finals for the seventh time in a dozen years after ousting Leicester City on Sunday at the King Power Stadium.

Antonio Conte's charges needed extra time to bounce the Foxes after Jamie Vardy's 76th-minute goal cancelled out Alvaro Morata's first-half opener. Pedro was the hero with a fearless header on the stroke of halftime in the extra frame.

N'Golo Kante whipped a tantalising cross into the area that Kasper Schmeichel misjudged, allowing Pedro to calmly nod the ball beyond the leaping Dane.

Morata gave Chelsea the lead minutes ahead of the break when Willian raced away from Ben Chilwell before finding the goal-starved Spaniard's offside-line straddling run. From there, Morata showed the composure and goal-scoring flair that merited a club-record £60-million transfer fee, deftly slotting the ball beyond a lunging Schmeichel. The goal ended Morata's run of 13 matches in all competitions without a goal.

The result was Chelsea's 13th win against Leicester in its last fifteen matches, giving the Blues a chance to do one better than last year's defeat in the final to rival Arsenal.

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