CHELSEA are into the FA Cup quarter-final courtesy of a last-gasp strike from English star Conor Gallagher.
Mateo Joseph initially put Leeds ahead before Nicolas Jackson levelled the scoring.
Mykhailo Mudryk then flipped the tie on its head until Joseph scored once again.
But out of nowhere, Gallagher’s sublime stoppage-time strike has put Chelsea through and they will now face Leicester in the quarter-finals.
- RESULT: Chelsea 3-2 Leeds
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- Chelsea starting lineup: Sanchez, Gilchrist, Disasi, Chalobah, Gusto, Madueke, Caicedo, Fernandez, Mudryk, Sterling Jackson.
- Leeds starting lineup: Meslier, Roberts, Firpo, Rodon, Cooper, Ampadu, Gray, Anthony, James, Piroe, Joseph.
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Blues progress to quarter-finals in cup
Chelsea will now play Leicester City in the quarter-finals at Stamford Bridge.
Mauricio Pohcettino will be keen to make his way to Wembley once again after Sunday’s disappointment, this time with a different outcome.
Chelsea will go into the game as favourites against The Foxes who sit top of the Championship.
There were concerns at Stamford Bridge this evening for one of the away fans who fell from the top tier.
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Chelsea needing to find some consistency
As attention diverts to the Premier League, The Blues will be needing to put a string of results together to propel themselves up the table.
With three home games coming up in the league in quick succession, Pochettino will be looking for wins.
The table is so tight that a run of good form can change the whole outlook on your season.
Pochettino relief with home win
While Chelsea went into this game as firm favourites to progress, they made hard work of it going a goal behind.
Just when they thought they had addressed that thanks to goals from Jackson and Mudryk, the visitors then pegged them back once again.
Gallagher’s late strike settled the contest and the manager seemed relieved on the final whistle.
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FT: Chelsea 3-2 Leeds
A last-gasp goal from Chelsea has booked their place in the enxt round.
Pochettino brought Gallagher off the bench late on and boy did he deliver.
It was not an impressive performance by the ‘billion pound bottle jobs’ as Gary Neville put it, but they got the job done.
FT: Chelsea 3-2 Leeds
The referee brings the game to a close.
Chelsea progress to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
Mauricio Pochettino can breath a sigh of relief now.
Chelsea 3-2 Leeds
90+4. The whistles come from the crowd who want to see the end of the game now.
Chelsea’s fan are making themselves heard now.
Gallagher’s goal seems to have won this tie.
Chelsea 3-2 Leeds
90+2. Jackson receives the ball in the corner of the pitch and looks to run the clock down.
He loses the ball and Leeds look to break at pace.
Mudryk comes off for Tauriainen for Chelsea.
Chelsea 3-2 Leeds
90. The ball is played through the middle to Gallagher on the edge of the box.
He turns well to lose his marker and slots the ball past the keeper as he comes out.
What a time to score, that is surely game over for Leeds.
We are going to have four additional minutes added.
Goal – Conor Gallagher (Chelsea)
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
88. Half chance for Chelsea as the ball is flicked across goal.
It comes to Colwill, he tries to control it when he needed to get a first-time shot away.
Chelsea seem to be trying to walk it into the net at the moment.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
86. Chilwell finds Mudryk down the left wing.
He spots the run of Fernandez but the midfielder gets to the byline and can only win a corner.
You feel he needed to pull the trigger straight away to test the Leeds’ keeper then.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
84. Caicedo runs through the middle and gets dispossessed and the ball almost runs through to Jackson.
The Leeds’ defence is alert and manage to clear their lines.
This game is finely poised at the moment, it really could go either way.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
82. Leeds try a speculative effort from outside the box but he cannot keep the shot down.
For a brief moment it opened up but as he looked to bend it in the top corner, he got it all wrong.
At the moment Leeds are looking the most likely to score.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
80. The Blues’ fans will want to see more attacking threat from their side in the remainder of the game.
Once again it has been somewhat of a pedestrian performance from Pochettino’s side.
They need to have more urgency in the final third.
Credit: Getty Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
78. Mudryk gets down the wing before clipping a cross into the box from the byline.
Jackson gets up to meet it at the far post but heads it more up in the air than he does towards goal.
The striker stays down but neither the referee nor VAR saw any wrong doing with that challenge.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
76. Chelsea should have more attacking threat in the final third with Cole Palmer on the pitch now.
That said, he hasn’t been amongst the goals of late.
We are into the final quarter of an hour now, the next goal could be the one that decides this game.
View from SunSport’s Isabelle Barker at Stamford Bridge
Mateo Joseph is a youngster oozing confidence in front of a very boisterous away end here at Stamford Bridge.
He hadn’t scored a senior goal before tonight and now he has two.
The Spanish 20-year-old has been redhot all evening, but so has Jaidon Anthony for Leeds who whipped an inch-perfect cross on Joseph’s plate for 2-1.
Chelsea were once again to blame for shoddy defending. They seem to still lack identity, shape and structure in what they do. How the tables have turned.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
74. Colwill and Palmer come on for Sterling and Gilchrist.
Pochettino has seen enough and has sent on aruguably Chelsea’s player of the season.
The need to find another goal if they want to progress to the quarter-finals.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
72. Leeds force a corner, which Dan James comes to take.
He whips the ball towards the back post but it is too deep for anyone to get on the end of it.
Leeds recycle the ball and James whips another cross in and the ball drops to Jospeh as Chalobah fails to head it.
The striker seemed to not be expecting it and could not react quickly enough to get a shot off.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
70. Junior Firpo is booked for a clumsy challenge on Raheem Sterling.
It gives Chelsea the chance to come forward but once again they pass the ball around at the back.
Mudryk breaks free but his first touch is poor and the ball runs through to Meslier in the Leeds’ goal.
Credit: AP Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
68. Chelsea seem lacklustre in this half, whatever the manager said at the interval seems to have had the opposite effect.
Leeds are looking like the Premier League team as they knock the ball about with confidence.
The Blues are just chasing shadows most of the time.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
66. Fernandez wins the ball on the halfway line and looks to play the ball forward.
His pass is wayward and gifts possession back to the visitors.
This game is end to end stuff at the moment.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
64. Chilwell has slotted into the left back slot for Pochettino’s side.
Gilchrist has gone to right back in place of Gusto who came off.
Madueke was the other player to make way for the substitutions.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
62. Chelsea should have more quality in the middle of the park now.
Gallagher has been in good form for The Blues of late.
Leeds are dominating possession so far since the interval.
Chelsea 2-2 Leeds
60. Gallagher and Chilwell come on for Chelsea.
Pochettino is looking to add some quality to this game.
Leeds are growing in confidence as James cuts in from the right and looks to shoot but it is deflected wide for a corner.
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