The second leg of the FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Middlesbrough is scheduled for Tuesday 23rd January at 10pm at Stamford Bridge in London and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1.

Chelsea start with the first chance to win and reach the EFL Cup final, although Middlesbrough won the first leg, at home, 1-0 after a 37th-minute Hackney goal (second semi-final). – the final, scheduled for Wednesday, January 24, is “Fulham” – “Liverpool”, 2:1 for “Cormorants” at Anfield).

Chelsea began the current campaign of the English League Cup in the second round, in which it played Wimbledon (fourth division), score 2-1, then eliminated Brighton in the 1/8 final, score 1-0 to overcome ” Blackburn”. (League Two) in the round of 16, 2-0, and in the quarter-finals, Newcastle, 1-1 after 90 minutes and 4-2 on penalties, all matches are contested at home (only the semi-finals are played in the return leg).

Mauricio Pochettino’s side are 9th in the Premier League after 21 matches with 31 points, 12 adrift of the Champions League, and have registered four wins and one defeat in their last five official matches, regardless of competition, and last, he beat Fulham at home in the championship with a score of 1-0.

Chelsea have won five EFL Cup trophies, the last of which came in 2015 after a 2-0 final against Tottenham Hotspur, and they have lost four more times in the final act, most recently in 2022, 0-0 after 90 and, accordingly, 120 minutes, 10-11 on penalties, with Liverpool.

Middlesbrough, a team from the Championship, beat Huddersfield (League Two) in the first round, 3-2, in the second round Bolton (League Three), 3-1, in the round of 16 Bradford (League Four) with 2 -0, in 1 / Round of 8 against Exeter (Division Three), 3-2, and in the quarter-finals against Port Vale (Division Three), 3-0, in conditions in which he played all the games away!

Michael Carrick’s side are 11th in the table after 28 games with 40 points, three clear of a place in the EPL promotion play-offs, with two wins in their last five official matches. a draw and two defeats, in the latter they managed to draw in the Championship, at home to Rotherham, 1-1.

Middlesbrough won the League Cup once, in 2004, beating Bolton 2-1 in the final, and reached the final of the competition twice more, in 1997 and 1998.

Superbet offers odds of 1.28 on prediction 1: victory of the hosts in the regular time of 90 minutes in the match Chelsea – Middlesbrough.

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