{"id":1594,"date":"2026-04-28T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:17:08","slug":"farke-admits-leeds-were-too-nervous-in-fa-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"Farke admits Leeds were \u2018too nervous\u2019 in FA Cup semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Leeds United boss Daniel Farke has said his team were \u2018a bit too nervous\u2019 in their FA Cup semi-final defeat to Chelsea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farke\u2019s side missed out on a first FA Cup final appearance in 53 years after losing 1-0 to Chelsea at Wembley on Sunday. Enzo Fernandez scored a first-half winner for the Blues, heading home from Pedro Neto\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds had chances to score, with Robert Sanchez making several saves for Chelsea, including an early one-against-one to deny Brenden Aaronson. However, The Whites were unable to find a breakthrough and Farke believes the occasion got to his side.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Match of the Day, he said: \u201cIt was a tight game. They were able to find the back of the net. I think we nearly dominated at least one statistic more shots on target, more expected goals, more big chances missed. But it\u2019s also fair to say that the football in the first half we didn\u2019t have our best days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could feel the boys were a bit too nervous today to be at their free-flowing best and for that we had a few unnecessary loss of the balls and assisted more or less to their two or three chances in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not played out of the park even though it wasn\u2019t our best game in the first half. Credit to my players. We went for it and pressed higher and dominated more. Of course, you always have to be switched on for counter attacks. But the goalkeeper was able to get two great saves. And the defensive flow of Chelsea was there, it was top defensive behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey always had an answer to all our questions that we asked. It\u2019s hard to take anyhow, but nevertheless, I\u2019m proud of the cup run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Sanchez says Chelsea winner \u2018straight from training ground\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Chelsea retain FA Cup hoodoo over old rivals Leeds<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United boss Daniel Farke has said his team were \u2018a bit too nervous\u2019 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}