{"id":1602,"date":"2026-04-28T04:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:56:29","slug":"sanchez-says-chelsea-winner-straight-from-training-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Sanchez says Chelsea winner \u2018straight from training ground\u2019"},"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>Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez has said the club\u2019s FA Cup semi-final winner against Leeds was \u2018straight from training ground\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea secured their place in the FA Cup final with a 1-0 win over Leeds at Wembley. Enzo Fernandez scored the crucial goal after 23 minutes, as the Argentine midfielder ghosted into the box unmarked to head home Pedro Neto\u2019s cross. Chelsea\u2019s opener came via a long pass forward from Sanchez, with Neto reacting quickest to the second ball.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tactic the goalkeeper said Chelsea have worked on this week under new interim head coach Calum McFarlane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt comes straight from the training ground. We practice it,\u2019 Sanchez said, speaking to TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey fight for the second ball. Perfect. They deserve moments like this. It\u2019s good to give that little bit back after a tough period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing. The boys reacted in the way they should have. We\u2019ve tried to keep everyone positive in training and it\u2019s the chance to be in another final. It\u2019s something we\u2019ve been working for and it\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy. I always try to do my job. We go through ups and downs. I\u2019m very happy about the season I\u2019ve had but it\u2019s about ending it on a high. Four Premier League games to go and a final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Chelsea retain FA Cup hoodoo over old rivals Leeds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Premier League Team of the Week \u2013 Kinsky, Bowen, Jesus <\/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>Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez has said the club\u2019s FA Cup semi-final winner against Leeds was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","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\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}