Matchday thread for the FA Cup Semi Final against Dirty Leeds from Wembley.

Win, loss or draw BlueCo Out!

Just end our misery and this sh*t f**k of a season

I’ll need plenty of pints before kick off. I don’t think we’ll beat them.

On 18/04/2026 at 17:36, RMH said:

I’ll need plenty of pints before kick off. I don’t think we’ll beat them.

I think we will get battered.

Leeds will be well up for this, it's been 45 years since they had a cup semi final and, of course, they hate us. They smell our blood in the water.

We need to do a poll to predict how badly we are going to get beaten.

On 19/04/2026 at 05:06, RMH said:

I’ll need plenty of pints before kick off. I don’t think we’ll beat them.

No amount of alcohol will be enough for me to muster enough courage to watch this game. 🙃

What pubs are people going to before the game?

Leeds are dirty,

we are sh*t,

who the hell is winning this?

A real possibility that this is our last meaningful game of the season. Leave it all out on the pitch. Start Essugo and Acheampong for f**k's sake.

Win. The away and travelling fans deserve better

Sanchez

Acheampong, Adarabioyo, Sarr, Hato

Essugo, Santos ©

Kavuma-McQueen, Palmer (or Reggie Walsh if Palmer is not fit), Derry

Guiu

Bench: Sharman-Lowe, Gusto, Cucurella, Chalobah, Caicedo, Walsh (Lavia if Walsh plays), Neto, Garnacho, Mheuka

Edited April 22Apr 22 by Sexyfootball

I’ll go for Leeds 3-1 here. Ordinarily would have gone to the game but I shan’t be wasting my money until this ownership admit to their mistakes and get rid of the sporting directors who are largely responsible for this catastrophe.

Rather lose this than lose yet another fa cup final and get pumped by city

9 minutes ago, Zeta said:

Rather lose this than lose yet another fa cup final and get pumped by city

Nah there’s always a chance. Especially if Rosenior is gone, the u21 manager got a well deserved draw at the Etihad.

If Rosenior is still in charge for the semi final, I can’t see anything other than a comfortable Leeds win.

Im expecting a much changed team if Rosenior is still in place. He clearly feels let down by the players last night. He will where permitted select others from the squad where possible. Gawd knows what formation he will play or what tactical measures he will deploy and hes tried a few unusual ones.

I think if we can get to penalties after holding Leeds 0-0 we have a chance.😂

If Rosenior is relieved of his duties, then Callum whats his name will attempt to get a normal performance out of a normal squad. And lose 1-0.

Happy days. Thank you Blue Co.

After every game for the last few weeks, I have been vowing, that's it, I'm done - I'm not watching any more this season. Sure many of us feel the same and last night seemed like the straw that broke the camels back.

But this is an FA Cup semi-final against Leeds of all teams, so of course we will watch it. But if the line up is not drastically changed from last night and I see ANY of: Gusto, Fofana, Enzo, Garnacho, Neto, Delap, Guiu, Tosin, then there's a fair chance I might just go and do a bit of gardening instead and save all the stress and anger. Would like to see Sanchez dropped as well but what are the options?

Sanchez

Josh, Trev, Sarr, Hato

Essugo, Caicedo

Estevao, Palmer, Derry

JP

1 hour ago, The Boehly Babes said:

Sanchez

Josh, Trev, Sarr, Hato

Essugo, Caicedo

Estevao, Palmer, Derry

JP

Not with a torn hamstring.

A small part of me wants Rosenior to be here for this game. After his big words about the players yesterday I’m curious to see if he has the balls to finally drop some of our consistently underperforming players (hi Wesley!) and give players like Josh, Derry and Mheuka a real chance. Probably not, though

One thing Farke has drilled into Leeds is front-foot aggression. They are going to fly at us.

2 hours ago, dermott said:

Not with a torn hamstring.

I would start an Estevao with a torn hamstring over either Garnacho or Neto.

Chris Mac is gonna win the whole damn competition!

Hopefully the away fans can add a few rounds of "f*ck off McFarlane, f*ck off Kinetic" to the BlueCo and Eghbali ones.

If we actually want to try and win this game then have the puppet set up to attack:

Sanchez

James

Chalobah

Colwill

Cucurella

Caicedo

Santos

Walsh

Palmer

Joao Pedro

Derry

8 hours ago, Nibs said:

After every game for the last few weeks, I have been vowing, that's it, I'm done - I'm not watching any more this season. Sure many of us feel the same and last night seemed like the straw that broke the camels back.

But this is an FA Cup semi-final against Leeds of all teams, so of course we will watch it. But if the line up is not drastically changed from last night and I see ANY of: Gusto, Fofana, Enzo, Garnacho, Neto, Delap, Guiu, Tosin, then there's a fair chance I might just go and do a bit of gardening instead and save all the stress and anger. Would like to see Sanchez dropped as well but what are the options?

I think you could feed the lawn, attend to the weeds or perhaps some pruning, overhaul the mower or tidy the shed.

I think Leeds 2 Chelsea 0 is a reasonable prediction.