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Liam Rosenior has been in an unforgiving spotlight, with Chelsea's string of defeats including a heavy Champions League loss to Paris St-Germain, along with a desperately disappointing display in their most recent Premier League game, a 3-0 defeat at Everton. In the intervening period, Rosenior has had to deal with Enzo Fernandez and Marc Cucurella openly discussing a potential future away from Stamford Bridge. Rosenior, therefore, will be greatly relieved at the manner in which Chelsea produced a professional performance to deny Port Vale a fairytale Wembley trip and spare him more headaches.
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Chelsea 7-0 Port Vale: What Rosenior and Tosin said
Chelsea are the first team to score seven or more goals in an FA Cup quarter-final game since Liverpool beat Birmingham City 7-0 in 2005-06. Chelsea have reached the FA Cup semi-finals for the 28th time, with only Man Utd (32) and Arsenal (30 before their game against Southampton this evening) reaching the final four of the competition on more occasions. Aged 18y 345d, Chelsea's Estevao is the youngest player to both score and assist in an FA Cup game for a Premier League side since Bukayo Saka for Arsenal against Bournemouth in January 2020 (18y 144d).
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