If there is one thing José Mourinho should know about life at Stamford Bridge these days, it is that kicking away at Eden Hazard gets you only so far. In the end someone has to walk off the set. And so far it has not been Hazard.
As kick-off approached there was genuine burnish of event-glamour about this FA Cup quarter-final, with waves of noise crackling around the Bridge’s steeply-tiered noise-funnel stands. In the event the opening 40 minutes of this slightly wild tie were gripping, bruising theatre; the game shrunk into a miniature drama played out around a clear defensive plan from the visitors: Get Eden.
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