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Many of the three major cup competitions in England are the Community Shield, the English League Cup, and the FA Cup, and for many teams that have no hope of competing for the top 4 in the league, winning one of these three major cup competitions may also be a comfort to fans. That's what Chelsea, who are currently 10th in the league, have just reached the fourth round of the FA Cup, and in the EFL Cup quarter-finals they thrashed Newcastle United in the semi-finals of the EFL Cup, where they faced Middlesbrough side from the Championship.
Middlesbrough has not appeared in the Premier League for a long time, and the current coach is the former Manchester United legend Carrick, in fact, last season to coach this team, Carrick is showing good coaching skills, but unfortunately the team unfortunately lost to Luton in the lift play-offs, missed the promotion of the Premier League, and this game against Chelsea, what people did not expect is that Carrick actually led this Middlesbrough team to create surprises again!
In the first minute, Chelsea's backline almost gave a big gift, Colwill's header was too light, and Myburgh striker Tra made a steal and fired a low shot that was saved by Petrovic. However, Middlesbrough suddenly suffered from injury problems, including Terra and left-back Bangura were injured early, but in such an unfavorable situation, it was Myburgh's side who scored first!In the 37th minute, it was a sudden long ball from the backfield, Myburgh striker Jones shook off Colwill to send a cross ball, and Hanik in the box flanked it in place to grab the spot, and Chelsea trailed Middlesbrough 0-1 before half-time.
With 72 per cent possession on the ball, the symptoms of Chelsea's attacking weakness are all too obviousBefore half-time, even Palmer staged an empty goal, and in the case of less and less time, manager Pochettino could only replace the senior striker Armando Broja, and winger Mudryk to give it a go, but unfortunately the attack still did not change much, and finally Chelsea lost 0-1 to Middlesbrough, and it was a big upset in the first leg of the English League Cup!
Chelsea's starting XI is worth 4As much as 600 million euros, while Middlesbrough only has 30.4 million euros, it can be said that Carrick has created another famous scene in charge!There has always been a saying in football that players born in midfield are generally not too bad after transforming into coaches, such as Zidane, Xavi, Guardiola, Arteta, and Carrick may be expected to be next.
In fact, after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's resignation, Carrick took over as interim manager of Manchester United in a few games, it was a good performance, and last season in Middlesbrough he coached quite well, although the current Middlesbrough team has been hollowed out of the main force, resulting in the ranking falling to 12th in the Championship, but with this performance of beating Chelsea, it can be seen that they are still expected to be promoted to the Premier League.