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Write-up by Giorgio Pirelli

The last two games of the FA Cup quarter finals have been played on Sunday with the most enjoyable game of the two being at Reading.

The property group, struggling in the Championship had been getting a wonderful run in the cup, and it looked like continuing as they went in at the interval 2- ahead, with each objectives coming from promising youthful striker, Shane Extended. Items looked down and out for Aston Villa at the break, but they arrived out for the second 50 percent with a entire load of refreshing vitality. Vitality that noticed them shatter Reading’ s hopes for a area in the semis with three ambitions in the area of ten minutes early in the half that saw Reading’s lead disappear as quickly as it had arrive. England World Cup Squad hopeful Ashley Youthful notched up the first, and then Villa’s giant Norwegian born striker manufactured his indelible mark on the game by scoring a rapid brace to set the amber and claret soccer uniforms quite significantly in the driving seat. Villa’s wonderful comeback was sealed in stoppage time as Carew finished his hat-trick from the penalty spot soon after he had been fouled by Reading’s Ingimarsson. Villa are possessing a excellent season by their standards, in the Semi Finals as effectively as very a lot in the working for that hugely essential fourth place in this season’s Premier League. March will be a really decisive month for them, and items are searching good for them. Yesterday’s win was amazingly the 1st that the club had had in the month of March considering that Martin O’Neil became manager of the club in 2006.The other semi noticed John Terry and Chelsea taking on the less glamorous but tough operating Stoke Metropolis facet at Stamford Bridge. Terry has been very a lot in the headlines in the very last number of weeks and for all the wrong factors. His performances on the field in the previous handful of weeks have also been significantly less than impressive, but yesterday he set in a sound efficiency and even scored the decisive 2nd goal in Chelsea’s reasonably simple two- win.Frank Lampard, who is hitting some pretty good sort as the time progresses, opened the scoring for Chelsea, hammering in a potent drive form much more than twenty yards. Chelsea designed a quantity of chances, some of which they really should have taken advantage of prior to Terry sealed the victory with a normal header from Lampard’s corner. Stoke almost never threatened, with the only true opportunity coming from one particular of Rory Delap’s famous long array throw ins. Ex-Chelsea player Robert Huth’s headed it on, and Mamady Sidibe flicked his header in from shut array when it looked less difficult to score. What was apparent to all in attendance is that Chelsea have a true issue with their alternative keeper Hilario, in for the injured Peter Cech. Far better teams will give this Portuguese veteran a genuinely tough time, and one of them will definitely be Aston Villa who will meet Chelsea at Wembley in the 1st semi-final. Portsmouth will play possibly Tottenham of Fulham in the other. There was also some Premier league action yesterday with Everton pushing Hull beneath the red line with a crushing five-one residence win. Spanish star Mikel Arteta marked his latest return from injury by scoring two targets for the Toffees. Other scorers for the Goodson Park Club had been American Land on Donovan, and promising young player Jack Rodwell. Hull’s Richard Garcia also chipped in with an very own aim for the blues, even though teenager Tom Cairney scored Hull’s solitary energy at the correct finish of the park, equalizing with a exceptional volley

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