LONDON (AFP) – Fernando Torres scored twice to end a goal drought of nearly five months as Chelsea beat Leicester 5-2 on Sunday to become the first team into the semi-finals of this season’s FA Cup.
First-half goals from Gary Cahill and Salomon Kalou gave Chelsea a 2-0 half-time lead at Stamford Bridge before Spain striker Torres ended his agonising wait of nearly 26 match hours for a goal by scuffing a shot past the second-tier Championship club’s keeper Kaspar Schmeichel.
Jermaine Beckford pulled one back for Leicester in the 77th minute before Torres scored his second with a near post header.
Leicester’s Ben Marshall then unleashed a 30-yard shot past Petr Cech before Torres set up Raul Meireles for Chelsea’s fifth goal in stoppage time.
“I needed those goals,” Torres told ESPN. “I’ve been working so hard to get them.
“Maybe the job of a striker is to score goals and if you don’t do it people think you’re playing badly.
“But the support has been here and I feel the confidence of the manager (Roberto di Matteo) now. We have some important games coming.”
Liverpool play Stoke in Sunday’s other quarter-final.
Both of Saturday’s Cup ties failed to produce a winner with Everton and Sunderland drawing 1-1 while Tottenham’s tie with Bolton Wanderers was abandoned after Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest at White Hart Lane.
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