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FA Cup semi-finals preview

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Arsenal and Liverpool will be confident of setting up a fourth FA Cup Final meeting when they face Reading and Aston Villa, respectively, in the semi-finals at Wembley at the weekend. Reading will be firmly in the underdog role when they take on Arsenal in the first semi-final in what will seem like Rocky coming up against Apollo Creed for the first time. Reading, though, will be hoping for a different outcome from that fight when it was the favourite and title holder who actually won. It therefore promises to…

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Chelsea beat Manchester United thanks to Demba Ba’s touch of brilliance

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Rafael Benitez’s team booked a semi-final clash against Manchester City at Wembley after overcoming the runaway league leaders in the quarter-final replay As expected, both managers made wholesale changes to the teams that started in league clashes less than 48 hours previously. Sir Alex trumped Benitez in the rotation stakes by bringing in seven new players to the Chelsea manager’s six, although Wayne Rooney was surprisingly not one of them. The forward was omitted from the United match-day squad with what Sir Alex claimed was a groin injury picked up…

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