Chelsea thrashes Man City 5-1 to reach FA Cup quarterfinals

I also want to thank the management.

West Ham will appeal the red card shown to Cheikhou Kouyate during the FA Cup fifth round win over Blackburn Rovers.

Chelsea, without injured captain John Terry, are at home to Manchester City, with City manager Manuel Pellegrini, threatening to field a weakened team after the FA bowed to demands from broadcasters to move the game from Saturday.

“I think they can do it. Absolutely”, said Rovers boss Paul Lambert when asked of West Ham’s chances of winning the Cup.

“I haven’t seen a better player than that”.

Martin Kelly was Crystal Palace’s unlikely goal-scoring hero as they knocked Premier League high-flyers Tottenham Hotspur out of the FA Cup with a 1-0 fifth-round win at White Hart Lane on Sunday.

The home defence retreated as Moses ran forward to score the equaliser, with not one Blackburn player attempting to stop the on-loan Chelsea winger.

And before half-time West Ham, whose last major trophy was the 1980 FA Cup, were in front through Payet.

In the end, the Nigeria “Super Eagles” global had notched two goals and could have had a couple more as West Ham brushed aside Championship side Blackburn and there was little wonder that the striker met the press with a big grin.

At West Ham, though, intentions are clear.

That puts Everton up 6-4 on aggregate and Chelsea fans will be hoping that their team, who have been turning their season around in recent weeks, can overcome a team that has frustrated them and limited them to just 1 point across two league matches this season.

He put the visitors ahead with a trademark free-kick, arcing the ball over the Rovers wall from nearly 30 yards and into the corner.

He certainly did and he had some special words for that man Payet, who supplied a superb pass for his second goal.

“We had some great performances out there”, manager Alan Pardew said.

Slaven Bilic is concerned he does not have the required vocabulary to properly describe the importance of Dimitri Payet to his West Ham team.

“We should have scored ten goals maybe”.

“Up until the second goal I thought we were doing really well”. With the wind in their sails, it was almost five as Emenike missed out on a hat-trick, rattling the woodwork from an acute angle.

Six minutes later Moses levelled, however, when he ran at a backpedalling defence and drilled low past Jason Steele from 25 yards and Payet scored the Hammers’ second from similar range with a precise free-kick.