Chelsea drew with “Hollywood” Wrexham United in the fifth round of the FA Cup, a match that will be played away from home in March.
The draw for the fifth round of the FA Cup has ended, with Chelsea taking Wrexham away.
After comfortably defeating Hull City in Friday night’s fourth round tie, the Blues will travel to Wales to face an up-and-coming side in the Championship.
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Owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and ‘Rob Mack’, the Welsh side have risen from non-league to Championship play-off contention. No matter how you look at this project, it’s making incredible progress.
Chelsea prepare for interesting game on the rise of Welsh football
Co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, Wrexham.
Cup ties continue to be drawn away from home this season: as far as we know, Lincoln, Hull City, Cardiff, Wolves and Charlton are all away. Our only home game was the two-legged tie in the Carabao Cup semi-final against Arsenal.
However, judging from the results of the draw, it was a very interesting draw.
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Two years ago, Chelsea faced Wrexham in pre-season and ended up drawing 2-2 as Enzo Maresca prepared for his only season in charge. From then on, they continued climbing.
You can see highlights from the game in the clip embedded here:
In other news…
People are desperately trying to find good things to say about Liam Delap’s performance against Hull City on Friday, including the staff of the London is Blue podcast.
Chelsea’s expected goals output this season has been outstanding, but they are well behind Arsenal in the table as the Gunners excel in an equally important statistic. The Blues need to be ready in this category to catch up.
Mamadou Sarr made his Chelsea debut on Friday but it was interesting to hear some of the comparisons made to him from past teammates.
