Late Hazard strike sends Chelsea through to semi-finals
Eden Hazard came off the substitutes' bench to send Chelsea into the Carabao Cup semi-final at the expense of Bournemouth. A foot injury meant Hazard was not risked from the start, but he came on with 30 minutes to go and scored a deflected effort six minutes from time to settle Wednesday's quarter-final at Stamford Bridge. Hazard's 10th goal of the season earned a 1-0 win to keep Maurizio Sarri's hopes of his first managerial silverware alive and ended the Cherries' bid for a first League Cup semi-final place. The fixture was a repeat of the same stage of the same competition a year ago. Then Dan Gosling's 89th-minute equaliser was rendered irrelevant by Alvaro Morata's stoppage-time winner in Chelsea's 2-1 victory. Both sides made six changes, with Bournemouth fielding a three-man defence, five-man midfield and a frontline which included Callum Wilson, who has been linked with a January move to Stamford Bridge. Chelsea, as expected, dominate...