Chelsea 5-2 Leicester: Torres brace helps Chelsea cruise through

FERNANDO Torres finally ended his scoring drought with a brace yesterday as Chelsea reached the FA Cup semi-finals with a comfortable victory over Leicester.

Early goals from Gary Cahill and Salomon Kalou set the Stamford Bridge side on their way as Roberto Di Matteo maintained his 100 per cent winning start to his tenure as Chelsea manager.

Torres added the third after 67 minutes to end a spell of 25 hours 41 minutes of football for Chelsea without scoring. His second came five minutes from time as he flicked home a near-post header with Raul Meireles also scoring in the last minute.

Jermaine Beckford and Ben Marshall grabbed consolation goals for Leicester, who will now concentrate on trying to make the npower Championship play-offs.

Chelsea started well with Torres looking lively from the outset and it didn’t take long for them to take the lead with Cahill heading home after 12 minutes. The ex-Bolton player celebrated by revealing a shirt supporting former team-mate Fabrice Muamba.

Torres was again involved in Chelsea’s second, setting up Kalou to slot past Schmeichel.

The moment the home supporters had waited for cameafter 67 minutes when Torres scored his first goal in over 25 hours, following a Meireles’ pass

The goal seemed to kill the game as a contest but Beckford gave the away support something to cheer when he netted after 77 minutes. Torres then scored his second goal to restore the three-goal margin before Leicester substitute Ben Marshall bent a superb effort past Cech. In the 90th minute, Torres unselfishly set up Meireles for number five.