Boss’s delight for Srivaddhanaprabha family as Leicester reach semis

A serendipitous encounter between Leicester City and Manchester United presented the Foxes with assured tickets to a semi-final at the Wembley Stadium.

Leicester City is just two games away from attaining major silverware this season. They are almost at the brink of writing their names in the history books again. However, to achieve that they need to win both their games in the domestic competition. The FA Cup semi-finals will be played at the Wembley Stadium on 17th April.

This past weekend the East Midlands side hosted fellow contenders, Manchester United, at the King Power Stadium for a quarter-final knockout match. The speculations were up in the air if the Foxes can, with a herculean effort, end the Red Devil’s 14 games unbeaten run in all competitions.

The draw for the semis took place at the King Power during the halftime of the quarter-finals. Southampton was drawn out and set to face the winners of Leicester City v Manchester United (Both the teams have scored nine goals against them in their recent past).

The score was one all at the half and no extra points in guessing who the pundits favored. The skepticism was quickly washed off by the 78th minute of the match, when Leicester City went 3-1 up leaving Manchester United behind. Unable to recover, United was knocked out of FA Cup when the final whistle blew.

Leicester City is heading to their first FA Cup semi-finals after 40 years. The club is infamous for losing four finals in the competition; no other team has made it to the big game that many times without lifting the trophy once. Certainly the gaffer and the squad would love nothing more than to write their names in the record books this season.

The Foxes manager Brendan Rodgers spoke to media during his post-match press conference after the quarter-finals. Here is what he had to say:

"“We’ll look forward to it, any semi-final is always going to be a tough team you play, Southampton are a very good side that’s why they are there as well. It’s a little while to go for that.”“I said to the players before: ‘You are three games away from playing in history, and when you have the chance to do that, you have to give everything you can to create it.’ It’s now down to two games. You have to respect every opponent. If you get to the semi-finals you’re going to be playing a good team.’“We knew the draw at half-time but it was irrelevant, you have to look after the game you were in and thankfully we were able to do that.“It would be a great privilege to be there, I left Celtic feeling like a winner and I had the ambition to win again. The club has never won the FA Cup, they have been to four finals and not won it, so to be able to do something like that would be special.“I would be so happy for the owners. Coming to here, it was a competition that was very important for the owners. We are in the semi-final, and have a chance to get to the final, and when it comes, we will fight to achieve that.”Brendan Rodgers, via Leicester Mercury"

The King power club will certainly be favorites against the Saints, but complacency could hurt them. A Leicester win would grant them the finals against Manchester City or Chelsea, who play on the other semi-final bracket.

Rodgers feels that it is an extremely good chance for the Foxes to embark on a journey to the finals of the competition for the first time since 1969. It would certainly mean a lot to him personally as the manager. Furthermore, he hopes to make the fans and the owners partake their share in feeling proud and happy for the team and support them throughout this monumental journey!