Chelsea eased the highlight on supervisor Mauricio Pochettino with a dominant 3-1 win at Aston Villa to succeed in the FA Cup fifth spherical on Wednesday, as Nottingham Forest arrange a conflict in opposition to Manchester United. Conor Gallagher, Nicolas Jackson and Enzo Fernandez struck for the Blues at Villa Park to banish recollections of a 4-2 dwelling defeat to Wolves on Sunday. Chelsea had been booed off by a disgruntled dwelling help on the weekend as Wolves’ rout adopted a 4-1 thrashing at Liverpool every week in the past.

With Pochettino’s males languishing in eleventh within the Premier League, an early FA Cup exit would have additional ramped up the stress on the Argentine.

Pochettino insisted on Tuesday he wouldn’t lose his hair over the stress of the job and was rewarded for some daring calls along with his group choice.

Thiago Silva was dropped to the bench simply hours after his spouse apologised for a social media outburst through which she referred to as for “change” on the membership.

Raheem Sterling was additionally disregarded on an evening when quite a few Chelsea’s costly younger weapons stood as much as be counted.

“I think (it) was one of the best or maybe the best performance of the season,” mentioned Pochettino. “It arrived in a very good moment for us.

“We have a younger group. It’s about being stable and constant and it’s the most troublesome factor in a younger group.”

It was one of the club’s academy graduates who got the ball rolling as Gallagher smashed home from close range for his first goal of the season.

Jackson has been guilty of missing some glaring chances early in his Chelsea career, but was deadly with a downward header from Malo Gusto’s cross to double his side’s lead.

Villa were unbeaten in 17 home Premier League games dating back nearly a year until Newcastle won at Villa Park a week ago.

But Unai Emery’s men have exited both domestic cup competitions limply at home this season.

The tie was over before the hour mark as Fernandez’s stunning free-kick made it 3-0.

Rumours in recent days have suggested the Argentine World Cup winner could be looking for an exit, just over a year since his then British transfer record move from Benfica.

But Fernandez gestured to suggest he is staying put after curling past international teammate Emi Martinez into the top corner.

Pochettino has the chance to mark a difficult first season in charge with his first trophy in English football when Chelsea face Liverpool in the League Cup final on February 25.

And they will be confident of reaching the quarter-finals of the FA Cup when they host second-tier Leeds in the fifth round.

Villa got a consolation goal in stoppage time when Moussa Diaby fired in off the post, but it was too little, too late for the home side.

Forest earned the right to host United in the last 16 but needed penalties to see of Bristol City of the Championship.

Divock Origi fired Forest into an early lead, but Jason Knight shortly levelled for the guests.

City had been then left to rue lacking a bunch of probabilities to win the sport earlier than extra-time and paid the value from the spot as Sam Bell was the one man to fail to attain within the shootout.

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