Pedro double leads Chelsea into last four despite Slavia Prague scare

• Chelsea 4-3 Slavia Prague (5-3 agg)

This was the Europa League’s attempt to replicate all the drama, if not necessarily the quality, of the Champions League’s glitzier midweek humdinger. Chelsea emerged from a thrillingly frenetic contest having eventually seen off the threat of Slavia Prague though, having scored four times before the half-hour mark, they would not have envisaged ending up leaning quite so heavily on the narrow victory achieved in the Czech Republic the previous week to progress.

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