 All right, welcome back to the Sports Mag Zone. We pick up with football. Carbo Cup, first leg semifinal action got on the way earlier on Tuesday with championship outfit Middlesbrough. Hosting Premier League side Chelsea at the Riverside Stadium in a game shown live on Sports Mags 2. Here are the highlights. Madaway Ke, seen quite a lot of the ball down this right-hand side for Chelsea. His skip round clock and he's found a gap. Madaway Ke. And that is a crucial touch. I think it was from Dale Fry. Lifted in there and glanced over the top by Levi Colwell. Oh, Hausen's gifted it straight to Col Palmer. And somehow he has missed. He has impressed and probably the pick of Middlesbrough signings this summer. Here's Jones. Can he get the ball right? Coburn's up there with him and Hackney's arriving. On a yellow card. And just the fact that they spin a ball into that channel, knowing that his eye Jones has got pace, he's got ability. And he just brilliantly, really does. It's a great cut that point. You have to credit the fact that Hayden Hackney makes the decision to go and get into the box, be the second strikeout. That's a good challenge from Kaisedo Palmer. He's the furthest man forward, bringing Madaway Ke into play. Madaway Ke lashes it wide. Kaisedo, what a ball. It's Col Palmer. Surely this time, Glover makes the save. Colwell. Enzo Fernandez. It's a good looking cross. Madaway Ke's had a... Madaway Ke, Gallagher and Sterling in the middle. It'll come in now from Gusto. It's a poor cross but breaks kindly for Gallagher. One step closer. It is Advantage Middlesbrough in the race for Wembley. A win on the night given to them by Hayden Hackney. Whoa. I'm still trying to get over those missed chances from Chelsea. Team Ricardo, you go first. Well, when you're an average team, you produce average results. And that's what we've seen from Chelsea, this entire campaign. It's difficult to ask a team that does not have the quality all-round to consistently produce high-quality performances. By the way, I think Chelsea will reach the EFL Cup final. So I think they will turn this result around when they get to Stamford Bridge for the second leg. Well, you have to say that there's a big Chelsea fan standing in front of you. Oh, that's fine. That doesn't matter really. Neither the fan nor Chelsea. Oh, my. I even made the comment off-air that Lanskis scored that with his injured leg. There are so many missed chances. And here's the deal. The truth is, maybe Cole Palmer some slack. He's been in fabulous form this season for Chelsea. Maybe the one shining light in front of goal, eight goals, four assists in the Premier League. Today had a couple of opportunities that on another day he would have put away quite comfortably. On another day, Cole Palmer would have scored a double and Chelsea would have won this game today. Not the case. But you have to believe that as inconsistent as they have been this campaign, they have the beating of this Middlesbrough team. And when they go to Stamford Bridge, they have more than enough to turn it around. That's just the way I see it. I can't see Chelsea not going on to win this time. Yeah, the second leg will be very different. Yeah, I would think that Chelsea will correct what went wrong today for them because today was an absolute shocker. You know, Middlesbrough were without 12 of their first team players today. So this was a short staffed Middlesbrough team. But Lance, it's the same thing that has been going wrong for the entire campaign. Yes. They don't put away enough of their chances on days when they create them. Today they created so many, Lance and Mariah. And as I said, chances on another day this could have been 4-1 comfortably. Yeah. Today it ends up being 1-0 for Middlesbrough. Yeah, well, two things. The Middlesbrough effort today was described as a counter-attacking masterclass because that's what they did today. They soaked up pressure, defended as best as they could. It's only a masterclass because they ended up winning them. Well, that's why it's described as a masterclass because they won. No, but they did not prevent Chelsea from creating clear-cut opportunities. So I'm not sure if I would call it a masterclass. But they're goalkeeper with it. But some of the Chelsea missed chances were good goalkeeping. No, that's what I wanted to say. At least a few of them. So can you please show us the chances again? Most of those were poor finishing and nothing to do with high-quality goalkeeping. I think it went down to high-quality goalkeeping because there were so many chances. No, there were a few of them. Can we see a couple of those chances, please? Did you see that last one? Just now. Have a look. Well, no, that's not a good example. That doesn't count. Let's have a look at this. There were a few. Close-palm scores that. Exactly. The goalkeeper goes on the right, please. No, that's way too close to the goalkeeper. That should be curling around him. But it didn't. And even if he comes up with the save, it should be a significantly tougher save than that. That's a poor finish. Michael Carrick's coaching acumen doesn't get in the stripes for this result. It's a good result. But I think sometimes we shouldn't fool ourselves by thinking, okay, so maybe that was the best way for middlers to survive. They went out there. They got men behind the ball. And as much as possible, they tried to stop Chelsea. The point I'm making is Chelsea still created good enough chances that if you have decent strikers, you put those away and you win this game. That's not in this view. So you think the loss came down to Chelsea's own doing. Like it had nothing to do with Middlesbrough playing a good game. It had less to do with Middlesbrough's tactics and more to do with Chelsea's lack of quality in front of goal. I don't think I could argue too much against that. But I think I'm giving Middlesbrough a little bit more credit and Ricardo is giving them. Because they worked really hard today. With a short-stop team. They all worked really hard, Lance. They all worked really hard. Chelsea worked really hard today too. They just let the quality to put the chances away. All right, so a 1-0 win there for Middlesbrough against Chelsea. All right, producer, it's saying we need to take a quick break, but we're coming right back. We still have to continue. We'll be right back for you.