Come on, you didn’t expect to find an upset here did you? This was always going to be a question of how many? Had Frank Lampard not been able to ease into the fourth round, against the side sitting seventh in League Two, then he really would have found himself deserving of the scrutiny he is under.
As it is, Chelsea ’s win could well be the confidence boost he and his players need - with the club ninth in the Premier League - going into the second half of the season.
For much of the first half it wasn’t pretty. Morecambe would actually have gone ahead had calamity keeper Kepa not scrambled to prevent a cross-shot from Adam Phillips from humiliating him.
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