Check out the post-match stats from the Carabao Cup Semi-Final first leg between Middlesbrough and Chelsea:
● Middlesbrough have won all six of their Carabao Cup games so far this season, the longest winning run by a non-Premier League club in the competition since Crystal Palace in 2011-12 (also 6).
● Hayden Hackney became the first Middlesbrough player to score against Chelsea in all competitions since Mark Viduka in August 2006, ending their run of 14 hours and six minutes without a goal against the Blues.
● Chelsea suffered their first defeat against Middlesbrough since August 2006, ending a nine-game winning run in all competitions against them. It’s also their first League Cup defeat against a side from a lower division since October 1999 (0-1 v Huddersfield Town).
● Since the start of last season, no Premier League team has lost more away games in all competitions than Chelsea, with tonight their 21st defeat on the road in that time. Indeed, only Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest (32 each) have lost more overall than Blues since then (31).
● Chelsea have lost the first leg of an Carabao Cup Semi-Final tie for the seventh time. They’ve progressed to the final on two of the last three occasions they’ve done so, with both those defeats coming away from home (v Arsenal in 1997-98 and Tottenham in 2018-19).
● Chelsea had 18 shots in this match – only against Nottingham Forest in September (21) have they had more without scoring in a game this season.