10/03/2002 Tottenham 0 Chelsea 4 Chelsea avenged their 5-1 Worthington Cup humiliation in spectacular style and marched into the semi-finals of the FA Cup. Goals from William Gallas, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Graeme Le Saux and Gudjohnsen again settled a red-hot tie to leave the Blues celebrating and effectively end Tottenham's season. Not even the dismissal of Le Saux after 76 minutes for a second bookable offence - a wild tackle on substitute Mauricio Taricco - could spoil the day for Chelsea, who returned to winning ways against Spurs, having now lost just once to them in their last 29 meetings. It was Chelsea's killer touch in front of goal which made all the difference in an ill-tempered affair, and it helped erase their bitter memories of that stunning defeat at White Hart Lane in the semi-final, second leg, of the other domestic cup six weeks ago. To make matters worse for Spurs, there were fifth bookings of the season for Les Ferdinand and Teddy Sheringham, which means manager Glenn Hoddle will lose both his first choice strikers for their league game at Fulham in a fortnight. Their other concern should be the fact they have conceded eight goals in their last two games, and a large slice of the blame rests with out-of-sorts Neil Sullivan. Chelsea took the lead after 11 minutes thanks to an error from the Spurs goalkeeper. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink curled in a corner from the left, which Sullivan flapped at, helping it on to the far post. Mario Melchiot knocked the ball back across the face of the goal and Gallas bundled it home from close range. Spurs skipper Sheringham has suffered from a dip in form recently, and he should have done better from a free-kick just outside the Chelsea box after 25 minutes. The free-kick was only four yards outside the box and Sheringham usually finds the target from there, but he hit a woeful shot over the bar. Two minutes later, Sullivan almost got Spurs into deeper trouble. Hasselbaink played a neat one-two with Gudjohnsen and as the goalkeeper hesitated before coming off his line the Dutch striker hooked his shot against the top of the bar from 12 yards. Spurs came within inches of an equaliser after 38 minutes when Darren Anderton crossed from the right and Ferdinand saw his downward header come back off the far post with Carlo Cudicini beaten. That was to be their one and only real hope of a goal, and the game quickly slipped away from them. Chelsea doubled their lead three minutes after the break. Le Saux hoisted a long ball forward, and as the Tottenham defence stepped up Gudjohnsen was left all on his own with a clear run at goal. The cool Icelandic international made no mistake as he carried the ball inside the area and drilled it past Sullivan. Hoddle and the Tottenham bench were convinced the goal should have been disallowed for offside, and their team were left with a mountain to climb. The game was put beyond their reach, however, after 54 minutes, when former England defender Le Saux scored Chelsea's third goal to send his team soaring towards the semi-finals. Tim Sherwood lost possession on the edge of the box to Le Saux, who calmly drilled the ball past Sullivan. Hoddle made his last throw of the dice after 61 minutes, replacing Dean Richards with Sergei Rebrov. The loss of Richards left Spurs exposed at the back and Gudjohnsen punished them with the fourth breakaway goal after 65 minutes. Spurs lost possession on the halfway line and Gudjohnsen raced clear before again slotting the ball past Sullivan. Hoddle withdrew the tired Anderton after 74 minutes and replaced him with Taricco, and the Argentinian defender was to have a dramatic effect on the game two minutes later. He was wildly fouled by Le Saux, who was shown a second yellow and then a red card. Frank Lampard was lucky to escape with a yellow card two minutes into injury time for an over-the-top tackle on Taricco, and seconds later the final whistle signalled the start of Chelsea's celebrations and chants of "easy" from the away end.