1965 Football League Cup Final

The first leg took place on March 15, 1965, at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's home ground. Chelsea took the lead in the match twice, first through Bobby Tambling and then through a penalty kick by captain Terry Venables, but Leicester City equalised on both occasions, via defender Colin Appleton and forward Jimmy Goodfellow. With ten minutes left, Chelsea's Eddie McCreadie received the ball on the edge of his own penalty area and went on a sixty-yard run, dribbling past several Leicester players before slotting the ball past goalkeeper Gordon Banks. The match ended 3–2 in Chelsea's favour. This was in spite of the fact that Chelsea only had ten players on the pitch for most of the match, after Allan Young–– in his first and only appearance of the season–– had suffered an early injury.[1] (Substitutions were not allowed at the time.)

McCreadie was actually Chelsea's starting left-back by trade; however, due to an injury to forward Barry Bridges, Chelsea manager Tommy Docherty had been forced to deploy McCreadie as an emergency forward, instead of in his usual spot, for the first leg.[1]

McCreadie's goal in the first match would ultimately prove to be the difference in the tie. The second leg was played at Leicester's Filbert Street on April 15 and ended in a 0–0 draw, giving Chelsea a 3–2 aggregate win and the League Cup championship. Although the Foxes applied strong pressure and were in control of much of the match, Leicester were unable to make a critical breakthrough in their home leg, as both sides kept clean sheets. Chelsea centre-halves Frank Upton and John Mortimore–– neither of whom had played in leg one–– performed admirably in the second leg and were instrumental in preventing Leicester from creating chances.[1]

For Chelsea, this marked the first-ever domestic cup title in the club's history (they would not win their first FA Cup until 1970).

GK 1 Gordon Banks RB 2 Clive Walker LB 3 Richie Norman MF 4 Bobby Roberts CH 5 John Sjoberg CH 6 Colin Appleton (c) W 7 Billy Hodgson IR 8 Graham Cross FW 9 Jimmy Goodfellow IL 10 David Gibson W 11 Mike Stringfellow Manager: Matt Gillies

GK 1 Peter Bonetti CH 2 Marvin Hinton FB 3 Eddie McCreadie FB 4 Ron Harris CH 5 John Mortimore CH 6 Frank Upton OR 7 Bert Murray MF 8 John Boyle FW 9 Barry Bridges MF 10 Terry Venables (c) OL 11 Bobby Tambling Manager: Tommy Docherty

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