Chelsea are headed to Wembley after a frantic 1-0 win - but will it be against Arsenal or Liverpool?

Tottenham hosted Chelsea in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final on the 12th January. Chelsea headed into the game with a two goal lead over their North London counterparts - leaving Conte and his men with a mountain to climb.

Chelsea hosted the first leg of the clash on the 5th of January, and came away 2-0 winners thanks to an early goal from Kai Havertz before a freak own goal from Ben Davies doubled Chelsea's lead and strengthened their hold on the clash.

The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was the venue for the second leg of the clash, as the North London team looked to turn around their 2-0 aggregate deficit.

Spurs started the game on the backfoot - with Chelsea starting off strongly and looking the most likely to score.

After several attempts on goal, the Blues finally broke the deadlock in the 18th minute thanks to a pinpoint corner from Mason Mount which was 'finished off' by Antonio Rudiger as the ball bounced off the back of his head and into the Tottenham net.

After going 1-0 down Tottenham were awarded with 2 penalties, one in the first half as well one in the second, and both were correctly altered or completely ruled out after a VAR consultation.

The first of the two was changed from a penalty to be a free kick just outside of the box, as the foul was committed about a yard outside the area, before Tottenham's Højbjerg tripped over his own feet just inside the penalty area. VAR analysed the incident and correctly altered the outcome.

The second penalty awarded was overturned entirely, as Andre Marriner incorrectly pointed to the spot after what he thought to be a foul from Kepa on Lucas Moura. Upon inspection by the Video Assistant Referee, Marriner paid a visit to the monitor before announcing that he was wrong and that in fact no foul was committed.

Later on in the second half, Tottenham thought that they had managed to pull one back as Harry Kane slotted home into the bottom corner - before the whistle blew and it was disallowed for being offside. Even though the call was entirely correct, it did spark some confusion on social media as people debated the offside rule, and whether the goalkeeper always counted as the last man or whether it can change depending on a players physical position on the pitch.

After a game full of controversy, Chelsea were victorious and have booked themselves a visit to Wembley on the 27th of February.

Who will Chelsea face in Wembley?

Chelsea, the five time winners of the competition, could face either Liverpool or Arsenal.

Liverpool, joint record eight time winners of the competition, headed into the semi-final on the backfoot as they were without Naby Keita, Sadio Mane and Mohammed Salah as all three players headed off to AFCON just under two weeks ago. As well as three players being away at AFCON, Liverpool are also currently without Divock Origi as well as Thiago Alcantara thanks to the pair being injured.

Arsenal, who have won the competition just twice, also faced a similar issue to that of Liverpool in terms of the absences that they faced as their players headed off to AFCON. As a result of Mohammed Elneny and Thomas Partey being away in Africa, Arsenal are currently struggling for numbers and depth in the midfield. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Nicolas Pepe are two other Gunners that are representing their nations in the African Cup of Nations.

The first leg of the semi-final was played on Thursday evening, as it was originally postponed due to a COVID outbreak in the Liverpool training ground.

Liverpool usually run riot against Arsenal at Anfield - as they did a couple of months ago in a 4-0 thrashing - but this game was different and difficult, as Liverpool were without their spark of creativity in Salah and Mane at the top of the field - which wasn't helped by the not so creative midfield pairing of Jordan Henderson and James Milner.

The game started off with Liverpool dominance and Arsenal seeming to want to soak up the pressure and then hit them on the counter attack in a similar way that Tottenham did to Liverpool a couple of weeks back. The Gunners managed to pull the plan off on a couple of occasions before being quickly and somewhat effortlessly thwarted by a strong Liverpool defence.

Liverpool were given some hope of breaking the deadlock as Granit Xhaka was sent off in the 24th minute following a rash challenge on Diogo Jota that was seen as denying a clear goal scoring opportunity as the Portuguese man would have been through one-on-one with Aaron Ramsdale in the Arsenal net.

Unfortunately for Liverpool, and luckily for Arsenal, Jurgen Klopp's team was unable to take full advantage of their extra man and the score ended 0-0 - meaning that winner takes it all in the second leg at the Emirates Stadium next week.

Jurgen Klopp will feel as if his team missed a great opportunity to put one foot on the hallowed Wembley turf, as Liverpool created a handful of opportunities in the final five minutes of the match - of which one, which was the best opportunity of the game, was sent to row Z as Minamino blasted over the crossbar of Aaron Ramsdale's empty net.

The game ended with Liverpool dominating the statistics - having the ball for 79% of the match and having 17 attempts on goal to Arsenals 3, of which both teams managed to challenge the keeper just once with one shot on target.

The second leg of the clash will be hosted at the Emirates on Thursday 20th January at 7:45pm. The game will also be shown live on Sky Sports in the UK.