Leeds United fan Heidi Haigh has criticised the "play-acting and cheating from Chelsea” in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Sunday.
Daniel Farke's hopes of helping the club reach a first FA Cup final since they lost to Sunderland in 1973 were dashed as Brenden Aaronson and Dominic Calvert-Lewin both missed big chances.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about the result, Haigh said: "I'm feeling frustrated really. We didn't set up right in the first half. Chelsea were running rings around us down the wings and we weren't set up well enough to stop them.
"We let them into the game too much in the first half. They were just bypassing our midfield and we just couldn't get a grip of the game. At the end of the day, they had a go and we didn't.
"They got their bounce-back from having a new [interim] manager, which was bad timing from our point of view but good timing from their point of view.
"I'm really sad for the fans who wanted to see us score at Wembley and still haven't seen us score there.
"The other thing that really frustrated me was all the play-acting and cheating from Chelsea, especially with their goalkeeper going down. It is deplorable that, with all their multi-million-pound players, they still had to resort to that to beat us.
"It is the fourth time this season that I've seen a goalkeeper go down with nobody near them. It is a tactic to stifle the game. It's the way modern football seems to be going, but it's something I hate."
