League duty called for Chelsea’s Under-18s on Friday night as, less than two days after they won a third consecutive FA Youth Cup title, they hosted Liverpool at Aldershot. A brace from Iké Ugbo either side of Liverpool goals from Adam Phillips and Brooks Lennon ensured a 2-2 final score and a deserved reward each for a pulsating game that swung back and forth and was up for grabs right…
First there was thunder, then lightning. There was a brief snow storm at a cup final in late April. But, when it was all said and done, Chelsea won their third consecutive FA Youth Cup title, their fifth in seven years, and their second over Manchester City in succession. Their remarkable run extended into completing back-to-back double doubles, having also retained their UEFA Youth League title in Switzerland last week,…
The headlines in this week’s Loan Report are unfortunately of a negative nature as Todd Kane suffered a serious knee injury that both ends his season and significantly dents his chances of making a dream return to Chelsea. Headliners It’s been a great season for full-back Kane, who had been an ever-present for Eredivisie upstarts NEC Nijmegen and developing into a prospect of some repute. Named the club’s vice-captain, his…
The 2015-16 FA Youth Cup Final is finely poised at the halfway stage following a tight 1-1 draw between Manchester City and Chelsea at the City Academy Stadium on Friday night. Each side enjoyed spells in the ascendancy as the country’s two strongest academies squared off in the showpiece Under-18 occasion for the second year running, and although it was Chelsea who opened the scoring early in the second half…
Barely had they stepped off the coach having returned from Switzerland with their winners’ medals around their neck did preparations for Friday’s FA Youth Cup Final get underway for Chelsea’s academy. Monday’s UEFA Youth League triump against Paris Saint-Germain will live long in the memory as the Blues became the first club in the modern era to retain the premiere UEFA competition for their respective age group, but there’s no…
Chelsea are Under-19 Champions of Europe for the second season running after overcoming Paris Saint-Germain in a dramatic Final at Nyon’s Stade du Colovray on Monday afternoon. Goals from Fikayo Tomori and Kasey Palmer either side of a Yakou Meite equaliser were enough to keep the Lennart Johansson trophy at Cobham for another year but it required a staunch and terrific defensive effort throughout, a Brad Collins penalty save, and…
The Dutch stranglehold over the Loan Report goalscoring action of late was broken this weekend as Michael Hector and Juan Cuadrado tipped us over the 70 mark on the season, fast approaching last season’s final tally of 83. Headliners Hector got things started on Saturday with his second goal of the season and his first in the league for Reading. It came in a losing cause away to Leeds but…
On Monday afternoon Chelsea will take to the field at Nyon’s Stade du Colovray bidding to be the first team of any age level to retain the most prestigious UEFA competition at their respective age group. No senior club side has retained the Champions League since the revamp from the European Cup in 1993 and, although it remains in its infancy, the same can be said of the Under-19 UEFA…
