For the first time in 2015 we have a Loan Report in which no goals were scored, but there have been some interesting events in the loanwatch world over the past seven days, not least atop the Championship. Headliners This week saw the promotion race come to something of a hilt as four sides scrapped for two spots. Middlesbrough, with as many as three Chelsea players on loan this season,…
Chelsea returned to Under-21 league action on Thursday evening and they did so with a win, defeating Everton 3-0 courtesy of Jordan Houghton’s opener, a late own goal by former Milton Keynes Dons defender Brendan Galloway which may yet be claimed by Tammy Abraham, who then added a third deep into stoppage time having come off the bench to great effect. With the match coming during a busy period of…
Chelsea have one hand firmly on the grasp of their FA Youth Cup title after coming away from the first leg of this season’s Final with a 3-1 win over Manchester City at the City Football Academy Stadium on Monday night. Tammy Abraham opened the scoring in spectacular style and although Isaac Buckley equalised almost immediately, Abraham’s 36th of the season restored that advantage after twenty minutes and it was…
So here we are again. To accept it as an inevitability would be doing the academy an immense disservice but for the fourth consecutive season and the fifth time in six years, Chelsea are in the FA Youth Cup Final. During that time they’ve won it on three occasions but are yet to successfully retain it, and so the aim against Manchester City over the next two Monday nights is…
As the end of the season moves ever closer, particularly in the English football league, the stakes remain high for a number of Chelsea’s loanees. For Patrick Bamford, the prize of Premier League football next season remains high on the agenda and this week he was up to his usual tricks in trying to drive his team there. Headliners Middlesbrough faced two games in the space of three days and…
Chelsea’s Under-18s returned to winning form in academy league action on Saturday with a 3-1 win over West Bromwich Albion at a sun-baked Cobham. First half goals from Miro Muheim and Iké Ugbo secured an advantage the young Blues never looked like ceding, and Mukhtar Ali capped the performance with a fine late free kick, just before George Cater grabbed a consolation for the visitors. A match day squad featuring…
Chelsea are Under-19 Champions of Europe. The Blues became the first English team to win the UEFA Youth League after beating Shakhtar Donetsk 3-2 in Nyon, Switzerland, on Monday afternoon, with a brace from captain Izzy Brown leading the way and yet another Dominic Solanke effort sandwiched in between, rendering a late first-half own goal by Andreas Christensen and a late Viktor Kovalenki goal as little more than afterthoughts on…
On Monday afternoon Chelsea’s Under-19s will take to the field in the Stade Colovray, a picturesque venue on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland (close to UEFA’s Nyon Headquarters) bidding to become Champions of Europe. Adi Viveash’s young charges square off against Shakhtar Donetsk looking to be crowned UEFA Youth League winners 2014-15 and write a new chapter in what has been a staggeringly successful decade on the pitch…
A familiar duo kick off the latest Loan Report with Patrick Bamford and Bertrand Traore each improving their stock this weekend with more goalscoring antics, and Mario Pašalić weighing in for the first time this term. Headliners Bamford’s 16th league goal of the campaign – his 18th in all competitions – saw him pull level with Fabrizio Ravanelli in the Middlesbrough single-season scoring charts of the past twenty years and…
Chelsea booked their place in the 2014-15 UEFA Youth League Final on Friday afternoon with an emphatic 4-0 win over Roma at the Stade Colovray in Nyon, Switzerland. A three-goal flurry early in the second half was started by Charlie Colkett and swiftly followed by a Dominic Solanke brace – taking him to 33 goals for the season – whilst substitute Tammy Abraham came off the bench to add a…