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…
We have three more goals to bring you from Chelsea’s army of loanees in what was a bumper week of action up to and over the Easter Weekend. We begin, as is becoming customary, with Patrick Bamford. Headliners Bamford withdrew from England Under-21 duty with a mild injury requiring a bit of rest and rehabilitation and it meant missing a home match against Germany at his temporary home of Middlesbrough’s…
Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur met for the sixth time across three age groups in little more than a month on Monday but despite the previous meetings being filled with goals aplenty, two hard-working and well-drilled outfits were unable to break the deadlock in what amounted to a 0-0 draw at Staines Town’s Wheatsheaf Park. Be sure to check out Dan Davies’ match gallery by clicking HERE. In front of a…
Chelsea’s hopes of winning the Barclays Under-18 Premier League title this season took a hefty blow on Saturday morning as they fell to a 3-1 defeat at home to Middlesbrough. A brace either side of half time from Junior Mondal with an Alex Pattison effort sandwiched in between kept Boro on course to compete for honours themselves whilst Tammy Abraham’s 33rd goal of the season proved little more than a…