Chelsea extended their unbeaten Under-21 league run to six matches stretching back to November with a 3-1 win away to Reading at the Madejski Stadium on Monday evening. The majority of the action came early with Tammy Abraham and Jacob Maddox, making his maiden appearance at this level, scoring for the Blues either side of a Tariqe Fosu equaliser. The visitors enjoyed the better of things thereafter, making and spurning…
We didn’t have quite as many goals this week but the one we can bring you belongs to Izzy Brown, and it was his first in senior professional football. Headliners Injuries have struck Vitesse down of late, including a long lay-off for Dominic Solanke, and so Brown has not only been able to enjoy a regular run of starts after his own spell on the sidelines, but on Sunday he…
Chelsea’s Under-18s experienced a frustrating start to the elite stage of their Barclays Under-18 Premier League title challenge on Saturday morning as they let a two-goal lead slip to eventually lose 4-3 away to fellow challengers Manchester City. Dujon Sterling had provided Joe Edwards’ side with an early lead only for Lukas Nmecha to quickly cancel that out with the first of two goals on the day for him. Iké…
Chelsea exited the Barclays Under-21 Premier League International Cup at the Semi Final stage on Thursday evening as they went down 2-1 to PSV Eindhoven at Aldershot’s EBB Stadium. A Kasey Palmer free kick had given the home team a sixth-minute lead but that was wiped out by an own goal midway through the first half, and a Steven Bergwijn goal just before half time proved enough for PSV to…
Southampton and Chelsea met at St Mary’s in Under-21 action three days removed from their respective first teams squaring off at the same venue but the Blues were unable to find the same success as their illustrious counterparts, instead sharing in a 0-0 draw on a frustrating evening on the south coast. Despite making much the better going throughout the match, Chelsea were unable to find a way through and…
The goals continued to come in a steady supply over the last seven days in the land of the Loan Report with a pair of midfielders adding to their respectable tallies for the season. We begin in midweek, where John Swift broke his duck at home for Brentford. Headliners Heading into their clash with Wolves at Griffin Park, Swift had scored four goals this season but they had all come…
Chelsea reached a seventh successive FA Youth Cup Semi Final on Friday night as they emerged victorious against a tough Reading side at Stamford Bridge. Second-half goals from Jay Dasilva and Tammy Abraham were enough to see the Blues to a 2-1 win but they were made to fight for their reward as Axel Andresson scored a late goal for the visitors on a night where there were three missed…
Chelsea’s defence of their UEFA Youth League crown continued on Tuesday afternoon after they overcame Valencia in a tough encounter at Cobham, controversially prevailing on penalties after a 1-1 draw. Jay Dasilva had opened the scoring for Chelsea shortly before half time only for Carlos Soler to immediately peg them back with the first of two penalties in normal time. Ismael Martínez missed the second of those before the match…
With four more goals in this latest edition of the Loan Report we’ve now passed the 50 mark for the season. A pair of players struck their first efforts since the early autumn whilst another grabbed his fifth of the campaign, but we begin with one who scored for the first time in 2015-16. Headliners Reading hosted West Bromwich Albion in an FA Cup Fifth Round tie at the Madejski…
Chelsea’s Under-21s continued their fine recent form with a confident 5-0 victory over Norwich City at Aldershot on Wednesday evening. Early goals from Reece Mitchell and Jordan Houghton established a stranglehold on the game which the Blues never relinquished and they added further to the scoreline in the second half. Kasey Palmer’s 12th of the season put the result beyond doubt before centre-backs Dion Conroy and Fikayo Tomori each added…