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Chelsea’s Under-21s endured a frustrating evening at Aldershot’s EBB Stadium on Friday night as they went down to a 3-0 Premier League Under-21 International Cup defeat at the hands of Benfica. Goals from Diogo Goncalves, Joao Carvalho and Ruben Dias were sufficient to claim victory against an experimental Blues side featuring a number of players who, for one reason or another, haven’t had as much football as they would have…

Chelsea remain top of the Barclays Under-18 Premier League after a resounding 5-0 victory over Swansea City at Cobham on Saturday. The gulf in class between the Blues and the Category One newcomers was clear throughout and goals from Mukhtar Ali, Isaac Christie-Davies, two from Jacob Maddox and a first at this level for Malakai Hinckson-Mars ensured a suitably comprehensive final score, and it could easily have been more. Swansea…

Chelsea and Tottenham shared twenty-seven goals in five meetings at Under-18 level last season and, on Saturday morning at Hotspur Way, there was more of the same as the Blues edged a seven-goal thriller. Mukhtar Ali opened the scoring but strikes either side of half time by Ryan Loft and Charlie Owens turned the contest in the hosts’ favour. Chelsea responded well though, equalising through Isaac Christie-Davies before Ali and…

At the end of the summer transfer window Charly Musonda, who had been expected to go out on loan only for a number of factors to ultimately go against him, told the Belgian press of a positive discussion with Jose Mourinho in which he came away with the impression that there would be some first team minutes for him this season. At the end of a week in which the…

Chelsea’s Under-18s surrendered their unbeaten start to the 2015-16 season on Saturday morning as they went down to a 2-0 defeat away to West Ham United. In many ways the result demonstrated the unpredictable week-to-week proposition that is academy football as, although the Hammers had get to win themselves coming into the fixture, first-half goals from Declan Rice and Idris Kanu proved enough to get them off and running whilst…