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Chelsea’s Development Squad bounced back from defeat at Everton on Monday night to upset title-chasing Leicester with a 1-0 win at Aldershot on Friday evening. A single second-half goal from Daishawn Redan, who was celebrating his seventeenth birthday, proved enough to separate the two teams in a real battle of an affair, with Chelsea having to play with their backs to the wall for long spells. They dug in, defended…

Chelsea’s Development Squad suffered an away defeat on Monday night as they went down 2-1 to Everton at Southport’s Merseyrail Stadium. Fresh off the back of beating Oxford United in the last eight of the Checkatrade Trophy, a result that set up a Semi Final trip to Lincoln City next week, the buoyant Blues were brought back to earth with a bump as a robust and battle-hardened Everton team struck…

A year is a long time in football. In November 2016, Chelsea and Oxford met in the Checkatrade Trophy at Stamford Bridge, and shared a 1-1 draw before going on to partake in the longest penalty shootout in English professional football history. A Blues side featuring Kurt Zouma and Marco van Ginkel ultimately prevailed, but the Blues were eliminated from the competition without recording a win in ninety minutes. Fast…

It wasn’t nearly as impressive as their 7-0 midweek drubbing of West Brom in the FA Youth Cup, but Chelsea’s Under-18s got back to winning ways in the league with a 2-0 win over Norwich City on a soggy Saturday afternoon at Cobham. After being held to a 2-2 draw by Aston Villa on their own patch last weekend, and surrendering their 100% gone record for the campaign with it,…

Chelsea usually save their best for the FA Youth Cup, having won the competition in each of the last four years. On Wednesday evening at Aldershot in the Fourth Round of this season’s competition, they put West Brom to the sword to the tune of a 7-0 mauling that sets up a trip to Tottenham Hotspur in the last sixteen. Marc Guehi, Daishawn Redan (twice), Tino Anjorin and Martell Taylor-Crossdale…

Since the beginning of the 2016-17 season, only one team has prevented Chelsea from winning a home fixture, a run covering twenty-seven matches. Following Saturday’s frustrating 2-2 draw, that remains the case, as Aston Villa once again came to Cobham and denied the Blues all three points once again. It was hardly as if Chelsea played poorly. They took the lead inside of two minutes when Faustino Anjorin applied a…

Chelsea’s Checkatrade Trophy campaign continues after a dramatic 2-1 victory away to Portsmouth in the last sixteen of the competition, with a Charly Musonda brace booking a Quarter Final berth in the most dramatic of fashions. The Belgian had struck on the hour mark to give his team a lead they had fought hard for, having seen off considerable first half pressure, but a stoppage-time equaliser from the evergreen Brett…