Youth & Reserves

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…

Chelsea’s Under-18s got 2018 off to a winning start with a 2-0 triumph away to Reading at Hogwood Park on Saturday morning. The cold weather and heavy pitch made for an unglamorous contest, but Chelsea were the better side throughout, and were able to make good on their superiority with a goal in each half. Marcel Lavinier’s first of the season opened the scoring before half time before Conor Gallagher…