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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…
Three more goals take us closer to the milestone of fifty for the Chelsea loanee season to date, with two amongst them notching for the first time this campaign and one marking his maiden strike in professional football. We start with him. Headliners Charly Musonda caught the eye and then some on his Real Betis debut last weekend and continued to get people talking about him by scoring his first…
Chelsea booked their place in the FA Youth Cup Quarter Finals for the seventh year in succession by coming away from AFC Wimbledon’s Cherry Red Records Stadium with a 4-1 win on Tuesday night. The scoreline was a little flattering for a Blues side made to work extremely hard for their reward by. Dons team inspired by wins at Watford and Newcastle get this far and backed by almost 3,500…
The Loan Report exploded into life this weekend with five goals and plenty of sparkling performances to round up for you. Let’s get straight to it. Headliners Andreas Christensen has earned rave reviews so far for his composed, seasoned displays at the heart of the Borussia Mönchengladbach defence since joining on a two-year loan last summer. Goalscoring has however rarely been his forte, with just five goals in his three…
Chelsea’s Under-18s all but secured top spot in the southern section of the Barclays Under-18 Premier League on Saturday after recording a narrow 1-0 victory over Fulham at Cobham. Miro Muheim’s solitary strike means Joe Edwards’ side are now six points clear of Reading in second place and, whilst the Royals have two games remaining to Chelsea’s one, the Blues have a +15 goal difference superiority to effectively claim the…
There were no goals this week on the loan front but there have been a couple of key moves as the January transfer window gets underway, so we’ll dive straight in with a look at those. Headliners The most notable, perhaps, is Patrick Bamford’s temporary departure to Norwich City. Having struggled to make an impact at Crystal Palace in the first half of the season, the 22 year-old forward has…
Chelsea’s Under-18s spurned an early chance to clinch the Southern section title on Saturday morning after going down 2-0 away to Reading, a result that ended a thirteen-match unbeaten run. The Blues remain three points clear with two games remaining, and have already qualified for the Elite round when the competition splits next month, but suffered a frustrating morning in Berkshire as first half goals from Axel Andresson and Joshua…