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Another week, another Patrick Bamford goal. The England Under-21 striker netted for the fifth time in six matches as Middlesbrough roared towards the top end of the Championship and the young Chelsea loanee continued to hit the headlines. We begin with him before checking in on a landmark day in the Bundesliga for Thorgan Hazard. Headliners Bamford has earned the complete trust of manager Aitor Karanka over the last half…
Chelsea extended their lead at the top of the Under-18 Premier League’s South table with a 2-1 victory over second-placed Leicester City in the last home league match of 2014 on Saturday. Goals in either half from Isaac Christie-Davies and Charly Musonda ensured three points for Joe Edwards’ boys despite a Leicester effort from Brandon Fox and a fractious end to the match caused almost entirely by one of the…
Chelsea began the defence of their latest FA Youth Cup in hard-working fashion with a battling 2-0 win away to Leeds United. The Under-18s have played and will play better but a performance full of grit, spirit and fight overcame a red card to goalkeeper Brad Collins to triumph 2-0 at Elland Road courtesy of a first half Izzy Brown penalty and a late clincher from Dominic Solanke. Joe Edwards,…
For the third time in five years Chelsea enter the FA Youth Cup looking to defend their title. In the intermittent years between successes they’ve reached the Semi Final and Final respectively before falling to Manchester United and Norwich in a bid to achieve the first back-to-back successes in the competition since Liverpool achieved the feat in 2006 and 2007. This year’s Blues squad is arguably as well-set to finally…
Patrick Bamford’s third goal in four matches and definitive proof that Marko Marin not only exists but is actually contributing in a meaningful fashion for Fiorentina are this week’s Loan Report lead stories, with everything elsewhere remaining much the same as you’re used to. Headliners Bamford took a little while to settle at Boro and has a host of very handy strikers to compete with but it was something he…
As we get set to embark on a 63rd FA Youth Cup campaign, many people may not realise that Chelsea have a rather proud history in the competition. The Blues might well have won three of the last five iterations of the prestigious tournament and will be favourites to reach a fourth final in succession but, if you trace their roots back to the fledgling days of the cup in…
The first Loan Report of the post-international window will read much like those that preceded it. Patrick Bamford scored again for Middlesbrough whilst everybody else ranged from involved without being spectacular to being completely anonymous as per usual. Headliners At least we can hang our hat on Bamford, for the time being at least. He was left on the bench for their trip to Wigan but was introduced to the…
Chelsea remain very much at the business end of the Under-18 Premier League South Division after an emphatic 3-0 victory over Arsenal at Cobham on Friday. A goal in each half from Dominic Solanke and an 18th of the season by Tammy Abraham in between secured a supremely impressive three points for the Blues and went a long way to avenging a painful 5-1 reverse at London Colney back in…
Chelsea’s Under-18s ensured that the first ever lice televised league youth team fixture broadcast on Chelsea TV lived up to the standards previously exhibited by the younger age group by sealing a dramatic 3-2 win over Fulham on Friday night. Under the floodlights of Cobham on a cold and misty November evening Joe Edwards’ young Blues flew out of the traps and were two goals to the good early on….
It’s hardly been a stellar first third of the season as far as Chelsea’s young loan army are concerned. Now sure, it’d be unfair to compare things to the 2013-14 campaign when a record-breaking 126 goals were scored by more than thirty players at in excess of forty clubs; that sort of production simply isn’t achievable on a consistent basis. Yet as winter draws ever closer and the January transfer…