Youth & Reserves

A much-changed and generally inexperienced Chelsea Under-18 team went down 1-0 at home to Everton in Barclays Premier Academy League action on Saturday morning in atrocious conditions at Cobham. A solitary strike from striker George Waring in the game’s opening exchanges secured three points for Kevin Sheedy’s visitors in a game they controlled and rarely appeared threatened in. Heavy rain, high winds and a sticky playing surface (having already moved…

Chelsea’s youngsters booked a fifth FA Youth Cup Semi Final berth in six years on Friday night when they overcame a tough and spirited Derby County side 2-1 at Pride Park. Goals from Lewis Baker and Alex Kiwomya ensured a two-legged date with either Hull City or Liverpool in the coming weeks but the hosts were always in the game and hit the woodwork three times on the night. Adi…

Chelsea’s Under-18s suffered a first home defeat of the season on Saturday morning as Southampton claimed a 3-1 win at Cobham.  First half strikes by Bevis Mugabi and Dominic Gape sandwiched an unfortunate own goal from Ola Aina and gave the Saints a commanding lead. Chelsea improved in the second half but could only grab a solitary consolation goal through Ambrose Gnahore.  Adi Viveash was deprived of a handful of…

Chelsea’s second trip to Craven Cottage in the Barclays Under-21 Premier League this season went much the same way as their first as Dermot Drummy’s youngsters lost to a solitary Lasse Christensen goal. The win was thoroughly deserved however and the margin of victory could easily have been greater but for a combination of the hosts’ profligacy and misfortune as they struck the woodwork three times in the second half….

Chelsea suffered just a second domestic Under-18 league defeat of the 2012-13 season on Saturday, and it came at the hands of the only previous team to take all three points from them this campaign. However, whilst league leaders Fulham edged a narrow 2-1 victory at Motspur Park six days before Christmas, they were rampant on a cold and snowy late February morning in the third meeting of the teams…

Chelsea qualified for the Quarter Finals of the NextGen Series after recording a hard-fought 2-0 win away to Barcelona on Wednesday evening. A first-half strike from Islam Feruz gave the Blues a lead they clung onto for dear life during a second half played with ten men after Connor Hunte’s dismissal, but like their senior counterparts have done before, they held on with their backs up against the wall and…