Youth Team

Bamford, Kane and Chalobah Star For England U19′s

It’s been a quiet week so far, yet we did have players at both the senior and youth levels in action last night.

Whilst Ivanovic scored in his Serbia game it was the England’s U19 international  that caught my eye.

England u19′s

England won 2-1 and can thank in part Chelsea’s youth academy who contributed three players to the team.

Amongst England’s bright young talents were Nathaniel Chalobah and Todd Kane who played from the start. They were then joined at half time by new Chelsea signing Patrick Bamford who came on at half time.

Patrick Bamford

Chalobah looked assured and Kane had an assist to his name but it is Patrick Bamford that will take the headlines.

He scored the decisive second goal which continues his amazing run of form at youth, reserve and international levels.

Since signing for a large fee for a youth player Bamford has appeared unaffected by the expectation that this creates and is showing all the signs that we have signed a tremendous talent.

Let us hope that Chalobah, Kane and Bamford continue their development.

Chelsea Reserves In Goalscoring Form!

With the result during the week for the youth team, the optimism about our young players is flying high, therefore I thought I would treat you to another video of our youngsters in action.

This video is from an action packed game against Gillingham reserves and features Patrick Bamford, Jacob Mellis and a host of talent in action.

Although this video is a week old, it is worthy of inclusion based on the action, particularly as it has new signing Patrick Bamford in fine goalscoring form and shows our younger players in full flow.

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Youth Team Face Forest Tonight In FA Youth Cup

Tonight Chelsea’s youth team travel to Nottingham to play Nottingham Forest in the FA Youth Cup.

CFC_Kris will be there tonight casting his eye over our brightest youth talents some of whom such as Lucas Piazon, Jamal Blackman and Nathaniel Chalobah have warmed the bench at the senior level.

Although a victory will not allow us to forget the poor fortunes of the senior team, it would come as a welcome positive note in what feel like dark times.

One player that will not be playing tonight is Patrick Bamford who has scored 11 times in four games in this competition so far this season but is cup-tied having made a deadline day move to Stamford Bridge last month.

So far this season the youth team have had some bruising encounters in the cup, overcoming Norwich and West Ham after penalty shoot outs, something that the first team could definitely learn from.

Youth Cup History

We have some pedigree in this competition, having won it in 2010 with players such as Jeffrey Bruma, Josh McEachran and Milan Lalkovic starring.

I am hoping that this year history will repeat itself and the omens are good,when we won two years ago we overcame Nottingham Forest on the same ground on the way to the final.

The stand out moment of that tie was a Conor Clifford wonder goal that I was lucky enough to capture on video from the stand.

Chelsea Youth Team Win Another Penalty Shoot Out

One of the advantages of having so many world class players is that our youth team can learn from them. However when it comes to penalty shoot outs it seems that the senior team should be watching the youth team.

So far this season the youth team have won two penalty shootouts in the competition to progress to a sixth round tie versus Nottingham Forest, which I am delighted to say CFC_Kris will be attending.

The latest shoot out was against West Ham where the following players converted penalties in a 5-4 penalty victory.

Nathaniel Chalobah

Lucas Piazon

Amin Affane

Lewis Baker

Todd Kane

There is not footage of this shootout available yet but here are the penalties from the Norwich game to show the confidence our youth team have from 12 yards.

Time to Play Ryan Bertrand

Ashley Cole is a fantastic player and rightly our first choice left back, however I think the pressure of playing every single game and the rigours that involves have finally started to affect his consistency.

Therefore I think it is time for academy player Ryan Bertrand a few Premier League starts in his place to rest Cole and develop his long term replacement.

With Ashley Cole injured I really hope that he will start against Birmingham in the FA Cup despite the pressure on AVB.

Bertrand may not have made many appearances in the Chelsea first team, however he is not inexperienced having made nearly 146 appearances in the English League system particularly at the  Championship level.

He was particularly popular at Norwich where he quickly won over the fans, with some solid performance.

He has made a few appearances for our first team and always looked impressive and with the departure of Yuri Zhirkov and loan of Patrick Van Aanholt he is the established understudy for Ashley Cole.

Therefore it is time to give him a few real opportunities to prove himself against team that lack much of an attacking threat.

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