[情報] U18 - Man City 0 - 2 Chelsea
U18聯賽第八輪精華
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YOUTH REPORT: MANCHESTER CITY 0 CHELSEA 2
Posted on: Sat 03 Nov 2012
A young Chelsea side capped off an impressive showing in Manchester with
three points against Manchester City at Platt Lane. Second half goals from
Charlie Colkett and substitute George Cole ensured the Blues would take
maximum points back to London and remain unbeaten this season.
Adi Viveash made six changes from the side that drew 2-2 last time out at
Wolves, with a host of his young players having been involved in midweek
in the NextGen Series away in Norway against Molde. The games are starting
to come thick and fast for the young players now, with Friday's FA Youth
Cup draw giving them an away tie at either Colchester United or Faversham
Town next month in the third round. With Dermot Drummy's Under-21 side
also in weekend league action, on Sunday against City, the visitors'
starting 11 took on a very youthful look.
Jesse Starkey, who has been an ever-present in midfield since missing the
opening day 6-1 win over City, was one of just five players who kept their
starting place from the last game. Jordan Houghton, Kevin Wright, Reece
Mitchell and Connor Hunte made up the pack, with the latter two joined by
Alex Kiwomya in attack. Colkett joined Starkey and captain Ruben
Loftus-Cheek in midfield, while Houghton and Wright were joined in the
back four by Jonathan Muleba at right back and Isak Ssewankambo. Mitchell
Beeney returned between the sticks.
Chelsea were quick and bright right from the start, and Loftus-Cheek went
close to giving them the lead after just a couple of minutes when he led a
sharp counter-attack with Kiwomya, though the midfielder's shot was
narrowly wide. Houghton was called into defensive action within the
opening 10 minutes and stood firm as both sides exchanged early blows,
with Beeney also called into action to punch away a dangerous corner.
However from there it was very much the visitors dominating proceedings
and Mitchell was unlucky not to make more contact in getting on the end of
Kiwomya's low ball across the face of goal. The Blues were typically well
drilled off the ball, pressing their opponents high up the field and
successfully regaining possession time after time. Houghton thought he had
scored when his header from a Starkey corner found the back of the net,
though the linesman adjudged the ball to have already swung out of play.
It was a warning for Adam Sadler's side and their goal continued to lead a
charmed life when Nathaniel Oseni made a goal-line clearance after
Loftus-Cheek had accelerated away from his man down the right and
delivered a teasing ball into the box. Hunte then beat three defenders
with a jinking run into the area but the City keeper Billy O'Brien managed
to keep it out with a great double save.
Loftus-Cheek had a free-kick sail just over the bar, Colkett sliced an
effort wide and Wright almost inadvertently got on the scoresheet with a
bizarre effort that hit him as he charged down a City clearance and looped
narrowly over, however Chelsea just could not find that breakthrough that
their play was deserving of.
O'Brien was standing tall and having an excellent game in goal for the
hosts, and he saved once again from Loftus-Cheek with 10 minutes of the
half remaining. Kiwomya should have tucked away the rebound but put it
wide. City then rallied as the half drew to a close and Brandon Barker had
an effort fly over Beeney's bar after Houghton had given the ball away,
before a couple of corners that were comfortably dealt with by the Blues
defence.
Viveash must have wondered how his side had not come in for the interval
at least a couple of goals ahead, however they returned for the second
period in much the same fashion, carefully probing with the ball in
midfield and then launching blistering attacks with their pace. Louis
Hutton had a chance which he just cut across early after the restart for
City, however it took just 6 minutes before the deadlock was finally
broken.
The high pressing game paid off once more as Kiwomya stole the ball from a
defender and burst forward, feeding in Mitchell. The young striker
couldn't quite manage to fashion a chance for himself, however Colkett was
following up close behind and struck a neat low effort past the goalkeeper
and into the corner. It was the England Under-17 star's second goal of the
season, his first having come in the return fixture back in August.
Chelsea continued to keep the ante up, searching for a killer second goal,
and Kiwomya did well to dart in off the right byline and beat a couple of
defenders, though his effort in the end was a weak one and comfortably
gathered by O'Brien. However, as City probed further into the Blues half
looking for an equaliser, those lightning-fast breaks with Mitchell, Hunte
and Kiwomya were proving to be a real threat.
It was one such advance forward that brought the game's first yellow card,
as Kiwomya played an inch-perfect ball in to Mitchell, who just managed to
get a toe to it before Oseni, who was booked for the late tackle. Starkey
delivered the resultant free-kick, swinging in from the left, though
Ssewankambo's glancing header was not enough to trouble the keeper.
Loftus-Cheek had another effort denied by O'Brien, after a clever one-two
with Mitchell inside the box, and Houghton saw a well-connected header fly
wide, before the Blues were awarded a penalty on the hour mark. Houghton
had burst forward from defence with a lung-bursting surge and Oseni was
again the guilty party in conceding the foul. The referee was lenient and
chose to let the defender off, and it was double relief for Oseni as
Starkey's spot-kick clipped the outside of the post.
Yet it wasn't long before Chelsea did finally have that second goal.
George Cole replaced Colkett and was quickly busy in the midfield, before
providing a neat finish from the edge of the box to seal the points and
grab his second of the campaign.
Beeney was tested late on as City searched for a consolation, and had to
palm away a deep delivery after a short corner that was looping towards
the far post, however the Chelsea rearguard held out to notch up their
second clean sheet of the season and a very assured three points.
'We played really well,' said youth team manager Viveash. 'We had a lot of
them travel to Molde so it's been an interesting week for them, late back
on Thursday with Dermot and then we have to pick them up Friday. The
training session yesterday was really sharp, it surprised me even because
I thought they'd be a little bit flat from the travelling but I challenged
them if they could take it to the game, and they did.'
'We should have been a little more cutting in the final third, that's the
only thing today but we worked really hard all over the pitch to get a
clean sheet. We had nice movement and rotation in the front three with
Alex, Connor who I thought was excellent for a young Under-16 to play at
that level in a youth game, and Reece Mitchell and because those three can
play all the three positions it's quite hard to mark because you think
you're marking one then you look around and he's on the right wing.'
'It's nice to be unbeaten but it's not the biggest thing, it's that the
players are developing the right way. They're playing some outstanding
football, scoring freely which is important, creating loads of chances and
working on the off-the-ball side of the game which I'm quite demanding of
as a coach, because if you've got the talent and you can add that to it
then you've got half a chance.'
'We're also pleased for Ruben to get through 90 minutes. We're trying to
build up his physical minutes to get him ready again to go back in with
the Under-21s and we're really pleased with him getting through 90 minutes
having played 55 minutes in Molde on Wednesday night and that for him is a
big thing.'
'We scored two really good goals. Charlie Colkett scored a good goal and
then George Cole came off the bench with a great quality finish. Colkett
is someone with a lot of potential, we've got five or six Under-16s with
real potential, most of them play in the youth team and they will because
that's what we do, we play our young ones. We didn't have one Under-18 on
the pitch in the first half, it was only when Tom Howard came on, so
they're an Under-17 team really and that's great testament for them the
way they're playing.'
Chelsea:
Beeney
Muleba Houghton Ssewankambo Wright
Loftus-Cheek (c) Starkey Colkett
(Cole 72)
Kiwomya Mitchell Hunte
(Howard 79) (Gnahore 81)
By Sam Poplett
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