青年足總盃四強戰第一回合 https://www.facebook.com/ChelseaFC/videos/10156486737502259/ 全場比賽 https://www.facebook.com/ChelseaFC/videos/10156491150877259/ 進球精華 https://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2018/04/ youth-cup-report--birmingham-v-chelsea.html Youth Cup report: Birmingham 0 Chelsea 3 Wed 4 Apr 2018 Chelsea Under-18s have the semi-final advantage in the FA Youth Cup after a comfortable first leg victory at St Andrew's. The result was barely in doubt from the moment Tariq Uwakwe turned in a loose ball after 15 minutes. Callum Hudson-Odoi doubled the lead before the break with a smart finish inside the near post before Charlie Brown came off the bench to net his first Youth Cup goal. A 3-0 win gives Jody Morris and his youngsters a healthy lead ahead of next week's return at the Bridge. It was perhaps fitting that our Youth Cup team took centre stage at the end of a day in which everybody at Chelsea were devastated to learn of the passing of Ray Wilkins, our former player, captain and assistant coach. This was our 10th semi-final appearance in 11 years, a period in which successive teams have dominated English youth football's most prestigious competition, reaching eight finals and lifting the trophy on six occasions. To gauge the full extent of that success, our most recent run to the last four was 35 years prior to 2007/08 when a 16-year-old Wilkins featured for our class of 1973. Both sides wore black armbands and observed a minute's silence before kick-off in tribute to without question one of our greatest, most famous and most admired home-grown players. Morris made just one change from our big quarter-final win over Fulham as Juan Castillo returned to the side at left-back alongside fellow defenders Marc Guehi, Tariq Lamptey and captain Reece James. Daishawn Redan continued to lead the attack four days after netting a hat-trick for our development squad in Premier League 2, with Hudson-Odoi, Uwakwe and George McEachran offering offensive support. Billy Gilmour and Conor Gallagher remained as the central midfield pairing. Birmingham's selection was hampered inside five minutes after a few crunching but fair early challenges in midfield, one of which resulted in the withdrawal of the home side's number 10, Odin Bailey. Despite Morris praising their competency in possession before the game, our Championship opponents approached the opening proceedings with caution and rarely ventured out of their half or their defensive shape. Captain Geraldo Bajrami defended the near post well as Castillo whipped in a dangerous delivery from the left, a sign of the direct threat carried by the holders. It had taken us until the second half to find the breakthrough in the last round at Craven Cottage, although opening goals inside 20 minutes in our previous three ties this campaign demonstrated a desire to start on the front foot. The first goal of this semi-final arrived with 15 minutes on the clock and merited a bright start from the Blues, kitted in their all-white away strip at the home of their namesakes. Good work from Castillo and then Redan down the left fashioned the sight at goal, with the latter forcing an Adam Siviter save from a tight angle. However, the keeper could not keep hold of it and the ball popped up nicely for Uwakwe to swipe in from a few yards out. Our youngsters have recorded two 5-0s, a 6-0, a 7-1 and a 7-0 in 12 matches under Morris's tutelage in the competition but lacked some of their usual intensity at times. James made a timely clearance from George Baker's low cross as striker Nick Okoro lurked behind him but that proved to be a rare moment of encouragement for the home supporters. Hudson-Odoi, our top scorer in this season's Youth Cup, went for goal from distance after half hour but his right-footed effort flew comfortably off-target, while Gallagher also fired wide as we advanced to the edge of the Birmingham box frequently but lacked the incision to find a more subtle way through. It probably should have been 2-0 seconds before it actually was, Redan planting a free header wide of the upright following Lamptey's inviting cross, though Hudson-Odoi spared those blushes with his 16th goal of the season barely a minute later. Possession was gifted to the visitors from Siviter's goal-kick and Gilmour pounced, working it to McEachran and then further left to Hudson-Odoi, who opened up his body and slotted the ball inside the near post. Redan almost added another eight minutes before the break as he flicked an instinctive effort up and towards the far corner, though the ball dropped narrowly wide and it was Birmingham who ended the half with a rally. Castillo made a crucial intervention to thwart Okoro after substitute Jack Concannon's neat slide-rule pass before Cumming was forced into his first notable action of the evening, diving low to his right to push Baker's low drive to safety. The second half followed a similar pattern to the first as Chelsea probed while Birmingham persisted with their defensive efforts, hoping for an opportunity to reduce the deficit on the counter-attack. Hudson-Odoi curled a free-kick high over the crossbar before delivering for Guehi at the back post, though the defender's header was frustratingly blocked. Still the traffic continued to flow one way as Morris urged his side to be ruthless and add further goals, while our record of not conceding in the Youth Cup this season rarely looked in danger down the other end. Hudson-Odoi sparked into life midway through the half but his jinking run ended with a shot just wide, while James's clever front-post run fashioned a sight at goal from McEachran's corner but the execution of the defender's header was not quite right. Tino Anjorin and Brown were introduced to inject added spice in attack and the pair combined to extend our lead 10 minutes after their arrival. McEachran was central to the move, turning neatly and moving into space before feeding the overlapping Anjorin, whose ball across goal was prodded in by Brown for his 19th goal of a prolific campaign. Birmingham might have pulled one back late on as Concannon's effort from 25 yards deflected away from Cumming but clipped the outside of the post and bounced behind, ensuring our three-goal advantage remained intact ahead of the second leg. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2018/04/ youth-cup-reaction--advantage-chelsea.html Youth Cup reaction: Advantage Chelsea Thu 5 Apr 2018 Chelsea Under-18s manager Jody Morris praised the performance of his side following their 3-0 FA Youth Cup semi-final win at Birmingham last night, and paid tribute to Ray Wilkins, a man he knew well, following the passing of our former player and assistant coach. It's advantage to our youngsters at the midway stage of the FA Youth Cup semi-final following a comfortable away win last night.The Blues will be in command when the second leg kicks off at Stamford Bridge next week after goals from Tariq Uwakwe, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Charlie Brown at St Andrew's made it 12 wins in a row for Morris's side in all competitions. Another pleasing performance was overshadowed in the build-up as the devastating news broke that Ray Wilkins, our former player, captain and assistant coach, had passed away. Morris worked closely with Wilkins as a young player in the Chelsea first team and paid tribute to a man he described as a mentor throughout his career. 'I was absolutely gutted to hear about his cardiac arrest last week but I was really hoping he'd pull through so to hear the news before the game was just devastating,' Morris told the official Chelsea website after the game. 'Ray was a class act on the pitch and even more so off it and he was so good for me as a young player. His support never wavered even when others might at certain stages of my career and life. He was always on the end of the phone offering positive advice and I spoke with him a lot, even as recently as a few weeks back when he messaged congratulations after we beat Tottenham in the Youth Cup. 'He had a really keen eye on our young boys, partly because he was himself a home-grown Chelsea player, and there was nobody more vocal than him in pushing for our lads to get opportunities. He was a top-quality guy - it's such a sad loss for his family and for the whole world of football.' Events in the Midlands felt less important in light of such difficult news but Morris was left happy with the overall performance of his side. 'I thought we were really good off the ball,' our Under-18s boss continued. 'We worked hard and pressed hard so the majority of the game was played in their final third. With that much of the ball and territory, we should have scored a few more goals and we could have been better with our final pass, our decision-making or the execution of our finishing. 'The tie could have been dead and buried but I was pleased with the intensity we showed off the ball because that was something we wanted to see from the lads, for them to show they're not just a quality football team but we're really hard to play against as well. We got another clean sheet and there were some outstanding individual performances from Tariq Lamptey and George McEachran in particular.' Supporters can still purchase tickets for the second leg in SW6 next Tuesday 10 April and Morris believes a sizeable crowd will provide an invaluable boost to his players as they bid to reach a seventh successive final. 'Playing at the Bridge is always big for us and it seems to have an extra special feeling in the Youth Cup,' Morris went on. 'The more fans you see in the stands, the more of an occasion it becomes so hopefully we have a few turn up and get behind us to push us into another final.' Chelsea (4-2-3-1) Jamie Cumming Tariq Lamptey Reece James (c) Marc Guehi Juan Castillo Conor Gallagher Billy Gilmour (Clinton Mola 78) Tariq Uwakwe George McEachran Callum Hudson-Odoi (Tino Anjorin 65) Daishawn Redan (Charlie Brown 65) Unused subs - Marcel Lavinier, Karlo Ziger Scorers - Uwakwe 15; Hudson-Odoi 33; Brown 76 Birmingham City Adam Siviter, Kieron Dawes, Caolan Boyd-Munce, Ryan Stirk, Joseph Redmond, Geraldo Bajrami (c), George Baker, Kane Thompson-Sommers (Josh Andrews 60), Nick Okoro (Jordan Clarke 81), Odin Bailey (Jack Concannon 4), Tom Anderson. Unused subs - Ben Forrest, Lewis Landers Booked - Baker Referee - Antony Coggins -- When it comes to a crisis, still keep on running. You believe in power. It's mental power. --

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