U18聯賽盃 - Blackburn 1 - 1 Chelsea - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

U18英超聯賽盃小組賽第一輪


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Under-18s report: Blackburn 1 Chelsea 1

Sat 16 Sep 2017


Our youth team opened their campaign in the inaugural Under-18 Premier
League Cup with a point on the road at Blackburn Rovers.


Jon Panzo headed Jody Morris's side ahead before Callum Dolan cancelled
out the advantage five minutes after the restart. Despite both sides
creating opportunities to win the game in the second half and the home
side reduced to 10 men for the final 15 minutes, the points were shared in
the opening contest of the new cup competition. We now face Newcastle and
Brighton in Group C before the group winners and the two best-ranked
runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.


Morris made two changes from the side that started last weekend's derby
victory over Arsenal, with Clinton Mola and Marcin Bulka coming into the
team. Bulka lined up in goal behind an unchanged back four of Marcel
Lavinier, Marc Guehi, Jack Wakely and Panzo, while Mola lined up on the
left of a midfield diamond.


Captain Conor Gallagher continued to anchor the side in the deepest
midfield role, with George McEachran most advanced and Juan Castillo on
the right. Martell Taylor-Crossdale partnered Charlie Brown up front.


The Blues opened brightly in the Lancashire sunshine as Brown was thwarted
by a last-ditch intervention from Rovers captain Hayden Carter before
Castillo's cross was crucially turned behind by George Wilson to deny
Brown a sight at goal again moments later.


Gallagher swung in the following corner from the left and Guehi looked
like he had found the bottom corner with a flicked finish but for Matthew
Campbell's important low save.


However, it took just 14 minutes for the visitors to register on the
scoreboard and it was a goal crafted and finished by Panzo. The defender
stepped forward from left-back and advanced 50 yards upfield before
feeding the ball wide to Brown and continuing his advance into the box.
Brown's left-footed delivery was inviting and Panzo's header perfectly
placed to beat Campbell and nestle into the bottom corner.


Clear-cut opportunities of that nature were few and far between during a
well-contested first half. Bulka commanded the aerial threat into his
18-yard area well, while Mola and Taylor-Crossdale fired strikes
off-target down the other end.


Brown continued to busily search for chances and caused concern for the
hosts with a deflected header just wide at the far post following
Taylor-Crossdale's centre but Morris's men struggled to assert their usual
midfield control on the game.


Taylor-Crossdale forced a good save from Campbell at a tight angle and
then spurned a shot wide at the end of a counter-attack led through the
middle by the marauding McEachran and initiated by Wakely's well-timed
tackle in his own box.


Tariq Lamptey replaced Taylor-Crossdale as Morris tweaked things at the
interval, with the substitute introduced on the right flank, and it was
down that side the Blues threatened to extend their advantage shortly
after the restart.


Gallagher found the overlapping Lavinier with a perfect clipped pass and
the full-back's driven cross was almost turned in for an own goal by the
retreating Sam Barnes. The ball ricocheted off the defender but was kept
out by an instinctive save from the goalkeeper.


Blackburn capitalised on that slice of fortune as they drew level in the
contest after 50 minutes. A corner from the right was floated into the
six-yard box and neither Bulka's efforts nor Lamptey's header off the line
could decisively clear the danger, leaving Dolan to turn in the loose ball
from close range.


Both sides had good opportunities to claim all three group points in the
remainder of the half. Panzo blocked well to deny Kyle Connell before Jack
Vale fired over following neat approach play from the home team.


The Blues continued to make gains down the right, with Lavinier and
Lamptey combining well. The former delivered a dangerous low cross into
the box for Brown after an hour but the striker could not make the best
connection, the ball spinning into the air for Campbell to grasp.


McEachran then supplied from the left wing looking to tee up substitute
forward Daishawn Redan but the Dutchman was denied by a crucial
intervention from the defender.


Rovers will look to three spurned chances in five minutes as decisive in
them failing to take all three points. John Buckley's rising shot from 30
yards flew narrowly over before Carter headed over a corner and then Ben
Paton's stinging drive deflected just beyond the far post.


The balance of the contest then swung with 15 minutes remaining.
Lavinier's tackle on the edge of his own box saw the ball fly forward into
Redan's path and the striker was haring towards goal. Campbell was primed
between the sticks to do his best to keep the score level but Carter
interjected first, clipping Redan's heels as the defender ran across his
path.


The referee had no choice but to show a red card for the last man foul,
though the damage was less than it could have been for the hosts as
Gallagher's deflected effort from the resulting free-kick bounced a foot
past the left upright.


Despite the numerical disadvantage, Billy Barr's side continued to fashion
a threat to Bulka's goal. Connell curled an effort narrowly wide of the
far post and then spurned a great opportunity, scooping over the bar
having been played clear in behind by Paton.


Our best chances late on fell to Redan, whose right-foot shot clipped a
defender and went just wide, and then Guehi in stoppage time. The
defender, who scored a superb goal against Arsenal the previous weekend,
collected Uwakwe's cross after a short corner on the left but his
well-struck effort was tipped over expertly by Campbell.


It proved to be the final action of note in an entertaining contest
between the two young sides. Our Under-18s resume their league season away
at Swansea City next Saturday 23 September.


Chelsea (4-diamond-2)
Marcin Bulka

Marcel Lavinier Marc Guehi Jack Wakely Jon Panzo

Conor Gallagher (c)
Clinton Mola Juan Castillo
(Tariq Uwakwe 58) (Daishawn Redan 58)
George McEachran

Martell Taylor-Crossdale Charlie Brown
(Tariq Lamptey h/t)


Unused subs - Karlo Ziger, Marcel Lewis
Scorer - Panzo 14


Blackburn Rovers

Matthew Campbell, George Wilson, Ben Paton, John Buckley, Hayden Carter (c),

Sam Barnes, Callum Dolan, Matthew Chan, Kyle Connell, Jack Vale,

Louis Khoury (Isaac Whitehall 76)


Unused subs - Jack Evans, Ben Winterbottom, Daniel Pike, Flavien-Enzo Boyomo
Scorer - Dolan 50
Booked - Campbell, Chan
Sent off - Carter 75

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