U23 - Chelsea 2 - 0 Reading - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

U23聯賽第15輪


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PL2 report: Chelsea 2 Reading 0

Sun 5 Feb 2017


Our development squad capped a winning weekend across the Chelsea age
groups as they followed yesterday's victories for Antonio Conte's first
team and Jody Morris's Under-18s with a two-goal triumph of their own.


An own goal in the first half handed us the lead before Ike Ugbo doubled
the advantage shortly after the restart to give Adi Viveash's side their
fourth consecutive home league win. The three points keep the Blues fourth
in the Premier League 2 table.


Viveash made two changes from our last outing over three weeks previously,
a 4-0 away win at Leicester. Mukhtar Ali and Fikayo Tomori, both since
departed on loan, were replaced by Charly Musonda and Todd Kane, the
latter continuing his comeback from an anterior cruciate ligament injury
suffered last April.


Kane lined up at right-back as the Blues continued with a 4-2-3-1 system,
while the rest of the back four and goalkeeper were unchanged. Bradley
Collins started in goal, Dujon Sterling at left-back and Trevoh Chalobah
partnered Joseph Colley at centre-back. Ugbo, our leading scorer in the
league this term, led the line up front supported by Dominic Solanke,
Charlie Wakefield and Musonda, while Mason Mount partnered Ruben Sammut in
central midfield.


Reading made six changes from their 3-3 draw with Derby County on Monday,
while five of the Chelsea starters featured in our FA Youth Cup win on
Wednesday. The Blues started brightly from the kick-off, with Kane firing
wide of the near post within the opening 30 seconds following Ugbo's
centre.


However, the visitors grew into the opening period and forced the first
save of the afternoon from Collins as Andy Rinomhota fed Andrija
Novakovich down the right. The American's low shot was hit well but aimed
straight at our keeper, who diverted the ball away from danger before Omar
Richards shot wide from 25 yards out.


Mount fired a warning shot for the hosts as he weaved his way into the box
but his effort was too tame to trouble Luke Southwood in the Royals goal.
Yet Viveash's side were ahead a minute later courtesy of some impressive
work down the right from Wakefield. The winger skipped away from Richards
before firing in a cross that hit Ugbo and then deflected in off Rob
Dickie for an own goal. Following a hat-trick of assists at Leicester last
time out, it continued a run of productive form for the 18-year-old.


The contest settled as Reading tried to up the ante in search of an
equaliser. Tennai Watson made a crucial intervention in his six-yard box,
reading the danger from the right and snuffing out the threat as Wakefield
tried to find Musonda with a cutback from the byline, before Josh
Barrett's powerful drive from a narrow angle was kept out by Collins.


Martin Kuhl's side ought to have levelled eight minutes before the break.
Rinomhota advanced down the left and his deep cross was hooked back into
the six-yard box by Barrett, though Joseph Mendes blasted over the bar
from close range.


The visitors would live to regret that miss as Ugbo made it 2-0 four
minutes after the restart. Progress this time came down the left flank and
Sterling turned provider, accelerating into space before delivering a low
pass across goal that the striker poked in to hit a dozen goals for the
season.


It was a goal that initially deflated Reading and the Blues sensed the
chance to add to the scoreline. Solanke fashioned some space on the edge
of the box but failed to test Southwood with a low attempt before Mount
was denied by the goalkeeper having been teed up brilliantly by Musonda.


Richards made an important block from Mount as the visitors kept the
deficit at two and then looked for a route back into the game. Mendes
spurned another presentable chance from 10 yards out, firing wide on his
left foot, before Collins made a smart stop down to his left to push away
Axel Andresson's header.


The game opened up in the final 10 minutes as Reading's risk-averse
approach stepped up and Viveash's side looked to expose them on the break.
Southwood twice denied us a third goal, first springing off his line to
save at the feet of Solanke before pulling off a flying save to tip Ugbo's
shot from distance behind.


Down the other end, a searching pass in behind found Mendes and the
striker did well to lift the ball over the stranded Collins, though the
effort dropped narrowly the wrong side of the post for the visitors.
Reading's number nine then shot straight at Collins in added time as the
Blues recorded a second straight clean sheet and took their unbeaten run
in the league to nine matches.


Viveash's side return to league action with a home game against
second-placed Manchester City on Friday 16 February. Meanwhile, our trip
to Arsenal in the league has been rearranged and will now be played on
Monday 17 April. The London derby was due to take place last week but was
postponed due to a frozen pitch.


Chelsea (4-2-3-1)
Bradley Collins (c)

Todd Kane Joseph Colley Trevoh Chalobah Dujon Sterling
(Josimar Quintero h/t)
Mason Mount Ruben Sammut

Charlie Wakefield Dominic Solanke Charly Musonda
(Jacob Maddox 68)
Ike Ugbo


Unused subs - Jared Thompson, Richard Nartey, Isaac Christie-Davies
Scorers - Dickie (og) 18; Ugbo 49


Reading

Luke Southwood, Tennai Watson, Omar Richards (Gabriel Osho 75), Ryan East,

Rob Dickie (c), Axel Andresson, Andrija Novakovich, Andy Rinomhota,

Joseph Mendes, Josh Barrett, Deniss Rakels (Sam Smith 68)


Unused subs - Ramarni Medford-Smith, Lewis Ward, Tyler Frost


Referee - Sam Purkiss


- Pictures courtesy of Mark Sandom

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