FA Youth Cup Final
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Chelsea have beat Manchester City in the FA Youth Cup final to secure their fourth FA Youth Cup since 2010.
The blue’s led 3-1 in the first leg at the Eithad Campus giving them a two goal advantage over City when it came to the second leg. Manchester pulled a goal back with a early strike from Kelechi Iheanacho to get his side back in the game, but it wasn’t long before Chelsea responded with Izzy Brown’s 20th minute header.
Tammy Abraham place home the winner in the first minute of the second half taking his goal tally up to 39 in all competitions this season and was his third goal over the two legs.
Chelsea are currently leading the Premier League and made sure they secured the FA Youth Cup title to mark their second consecutive triumph following last seasons 7-6 victory over Fulham.
| SOUTH GROUP | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POS | CLUB | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS | ||
| 1 | Chelsea U18 | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 69 | 35 | 34 | 48 | ||
| 2 | Spurs U18 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 49 | 38 | 11 | 38 | ||
| 3 | Aston Villa U18 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 49 | 48 | 1 | 38 | ||
| 4 | West Brom U18 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 36 | 39 | -3 | 34 | ||
| 5 | Reading U18 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 39 | 37 | 2 | 33 | ||
| 6 | West Ham U18 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 45 | 35 | 10 | 32 | ||
| 7 | Leicester U18 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 29 | 7 | 32 | ||
| 8 | Brighton U18 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 37 | 41 | -4 | 27 | ||
| 9 | Fulham U18 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 34 | 45 | -11 | 27 | ||
| 10 | Southampton U18 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 28 | 34 | -6 | 23 | ||
| 11 | Arsenal U18 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 33 | 42 | -9 | 23 | ||
| 12 | Norwich U18 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 19 | 51 | -32 | 18 | ||
The Daily Mail’s Adam Shergold praised Boga and DaSilva after their performance in the first half of Monday’s final,
” Two Chelsea players, for me, have caught the eye in this first-half. The first is Jeremie Boga, their French playmaker who missed the first leg through illness. He’s certainly making up for it tonight and, dare I say it, is showing a few flashes of Eden Hazard-esque play. A few minutes ago, he spun around Kean Bryan 30 yards from his own goal and set off on a barnstorming run through the middle. The other is the left-back Jay Dasilva, who is about as far from a left-back tonight as it’s possible to be. He used to play as a winger and it’s easy to see why. He’s continually making darts past the forwards Izzy Brown and Dominic Solanke. He just can’t be restrained.”